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Churchill addresses people and expresses the need to prevent any further wars at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, delivers a speech at the Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In these speech excerpts, Churchill talks about the situation in Europe and delivers his famed Iron Curtain reference. He talks about the two world wars and the need to prevent any further wars. U.S. President Harry S. Truman and other dignitaries sit behind him on the stage. The audience applauds.

Location: Fulton Missouri USA
Date: 1946, March 5
Duration: 5 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033584
European Jewish refugees arrive in Palestine; Transjordan gets liberated from British occupation.

News from Middle-East. A ship arrives at a harbor in Palestine. European Jewish refugee men, women and children step out of the ship from Europe and board a bus. Security guards stand all around the place, monitoring the incoming refugees. Narrator comments that only 1500 Jewish refugees per month are being accepted in Palestine. Scene shifts to Amman the capital city of Transjordan. The streets, houses and buildings. Citizens enjoy their forthcoming independence from Britain. Palace of King Amir Abdullah of Transjordan. Dignitaries arrive for a ceremony. King Abdullah and other officials review a cavalier parade of soldiers and armed troops on camels.

Location: Middle East
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036078
WWII refugees arrive in New York City Harbor aboard the SS Marine Flasher.

Former Nazi German concentration camp victims and refugees arrive in New York City from Europe after World War 2. Refugees wave and cheer in excitement as the SS Marine Flasher approach New York City, with the Statue of Liberty and the New York City skyscrapers seen from the ship. Refugees waving from deck. A little girl standing beside two women waves in front of the camera. Relatives of refugees waving from harbor upon the ship’s arrival. From the ship, a woman tries to reach out her arm to her relative. Happy male refugees waving at the camera. Two Jewish women show cameramen and reporters their arms with tattoo entry numbers from Auschwitz Concentration Camp. A Jewish woman with child. Entry numbers tattooed in arms of two Jewish women. Polish Catholic priests previously imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp. A Jewish military chaplain poses with his Torah. An orphaned girl eats a bar of Hershey’s chocolate. Orphaned children and infants onboard. Mothers holding their babies. Refugees rush to hug relatives and friends upon disembarking. Man kisses a woman. An old woman kisses man on the cheeks. Two women hugging each other. Woman hugging her relatives during their reunion after World War 2.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1946, May 20
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078848
Opening of fountains at Peterhof (Petrodvorets) on August 25, 1946, after their restoration from destruction in World War II

Film opens showing devastated snow-covered remains of Peterhof Palace and its fountains, in Leningrad, after the Russians ended the siege of that city in January, 1944 of World War II. The next scenes show crowds gathered on 25 August, 1946, to celebrate the newly restored fountains, which are seen spraying water again. (Narrator notes that Russians now call the place Petrodvorets, meaning Peter's Palace.) An official speaks, at the ceremony, about the architecture of Petrodvorets and its cultural masterpieces still to be restored. Glimpse of statuary and array of fountains. Closeup of several young women holding flowers. Another shot of the fountains spraying along both sides of a central pond, with spectators crowded along the extreme sides near lines of trees.

Location: Leningrad Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1946, August 25
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054039
Shot Baker and shot King nuclear test explosions conducted by the United States in 1946 and 1952, respectively.

Nuclear bomb testing footage. Continuous colour film of atomic bomb shot Baker from Operation Crossroads on July 25, 1946, as well as film of the Ivy King shot from Operation Ivy on November 15, 1952. Both nuclear tests were conducted by the United States.

Location: Pacific Proving Grounds
Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051247
Japanese women dressed in kimonos walk along sidewalks in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day of 1946.

Citizens and United States soldiers walk along the streets in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day (Oshōgatsu) of 1946. Japanese women and children dressed in kimonos walk along a sidewalk. Some Japanese men and women are also seen wearing face masks. They are wearing face masks during winter influenza season. A woman wearing a surgical mask and fur coat glances at the camera as she walks by. Japanese women and children walking along the streets.

Location: Tokyo Japan
Date: 1946, January 1
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060769
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