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New world records are created in marathon, women's relay and men's 1500 m events during the Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

The Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. Flags of different countries displayed in a stadium during the Helsinki Olympics. Men taking part in a marathon start the event. A huge crowd gathered in the stands cheer for the men. Officials seated in the stands applaud. A man holds a board which reads '25 km'. Czechoslovakia's Emil Zatopek leads the event. People on the sides of the road cheer. The Czechoslovakian running on tracks in the stadium. Emil Zatopek finishes the 26-mile run creating a new record. Photographers take pictures. The crowd in the stands. Women's 400 meter relay event begins. United States team wins creating a new record with a score of 45.9 seconds. The relay team of four girls dances with glee. Men's 1500 meter track event begins. The crowd in the stands is applauding. Luxembourg's Joseph Barthel overcomes American Macmillan winning the country's first gold medal. Joseph Barthel cries standing on the winner's stand.

Date: 1952, July 31
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070005
German occupation, martial law, and Danish resistance in Denmark during World War II

Film about Denmark after the Nazi German occupying force declared martial law and state of war with Denmark, in 1943-44 during World War 2. It was made by Danes and smuggled out of Denmark during that period. Opens with view of a church building and flocks of birds. Views of German army troops marching into Copenhagen, Denmark on 9 April 1940. SS troops dressed in black, marching. German soldiers carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, goosestepping. A fire burning at site sabotaged by Danish resistance elements in 1943. Derailed trains carrying goods to Germany. Fire at a German factory. Danish workers with bicycles staging a strike in protest German measures in response to resistance actions. Danes gathered in outdoor observance memorializing those killed by the Germans. A shop owned by German sympathizers (Quislings) destroyed by other Danes. People gathered on street on 29 August 1943, when the occupying German forces attacked the remaining Danish garrison and declared martial law. Announcement posted in Danish on a wall. View of Danish Naval vessels ordered scuttled by the Danish Admiralty, including the coastal defense ship,Peder-Skram, seen in front of a large building, the submarine, Havfruen (not seen) and others seen sunk at docks in Copenhagen harbor. Bullet hole through a glass window. A week later, on Sunday, 5 September, 1943, a German Panzer light tank is seen moving on a street, as pedestrians go about their business in Copenhagen. German soldiers patrolling on a motorcycle with sidecar. A man holding his hands up as he is hustled through a crowd under arrest by a German in black uniform (possibly Gestapo or SS). Motorcycle driving through pedestrians on the sidewalk. Spectators line a fence by an open field near a building labeled "Badstue Badminton." One, a woman, speaks through the fence to a Danish soldier interned there. View of the quarters of the Royal Guard at Rosenborg, occupied by German soldiers and with Nazi flag flying above it. Civilian relatives of interned men wait outside army headquarters for news about them. A courtyard, during a mass funeral, is filled with memorial flower wreaths covering the coffins of Danish soldiers and civilians killed by the Germans. Camera focuses on a wreath from King Christian of Denmark, among the many others. Two German soldiers march up a path at the Royal Residence Amalienborg, where King Christian is arrested. Views from moving camera as Danish flags are seen flying all over the city of Copenhagen, on 26 September, 1943, to celebrate the King's 73rd Birthday. The major exception is the Nazi Gestapo headquarters in the "Shellhus" (the prewar Shell Oil offices) shown in isolation. Views of people moving their belongings on hand carts after their homes were taken over by Germans. The slogan in English, "Do it well and do it now,"is seen left by Danish resistance fighters where they sabotaged a German military installation.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036548
Finnish Army Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's daughter thanks the whole world for their help to Finland in Paris, France.

General Mannerheim's daughter thanks the world for help in Paris, France. Miss Mannerheim, daughter of Finnish Army Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, thanks other nations for helping Finland which is fighting for the whole civilized world. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, February 12
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033938
Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway in 1952, and Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Olympic flag hoisted during the Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. German bobsled team wins. Ski jump competition during the events. Scene changes to Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. A car in front of the Soviet Russian athlete housing in the Olympic village. Soviet athletes near the car. Emil Zatopek running during a track event. People hold him after he wins the event. Lindy Remigino of New York wins the 100 meter dash. Sprint competition winners on podium. Flags of various countries. Olympic torch in background.

Date: 1952
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035489
Lenin's activities early in 1917. Mass demonstrations.Shooting at crowd. Lenin clean shaven in Finland

Footage dealing with the Russian Revolution. Painting of Vladimir Llyich Lenin speaking to workers. photograph of hand-written speaking notes. Large crowd of Russians gathered and listening to a Bolshevik speaker at a public square. They hold banners and flags. The hide outs of Vladimir Llyich Lenin during exile period and painting of same. massive crowd of Russians raise and lower their hands. Citizens walk through the streets holding banners. Elevated view of Russian crowd of worker demonstrators that scatters and runs as shooting (presumably from Imperial Russian Army forces) begins and breaks up the protest. Debris left after the shooting. Identification papers used by Lenin, with an alias, showing him clean shaven and with a wig. Scenes of Finland where Lenin went, by way of Petrograd, on April 16,1917. Lake, hay stack, rough hay-covered shelter and fire pit with kettle hanging over it. A forest glen and rustic wooden house, with Lenin's office in a hay loft.

Date: 1917, April 3
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675072431
Embassies of Brazil, Australia, Austria, Madagascar, Finland and Yugoslavia in Washington DC, United States.

Embassies in Washington DC, United States. A flag displayed on a building. A motorcade led by motorcycle escorts moving on a road. Several vehicles moving on the road. A sign stone outside a building reads '3006, Brazilian Embassy'. View of the cars moving down the road. A sign on the sidewall of the entrance to a building reads 'Australian Embassy'. Views of the Austrian Embassy, the Embassy of Madagascar and the Embassy of Finland. Flags displayed on buildings. Cars moving down the road. The Embassy of Yugoslavia in view. Vehicles moving on a road in the city. The U.S. Capitol in the background. People walking on a road. A man jogging on a path lined with street lamps on one side. A monument in the background.

Date: 1972
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066417