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Axis powers organizing for World War II

Senior Japanese Naval Officers make inspection visit on a warship. Japanese warships underway at sea. A Japanese destroyer. Numerous Japanese warships with several formations of Naval aircraft overhead. A loose formation of Kawanishi H6K Naval flying boats in flight. Japanese light and medium tanks on parade, including Type 95 Ha-Go tanks (some with offset turrets). Many tanks cross a field. In Japan, Emperor Hirohito, riding a white horse, reviews Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks as their crews stand at attention. Tanks create clouds of dust as they move on a road and a field. Japanese infantry soldiers march in review past Emperor Hirohito on his white horse. Large formation of Japanese infantry marching. High-stepping Japanese infantry compared to Italian infantry goosestepping. Benito Mussolini speaking to Italians from his balcony on the Palazzo Venezia of Rome on November 4th, 1938. Numerous Italian Army SPAD XIII biplanes parked in a large field. Ethiopia's Emperor, Haile Selassie, speaks from a shelter and invokes tribesmen fight invasion by Italian forces. Tribesmen are in tribal dress, armed with spears and ancient rifles, as they rally to their Emperor. Italian L3 light tanks being used in the Ethiopian campaign. Contingent of Italian cavalry charging and infantry advancing. Italian Caproni Ca.111bis light bomber in flight. Bombs falling. Italian artillery firing and shells striking a hilltop fortress. Japanese attendees waving Japanese flags in a large stadium in Italy. A Japanese statesman reading a speech in Japanese. Most of the stadium is filled with Italians. "Saluti" is written at the section occupied by Japanese attendees. An Italian spokesman welcomes the Japanese participants. A Japanese translator is beside him. Japanese cheer as they hear the translated greeting.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044315
Famous football games between Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins and between Cornell and Dartmouth

Some 1940 U.S. football highlights. Scenes of a long touchdown run and an interception and touchdown run from the 1940 National Football League Championship Game that the Chicago Bears won 73-0, on December 8, 1940. Scenes from the Dartmouth-Cornell "Fifth-Down" game of November 16, 1940, with Cornell quarterback "Pop" Scholl throwing a "winning" touchdown pass to William Murphy.

Date: 1940
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046739
Patriotic parade floats during the 1940 Portland Rose Festival

The city of Portland holds the annual Portland Rose Festival with a patriotic flair in June 1940. Two United States flags are hanging from a building. The parade route is marked by banners that read "For You A Rose In Portland Grows." Parade floats made of roses in the 1940 Grand Floral Parade. Portland Rose Festival girls on a “Constitution” float wave at crowds as their float round the corner in front of the New Heathman Hotel (now the Heathman Hotel) at 712 SW Salmon Street. Two men dressed as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln sit on the “Portland Dist. No. 2 Mantle Club” "America First" float, which features an Eagle on its front. Portland Rose Festival “queens” and “princesses” on a “Peacock” themed float wave at crowds. Boy scouts flank the “Peacock” float as passes the Alisky Building and the Harry Semler Dentist and Optical offices. A “Treasure Island Exposition 1940” float. Women and a man on the “Portland Realtors” float, traveling down SW Morrison St. The Portland Hotel is seen in the background at the corner of SW 6th Ave. and SW Morrison St. A “Pasadena” float with an effigy of the bald eagle and the United States flag made of roses is flanked by marching boy scouts.

Date: 1940, June 12
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079264
A catholic priest kneels in prayer at a church in Hiroshima, Japan.

A Catholic church (Jesuit Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Hiroshima, Japan) and newly constructed houses in Hiroshima, Japan. A Catholic Jesuit priest walks from underneath a choir loft, at his side are four Japanese children. The Jesuit priest kneels in prayer. A church tower with debris in the foreground. The priest looks around the gutted interior while at his side stand the four children. A small barley field amid the ruins along the south east section of Hiroshima being tended by the owner. Newly constructed houses built on the former site of Japanese Transport Regiment Barracks which is located north of Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan) in Hiroshima.A Catholic church (Jesuit Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Hiroshima, Japan) and newly constructed houses in Hiroshima, Japan. A Catholic Jesuit priest walks from underneath a choir loft, at his side are four Japanese children. The Jesuit priest kneels in prayer. A church tower with debris in the foreground. The priest looks around the gutted interior while at his side stand the four children. A small barley field amid the ruins along the south east section of Hiroshima being tended by the owner. Newly constructed houses built on the former site of Japanese Transport Regiment Barracks which is located north of Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan) in Hiroshima.A Catholic church (Jesuit Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Hiroshima, Japan) and newly constructed houses in Hiroshima, Japan. A Catholic Jesuit priest walks from underneath a choir loft, at his side are four Japanese children. The Jesuit priest kneels in prayer. A church tower with debris in the foreground. The priest looks around the gutted interior while at his side stand the four children. A small barley field amid the ruins along the south east section of Hiroshima being tended by the owner. Newly constructed houses built on the former site of Japanese Transport Regiment Barracks which is located north of Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan) in Hiroshima.

Date: 1946, April 8
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060720
American pioneers conquer the west in the 1800s, compared to 1940s workers

The U.S. Capitol dome at night. Montage of U.S. Declaration of Independence with view of U.S. founding fathers at time of American Revolution. Reenacted depiction: 17th century immigrants or pilgrims arriving in the U.S. on large sailing ships. Group of men marching while carrying a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag. Depiction of Betsy Ross with U.S.A. flag. A covered wagon at sunset. 18th century men cutting down trees. 18th century men building a log cabin. Settlers arrive to the remains of their burned out cabin. A stage coach on the U.S. prairie. A covered wagon in the midwest. A stage coach traveling through grass lands. 18th century depiction of a western town in the United States. A white man and a Native American Indian man driving the last spike to complete a railroad as the steam locomotive starts. An 18th century steam locomotive passes by. Actual footage of external view of 1940s factory or production plant. Inside 1940s factory men are building engines. Wide shot of workers entering factory. New York City street scene. Los Angeles street scene. A rancher mends a barbed wire fence. Cowboys-ranchers on their horses. Fisherman pulling in nets on shore. Tobacco farming. Leather worker. Shirtless worker wielding a pick axe. Plant worker turning a large valve. A woman painter with a maritime village scene...perhaps Provincetown. A woman scientist in a laboratory. A 1940s family at the dinner table. Farm laborers harvesting melons. Man drives a tractor with woman riding behind him.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050570
The invasion of Poland, Dunkirk evacuation, Second Armistice, and London Blitz during World War II.

'50 Years of Cinematography' depicts the role of military and news cameramen during World War II. Germany starts the War. Invasion of Poland in 1939: German Nazi Luftwaffe bombers in flight over Warsaw. Explosions due to the bombardment. Burning and damaged buildings in the war torn city. Civilians amidst rubble and ruins. Soldiers and civilians look at corpses on a sidewalk. A woman with her child cries. A man walks on a street. Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940: Allied troops evacuated from the Dunkirk coast. Allied troops on ships. Smoke rises from a ship under German attack. Soldiers wade through the water towards waiting ships. Burning ships. The Second Armistice at Compiegne after the German victory in the Battle of France, 1940: German troops stand at attention. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, President of the Reichstag Hermann Goering, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other German officers arrive at the venue. The leaders and officers walk past the soldiers at attention. Hitler gives the Nazi salute. The Blitz, London in 1940-1941: Bomb damaged buildings. Cars and pedestrians amidst ruins and rubble on the streets. A train over a collapsed wall. Civilians in a horse cart. A wrecked bus in a damaged building. Rescue workers among the rubble. Clouds over the city.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021762