Pedestrians cross a street near the Houshang KhanShaghaghi building, Tehran's first skyscraper, in pre revolution downtown Tehran, Iran. Iranian women are both wearing Western and traditional Muslim attire on the street. The Post and Telegraph Office building on Tehran Toopkhaneh / Sepah Square (Imam Khomeini Sq.) Signs in English and Persian read “Chief of Mission” and “Deputy Chief of Mission and Chief of Staff”. Men riding donkeys in the middle of the busy road in front of the National Consultative Assembly building. Close up of lion holding sword statue atop gate to the National Consultative Assembly building. The dome and minarets of Sepahsalar Mosque, southeast of Baharestan square.
United States dependent children attend the American Dependents School (later known as Tehran American School) in Tehran, Iran before the revolution. An Iranian school bus is parked outside the school gate. The children and women cross the school yard. Snow-capped mountain range is seen behind the school. American teachers and personnel exit a GMC school bus labeled “School Bus 4”. Boys playing basketball in school yard. A teacher watches over students playing on monkey bars of school playground. Sign reads “American Dependents School”
Cars and horse carts move past the Iran Central Bank building, now the Treasury of National Jewels Museum (Tehran Province, Tehran, Javadiyeh, 213 Avenue Central Bank of Ferdowsi, Iran.) Cars drive past the modernist Bank Melli Iran building on Ferdowsi Avenue, Tehran. Tehran Toopkhaneh / Sepah Square (Imam Khomeini Sq.) with view of Reza Shah Pahlavi statue.
Refugees in railroad cars guarded by White Russian soldiers during Russian Civil War. An American soldier takes a loaf of bread from vendor and gives it to refugees. He gives cigarettes and other things to refugees in railroad car. Russian family with possessions. Women and children seen in railroad car. White Russian troops march and inspect folded tents on carts beside railroad car. View from inside moving railroad car. Siberian snow and smoke from locomotive seen from car. View of long train from rear, as it goes around curve. (Timeframe is both Russian Civil War and World War I)
Major General William S Graves, Commander of American forces in Siberia, during the Allied intervention there in the Russian Civil War and World War 1, poses on the balcony of his headquarters building in Vladivostok. Afterwards, members of his headquarters staff, who have been present during the filming, walk single-file back into the building.
General Kikkuzo Otani, Commander-in Chief of the Allied forces in Eastern Siberia, prepares to be photographed by an American cinematographer, at Japanese headquarters in Vladivostak, during the Allied intervention in Siberia in the Russian Civil War (and during World War 1). At first, U.S. Major General William S Graves is seen suggesting how an honor guard of Japanese soldiers should stand on the balcony of the headquarters. General Otani then comes on to the balcony and discusses, with General Graves, the manner of posing. Once they get settled down, we see a closeup of General Otani, and then he and General Graves shaking hands. (Only their hands are shown.)
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