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Llewelyn Evans demonstrates his "instant, hand held fire extinguisher" in England.

Invention of the "instant, hand held fire extinguisher." British inventor Llewelyn Evans stands by a stock of extinguishers. Various tests of the new invention in England. Fire put out with the help of the new extinguisher in a hall and a kitchen. A man set on fire, while another uses the invention to extinguish the fire.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1967, May 2
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035370
People from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other officials gather to welcome ambassador Stanton Griffis in Madrid, Spain.

Parade on streets welcomes Stanton Griffis, new U.S. Ambassador to Spain, upon his arrival in Madrid, Spain. Parade led by Moorish guards moves to the Palacio Real de Madrid (Royal Palace of Madrid, C. de Bailén, s/n, 28071 Madrid, Spain). Ambassador Griffis sits in a horse drawn carriage. Spanish military officers and government officials gather to welcome Griffis. People from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other officials gather to welcome the new U.S. ambassador. He greets the dignitaries, including General Francisco Franco.

Location: Madrid Spain
Date: 1951, March 5
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035467
Enthusiastic speech by President Hoover at Republican National Convention in Cleveland Ohio

Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover delivers an enthusiastic speech to the Republican National Convention, during the Great Depression. Speaking out against Democratic Party New Deal programs under President Roosevelt, former President Hoover says "For the first time in the history of America, we have heard the gospel of class hatred preached from the White House." He goes on to speak against high government spending and the increase in the U.S. national debt. He states that the number unemployed is the same as at the time of the 1932 election. He wonders "what is going to be done after the election with these measures which the Constitution forbids, and the people by their votes have never authorized? What do the New Dealers propose to do with these unstable currencies, these unbalanced budgets, these debts and these taxes?" He goes on to say "our system is a government of laws and not of men. And the Republican party holds to its promises and its laws." Huge applause in the public auditorium. The NBC, MBS, CBS networks broadcast his speech.

Location: Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: 1936, June
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035787
U.S. Navy warships engaged in exercises and maneuvers to maintain readiness in 1940.

Film opens showing two U.S. Navy Colorado-class battleships leading two others in a line of U.S. Navy battleships underway in a harbor area. Glimpse of officers on bridge of a battleship. Prow of ship creating wake. Variety of U.S. warships engaged in tactical exercise maneuvers. Several views of Mahon-class destroyers leading the fleet seaward in battle order. At TC: 1:54, USS California (BB-44) is seen from port side while underway. Next, Curtiss SOC Seagull observation planes are launched from warships and fly over the fleet in flights of three each. New Mexico class battleship underway at TC: 02:20. The USS Tennessee (BB-43) is seen at TC: 2:25. Closeups of observation aircraft in flight with pilots visible. The USS Aylwin (DD-355) seen around 2:45, then the USS Farragut (DD-348), the USS Case (DD-370), and the USS Monaghan (DD-354). Sailors astern on a destroyer launch depth charges. Wickes-class 4-stack destroyers on the horizon dropping depth charges. Closeup of ashcan depth charges rolling off stern of destroyer. New Mexico class battleships maneuvering. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035887
The Allied Military Government (AMG) begins immediate efforts to cleanup and rebuild Liberated areas of Sicily in World War II.

Allied Military Government efforts to rebuild Sicily after capturing it from Axis forces during World War 2. Italian men needing employnent board an open truck for transport to a job site. Workers standing with American soldiers preparing to work. A huge crowd of men pushing and shoving outside an Allied Military Government (AMG) labor hiring headquarters where they were offered decent wages to begin rebuilding after the war's destruction. Italian men, as well as American soldiers, rebuilding roads in the Alpine region of Italy, where German forces had destroyed them as they withdrew. U.S. Army engineers using a bulldozer, to clear and smooth a road. A large dump truck spreading new gravel for a highway bed. A team of workers manning a cable to pull down a damaged portion of a building. A British Army officer and a Colonial soldier in a turban, set explosive charges to destroy a bomb-damaged building. They detonate the charges and bring down the entire large building. Bulldozers at work on huge piles of rubble. A steam shovel being employed to clear large piles of debris. Men at work in Palermo, to clear entire streets buried in rubble. Men clearing rubble near piles of twisted steel building girders. Rubble being moved by horse-drawn carts and dumped into the sea. Italian masons at work building new homes and refurbishing old ones. In views three months after the original Allied landing in Sicily during July,1943, Palermo is seen well on the way to restoration. School children, including girls with brooms, walking to a place needing cleanup. Views of them cleaning steps and windows. Citizens picking up debris from streets and sidewalks. A man using a hose to clean a street and sidewalk in the city.

Location: Palermo Italy
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035963
Officials of U.S. Army complete the formalities of currency exchange with the soldiers at Signal Group Headquarters in Vietnam.

Currency exchange program at the headquarters of the Signal Group of the United States Army at their headquarters in Long Binh Vietnam. Officials of the United States Army at their desk. Counting the old and new currency notes. They inspect the forms of the soldiers. Photographer takes pictures. A soldier walks out of the office after receiving the new currency notes. (Vietnam War period).

Location: Long Binh Vietnam
Date: 1969, August 11
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035978
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