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Actions of Axis and Allied powers on brink of World War II in period 1937-1939.

Japanese troops parade for Emperor Hirohito, mounted upon a white horse. Italian troops goosestep and German troops goosestep on parade. View of an Austrian town with snow-covered Alps mountains in background as German troops enter Austria on March 13, 1938 during the Anschluss. Local citizens welcome them, displaying swastika flags and giving Nazi straight arm salutes. Troops, military vehicles, tanks, motorcycles, and horse-drawn artillery comprise the German invading force. Shifts to Spain, where war torn buildings reflect effects of German and Italian intervention during the Spanish Civil War. A donkey standing near field artillery piece. Artillery being fired from an urban park in Spain. Artilleryman using a range finder. German gun crew with heavy artillery piece. Soldiers wearing Adrian steel helmets, firing a two-wheeled water-cooled machine gun. Spanish carrying wounded on stretcher. Spanish civilians inadvertently slain during civil war conflict. Starving dog walking in street. Huge poster of Francisco Franco and view of him on reviewing stand saluting marching Nationalist troops. Repeat of Hirohito reviewing troops and Italian and German troops goosestep. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand together in open car heading to Fuhrerbau in Munich, Germany, for signing of Agreement between Germany, Italy, Britain, and France in 1938. Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier riding in car to Fuhrerbau. Views of the principals signing the accords. First is Adolf Hitler, followed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier. After the signing, the principals, plus Hermann Goering, mingle and converse. Change of scene to nighttime in Rome, Italy, where Benito Mussolini addresses a huge throng gathered near the Victor Emmanuel Memorial to cheer him after his return from Munich. Next, German troops are seen entering Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) greeted by joyous ethnic German inhabitants. Banners are stretched across a street. One gives thanks to the Fuhrer. Several scenes of cheering population. A woman strews flowers in a roadway. Hitler arrives, standing in an open car, and is met with cheers of adulation. A military brass band plays from the open beds of two moving army trucks. Signpost points to Prag (Prague), Eger (Cheb), Joachimstal (Jáchymov), and Komotau (Chomutov) after German annexation. Scene shifts to Prague, where German troops are seen occupying the city. High ranking German officers in a car are seen coming through the gateway from the Court d´honneur of the Prague Castle into the Hradčany Square. The next sequence shows an Italian Freccia-Class destroyer in the Albanian Port of Durrës. An Italian L3/35 Tankette is driven off a large cargo ship. Italian troops on bicycles ride in a city street. A German 88mm antiaircraft (flak) gun is shown, mounted at a fort overlooking a river and city. Final scene shows Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of the Bundestag in the Kroll Opera House (alternate meeting place after burning of the Reichstag). He reads, contemptuously from an April 14, 1939 letter sent to him by U.S. President Roosevelt, asking him to give "assurance that your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following independent nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran." As Hitler reads through the litany of nations, the Bundestag erupts in laughter.

Location: Europe
Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044316
A Trans Atlantic seaplane takes off from a water surface in preparation for ocean service at Port Washington, New York.

A Trans Atlantic seaplane in test flight for ocean hops at Port Washington, New York. The Yankee clipper takes off in preparation for ocean service. Crew members board the aircraft. The pilot operates controls seated in the cockpit. The seaplane takes off from the water surface. The aircraft flies over the New York city with The Imperial State building in the background.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1939, March
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043518
Beginnings of World War II in Europe

Film opens showing German Army forces entering an Austrian city (possibly Vienna) in the so-called Anschluss of 1938. Crowds lining the sidewalks are welcoming. Some render the Nazi salute. Scene shifts to King Zog, of Albania reviewing a contingent of his troops marching across a field. He salutes them. Next, an Italian Navy destroyer is seen entering a port in Albania, during the Italian invasion of 1939. Italian troops disembarking from a ship in Albania. Closeup of Italian soldiers in formation on the dock. Italian armored cars moving along an Albanian street. Spectators watch quietly from sidewalks. Italian armor and trucks raising dust on a rural road. Italian troops in open trucks moving along a city street. Closeups of them. Italian troops and trucks moving along a rural road through farm country. Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag (meeting in the Kroll Opera House) about the invasion of Poland in 1939. View of silhouetted arms and hands raised up in front of camera position in Nazi salute to Hitler during the speech.

Location: Europe
Date: 1939
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051601
Frozen ports and steam ship moves through frozen water in the United States

Cold waves and blizzards in the United States. Frozen row boat in a river. Aerial view of the frozen docks and piers. A steam ship moves through frozen water.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939, January 30
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068175
Flood waters rage and people seek rescue during Memorial Day 1935 flood in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Scenes of flooding in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as heavy rains bring a flood crest from Monument Creek, destroying much of the town of Colorado Springs on Memorial Day 1935. Damaged bridge section floating by. Man jumps from roof of house into flood waters. People walk holding rope. People float by atop debris, swept along by swift current. Vehicles swept by floods.

Location: Colorado Springs Colorado USA
Date: 1935, May 30
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043314
A streamlined passenger express visits the government's giant engineering project of the Boulder Dam in Las Vegas, Nevada.

A streamlined passenger express train passes by at the Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) construction site at Boulder City near Las Vegas, Nevada. The train on a railway track. Interior of the train. Men stand in the train and watch outside. The Colorado River amidst the mountains. View of the countryside. People stand near the railway track. The train passes across a bridge and views of the dam construction underway in Black Canyon.

Location: Las Vegas Nevada USA
Date: 1934, March 12
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046048
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