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Closely packed wooden houses and modern concrete buildings in Kyoto, Japan.

Wooden houses and buildings in Kyoto, Japan after World War II. Kyoto as seen from the roof of the Daimaru Department Store. Neatly and closely packed wooden houses. A modern-three story concrete building around which are built small wooden houses. More modern buildings as well as typical wood structures. Large chimneys of houses, roof tops and tree lined streets. Shijo Street shows modern brick and concrete structures two to seven floors high. Roof-tops of the houses. A modern five-story building. A view over the tops of the wooden houses. A very narrow street with tightly packed wooden houses on both sides of the street. Shijo Street shows modern buildings as well as typical wooden structures.

Date: 1946, May 28
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060760
Japanese laborers work on trolley car tracks at Shijo Street in Kyoto, Japan.

A view of Shijo Street in Kyoto, Japan. A view from the top of Daimaru Department Store (600-8511 Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi Shijo-dori Takakura 79, Tachiurinishimachi, Nishi-iru) shows trolley cars and pedestrians along Shijo Street. Contrast between Japanese-type houses and modern concrete buildings along Shijo Street. Japanese laborers work on trolley car tracks. In the background there are two and three-story buildings. Two Japanese women work on a kimono which is stretched between two trees. The women remove the stitches and place pliable wood splints across the width. They clean the kimono with a substance.

Date: 1946, May 28
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060764
An aerial view of Kyoto, Japan taken from approximately 2000 feet height shows tightly packed Japanese houses.

An aerial view of Kyoto, Japan. The aerial view of Kyoto taken from approximately 2000 feet height. The view shows tightly packed Japanese houses.

Date: 1946, May 28
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060766
Japanese people visit shrines in Japan.

The Great Buddha of Kamakura at the Kōtoku-in Temple (4 Chome-2-28 Hase, Kamakura, Kanagawa 248-0016, Japan). People worship in front of the statue. Monks in the temple. People walking in the courtyard of a shrine in Kamakura. Monks feed birds in front of th Higashi Hongan-Ji temple (Karasumadori Shichijo-agaru Kyoto, 600-8167 Japan) in Kyoto. Wood carvings on the ceiling of a temple. A monk touches the famous Hair Rope of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple. Back pose of a Japanese woman with traditional “icho-gaeshi” hair. The woman turns.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051152
Scenes from World War 1, and world events in the period between World War I and World War II.

Rail guns firing in World War 1. U.S. troops charging out of trenches. Allied gunners firing "French 75s" Allied twin-tailed biplane bombers. French Renault F17 tanks. Crowds in cities celebrate Armistice Day and end of World War I. Treaty of Versailles. Destruction of warships. Scenes of Paris. A pagoda in Japan. Temples in Siam, China, and Manchuria. Two Kayan women in Myanmar or Thailand perform a dance. Both Kayan women wear long brass coil neck rings. In the U.S., a boy hits a baseball and runs toward first base. Scenes of Japan invading Manchuria. Newspaper with headline: Henry Stimson denouncing Japan. U.S. Army troops dispel World War I veteran bonus marchers. Men lined up in bread line for unemployed during Great Depression. Brief shot of Gangsters in gun battle in an American city. Scenes of dust bowl in American with farmers and families heading West in caravans. Family standing by tent. Torchlight parade in Germany. Adolf Hitler standing with German President Hindenburg circa 1933. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Victor Lutze, at 1934 Nazi Rally in Nuremberg. Italian Caproni bombers over Ethiopia. Ethiopian tribesmen and Haile Selassie. U.S.Neutrality Act. American youths with a 1930 Ford coupe. Scenes from Civil war in Spain. Spanish Rebel forces in ground combat with Nationalist forces. German and Italian aircraft participate in bombing Spanish Nationalist targets in Spanish Civil War. Spanish civilians flee bombing, tend to wounded and dead victims following bombings. Italian Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero bombers. Crowds running for shelter. Women and children victims of bombing, some crying and in shock. Spanish General Francisco Franco arrives by train in southern France to meet with Hitler. View of Gallup Poll forms, and findings, with Americans against entering European war and preferring neutrality. Japanese planes and warships attack China. Naval Chinese civilians run for cover; bodies of Chinese in trucks. Japanese freighters, Buenos Aires and Tatsuno Maru, in U.S. ports being loaded with scrap iron and metals. Hitler, Goering and other officers in 1938. Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Benito Mussolini, Count Ciano sign Munich Agreement. Hitler riding standing up in an open car during a rally in Germany. Elevated view of Los Angeles, then view of traffic on streets of Los Angeles California and newspapers being sold to pedestrians. View of faces of American citizens in a movie theater watching Confessions of a Nazi Spy. German-American Bund activities including outdoor rallies in the U.S. (Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, Long Island, New York, in 1937), and an indoor rally in New York City at Madison Square Garden in 1939. Emperor Hirohito reviewing World War 2 troops of Japan. Japanese steel production and arms production in Japanese factories. The Hokoku Maru Japanese ship being launched with fanfare from Tama Shipyards on July 5, 1939. Meeting of United States Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in late 1939 to consider national defense matters. In meeting of Naval Affairs Committee, representative asks for increase of 25 percent in authorized naval tonnage.

Date: 1940
Duration: 11 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046108
A group of school children in Kyoto Imperial Palace and people shop in a narrow street in Kobe.

Kyoto Imperial Palace and a market place in Japan. A large group of 3rd grade school children march through the grounds of Kyoto Imperial Palace. Children stop to pick flowers and rest. In Kobe: Japanese people pass through a shop area. A narrow street and newly erected shops in temporary buildings in Japanese market area.

Date: 1946, May
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057894