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LZ 129 Hindenburg flies over New York City and over fields in New Jersey as seen from a biplane in flight, United States.

LZ 129 Hindenburg airship in flight over New York City, United States. Nazi German swastika emblem on tail fins on Hindenburg as seen from a biplane in flight. Aerial view, of coastal area of New Jersey, seen from biplane. Hindenburg in flight below biplane. Hindenburg in flight over open field in New Jersey.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052176
Passengers boarding the Swedish Ship M.S. Gripsholm in Jersey City, New Jersey, for repatriation to Japan during World War II

At beginning, film shows officials checking identifications of persons preparing to board the Swedish Ship M.S. Gripsholm, for repatriation to Japan during World War 2. Clerks check names against lists. Several woman passengers look over a railing or the ship watching others boarding. Ship's crewmen sort through bundles of passengers' belongings in the cargo hold. Closeup of two little boys on deck. A big boy escorts two smaller boys walking directly to the camera. More views of boys and closeup of a little girl on deck. Some closeups of boys on deck and watching tugboats in the Hudson River. Laughing boys running toward the camera. Boys at ship's railing looking at the Manhattan, New York City, skyline across the river. View from pier of persons boarding the ship by a gangplank to upper deck. View from the pier of passengers side by side at the ship's railing. A Nurse takes a newborn baby aboard the ship. Red Cross personnel assist a young woman boarding. More views of passengers boarding, including one on a litter. Another passenger being brought aboard on a litter. A Red cross woman accompanies a man and woman on the deck. Four young men and some family members at ship's railing with Manhattan skyline in background. Swedish flag flies near some families at the railing. A mother and daughter in matching dresses walk with the father carrying a small child. Closeup of little boy and girl. Baggage being brought up the gangplank.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058287
Lucy, the elephant building made of wood and tin, seen near Atlantic City in Margate, New Jersey, United States

Structure of a giant, hollow wooden elephant building. Dubbed Lucy, this building was built in 1882. It weighs 90 tons and has a substructure of wood and skin made of hammered tin. Men and women tourists go inside the elephant building through a door in the elephants leg at bottom. It is located near the Atlantic coast, in Margate, New Jersey, United States, two miles south of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Date: 1919
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025408
Expansionist policies of Japan, Italy and Germany converge, leading to World War 2

Film begins with peaceful scenes of Japan, including Mount Fuji; women in traditional Kimonos strolling among cherry blossoms; exquisite gardens; Geisha girls in traditional dress holding fans; and picturesque peasant farmers binding sheaves of grain. Evidence of Japan adopting Western styles and ways, shown by modern buildings, motor vehicles, and many Japanese in Western clothes going about their daily business on busy city streets. A Japanese stadium filled with spectators at a baseball game. One difference from an American baseball game is that the players are seen marching onto the field accompanied by a military band and later all sharing in raising the Japanese flag to start the event. View of line of players in jerseys as flag is raised (jersey team name Tomasyo?) Views of the baseball game underway. Baseball player with "Y" logo on front steps up to plate to bat. Scene changes to demonstrations of Japanese Navy as senior Naval Officers review Japanese sailors aboard a warship. A formation of Japanese warships underway. Closeup of a Japanese destroyer. A flotilla of Japanese warships being overflown by several formations of Naval aircraft. A flight of Kawanishi H6K Naval flying boats flying in loose formation. A parade of Japanese light and medium tanks including Type 95 Ha-Go tanks (some with offset turrets). View from rear of the parade. Many tanks crossing a field. Emperor Hirohito, riding a white horse, reviewing Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks and their crews standing at attention. Tanks raising dust as they move in formations on a road and in a field. Japanese infantry soldiers high step march in review past the Emperor on his white horse. Massed Japanese infantry on parade. View, again, of the high-stepping Japanese infantry marching past the Emperor as a segue to Italian infantry goosestepping on parade. Several views of such parades. Mussolini giving an impassioned speech to Italians from balcony on the Palazzo Venezia in Rome on November 4, 1938. A huge flat field filled with Italian SPAD XIII army biplanes parked in symmetric rows. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia speaking from a shelter, rallies his tribesmen to resist invasion by Italian forces. They are seen in tribal dress, armed with spears and ancient rifles, as they answer the Emperor's call. View of Italian L3 light tanks advancing across desert terrain. Italian cavalry charging. Italian infantry moving forward. Italian Caproni Ca.111bis light bomber in flight. Bombs dropping through the air. Barrages by batteries of Italian artillery. Shells striking a hilltop fortress. An open air stadium with one section containing many Japanese attendees waving Japanese flags. A Japanese statesman reading a speech in Japanese. View of the stadium filled with Italians. "Saluti" written on the edge of the section occupied by Japanese attendees. An Italian spokesman in black uniform welcomes the Japanese contingent. A Japanese translator stands beside him. Closeup of cheering Japanese who have heard the greeting translated. Scene shifts to Japanese infantry hi-stepping past Emperor Hirohito and immediately to Italian troops goosestepping and then to German troops goosestepping as they (according to narrator) march into Austria on March 13th 1938. View of German troops marching into Austrian town to cheers from civilians on sidewalks waving Nazi swastika flags and rendering Nazi salutes. Numerous utility vehicles carry German soldiers through the town. More German soldiers arriving in tanks and on motorcycles. Some arrive on horse-drawn caissons towing field artillery pieces.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038554
German Zeppelin Hindenburg (D-LZ129) explodes and burns while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States

German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129) in flight over New York. Manhattan Island and New York City skyline seen below. Skyscrapers like Empire State Building visible. Hindenburg airship flies over New Jersey. Identification "D-LZ129" painted on its side. Swastika on tail of airship. Zeppelin arrives at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst ,New Jersey. Zepelin discharges liquid ballast. Docking crew (primarily U.S. sailors) awaits on the ground. Landing lines are dropped. Large number of ground crew grab the lines. Hindenburg crashes engulfed in flames. Crew members rush to the burning zeppelin and help survivors emerging from the airship cabin. Smoke rises due to fire. Burning skeleton of zeppelin is seen.

Date: 1937, May 6
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047079
Japanese Nationals and Issei arrive by train and buses at Jersey City, New Jersey for repatriation to Japan in World War II

Opening scene shows police officer removing a sick person, on a litter from a Pennsylvania Railroad train at a station and placing them gently on a railway cart. A uniformed U.S. Army Military policeman helps them. Next, Japanese Nationals and Issei families with many small children are seen leaving a train and walking along a railway platform. A Red Cross woman in white stands behind an ambulance, where a newborn infant lies on a litter. Policeman carry two women on litters and place them in the ambulance. The newborn baby is being cradled in the arms of the Red Cross woman. A Japanese family climbs aboard a bus. Railway workers transport travelers' baggage on a large cart. Police stand near by as a U.S. Army Military policeman boards a bus filled with Japanese to be repatriated to Japan. Two MPs watch as Japanese to be repatriated climb aboard another bus. A group of Japanese men enter a bus, followed by Armed U.S. Army soldiers who also board. An official guides a train to a stopping point on a train station. A large group of men to be repatriated to Japan step from the train under guard by many armed U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058288