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Secretary Talbott speaks to patients at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland.
Secretory Talbott and his wife visit patients at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Secretory Talbott and Colonel Bernt Balchen in winter clothing Troops salute as they walk towards the aircraft. Operator operates sound recorder machine. Secretory Talbott speaks to patients in the hospital. He reads out messages for the patients.
Arthur Godfrey and troupe members entertain United States Air Force Personnel at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland.
Board of 'Ritz Jhule Building number 122' at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Secretory Talbott gives speech on stage. Air Force Personnel seated on ground watch the show in ENT Auditorium. Airmen take pictures and applaud. General LeMay gives a brief speech on stage. Arthur Godfrey speaks to air Force Personnel and entertains them by playing guitar. Jeanette Davis sings on stage. Colonel Bernt Balchen gives a brief speech. Troops in winter clothing exit the auditorium and head toward the Gymnasium.
Man attaches radiosonde to weather balloon and releases it in Sierra, Greenland.
Man fills balloon with calcium-hydride gas in weather balloon. Another man operates Radar Antenna. Man walks out of igloo, attaches radiosonde to the balloon and releases it. The balloon moves upward. Man positions Radar Antenna.
U.S. Coast Guard operations in Greenland prior to U.S. involvement in World War II. Cryolite mine. German weather station
Chart showing U.S. Coast Guard routes across the North Atlantic during World War Two. Scenes of the rugged Greenland landscape. Views of the Greenland Cryolite mine. A U.S. Coast Guard Cutter berthed at the pier near the mine. Greenlanders working in the open pit cryolite mine with jackhammers and steam shovels. U.S. Coast Guard officers seated, conferring with Danish Naval officer. James K. Penfield, first United States consul in Greenland looks on and interjects a comment, while pointing at a map. Supplies being transferred to a Greenland small boat. Two German meteorologists pose by their small weather station. German flag seen in background. View inside the German weather station, shows instruments, clip boards, weather maps, and radio equipment.
King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark visit Capital of Greenland
King Frederik IX of Denmark and wife Queen Ingrid of Sweden, receive a royal welcome in Godthab (Nuuk), the capital of Greenland. They walk along a raised platform and receive gifts from local citizens. Queen Ingrid receives a local costume from two women dressed, themselves, in traditional garb. A Greenland Girl Scout, in uniform, presents a purse to the queen. King Frederik IX speaks to the gathering of people seated on chairs facing the platform. In a change of scene, The King and Queen step from a car to attend a ceremony. The Queen wears the Greenlandic national costume, which is shown by the camera, as the Royal couple sit for the event. Greenlanders in a stadium cheer them.
Greenland women with their children on outdoor hospital beds. Greenland children and people watch movie in Greenland.
Native Inuit people of Greenland seen on beds in Greenland. An outdoor porch lined with beds and women in the beds. A nurse tucks a child into bed with his mother. Other beds are occupied by Greenland native women. Inuit men, women and children watch an animated comic movie about Humpty Dumpty. View of faces of smiling Inuit men, women, and many children as they watch the movie in a makeshift theater.
