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Natural beauty and agriculture in the mild Black Sea coastal region of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Life of people in Georgia Soviet Socialist Republic. Men ride horses on a field. A woman at the bank of a pond near a dam and waterfall. Narrator discusses the beauty and warmth of this area of the Caucasus mountain region on the Black Sea. Women rest in the yard of a convent. Women and men hanging and curing Turkish tobacco leaves in open air. A woman smoking a long pipe of tobacco. A woman leads a team of oxen to till and cultivate a piece of land using an ancient, slotted, rotating tiller. A herd of goats graze on a mountain slope.

Location: Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Date: 1930
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065902
German occupation, martial law, and Danish resistance in Denmark during World War II

Film about Denmark after the Nazi German occupying force declared martial law and state of war with Denmark, in 1943-44 during World War 2. It was made by Danes and smuggled out of Denmark during that period. Opens with view of a church building and flocks of birds. Views of German army troops marching into Copenhagen, Denmark on 9 April 1940. SS troops dressed in black, marching. German soldiers carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, goosestepping. A fire burning at site sabotaged by Danish resistance elements in 1943. Derailed trains carrying goods to Germany. Fire at a German factory. Danish workers with bicycles staging a strike in protest German measures in response to resistance actions. Danes gathered in outdoor observance memorializing those killed by the Germans. A shop owned by German sympathizers (Quislings) destroyed by other Danes. People gathered on street on 29 August 1943, when the occupying German forces attacked the remaining Danish garrison and declared martial law. Announcement posted in Danish on a wall. View of Danish Naval vessels ordered scuttled by the Danish Admiralty, including the coastal defense ship,Peder-Skram, seen in front of a large building, the submarine, Havfruen (not seen) and others seen sunk at docks in Copenhagen harbor. Bullet hole through a glass window. A week later, on Sunday, 5 September, 1943, a German Panzer light tank is seen moving on a street, as pedestrians go about their business in Copenhagen. German soldiers patrolling on a motorcycle with sidecar. A man holding his hands up as he is hustled through a crowd under arrest by a German in black uniform (possibly Gestapo or SS). Motorcycle driving through pedestrians on the sidewalk. Spectators line a fence by an open field near a building labeled "Badstue Badminton." One, a woman, speaks through the fence to a Danish soldier interned there. View of the quarters of the Royal Guard at Rosenborg, occupied by German soldiers and with Nazi flag flying above it. Civilian relatives of interned men wait outside army headquarters for news about them. A courtyard, during a mass funeral, is filled with memorial flower wreaths covering the coffins of Danish soldiers and civilians killed by the Germans. Camera focuses on a wreath from King Christian of Denmark, among the many others. Two German soldiers march up a path at the Royal Residence Amalienborg, where King Christian is arrested. Views from moving camera as Danish flags are seen flying all over the city of Copenhagen, on 26 September, 1943, to celebrate the King's 73rd Birthday. The major exception is the Nazi Gestapo headquarters in the "Shellhus" (the prewar Shell Oil offices) shown in isolation. Views of people moving their belongings on hand carts after their homes were taken over by Germans. The slogan in English, "Do it well and do it now,"is seen left by Danish resistance fighters where they sabotaged a German military installation.

Location: Copenhagen Denmark
Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036548
Admiral Chester Nimitrz visits the flagship, USS Rocky Mount and Kwajaleln Island during World War II

Admiral Chester William Nimitz , Commander in Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas, visits flagship USS Rocky Mount and Kwajalein Island during World War 2. View from the USS Rocky Mount (AGC-3) as a US Navy PB2Y Coronado seaplane approaches, lands in the water. and taxis toward it. An officer stands above steps leading aboard the ship. An unidentified small transport ship and small boat are in the background. two small launches are tied to the Rocky Mount. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander, is seen from the Rocky Mount as he ascends ladder to the ship's deck. View is looking downward from behind a Navy cinematographer. Admiral Nimitz is greeted by officers aboard the ship. Boarding the USS Rocky Mount, immediately behind Admiral Nimitz, is Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson Jr., Commanding General of all Army personnel in the Pacific. He is also greeted by the officers on deck. Next, Rear Admiral Richmond Turner is seen boarding the Rocky Mount. (The Rocky Mount served as his flagship when he directed operations against Kwajalein.) Various views of the officers mingling and conversing on the deck. Scene shifts to Admiral Nimitz and accompanying officers posing for a photograph on the Kwajalein Island. He and members of his party are all wearing steel helmets. In one scene they are surrounded by military photographers as Admiral Turner (in garrison cap) points out areas of interest to Admiral Nimitz. Ensuing scenes show the officers examining the remains of Japanese fortifications and weapons on the island. Admiral Nimitz converses with three soldiers who have been bathing on the shore. More views of the group amidst debris on the island. They board three waiting jeeps

Location: Kwajalein Island Marshall Islands
Date: 1944, February 5
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072045
Constructing a new Petroleum refining facility in the United States

View from a height, of a Petroleum facility construction project underway. A crawler-Mounted Latticework Boom Crane on the site. Steel framing erected in places and pre-fabricated tanks of various sizes and configurations on the site. Workers digging with shovels in a waist-deep earthen hole. welders at work on large size piping. A man turning a large valve control. Workers moving through a labyrinth of pipes and valves. Tall fractionating columns.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039521
United States Navy Task Force units underway in Pacific Theater

Task Force units underway, as their voices acknowledge dispatch. One ship sends a signal message through light. Task Force underway. Hoist about to be put up. Man standing next to, Twin 40 Mount looks towards the underway Carrier. Flight deck show parked aircrafts. Ships underway.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040814
B-24 flying low over airbase in Naples, Italy.

Scenes of wing of a cameraship of a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 aircraft flying over Italy during World War 2. Aerial side view of a B-24 flying against heavy gray clouds. B-24 aircrafts in formation. Waist gunner on alert. A B-24 aircraft flying. Scene of Mount Vesuvius volcano. Six bombs dropped away to city of Naples. Aerial view of city and airfield. Scattered tents on ground. B-24 flying low over airbase. Waist gun window and gunsight, and B-24 aircraft fairly close-up in the background.

Location: Naples Italy
Date: 1943, February
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034864
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