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Panorama of wreckage along waterfront in Galveston Texas, United States, following hurricane of September 8,1900.
Panorama of hurricane damage to waterfront in Galveston in Texas, United States. A large schooner lies on its side in the harbor. Several boats seen in water. Black smoke from a smokestack of a boat. Several men standing on the docks. Erected tents seen.
Training film for U.S. troops with the Army of occupation in Germany after world War II
Opens with bell tolling Victory against Germany in World War II. Next, a slate reads: "Victory Leads to Peace," and a farmer is seen with cattle pulling a plow. But narrator says "the problem now is future peace," and a map of Germany is shown overlaid with "Your Job in Germany." A cartoon of a soldier is superimposed on the map, along with one of a World War 1 American soldier and a figure of possible future soldier with similar mission. Camera focuses on parts of German aircraft in a jumbled heap. Closeups of weary defeated German soldiers at end ot World War II. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler speaking and haranguing an audience from a podium in an animated and forceful way. Swastika flags displayed from houses in a quaint German town. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, at a microphone. Glimpse of a German concentration camp. But as they appear, each of the Nazi elements promptly disappears, showing the scenes without such Nazi symbols and persons. Skeleton remains of bombed buildings. Flower displays. Bucolic German rural countryside and quaint old villages in peaceful settings. Camera focuses on a book titled "German History." Chapter I, titled "Blood and Iron," shows Image of Otto von Bismarck. German troops march in a parade. Narrator states that "under Bismarck, the German empire was built." (He formed the German Empire in 1871, unifying Germany with himself as Imperial Chancellor, while retaining control of Prussia at the same time.) The film shows mounted German lancers as it alludes to Bismarck's campaigns against Denmark in 1867; Austria in 1866; and France, in 1870. Germany's leaders celebrating its status, in 1871, as the mightiest power in Europe. Troops marching and girls dancing nearby. Farmers plowing field with a horse and cow. Classic peaceful rural alpine scenes with local people in agricultural pursuits. A group of local German musicians playing folk music as village people dance outdoors. Back to the book, Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown on Chapter 2, entitled: "Deutschland über Alles." Gathering of German soldiers in Pickelhaube (spiked helmets). A German Big Bertha howitzer firing. German troops marching against Serbia; Russia; and France (with view of war damaged French cathedral). German invasion of Belgium (with view of clock tower resting in rubble). German troops seen in Italy, walking past battle-damaged buildings. German Zeppelin dropping bombs on British targets and view of bombed out London neighborhood. Next scene shows a capsized ship with survivors running across its hull. Film slate labels the scene as United States, as if it is a U.S. ship attacked by Germany. (Actually, it is the Austro-Hungarian Battleship, SMS Szent Istvan, torpedoed, by Italian torpedo boats, during World War I.) Next, American soldiers in trench are seen going "over the top" and into "no man's land" on the western front of World War 1. Glimpse through a window of Kaiser Wilhelm II, after defeat of Germany, in 1918. View of Germans in a Beer Garden. Picturesque view of German town. A German orchestra performing. American soldiers marching out of Germany, with flags waving. Back to the history book,as chapter III is revealed, entitled "Today Germany, tomorrow, the world," and featuring Adolf Hitler. German troops invading Austria (where a civilian lies dead on the ground). German troops entering Czechoslovakia (where local people in tears render the Nazi salute). They march into Poland (where a girl weeps over someone, not seen, on the ground). They march into France (where a wounded, bandaged child cries in a bed). Next, is a scene from England, where a British child victim of bombing lies dead in the remains of a shelter. German troops invading Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and Russia (where a woman tries to rouse a dead woman). They invade Yugoslavia (where women sit near coffins of children) and Greece (where a woman rescues a naked child). A U.S. merchant ship explodes after being torpedoed by a German submarine (unseen). Scenes of destruction with people plucking dead victims from rubble of buildings. American troops invading Normandy, France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Several American soldiers fall to German gunfire on the beach. Wounded American soldiers being transported in jeeps on the battlefield and being placed on landing craft for evacuation. Americans walking past huge piles of destroyed aircraft parts. A landing craft filled with wounded American soldiers. American wounded and dead on a battlefield. Sailors abandoning a burning American ship by jumping into the sea. A sailor picked up in a life boat. A wounded American soldier being dragged from the beachhead at Normandy. Various wounds being treated by U.S. Medical Corps personnel. More scenes of American wounded being moved on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to German people folk dancing. Film concludes with question marks about the future.
View of Union Square in New York City, United States in the early 1900s
View of Union Square in New York City. Traffic of cars, trucks and horse carriages on busy street. People walk on street. Tram drives past people on street. Bus on which is written 'Broadway' drives on street in Union Square.
Short film describing why Europeans emigrated to America around 1900
f Opening image shows handwritten letter written by an imigrant to the U.S. from Europe. Camera pans over various outdoor scenes of the United States, as voices of men and women in the background extols marvels of America. A map of Europe is shown as narrator describes the problems in European countries. A woman sowing seed by hand on a European farm. European farmers using shovels to spread something over a plot of land. A farmer walking behind a plow pulled by a single horse. An old man tells how the land they had in Europe wasn't enough to feed their family of three, So his father decided to come to America (probably in the period from 1880 to 1920).
Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey on sailing ships to America around 1900.
European immigration to America. Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey in sailing ships. Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship plunging through ocean waters. Next, a man who was an immigrant from Europe being interviewed, discusses his travel difficulties. He talks about crossing the Atlantic in the Steerage. Camera pans across an illustration of passengers in Steerage, suffering with sickness and smell. Next, a woman immigrant mentions being sea sick, all the way. She says her mother feared that she might be thrown overboard if the ship's crew saw how sick a child she was, so she hid her daughter. Next, camera pans briefly over a drawing of travelers in Steerage. Another woman immigrant also remarks about the sea sickness and terrible conditions.
European immigrants come to America in sailing ships on difficult passage across the Atlantic ocean circa 1900
Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship in rought waters of the Atlantic ocean. Next, a man who was an imigrant from Europe being interviewed, tells how travelers in Steerage didn't want to move because the ship was rolling and shaking so badly. In between views of persons being interviewed, the camera pans and shows closeups of travelers lying about on the deck of a sailing ship, in good weather, so they could get some fresh air and sunshine. (A woman immigrant notes that they were forced to do this by the crew.) Another woman talks about prevalence of head lice and delousing procedures.
