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Beryl Markham flies across the Atlantic and reaches New York, United States.

A Trans Atlantic flight from England to United States. An aircraft piloted by Beryl Markham in flight crashes while landing in Baleine Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada. Tilted aircraft with its nose stuck up in the earth. People turn the plane on its wheels and rotate the propellers. A large number of people gather at the Floyd Bennett field in New York to welcome Beryl Markham after her Trans Atlantic flight. Plane lands at the field and people greet the pilot. Cameramen record the arrival and the warm reception of Markham. Mrs Markham during an interview talks about her future plans.

Date: 1936, September 8
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049680
Allied invasion fleet underway towards Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied invasion fleet on their way to Normandy, France during World War II for D-Day invasion.Views from a transport ship of various Allied amphibious invasion craft leaving British waters, en route to Normandy France during World War 2. Seen nearby are several large landing craft, each carrying troops and military vehicles, as well as 4 Higgins Boats on top. Soldiers on the transport ship look at the attack transport ship USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) as it comes, abeam. On deck of the camera ship, an Army Major General points, as he converses with a Marine Colonel. Next a Destroyer Escort in camouflage paint is seen moving rapidly past the camera ship. A transport ship and various landing craft are in the background. Barrage balloons fly low over the horizon. Camera tracks the passing Destroyer Escort as it moves ahead. Drastic change of scene shows three large American Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) docked at Weymouth, England. (They are numbers: 487, 493,and 488.) Landing Craft, LCI (L) number 498, getting underway. View to the rear of a number of large landing craft underway in British waters behind the camera boat. Closeup of the bridge on Landing Craft, LCI(L) number 87, with officer and sailor. Large landing craft underway in loose formation with a line of barrage balloons overhead. Several troop ships in a line. A troop transport underway with a Benson Livermore class destroyer behind it. Closeup of soldiers on the deck of a ship, using a belt loader to place loose rounds into a machine gun belt. Soldiers looking over ship's railing at the ocean below. Officer with binoculars on ship's bridge, relays instructions to a sailor who passes them by radio to others. A sailor manning a fire control position on deck. He rotates it and focuses on formations of Allied aircraft in flight overhead. An 83 foot U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter racing past a transport ship. Allied capital war ships in the convoy, viewed by sailors from the camera ship. Soldiers napping in out-of -the -way places on deck. An officer using a long pointer as he briefs Coast Guardsmen about landing craft tactics. A Coast Guard Commander leaning over a briefing board with a sailor.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049852
French barque Nantes is halted at sea by the German cruiser SMS Möwe, during World War I.

View of three-masted French barque "Nantes" carrying 36,723 sacks of saltpeter to England, during World War 1. Some crew members of the ship Nantes being taken aboard the German Cruiser SMS Möwe (sometimes written as Moewe or Seagull), commanded by German Count Von zu Donah Schlodien. Straight-on (bow) view of the Nantes under full sail,. Some of the crew of Nantes on deck. of the Möwe. Slate identifies 24 enemy and 1 neutral.

Date: 1916, December 25
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049915
Russia agrees to lift blockade from Berlin during a conference in New York, United States.

Berlin blockade to be lifted. Public and press gathered outside United States Mission building to the United Nations in Lake Success New York, USA. Inside the building, Russian and American dignitaries and UN representatives negotiate an end to the blockade. Closeups of the negotiators, including American diplomat Philip Jessup, Soviet diplomat Yakov Malik, and Sir Alexander Cadogan and Jean Chauvel, the United Nations permanent representatives from England and France, respectively. During the talks, Russia agrees to lift blockade from Berlin, Germany, via the Jessup-Malik Agreement. Dignitaries leave after the conference concludes. A railroad yard in Germany with rail cars filled with coal and other supplies, but idle due to the blockade. View of a busy city street in Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the distance. German pedestrian and vehicular traffic in Berlin.

Date: 1949, May 5
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050156
Comments by former President Herbert Hoover, serving as honorary chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee

Former United States President Herbert Hoover seated at a desk and delivering comments for the media. The U.S. flag behind him. The 71 year old Hoover is speaking in his role as honorary chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee, appointed by President Truman after World War II. President Hoover speaks of difficult conditions and suffering of people in post-war Europe and England, but also discusses the balance needed between relief and rehabilitation over the world, without putting too much drain on the American economy.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050664
Ships and ocean liners underway in the Atlantic Ocean and aircraft in flight over Europe.

A film on the development of air power in the United States. Scenes depicting travel by ocean going ships, preceding air travel. Animation of a small ship moving away from the east coast of the U.S. Actual footage of a large sailing vessel of the early clipper ship variety sailing in the ocean. Animation of a small ship sailing to the Great Britain. Real footage of a four-stack ocean liner, which appears to be the RMS Aquitania, sailing in the Atlantic Ocean. Animated map of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of the U.S. and England. An R-34 dirigible airship in flight. The R-34 moored to the ground with a large craft around the gondola. A British Bristol fighter aircraft in flight. Animation of the maps of the U.S. and the Great Britain coming closer together, figuratively, through the speed of air travel.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051055