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George Creel and Elsa Maxwell visit Federal Theatre in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

Golden Gate International Exposition in Treasure Island. George Creel and Elsa Maxwell visit Federal Theatre in Treasure Island. Mr and Mrs Philip Youtz, Director of Pacific House also visit the theatre. They sign in the visitors' book.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041900
Washington Park Zoo monkeys after being set free at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Washington Park Zoo monkeys arrive at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zoo monkeys set free on the island. They climb ladder and swim in the lake. Children watch the monkeys as they play. Monkeys in a small boat. The monkeys being set free from their cages and they roam in a playground.

Date: 1933, June 5
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044356
673 convicts get aboard ship La Martiniere to leave for Devil's Island in Saint Martin De-Re, France.

673 convicts leave for Devil's Island in Saint Martin De-Re, France. The convicts get aboard ship La Martiniere for their voyage to the Devil's Island. The group includes sixty murderers. Prisoners under the guns of guards are herded aboard the craft as families bid their last farewell. The ship La Martiniere departs from a harbor.

Date: 1931, March 2
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044395
United States attack the enemy on Leyte Island, Manila.

Bombing the Leyte Island, Manila. Carrier based planes bomb the island. Officer gives final orders of attack to the pilots. Pilots board their aircraft. Aircraft takes off from the carrier deck. Planes in formation. High altitude view of the sea. Planes drop bombs. Admiral Radford watches through binoculars for the return of the fliers. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Soldiers fire from battleship. Smoke arises from fliers hit by the enemy bombs. Aircraft on carrier. Wounded pilot on board. Soldiers stand in line on the battleship. Officer decorates them. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045602
Sunbathing on Ile du Levant, France, and rocket "Berenice" being launched from French aeronautics research center on the island.

One of 12 rockets named "Bérénice" being launched from a French island Île du Levant (Le Levant) on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Distant views of people sunbathing, some are topless or in the nude, on rock outcroppings near the beach. Engineers and scientists work in a French national study and research center for aeronautics on the other side of the island (O.N.E.R.A. (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales). Missile 'Berenice' being prepared for launch. It will be used to measure kinetic heat upon its reentry into the atmosphere. Men work on panels in mission control center and look through a telescope. Missile being launched. A woman in bikini walks with a dog.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046645
U.S. 10th Army troops on their way to Okinawa for capturing the Japanese positions on the island (WW2)

Invasion of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Coming aboard the flagship of Task Force 58 is Admiral Marc Mitscher. Conferences in Guam come to an end. Officers walk. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander in Chief, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sends an armada of 1400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. Fleet underway to Okinawa. Troops of the U.S. 10th Army division play cards, play music and dance on the deck to entertain themselves. Officer distributes money to the soldiers aboard the ship. Troops stand with money. Guns of the fleet fire at land. Rockets being fired at shore. Landing crafts reach the shore. Troops walk on the shore in Okinawa. Japanese dugouts and pillboxes being destroyed with grenades. Soldiers talk and share food with civilians on the island.

Date: 1945, April 9
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046763