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View of New Town commercial district in Harlow, England, 1954, post World War 2

New Town commercial area in Harlow, England, 1954, ten years after WW2. British people move about on foot and bicycle. Customers peering through shop windows, a long line stretchers from a store labeled "Rudgewick." Scene changes to view of multistory school building. Children roller skate in a nearby paved lot. Second angle of the school, with scaffolding surrounding and secondary, smaller building, designed in the same style, off to the side.

Location: Harlow England United Kingdom
Date: 1954, August 31
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675081003
Extreme grasshopper outbreak and emergency control efforts using new insecticides in the United States, 1951

From a Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (BEPQ) film on grasshopper plagues, made in 1951 in the United States. Men from BEPQ egg survey teams use shovels and wire baskets to dig up and sift through earth, searching for grasshopper eggs. Close up of hands working on the dirt. Grasshopper insect eggs in hand. Narrator notes that the teams have discovered unusually large egg populations. Scene changes to printing of warning papers containing information on a possible grasshopper outbreak. Close up of man from Grasshopper control on the telephone, warning about the possible outbreak. Close up of paper being printed, hands typing at a typewriter, and words on the papers. Maps containing information on the possible grasshopper infestation are created and printed. A team of men pore over maps, planning for the potential outbreak. Truck drives through green field, team of men perform a spot check to determine the status of the outbreak threat, swiping nets back and forth to catch hoppers. An outbreak is confirmed. Scenes of hoppers flying in swarms above farm crop fields. Officials review and plan for the outbreak at a table. A convoy of trucks carrying equipment drives down a roadway. Mixing stations for production of new insecticides are established. A man moves material with a wheel barrow. Belt conveyor moves materials for the fabrication of insecticides. Bran and sawdust loaded into a truck and stockpiled at an emergency station. Surveyor at work collecting grasshoppers. Chartered aircraft are loaded with pesticide and fly over fields, dusting the crop to save the harvest and prevent the spread of grasshoppers. Insect bait is prepared in a mixing machine for less infested areas. Farmers spread bait and insecticides on their crop. Close up of dying grasshopper. Swarms of grasshoppers in the sky, grasshoppers feeding on crops. Mixing and loading of insecticide into planes. Planes fly over crops, dusting them Trucks and vehicles drive across fields spreading bait and insecticide. Dead grasshoppers in piles on the ground. Close up of farmers reviewing and writing on documents. A single hopper slowly moves on the ground, another dying nearby.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675081015
Maestro Arturo Toscanini at Wave Hill, his home in Riverdale, New York, during World War II

Music Maestro, Arturo toscanini, is seen in the library at Wave Hill, the mansion in which he is living during World War 2. His grandson, Walfredo Toscanini, is relaxing on a sofa in the background. The Maestro, paces the floor, as he listens to a phonograph record. Toscanini family pictures are seen on a piano, where the maestro is seated playing from a musical score. He pauses to annotate the score.

Location: Riverdale New York USA
Date: 1943, December 10
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025691
Japanese women and children disembark Red Cross mercy ship Gripsholm at New York harbor during repatriation efforts

Japanese men board a bus. A medical van parked. Japanese women and children disembark from the Red Cross repatriation mercy ship "Gripsholm," and sick helped off the ship which provided safe diplomatic passage for interned civilians under exchange and repatriation agreements. The Gripsholm was of the Swedish American Line, under charter by the U.S. Government.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058282
Jazz musician Duke Ellington composes a musical score at the piano in his Capitol Records Office in New York City.

African American composer, pianist and band leader, Duke Ellington seated at his piano in the home atmosphere of his office in the Capitol Records Company Building. He plays a phrase on the piano then makes musical notation. Sheet music of Ellington's works are filmed in close up, including Mood Indigo, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Black and Tan Fantasy, Sophisticated, and Caravan.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1943, October
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031232
Bob Sour sings 'West of Tomorrow' at Music War Committee in New York (WW2)

Entertainment by the Music War Committee in World War II. Men seated around conference table discuss music. Fred Ahlert chairman of the committee ask to Volunteer to sing song, helpful in winning war. Bob Sour raises hand and ask to sing and for help in music. Ray Henderson speaks and plays piano. Sour sings "West of Tomorrow". Listeners clap in reaction. Plaque: Victor Herbert 1859-1924.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1943, November
Duration: 4 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026231
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