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Newsreel restrospective produced following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (WW2)
Opening scene shows the White House in Washington, DC. Scene shifts to President Roosevelt seated, ready to address the Nation by radio. View of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. FDR with his entire family posing, in front of the family home "Springwood" at Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt, when Governor of New York, seen in a sail boat, in 1929. FDR in his car at his Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia. He is speaking with a man associated with the Institute, who then greets several polio victims in wheel chairs there. Crowds celebrating Roosevelt's election, in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, in 1932. Roosevelt, at the Democratic Headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel on November 8, 1932. He is standing, supported by his son James, as he remarks: "It looks my friends like a real landslide this time." Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol. FDR taking the oath of office on March 4, 1933. Brief view of New York Stock Exchange trading floor. A man looking at stock market ticker tape. A group of people raising a National Recovery Administration member flag. Glimpse of "Springwood" and then view of President Roosevelt sitting next to his mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. Next, as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt sit in the garden, their grandchildren, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie") come past riding horses, with granddaughter Sara, behind them on a pony. FDR pets the pony and talks with Sara. FDR being nominated for a second term as President, in the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Roosevelt, riding in an inaugural motorcade as he begins an unprecedented 4th term as President in 1941. Glimpse of President and Mrs. Roosevelt in an open car. West point cadets marching in the inaugural parade. Military trucks towing artillery pieces in the parade. President Roosevelt speaking at the dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association at the Willard hotel in Washington, DC, March 15, 1941. He extols the virtues of Winston Churchill and the British people. And he promises that America will supply them with the war materiel they need in World War II (This is known as the Lend Lease Speech.)
Soldiers engage in recreational activities like reading and playing cards in Italy.
Rest and relaxation services for soldiers provided by the United Service Organizations (USO) in Italy during World War II. In Anzio, Italy: U.S. Army soldiers do comic diving at a swimming pool during a water carnival. A man performs a serious dive, and then a clown performs a humourous dive from the high diving board. People watch the event. Men dressed as women (men in drag) during a bathing beauty contest. The men dressed as women and wearing makeup pass by. One is dressed like Mae West but smoking a cigar. The soldiers hold a casual rodeo event riding a bull and a horse until they are bucked off. Men and women at a beach. A man and a woman enjoy in water. In a USO club, soldiers suffering battle fatigue get a break and rest. Soldiers listen to a fellow soldier at a piano, as they sing. A soldier writes on a paper. Soldiers play cards, read and do other activities. Soldiers attend a dance with women brought in by the USO. Soldiers read in a U.S. Army library. Books and magazines on a table including many small pocket editions of popular books of the era.
A jeep is driven to a transmitter and a OSS receiving station and Security Officer Training Camp in the Middle East.
OSS or Office of Strategic Services officers on a mission in the Middle East during World War II. A jeep drives to a communication transmitter located at Kilo 13 outside Cairo, Egypt. An officer seated in a jeep talks to a personnel. Personnel work at a station. The jeep drives 3 miles away to a receiving station. Chief of Communications Major Porter. Personnel work at the stations. A jeep and a truck driven towards Security Officer Training Camp which is 164 miles north west of Cairo. The camp area and tents. Cadets move towards the tents.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives for the Quebec conference
Royal North West mountain band plays and marches in Quebec, Canada. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives for the conference. He along with Churchill, combined chiefs of staff poses for a photo. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden also joins them.
American sends supplies to European countries under Marshall Plan; blockade of Berlin by Soviet Union
American food, machine, tools and other supplies loaded in ships for Europe under Marshall Plan. German citizens in West Berlin German busy rebuilding after World War 2 destruction. Men at construction sites and boys and men moving equipment, bricks, steel, lumber, cement, and wheel barrows. Communists demonstrate in Soviet east Berlin. Men and women climbing fences at a building while a crowd pushes forward. Communists blockade Berlin. East German police officers in a human chain move a crowd. A blockaded area dividing the city. Industrial production stopping due to power failures. Closeup of analog power dial moving to zero from a power cut. A light in a factory turning off. Goods piled up idle in train stations, unable to be moved. A blocked border crossing at Helmstedt, and a line of trucks with food supplies at the crossing, stopped and unable to pass. Truck drivers discuss the impasse with a Russian guard.
American sand British Planes carry supplies to blockaded Berlin
America and Britain conduct Berlin Airlift operations, flying supplies to blockaded East Berlin during the Soviet Berlin Blockade. Blockade lifted. Refugees flee East Germany and move to West Germany.
