Soldiers and civilians march in Addis Ababa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in a lavish ceremony celebrating the coronation of Haile Selassie I as Emperor of Ethiopia. Newsreel slate indicates the affair cost 4 million dollars. Native people gathered to see the parade. Troops and civilians march. Dignitaries from foreign countries present at the event. People watch from balconies. Officials talk to tribal people. Cavalry soldiers march. Emperor of Abyssinia (Emperor of Ethiopia) Haile Selassie I (also previously known as Ras Tafari, on whom the Rastafari movement is based), seated on the throne at the top of a hill watches parade of soldiers and civilians. People watch as cavalry troops march followed by soldiers.
Film showing students at the University of California, Berkeley, principally in 1980. It also shows glimpses of Vietnam war era background events. Opening shows students on a college campus. Two of them sit and converse. Scene shifts to National Guard troops and police near the University of California campus, in May, 1969, when Governor Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent 2,200 National Guard troops into Berkeley, California. Next, students are seen handing out voting information from booths on the Berkeley campus during the 1980 U.S. Presidential elections. Students massed on campus and some having lively conversations with others. The entrance gates to the campus are seen in the background. Students moving about on the campus and some seated at outdoor tables having snacks and conversing. A student being interviewed who speaks about employment. Complete shift of scene to American soldiers jumping from a UH-1 Huey helicopter in Vietnam. President Richard Nixon waving enthusiastically in front of the Presidential helicopter. President Lyndon Johnson glad-handing spectators as he walks along the streets of a city. Glimpse of American hostages being taken from the embassy in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 1979 during Iran hostage crisis. U.S soldiers firing a howitzer field piece in Vietnam. Returning American hostages leaving an U.S.Air Force transport plane. A woman student being interviewed at Berkeley campus about the 1980 Presidential race between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Students seated on a long bench in a room where a picture of motion picture star, John Wayne, is displayed on a wall. A male student says Ronald Reagan has brought a new spirit into everybody in America. A Berkeley political science professor comments on the new voters. Students speaking positively about President Reagan. More views of students and voting information on campus. (Note: film is silent except for occasional interviews.)
American strike at Japanese forces in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Cape Engano of World War II (during Battle of Leyte Gulf) in October 1944. Animation depicts U.S. Task Force 38 in three groups and contact with enemy forces. Animation depicts Task Force 38.3 and Task Force 38.4 concentrating on Task Force 38.2. Task Force 38.1 diverted for battle and Japan's attack on Task Force 38.3. Japanese aircraft in flight. Naval guns fired from U.S. battleships. Japanese aircraft which are shot down plunge in water. USS Princeton (CVL-23 ) catches fire. U.S. soldiers spray water on the ship. USS Birmingham (CL-62) and USS Irwin (DD-794) attempt to extinguish the fire. The ship explodes. Animation depicts Task Force 38.3, Task Force 38.2 and a search airplane locating enemy carrier force. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Halsey, Jr. who is the Commander of U.S. Third Fleet studies a map with others and makes an estimate of Japanese forces. Animation depicts the strength of Japanese forces. Animation depicts the strength of the Japanese Navy in the central region. Animation depicts U.S. plan of attack on Japanese forces.
A chaplain takes over in Deggendorf, Germany during World War II. Lieutenant Colonel Father Crain of U.S. 4th Armored Division exits from a building with others. He speaks to a German chaplain and two German Colonels. Officers enter the building.
A film 'We saw it happen' about the history of aviation in the United States. In Dayton, Ohio: Houses seen along Hawthorn Street. A still picture shows the Wright brothers in their youth. View down Hawthorn Street with several 1940s and early 1950s cars parked along the Dayton street. Exterior view of 7 Hawthorn Street, home of the Wright Brothers. Interiors of the Wright home in Dayton. The workshop of the Wright brothers. Machines in the workshop. The "Wright Cycle Co" and Wright Museum (moved from Dayton to Greenfield village in Dearborn, Michigan.) A powered engine prepared in the workshop. Sweeping view of windswept beach area of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers conducted test flights in 1900-1902. Another view of Hawthorn Street in Dayton. A boy on the sidewalk. View of the 4 cylinder airplane engine first designed by the Wright Brothers. Narrator speaks of December 17, 1903 Wright Brothers flight. View of the Wright Flyer in flight overhead. Scene changes to aerial side view of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight (this is aircraft YB-52,the second XB-52). The B-52 banks left and away.
Scenes of the old City in Cartagena, Columbia. An antique gun in the San Felipe de Barajas Castle, overlooking the harbor below. The Torre del Reloj (Boca del Puente, Centro, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia) or clock tower and Puerta del Reloj, main entrance gate to the old walled city which was founded in 1533. The Cathedral of Cartegena (the Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Calle de los Santos de Piedra, Cra. 4, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia). Local people in a horse-drawn wagon pass by the gateway to a public park, flanked by Doric columns and topped with a statue of Vulcan at a forge. A man walks toward the entrance of the House of the Inquisition (Inquisition Palace 46, Plaza de Bolivar Carrera 3 33, Bolívar, Colombia). The camera pans upward to the decorative seal and stonework above doorway. A local woman doing laundry at stone sinks. views of pedestrians walking along narrow streets, balconies of houses project overhead.
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