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People listening to music played by the New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe at 1939 World's Fair.
The New York world's fair of 1939 to 1940. Views in garden court. The New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe plays in an amphitheater. Amusement section with dancers and ice-skaters. People ski jump and parachute jump. People walk and being pushed in chair cars. The souvenir stand. People eat food. Views of fair at night. Lighting and fireworks at night.
Canine vie for honors in a "Debutante Dogs of 1939", take part at a show with their masters in Boston, Massachusetts.
Canine blue bloods, vying for honors at a "Debutante Dogs of 1939", take part in a dog show with their masters, in Boston, Massachusetts. Dogs dressed in brilliant costumes. People with their pets. DP Wilson with his Scottish deer hounds win first prize at the dog show.
University of California crew team participants hope to win the 1939 rowing championships and go for practice on Frisco Bay
College students from the University of California Bears crew team begin training in hopes of winning the 1939 rowing championships. California oarsmen in Oakland turnout for the spring training. Ten shells get underway for vigorous practice on Frisco Bay. Crew teams rowing on the bay.
Adolf Hitler giving speeches at various venues in 1938 and 1939.
Illuminated masses of Nazi swastika flags. Hitler speaking at outdoor event. Hitler evoking laughter in the Reichstag (Kroll Opera House), on April 28, 1939, as he reads aloud a long list of countries from Franklin Roosevelt's letter which Roosevelt asks Germany not to invade. Scene changes to a welcome parade on March 16, 1938 in Berlin after Hitler's return from Austria at the time of the Anschluss. Hitler and Hermann Goering walking along street in Berlin, reviewing German troops. Huge crowd of cheering German citizens packed tightly in the Wilhelmplatz to hear Hitler speak. Hitler and Goering on a balcony overlooking the crowd.
Scenes of destruction from late 1939 in Finland during the Russo-Finish war
Film opens with a map of Europe showing black-shaded region of the Soviet Union, and pointing out Germany and Finland. Next, are shown moving images of rural buildings on fire in Finland, late in 1939, during the Russo-Finish war (or "Winter War"). (The Narrator comments that Finland's population was only 4 million while that of the soviets was 180 million.) Soviet bombers are seen high in the sky. A lone woman hurries along a street in Helsinki, Finland, past rubble of a bombed building. Smoke rises in the background. Finnish fire fighters man a hose to fight numerous huge fires in Helsinki.Various views of fires blazing in the capital.
Local views of a community in coastal Norway in 1939
Filmed by Eva Braun during a visit to Norway while cruising on the M/S Milwaukee (Hamburg America Line) in July, 1939: Closeup of a Norwegian boy and girl in a farm field enclosed by a strand of barbed wire in Norway. The weather is very misty. The girl holds a puffin sea bird. she is joined by two other girls, one of whom now holds the puffin. A group Norwegian men and women walk past the field toward a town barely discernible in the mist. Closeup of a Norwegian man and woman standing at the back of their house. Two women walking along a road toward the town. Camera pans over the area, showing houses and fields. It focuses on a man leading a pony pulling a two-wheeled cart. Closeup of wash hung out to dry. the line and wash move to and fro in a breeze. Closeup of a smiling Norwegian boy. Four Norwegian boys pose in a front yard. A fifth joins briefly. Two girls and a smaller boy pose. A man poses next to a canvas covered boat (not seen under the wraps). A boy poses next to a pony.A friend comes up to steady the animal as the boy jumps on ready to ride bareback. He quickly slides back down again. One of Eva Braun's sisters pets the pony. View of local people walking toward their waterfront. Buildings on stilts at the water's edge. A fishing boat nearby. Judging by the level of the water below the buildings, the tide must be out. Camera pans across several boats and scenery at the waterfront. Eva Braun's mother, Franziska, and one of Eva's sisters, standing near a taxi cab. Camera focuses on the car. Scene shifts to a waterfront open market on a large pier, where many Norwegian people are mingling, gathered, as if waiting, near a long line of below- deck tanks from which steam is rising. The tanks are covered with concave semicircular gratings. Men with long poles tend to the contents.
