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British soldiers cross a hill on motorbikes in England.

Maneuvers of the British Army in England. British troops come at a sea shore. They climb up a hill. A sea in the background. The troops climb down. They ride motorbikes. Water on a road splashes as a soldier drives through it. The soldiers park their bikes beside the road. They take their guns and lay down in prone positions. Trucks go across barbed wire barriers. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675046736
Wife of heroic pilot with her baby. She displays his burned shoe and flight suit. He won Victoria Cross and is recuperating.

Wife of British RAF (Royal Air Force) pilot who was awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down an enemy aircraft while his own aircraft was burning. She lifts her baby from a pram in front of her house. She displays her husband's burned shoe and flight gear. She then reads formal letters about award of the Victoria Cross. Her husband pilot is seen with two other RAF fliers relaxing amongst other service personnel at a medical recuperation facility. They sit at a small table and smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046738
A woman goes for cancer diagnosis to a clinic and then gets back home in the United States.

An awareness film about cancer by U.S. Public Health Service, United States. Dramatization shows a woman's experience with cancer. A woman named Mrs. Brown sits at the clinic of her family doctor and asks him if she is suffering from cancer? And says that she is now ready for examination after attending the talk in the club. The doctor says that it can be confirmed only after diagnosis. Mrs. Brown lying in an operation theater. Nurse wears her cap. Surgeon gets ready for surgery. Technician in laboratory looks through a microscope. Technician work on frozen tissues, he stains, washes and mounts it on slide. Surgeons work in an operation room. Mrs Brown and her husband climb down the stairs, she hugs her kids. They all come home. Mrs Brown enlist herself to Women's Field Army. Director of American Society for the Control of Cancer Clarence C. Little talks about resolution against cancer.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047047
Workmen move a house in two halves (upper and lower) using trucks and a crane.

Workmen guide a truck carrying the top half of a wood frame house on a narrow path through woods. The truck in a large clearing in the woods. Next the bottom half of the house is seen with cables wrapped around it and a steel girder above. in the next scene, has been moved to the clearing and men stand atop it, while an 80 ton crane slowly raises the upper half and maneuvers it toward the lower half. The Crane belongs to the C.P. Ward Company, a New York State General Contractor Firm. The crane operator and workmen guide the upper half of the house into place.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063764
Japanese forces occupy Vichy French Indochina in the Second Sino Japanese War (WW2)

Japanese forces occupy part of Vichy French Indochina during 2nd Sino Japanese War and World War II. Animated map shows Leizhou (luichow) Peninsula and Hainan Island of China opposite the North Central coast of North Vietnam, centered at Haiphong harbor. Lines appear showing the path of Japanese troops occupying North Vietnam from Haiphong, in two sweeps to Northeast and Northwest and circling towards Hanoi. Mountainous terrain of the region is shown. Camera pans down a sheer cliffside in the mountains. Narrow roads are shown carved in the mountains and hills. A Japanese sentry stands at a sandbagged outpost, displaying the Japanese flag. A solitary building sits atop a hilltop in the background. A concrete marker indicates distance of 171 km to Hanoi. Several Japanese engineers make their way to the top of a mountain, accompanied by soldiers. An abandoned French heavy gun is seen in a concrete emplacement. View of Japanese soldiers looking out from the hilltop. A sign along a mountain road reading "Keep to the right," in French, English, and Japanese. Soldiers gather around a large tree fallen across the mountain road. They pose for the camera next to the tree. Japanese officers walking through an archway, from a large building in background. Closeup of barrel containing portland cement, followed by view of many such barrels being examined by Japanese engineer.

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675071426
A woman officer greets and receives Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill as he visits a dock in England.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill visits a dock in England. A woman officer greets and receives Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine Churchill on the dock.(ancient cannon in background.) the Churchills stand with dock workers in helmets, and look up at something. The Prime Minister Churchill walks along the sidewalks near the docks with group of Officers and Officials.(Roadwork in evidence.) Churchill and his wife Clementine aboard a motor boat. Maritime scenes along the river Thames. Churchill in stern of motor boat with British ensign, bearing Union Jack and what appears to be a lion, fluttering behind him. .Churchill walks on the dock. Officers escort him.

Date: 1940
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072291