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Bombing of Kahili Airdrome on Bougainville Island by U.S. AAF B-24 Liberators

Aerial views of the bombing of Kahili Airdrome on Bougainville Island. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers in flight at a high altitude over the airdrome, dropping bombs. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September 14
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030933
The bombing of Buka Airdrome on Bougainville Island by U.S. B-24 Liberators

Events relating to the bombing of Buka Airdrome on Bougainville Island on September 14th 1943. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers and fighters in flight at a high altitude over the airdrome. B-24s dropping bombs. Impacts visible. Japanese fighter aircraft receiving fire from American aircraft. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September 21
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030934
U.S. Sixth Fleet Marines officers charge for the honor guards on the flight deck in the Mediterranean Sea.

20th Anniversary of U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. U.S. Marine officers in charge for the honor guards. The honor guards stand before the group on the flight deck. High ranked officers proceed down the flight deck. Sideboys in ranks on the deck. A red carpet stretches down the flight deck between the sideboys and the Marine Honor guards in the background. A helicopter being framed in a distance in the background. Marines walk down the line. Marine Honor guard breaking ranks at Port Arms. Marines march at Port Arms. Marines march with arms on shoulder.

Date: 1968, June 25
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047111
Europe begins to normalize as World War II comes to an end; scenes in Serbia, Spain, and Czechoslovakia.

A Slav festival in Serbia. People climb stairs to enter a Greek Catholic Church, where a priest is seen waving a container of incense, as part of the ritual. (Narrator notes that the theme is protection of native cultures, including protection of religion.) The Priest slices a large piece of bread for the Mass. Next an accordion is seen and dancers assemble for the "Kolo" (a Serbian national dance). View of dancing, that marks end of the festival. Scene shifts abruptly to a sailboat race in Malaga, Spain. Narrator says it "suggests the idea of normal living with a prosperous new Europe." Film shifts to mountains of the high Tatras, in Czechoslovakia, where Ski troops of the Czech army demonstrate their abilities.

Date: 1944, March
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047126
Scenes of destruction from late 1939 in Finland during the Russo-Finish war

Film opens with a map of Europe showing black-shaded region of the Soviet Union, and pointing out Germany and Finland. Next, are shown moving images of rural buildings on fire in Finland, late in 1939, during the Russo-Finish war (or "Winter War"). (The Narrator comments that Finland's population was only 4 million while that of the soviets was 180 million.) Soviet bombers are seen high in the sky. A lone woman hurries along a street in Helsinki, Finland, past rubble of a bombed building. Smoke rises in the background. Finnish fire fighters man a hose to fight numerous huge fires in Helsinki.Various views of fires blazing in the capital.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047181
LSD tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and drug addicts by the CIA in the United States.

A documentary depicts administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. A part time chemist for CIA, Dr. James Moore. A mushroom expert is asked to get a magic mushroom and turn it into a drug. He talks about how they got the mushroom. Local shaman or magical priests perform rituals. Dr. James helps CIA in producing new chemicals. Dr. James along with Wilson went to Mexico to get the mushroom. Mexicans prepare food. News correspondent Paul Atmeyer questions Dr. James about the kind of mushroom they are looking for and the effects of the drug. Testing of the drug. A statement of the CIA officers who worked on the experiments describes how the decision was made. The decisions was made and tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. CIA took help of a high ranking narcotics official George White. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, talks about White. Traffic on streets. Safe houses set up by White for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and clubs. Exterior of a Motel Hotel in San Fransisco and a view of San Fransisco bay from an apartment. The former CIA official who worked in the safe houses studies sexual behavior and how it is used to manipulate people. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Effects of LSD. LSD research is done in American Universities. LSD researcher Dr. Timothy Leary talks about the consciousness movement in the 60s.

Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 7 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047228