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The Zeppelin dirigible LZ-129 (Hindenburg) under construction inside hangar, at Friedrichshafen, Germany.

LZ-129 Airship (Hindenburg) under construction in Friedrichshafen,Germany. Men work inside hangar. Structural framework for the Hindenburg is taken inside hangar. Visitors stand at entrance to the hangar to look at the airship under construction and read about it on signs and displays. Prefabricated sections of framework are moved into position by cable hoists. A man rides on a cable suspended from the hangar ceiling and another descends on a cable-supported scaffold. several men walk precariously along framework stringers of the airship and perform tasks at certain points along the way. One man climbs down a circular member. View, from ascending scaffold, of the structure taking shape. A workman moves on hands and knees, backwards, cautiously, across a top framework member. Shape is becoming recognizable, as seen from ascending scaffold. Having climbed down a circular section of framework, a workman hangs by his hands and drops to hangar floor. That circular section is then raised by hoists.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052195
Grotesque masquerades and decorated floats in the traditional Rose Monday festival in Cologne, Germany.

Traditional Rose Monday festival in Cologne, Germany. Large crowds gather during the prosperity pageant. Troops march during the festival. Humorous and grotesque masquerades and decorated floats in the Rose Monday festival.

Date: 1931, March 12
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070927
Cooks practice performing calisthenics and they exercise with kitchen utensils in Berlin, Germany.

Calisthenics for cooks in Berlin, Germany. Cooks climb up stairs and walk down. The cooks practice performing calisthenics. A cook stands in front of others and teaches them. The cooks exercise with kitchen utensils.

Date: 1931, March 12
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070931
Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori writes from her desk, children study math and personal care at a Montessori school in Berlin, Germany

Famous Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori inspects a Montessori school in Berlin, Germany. Montessori is writing notes on her desk about Modernist ‘Montessori Method’ child education. Closeup of Montessori, smiling. Scene shifts to a Montessori classroom where children are seated at tables engaged in various independent individual activities, as a teacher walks amongst them. A mathematics class using the Montessori Method. A girl at one table places cards with numbers on them, in sequence, across her table. A boy works with numbered cards and a box of pegs. A box of Montessori Math Beads is seen beside the boy. Another boy, next to him, listens as he shakes rattles to sort them by sound. He places them on the table according to their sounds. Personal care activities by children. Children stand at individual wash basins in pairs. Children use washcloths to clean themselves. Children washing their hands with soap. A boy is paired up with an older girl. Girl washing the boy's face, neck and ears, using soap and wash cloth. Girl washes herself. The girl scrubs the boy’s ears.

Date: 1931, January 26
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072972
Wild boars graze, nurse piglets in forest near Berlin, Germany

A wild sow with her piglets graze in the Doberitzer Heide forest to the west of Berlin, Germany. Close view of wild piglets in forest. A wild boar spooks the wild sow and piglets. Wild sow nurses piglets in forest.

Date: 1931
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078526
Japanese 1931 aggression in Manchuria condemned by the League of Nations. Continued Japanese aggression in the Pacific, through World War II

Japanese international activities during 1931-1945. Opening scene shows Japanese troops embarking on ships bound for an invasion of Manchuria, in 1931. Officers walking on the dock, amongst the departing troops. Scenes of explosions and destruction. Views of Shanghai during Japanese attacks in 1937. Destroyed buildings. Civilian dead lying in the streets. Japanese soldiers racing along a street in a three wheeled motorcycle vehicle. Change of scene shows Japanese diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka addressing a League of Nations meeting in 1933, after that body adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. He objects to that action and then leads his delegation in walking out of the meeting. View of Japanese delegates in top hats and bowler hats exiting the building. Scene shifts to Japanese forces firing artillery and machine guns in Manchuria.They wave large Japanese flag victoriously after a battle. The next scene shows Italian forces occupying Ethiopia and raising the flag of the Kingdom of Italy, as Italian troops salute, presenting arms of rifles with fixed bayonets. Axis leaders celebrate the 1940 Tripartite Pact between German, Italy and Japan. The festivities take place in a hall displaying the three nation's flags on the walls. A large number of persons attend including Japan's Prime Minister, General Hideki Tojo, seen with two celebrants. Scene reverts to China with Chinese civilian people trying to escape from invading Japanese forces. The refugees carry their belongings as they flee. Occasional shell burst is seen among advancing Japanese troops as Chinese soldiers put up resistance. Chinese soldiers firing artillery. In the U.S., Japanese envoys Kichisaburō Nomura and Saburō Kurusu are seen walking together into a building and entering a room inside. Next, are views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with huge plumes of smoke obscuring the bombed U.S. battleships in the harbor. U.S. battleships in line formation in the Pacific during World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. warships moving in parallel. British ships augmenting the U.S. warships. Naval guns firing. U.S. amphibious assaults on Japanese held islands in the Pacific. Prisoners of the Japanese who suffered in the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur mingling with former prisoners and internees upon his return to Manila in 1944. Aerial views of Iwo Jima. Naval bombardment and amphibious assault of Iwo Jima. Numerous fallen Japanese soldiers. The iconic American flag raising by U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima. View of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. during the campaign on Okinawa, where he was killed in action. A Soldier being carried on a stretcher. Another throwing a hand grenade. U.S. soldier firing at a Japanese defender who falls out of his bunker. Large numbers of Japanese prisoners of war assembled in a field. Japanese Kamikaze attacking U.S. warships off Okinawa. The sky filled with antiaircraft flak clouds. View of 40mm Bofors antiaircraft cannon firing and a Japanese plane falling and exploding on impact in the ocean.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051624