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Children of foreign Ambassadors and officials send out Christmas greetings from Washington DC.

Children wish the world a Merry Christmas from Washington DC, United States. Children of foreign Ambassadors and officials stationed in the U.S. capital attend an International Christmas broadcast to extend holiday greetings to youngsters in the other countries. The young boys and girls dressed in their native costumes stand in lines around a NBC microphone. Flags of the various representative countries in the background. A girl sends a Christmas greeting to the viewers.

Date: 1938, December 19
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057811
U.S. military personnel, civilians, and monuments in Washington DC and New York near start of U.S. involvement in World War II.

The United States on guard at the beginning of World War II. The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington DC. U.S. troops and Boy Scouts marching in review. New York City: Children in a park, rivers, farm, fields, baseball and football games in NY stadiums, services in St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Statue of Liberty and the U.S. flag. The voice of Kate Smith singing 'God Bless America'.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057833
Crowds including children attend a military exhibit and contributions for "Winter Aid" are collected in Vienna, Austria.

A military exhibit in Vienna, Austria during World War II. Troops march. People gathered alongside a road. German flags on flag poles. Children around a cameraman. An elephant in the crowd. The elephant lowers a coin box. Children put coins in the box as contributions for "Winter Aid". A man gets in a tank. A young boy comes out of the tank. Soldiers push children on swings. People in a speed boat. A bird flies away. Troops keep wooden platforms on shoulders and join them to form a bridge. A military vehicle goes across the bridge. People walk over the bridge.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675057939
African American cotton pickers pick, gather, weigh and make bundles of cotton in Chula, Georgia

African American cotton pickers rush to gather the present crop before the Southern legislators accept the proposal for a cotton ban. The laborers use both antiquated and modern methods. The pickers gather the picked cotton on the roadside. The farmers supervise as the gathered cotton is wrapped up in bundles and weighed. The cotton is then loaded into trucks for shipment. A young African American boy sits atop a cotton heap and eats a very large slice of watermelon fruit.

Date: 1931, September 3
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058053
Babies on decorative and humorous floats participate in the National Baby Show in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

The National baby Show in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Entrants from all parts of the globe vie for honors in the 40th annual pageant of infants. 150,000 spectators gathered on either side of the main street view the procession of decorative and humorous floats. Babies on the decorative floats. A girl pulls babies in a toy cart. A baby in an aircraft model atop a float. Another baby in a U.S. Navy model barrage balloon. Babies on model horses, in Native American Indian floats, a float titled 'Vanity', and a boy atop a pole on a float.

Date: 1931, September 3
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058055
American farmers increase production of agricultural products needed during World War II

Film opens with series of animated maps of the United States, showing the States that are the typical sources of agricultural products, including wheat, corn, dairy products, beef cattle, cotton, flax, lumber, and fruits and vegetables. A woman in overalls places fresh cut corn from a truck on to a conveyor. Farmers pitch hay from trucks. Momentary glimpse of a warehouse on a waterway, with a railroad train running to it, and a large cargo ship docked beside it. A federal official briefs a group of farm state officials and farm families, about the need for increased agricultural production, during World War 2. Closeups of persons in the audience. Scene shifts to window of a modest wooden home with anchor symbol two blue stars displayed for family members in military service. Closeup of the two blue stars in the window. With many men gone in military service, women and youth fill the labor gaps. A women at the wheel of a piece of farm equipment. A boy picking fruit from a tree. View of a large vacant lot in a city being used for numerous "Victory Gardens." A girl digging with a spade in one of the gardens. Other gardeners conversing in the background. A woman storing mason jars of preserved fruits and vegetables on a shelf in her home. Farmers performing maintenance and repairs on farm machinery. Momentary view of farmers loading crates of foods onto an open truck. Women placing vegetables into cans at a factory. Cattle moving into a pen. Men loading bales of cotton onto a river boat. A large freighter being loaded at a port. A farmer treating the soil with something dispensed from a spreader behind his tractor. A farmer harvesting corn by machinery. Three dead pigs, on the ground, (victims of disease.) Cattle foraging close to one another in a pasture. Insects attacking crops as there is a shortage of insecticides during the war. Severe weather causing crop losses is seen. A farmer harvesting with a combine. A document is shown labeled PL 147 77th Congress (the Steagall Bill). (Narrator states it guaranteed prices of 90 percent of parity for war needed crops.) Brochures for alternate crops that farmers might consider because foreign supplies were cut off. A farmer removes an envelope from his mail box. (Narrator alludes to government supplied crop loans and dairy feed payments.) Corn being piled up. Pigs at feeding troughs. Men loading crates of food onto a truck. fresh cut logs rolling into a river. Complete change of scene to Piazzale Loreto, in, Milan, Italy, 1945, where Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders are seen hung upside down. Adolph Hitler and Marshal Hermann Goering at Berteschgaden. Japanese Emperor Hirohito astride a white horse leading some of his senior military officers as they review assembled troops.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058166