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War Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City (WW2)

War Parade on Fifth Avenue, in New York City, United States during World War II . Baton twirling Drum Majorettes. National Float of the Netherlands, with "Holland" in bold letters. several U.S. veterans of WWI in uniform. Athletes in running gear. Antique wooden hearse drawn by team of 4 horses, with sign on its side decrying "Crime of Lidice." United States flags raised on the buildings. A huge crowd gathered on the sidewalks. Policemen stationed at the curbs along the line of march.

Date: 1942, June 13
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053917
People viewing a festival that brings life and culture of Holland to United States

A newsreel titled 'Thousands view festival bringing Holland to US' shows people in large number view dancers perform a traditional dance at a festival depicting life and culture of Holland in United States. People from Holland move in a procession. Children play in a garden with tulips all around

Date: 1936
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038324
A film about CARE U.S.A.

Film begins showing small children, receiving gifts. Babies in and around around a play pen. One sitting in a high chair with apron around his neck. View of flooded town in Holland. A stack of Care packages containing food and blankets. A man writes on a bundles of supplies: "Holland Relief." A DC 6 aircraft takes off to deliver supplies. Damaged buildings from an earth quake in Greece. Injured person being carried on a litter past a pile of Care stockpiles. Greek officers and sailors examine many boxes of Care supplies. People being evacuated from flood swept areas of Japan. Children lining up to receive drinks in Korea when the Korean War broke out. A child being fitted with shoes. Women and children in a shelter. Women and children suffering poverty in India. Care executives in a planning meeting at the U.S. headquarters (151 Ellis Street NE Atlanta, GA 30303). They obtain reports about crops and types of soil to design plows for use in various areas of the world. Pictures of farmers using plows in different countries. Care executives inspect sample of plows with technical assistance from Department of Agriculture experts. Closeup of the so-called CARE plow. Next, Care workers assemble collections of tools that might be sent abroad. Closeup of a box full of carpenter tools. Camera focuses on a simple high quality carpenter's plane. Outdoor tools for farm work are mounted on a display board. With advice from The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Men sort technical books for shipment to libraries abroad. Closeup of books being placed in CARE-labeled box. With advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Medical Association, Care planners design medical supply and equipment packages for shipment abroad. Closeup of a cart containing oxygen bottles and various medical instruments. A meeting of persons from agencies that make up CARE. Harold Minor, Treasurer of CARE, expresses support for new initiatives. CARE President, Murray Lincoln stands and receives from Paul French, a paper in which he writes the name: "Self Help." Mr. Lincoln writes it in chalk atop a list of items comprising the "package." Two planners review an advertisement for the program. A man and his wife and baby discuss making a contribution to CARE to fund a kit for midwives in India.

Date: 1950
Duration: 7 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025211
Crowd gathered near marquees of theaters running World War newsreels at Times Square in New York City, United States (WW2)

Marquee of newly opened New York Theatre (1482 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA) during World War II. Marquee says "Holland Belgium Invaded by Nazis. What will Italy do?" Also seen is the marquee of the Embassy Newsreel Theatre at Times Square in New York City, United States, which reads, "Holland-Belgium Invaded. 'Information Please'." A crowd gathered on the street. People read news on Nazi German invasion of several European countries and buy newspapers. Car traffic on the street and buildings in the background. View of the neon lights of other nearby buildings flashing at night.

Date: 1940, May
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054142
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
1940 launching of USS Hornet (CV-8); accomplishments of USS Hornet, famous for the 1942 Doolittle Raid during World War II.

A film titled 'The Life and Death of The USS Hornet' dedicated to the workers of America's shipyards and war plants during World War II. The Capitol building in Washington DC. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gathered at press conference to announce the bombing of Tokyo Japan by Doolittle Raid forces in April 1942. Reporters run out to phones and typewriters. A man at NBC microphone in 1943. The headlines of newspapers read 'Japs Murder Doolittle's Fliers'. American people in groups and families listen to radio broadcasts, gathered at work and in living rooms around radios to hear the radio news. They buy newspapers at newsstands. Headline of newspaper reads "Carrier Hornet was Shangri-La". Workers at shipyard, factories, machine shops. Men and women war workers of varying ages and races, including white, Japanese-American, and African-American seen welding, machining, and working to buld the ship and its parts. Scenes from the launching of USS Hornet CV-8 in December 14, 1940, with sponsor Annie Reid Knox at the launching.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074562