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U.S. tank destroyer crews slide under barbed wires and learn the techniques of street fighting while undergoing a training.
A training of tank destroyer crews in the U.S. during World War II. Trainee soldiers train in front of their supervisors. Trainee soldiers in water. They train under fire and crawl under barbed wires. They are in front of a house while learning the techniques of street fighting. A soldier crouches behind a wall. Another comes out of a door with a pistol in his hand. The trainees operating M3 Gun Motor Carriage half tracks armed with 75mm M1897A4 Guns. They fire their guns at targets including tanks and buildings, creating explosions.
Views of Manhattan Island, New York, from a sight-seeing boat on the Hudson River, in 1919.
View from a sight-seeing boat on the Hudson River at New York City, showing Grant's Tomb on a bluff above, circa 1919. (The tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant, in Riverside Park was completed in 1897. In the background, to the North, can be seen the Claremont Inn and Hendrik Hudson apartments. Following a slate reading "Hudson River," the film captures the scenes as the boat moves south along the Hudson. Grant's Tomb is still seen at the extreme north end of the view. But a cluster of tall apartment buildings dominates the bluff above the river. Closeup of a U.S. Pennsylvania-class Armored Cruiser anchored in the Hudson river, with small boats around it and men boarding her from them. Apartment buildings on Riverside Drive in the background. View progresses close to Manhattan Island, where Pier 7 of the U.S. Army Transport Service is seen with ships docked on either side. A docked ship emits heavy black smoke from one of its funnels. A commercial ferry boat passes in front of the camera vessel. More views of ocean-going ships docked on the Hudson river side of Manhattan. Smoke is coming from some of their stacks. The Hudson Terminal with the Singer Building and City Investing Building in the background. The Singer Building tower dominates the center of the view and the taller Woolworth Building is seen to its left (North), at 233 Broadway. Next are views of the Battery on the tip of Manhattan. The large low round structure in the foreground is the Castle Clinton housing the city aquarium. The prominent tall building behind it, to the left, is the Whitehall building at Battery Place. As the camera pans south around the tip of Manhattan, some sight-seeing boats are shown, docked at the waterfront.
Shops and public places, men having a haircut at barber's shop and old people talking, in Chicago, Illinois United States.
Shops and public places in Chicago, Illinois United States. People enter the L. Fish Furniture company, established 1858, with a fish-shaped sign at the entrance. Men having hair cut at the La Estrella barber shop. A man reads a Spanish language newspaper. One man in waiting line plays with his dog. View of the entrance way and shop windows at the Sajewski Music Store "since 1897" in a Polish neighborhood and streets of Chicago. An older man and a young boy look in the windows at guitars and a drumset on display. Signs in a Polish neighborhood of Chicago advertising goods with both English and Polish signs. Old women walk on sidewalks. A close-up of an elderly man. Old citizens of Chicago talk to each other. Public buses drive on roads. The elevated train arrives, pulling into a station stop.
French Army troops, in Artois, France, training to use artillery against aircraft
French soldiers training in Artois, France, shortly before World War I. French artillerymen wearing gas masks, are seen inside a bunker. One loads a powder charge into a Cannon de 75 modèle 1897 field gun (So-called French 75). Slate states (in Swedish): Calculating the distance to an airship or airplane is often a very tricky task. View of French soldier, in a field, looking through a telescope, and another, nearby, looking through binoculars. The latter raises a large horn (or megaphone) and sounds it. Camera pans to two soldiers using a range finder. Closeup of aiming adjustments on a French 75 field gun. Next, gun crewmen remove shells from a protected storage caisson, buried in the side of a deep trench and other gunners load a nearby gun. Slate states that Automobile cannons constitute a very practical and effective weapon in the battle against airships. An artillery piece is shown mounted on a vehicle chassis, being maneuvered by gunners. A brief glimpse of mirror specially designed to signal to aviators.
Four girls have a pillow fight. Various written statements by Edison concerning origin and restrictions on use of the film.
View of letter signed by Thomas A. Edison, dated September 30, 1902, concerning restrictions on use of the film. Line at top of letter reads: "Patented March 14, 1893." The film shows four Girls, in white night dresses, engaged in a pillow fight. One of the pillows tears and feathers fly everywhere. A single frame inserted at time code 00:14/ 00:30 reads: "Copyright 1897 by Thomas A. Edison."
Allied troops on the offensive with German troops surrendering in WWI
French soldiers firing with artillery during World War 1. A French Renault Ft tank rolls into a forest. A Canon de 75 modèle 1897 75mm field gun firing in forest. Two Renault Ft tanks moving through the battlefield at high speed. Allied soldiers advance alongside Renault Ft tanks. Soldiers dive to trenches as the battlefield is hit by artillery fire. Renault Ft tanks swarm the battlefield. A German soldier furiously drives a galloping horse cart, narrowly avoiding artillery fire. A tank, covered with tree branches, rolls up a muddy hill with soldiers. German soldiers raising their arms to surrender. Ruined landscape with loan Renault Ft tank driving through.