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Scenes in Ithaca, Greece, following a severe earthquake that hit the Ionian Isles..

Aftermath of the disastrous 1953 Ionian earthquake (or the Great Kefalonia earthquake) in Ionian Isles, Greece. Children running away from houses. A wall collapses during the earthquake. Boys running far from a fallen telephone pole. Scenes in city of Ithaca, showing demolished buildings with rubble piled up on ground. Medics carry a casualty on a stretcher. Nurses treat the wounded. Man and woman holding infants. A woman wails as she mourns the loss of her loved ones.

Location: Ithaca Greece
Date: 1953, August 12
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049150
Elizabeth II crowned as the Queen of the United Kingdom

The 1953 coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II at the Westminster Abbey in London, England. People gathered at the Parliament Square Garden at the northwest end of the Palace of Westminster, near the Big Ben. British nobles and peerage in elaborate attires. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, watches the ceremony. Coronation Maids (Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill; Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stuart; Lady Moyra Campbell, Lady Mary Russell, Lady Anne Coke) trailing behind Queen Elizabeth II. The Bishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher crowns Queen Elizabeth with the St. Edward’s Crown. A large crowd gathered outside the Buckingham Palace. People cheer the new Queen as Elizabeth II acknowledges them.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1953, June 2
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049153
Armistice agreement brings the Korean War to a halt, Panmunjon, Korea.

Major events of 1953. Field ambulances arrive at Freedom village bringing repatriated prisoners at the end of hostilities during the Korean War. General William Harrison of United States and General Nam II of North Korea sign the armistice agreement in Panmunjon bringing the war to a halt. War weary American soldiers return home and receive a warm welcome. Soldiers hug their family and friends as they reunite with them. The Statue of Liberty in New York, United States. (Note: Among those repatriated, seconds 18-21 and 26-28 of the clip show Rifleman George Hobson from Fazakerley, Liverpool, of the Royal Ulster Rifles, who was shot and captured at the Battle of the Imjin River in 1951.)

Location: Panmunjom Korea
Date: 1953, July
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049154
A Japanese dignitary moves across Imperial Palace bridge in Tokyo; Richard Nixon exits Imperial Palace after visit

A horse driven carriage escorted by royal guards carrying a Japanese dignitary passes over the Nijubashi Bridge inside the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan) in Japan. A horse-drawn carriage moves inside the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Honor guards salute to United states Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Patricia Nixon, as they exit the Imperial Palace in Tokyo after visiting Emperor Hirohito. Vice President Nixon and Pat Nixon enter a waiting a car, during their stop in Tokyo on their Far East trip in the fall of 1953.

Location: Tokyo Japan
Date: 1953, November
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037415
Group of senior officers at Camp Munsan-Ni in Korea

Group of senior officers at Camp Munsan-Ni in Korea. A sign on a tent reads 'Welcome gate to freedom'. Korean, British and United States officers. A British officer, U.S. Army officer and U.S. Marine officer in discussion. U.S. flag on the left side and UN flag on the right side of the tent. Two Marine officers assist a wounded, liberated prisoner of war on a stretcher. Liberated soldiers who were prisoners of war get out of ambulance truck. (This is during Operation Little Switch, the first phase of a reciprocal repatriation effort that was followed by Operation Big Switch in August 1953.)

Location: Camp Munsan-Ni Korea
Date: 1953, April 21
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041581
Liberated prisoners of war get out of ambulance truck

Group of senior officers at Camp Munsan-Ni in Korea near the end of the Korean War. A sign on a tent reads "Welcome gate to freedom". U.S. flag on the left side and UN flag on the right side of the tent. Freed and liberated American prisoners of war get out of ambulance truck during Operation Little Switch repatriation (preceding Operation Big Switch later in 1953). Ambulances leave Ramp area. A freed American prisoner of war escorted by U.S. Marine in dungarees. Some freed POW soldiers are carried on stretchers or litters. A liberated prisoner of war lying on a stretcher gives a thumbs-up sign.

Location: Camp Munsan-Ni Korea
Date: 1953, April 21
Duration: 5 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041582
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