Views of the Cercle Francais Sportif, also called the French Club or France Club, after being newly rebuilt in 1928, in Shanghai, China. It was on the Route Cardinal Mercier (It later became the Jinjiang Club, and is now part of the Okura Garden Hotel Shanghai on Maoming Road South). The French tricolors fly from places on the building. French Club members and guests relaxing at the club. Men and women guests on the veranda of the club. The service staff are Chinese. Waiters walking about serving food and drinks. Views of men and women sipping their drinks. Children swim in an indoor swimming pool illuminated by natural light from above. They play with a large rubber inner tube. A group of men practicing archery on a lawn outside the building. A young boy wearing a pith helmet looks on. Two men throw horseshoes, or quoits. A few men and women seated at benches outside the club building.
Volunteers entrain to Germany in the European Theater during World War II. Minister-President of Norway Vidkun Quisling and an officer inspect police volunteers in Norway. The volunteers standing in formation. Several trees in the background. Insignia on the volunteers' uniforms. The Minister-President salutes and the officer hands over a flag to one of the volunteers. French volunteers inspected in Versailles, France. A few officers in front of the volunteers. The volunteers moving in columns on a path. The volunteers at a rail station with their baggage. They board a train to Germany. Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German Army service and a large crowd at a rail station. The volunteers boarding a train with their baggage. The train leaves the rail station. The volunteers waving to the crowd gathered at the station.
The history of the United States. A pictorial map shows the path followed by Christopher Columbus in 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean. He found a group of islands where other explorers from Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, England, Italy and France found two continents. The representation of the area in the northern continent over which the English and the French fought and the French were defeated. The French gave up their colonies and in 1763 they belonged to England. People in the English colonies at work. English officials during a meet. The workers rebelling against English troops. Farmers, who became soldiers, moving with guns. The army led by George Washington moving against the English Army. The thirteen colonies of the English became independent, during the American Revolution, leading to the birth of American nation.
Dramatization of historical American events. United States President Thomas Jefferson looks at a wall map of the Louisiana Purchase, acquired from Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of France. Jefferson sits with a few officials seated at a table. A pictorial map showing the Columbia River and the Missouri River flowing into the Pacific. The Lewis and Clark expedition is sent to western territory. The life of the Native American Indians. The Indians wearing traditional costumes. Indians hunting buffalo. Scenic views of a hillside with a flowing river. Lewis and Clark cross a water body led by an Indian guide. A large waterfall. The expedition members sleeping in trees to avoid predators. The rapids of the Columbia River. Men crossing the river with water up to their necks. The men wading through the water holding their guns up. Natives watching the men. The course of the Columbia River. Two men from the expedition team lying beside a tree. The expedition watches English men in boats on the river who have come from Canada to establish outposts.
A film dramatizes the rise of Nazi party and corresponding life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. A Nazi flag being hoisted. A German couple seated. Two men talk in a street. A Nazi brownshirt harangues civilians on a street. People listen to him and do not unite to object. Karl, a farmer, listens. He tills a piece of land. Nazi officers close down a shop. A man works in an ammunition factory as a war production worker. He returns home from work. His children are eating food. German equipment and troops on advance. The ammunition factory worker joins the German Army and leaves for the war front. He kisses his wife as he bids goodbye. German troops loaded onto a truck advance. Artillery is fired and infantry advances ahead. German troops fight against the Allies in Stalingrad, Soviet Union and Normandy, France.
Civilians return to Italy during World War II. Italian hospital ship Saturnia (later the U.S. Army Hospital Ship Frances Y. Slanger) underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Women and others on the deck of a ship. Civilians disembark from the Saturnia and the Vulcania as they return from East Africa. Women and children on the deck of a ship.
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