Children, in swim suits, play at a pool in in Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California. They slide down a long slide on the north side of the baths, into the water. Children play and jump into the pool. Some dive from spring boards. (Edison Company, Sutro Baths No. 1, 1897)
French communist party leader Maurice Thorez addresses a crowd in Paris, France. French communists march along streets with banners. Thorez and some communist leaders walk along the streets. A large crowd marches in a procession with the communist leaders. Maurice Thorez addresses the assembled crowd. Sign seen in crowd reads, 'Vive Le PCF', translated as 'Long live the PCF' PCF stands for the Parti communiste français, or French Communist Party. Very short shot of the ruins of a train accident are seen at the end of the clip, possibly the aftermath of the collision between the Paris-Nancy Express and the Paris-Strasbourg fast train.
French civilians build a bridge across the Aube River in France during World War II. A slate reads '80th Division to Chalons'. French civilians at work. Civilians carry a log of wood for the bridge. Two men carry a long pole across the bridge. French civilians walk across the bridge as they talk. A French flag flutters from a pole near the construction site. Few men work under the bridge. A civilian climbs down a ladder. A board reads 'Aube'. A man serves a drink to the workers. Men work under the broken bridge. A civilian with a cap drills a bridge block. French civilians build the bridge across the Aube River.
Opening scene shows the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, in World War 2, with snow piled high in the streets around it. Several women with a baby in a carriage, make their way across a street. A car and a tram pass them in the main part of the street. Two trams pass each other. View shifts to countryside, where houses nestled in trees are completely covered in deep snow. Only their chimneys are visible. As a man shovels at snow obscuring houses, young people are seen in background traversing a ridge on skis. Two men shoveling a path near buildings. They create a trench almost shoulder deep. A skier speeds down from a hill and onto the roof of a snow-covered building in a town. View of a locomotive and train, behind it, with snow almost halfway up its sides. A group of local people work together to uncover the train and clear a path ahead of it. Closeup of Locomotive wheel filled with snow. Man with shovel, clearing snow from Locomotive wheels. The train moving as the locomotive pushes it backwards. People walking across a snow-covered bridge displaying sculptures along its sides. A vehicle fitted with a snow plow clearing snow from a city street. The top of a moving car seen as the rest of it is hidden by snow piles along a road. A powerful tractor snow plow cutting its way through deep snow. Teams of people helping to clear road of snow. Drivers of cars dig their cars out of snow. Workers warming themselves by bonfires. A heavily laden truck stuck in the snow, and another slid off the road into a ditch. A long line of trucks and cars stalled in the snow. A tractor pulling a truck along the road.
Indian civilians during post-independence riots in Delhi, India. Exterior of Jama Masjid or the Main Mosque of Delhi, built by Mughals. A crowd assembled in front of the Jama Masjid Mosque (Jama Masjid Rd, Jama Masjid, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, Delhi 110006, India). They bow in prayer. Smoke rising in the foreground. Burning buildings. Streets littered with dead bodies. A body is carried on a litter. A long line of Indians carrying their belongings walk through streets. A great crowd assembled in front of the Jama Masjid Mosque. Men, women, and children wait in a line for water ration. People in lines holding several utensils for water.
Oceanographic Prediction Systems in the United States. Interior of a console in a building. A man seated at a desk types on a typewriter. He looks into a microphone hanging above the console. A long yellow sheet of paper hangs out of the typewriter.
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