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The Gripsholm arrives in New York harbor with soldiers and others recently freed from German prisoner camps (WW2)

The Swedish American ship Gripsholm arrives at New York harbor carrying American soldiers and others exchanged for German prisoners in World War II. 160 were internees at Vittel. Others included American diplomats from Vichy who were being held at Baden-Baden. Soldiers stand on deck and wave as ship is docked at Pier F in Jersey City. The soldiers disembark the ship. The Wounded soldiers. Diplomats and war correspondents talk about the conditions of Germany as it is losing the war. Douglas MacArthur (nephew of General Douglas MacArthur) is seen with a dog as he arrives. Ralph E. Heinzen of the United Press describes conditions in Germany and stresses that Germany is losing the war.

Date: 1944, March 15
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021166
German prisoners of war in United States shovel snow and work in a shoe shop during a camp.

German prisoners work in snow and at a shoe shop in a prison camp in the United States during World War 2. Nazi German Prisoners of War at a camp in Northern United States. Wooden houses covered with snow. Prisoners dressed in black walk aligned. Prisoners remove snow with shovel. Nazi prisoners work in a shoe shop. Nazi prisoners eat in mess. Captains in recreation room play table tennis, chess and war prisoners play band.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021169
Petra Burka, Alain Calmat and Ethan Allen perform at World Figure Skating Championship in Colorado.

World Figure Skating Championship in Colorado. The greatest performers in the figure skating world compete for Champions at Colorado Springs. Petra Burka of Canada gives her outstanding performance and awarded with first position. Spectators clap. 16 Year old Ethan Allen of New Jersey takes second place in the men's event. Alain Calmat of France, second in the 1964 Olympics gives flawless performance to wind up King of the Ice.

Date: 1965, March 8
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021208
Mid 1940's New York City; also John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown North Carolina helps farmer to develop creative ideas

Credits for the documentary titled 'Creative Hands' about mountain handicrafts in North Carolina. Background info about earlier handicrafts as an important part of civilization. Hands of a woman working on a wooden hand loom. An artisan sculpting a swan in clay. A person working clay on a potter's wheel. Scene change to New York City and busy areas of Manhattan, with pedestrians outside the Rockefeller Center in New York watching ice skaters. Women do window shopping. Crowd of people in a line outside a broadcast studio entrance in the RCA building. Marquee on the building advertises "Invasion Preview" and "Robert Benchley". Scene change again to farming areas in the mountains of southwest North Carolina. Animated map of United States. Wide views of farmland and a house in Brasstown North Carolina. Men cut a tree for lumber using a two man saw. Teacher at John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown helps farmer to develop creative ideas using local materials. A sign reads "John C Campbell Folk School Handcrafts." Farmers walk with their materials and are seen seated at a table of the school showing some of their handicrafts. They are taught creative ideas by the teacher.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021280
The testing of a supersonic propeller in research and development center of Wright Air Development Center in the United States

Research and Development at the Wright Air Development Center (WADC) of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The test of supersonic propeller. Two technicians take reading from instruments during test. Aerial side view of B-50 Stratofortress aircraft in flight. View of B-50 aircraft engine during flight. A technician records data while in flight. Technician analyzing sound levels of the aircraft.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021347
The technicians work on a jet engine at Service Engineering Center of Wright Air Development Center in the United States.

Service Engineering second part of Wright Air Development Center (WADC) mission at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A pilot places screen over air intake of a jet engine in a testing laboratory. F-84 Thunderjet aircraft taxis and turns. A pilot in cockpit. Tests are conducted on the damage to a J-35 jet engine from ingesting one small metal bolt. Slow-motion images of engine destruction with smoke and fire caused by the bolt getting into the engine works. Technicians examine pieces of the destroyed engine. They determine the importance of air inlet screens that protect the engine on the ground, but retract for maximum power during flight. A technician fits air inlet screens onto the engine of an aircraft.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021348