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Plane crash and fighting firemen, children surround American pilots at Tempelhof field during Berlin Airlift.

Berlin during Berlin airlift operations. A United States military airplane crashes at Tempelhof during Berlin Airlift operations. Firemen try to control fire in the burning plane. View of the smoldering and destroyed plane. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Planes parked at Tempelhof Airfield. Unloading of equipment from trucks. Sunderland flying boat lifts off a lake. A crowd of German children runs on the Tempelhof airfield tarmac towards American pilots and present them with bouquets and flowers. Door of a Berlin Airlift supply plane closed. View from runway as C-54 Skymaster airplane taxis, approaches gaining speed for take off, and then takes off.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036531
U.S. orientation film for Allied occupation forces, to provide background for understanding Japanese and their society

Background information for United States occupation forces in Japan after end of World War II. At start, the film shows sky filled with U.S. Navy airplanes flying in formations. They include Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, among others, and are seen overhead above the Battleship USS Missouri (BBB-63). Closeup of the USS Missouri with her crew in formation on deck wearing dress whites. Next, General Douglas MacArthur is seen and heard speaking from a podium on the Missouri's deck. He invites the representatives of the Emperor of Japan, and the Japanese Government, and the Japanese Imperial headquarters, to sign the instrument of surrender. The date is September 2, 1945, just after the end of World War 2. Closeups of the Japanese delegation, which includes envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, and of MacArthur. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu sits at a table. Closeups of him signing the surrender document. Change of scene to Japan, where camera pans over many thousands of Japanese people assembled to learn of their fate. Closeups of Japanese soldiers and family members, as Narrator asks how should the U.S. occupying force treat them. View of soldiers in plain non-military uniforms. Views of Japanese responding en masse to a leader, during World War 2. Views of child victims of the war. Closeup of Japanese soldier firing a short barrel light machine gun. Views of Japanese pedestrians including families, most in western dress. Japanese workers in an office. Film shows artists view of one worker's brain, and then many brains, as Narrator refers to need for reorienting Japanese thinking. View of learned wise Japanese leader at a podium. View of a Japanese soldier posed with his sword above the head of a war prisoner. Japanese mother feeding her baby. Closeups of Japanese babies. Closeups of Japanese school age children, in a group, and some doing things in school, and some at a playground. Group of uniformed Japanese students studying the art of Japanese calligraphy. Students doing artwork, studying nature outdoors, and paying attention to a teacher using a black board to explain how to calculate volumes of different shaped vessels. Students in classes of Geography and of geology. Japanese chemists, architects, and lawyers at work. Telephone switchboard operators at work. Electrified train moving on a track.

Date: 1946
Duration: 7 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036532
American post War II occupation of Japan.

Documentary depicts job of United States occupation forces in Japan. Opening scene shows Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita being escorted by armed American military officer to a room. A woman at an outdoor stand, passing out leaflets to Japanese people during the U.S. postwar occupation of Japan. Camera pans across exterior of prison where Japanese wartime leaders are incarcerated. Japanese read information posted on a telephone pole. Newspaper in English reporting that Emperor Hirohito says he is not a Diety and the Japanese are not a master race. A Japanese broadcaster spreading the new concepts. Loud speakers on city streets carry the news. People visiting news stands, including many Japanese soldiers in uniforms. Several Japanese citizens gathered by a bulletin board to read the latest information. Japanese workers shoveling up debris from bombing during World War 2. View of vast destruction in a Japanese city, where only several concrete and steel buildings can be seen standing. Japanese people going about their normal affairs, walking on paths cleared through the detritus of war. U.S. troops monitoring Japanese travelers boarding a railroad train. A U.S. soldier standing with a Japanese policeman, searches a Japanese cyclist for contraband. Views of the Pacific Ocean, with waves crashing on the shore. Dead American soldiers in the waters at the coasts of various scenes of combat against Japanese forces during World War II. Views of American soldiers helping and tending to wounded during the war. A huge formation of American soldiers marching. The Liberty bell. A closing slate reading: "Our Job in Japan". Music: Beethoven's 9th Symphony is heard.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036535
Signing of the German surrender documents at the end of World War II in Europe

The converted mess hall in Karlshorst, outside Berlin where signing of the German surrender takes at the conclusion of World War 2. British delegation arrives and take their seats. Flags of United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain at the meeting hall. Nazi delegation arrives and takes their seats at the side of a table. Nazi officials Field Marshal Keitel, Colonel Stumpff and Admiral Friedeburg sign the document. Lord Tedder, General Spaatz and Marshal Zhukov sign the document.

Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675036539
Chassis and shaft and other parts of truck engines compared with that of a car at a General Motors factory in Pontiac Michigan

Various steps of truck assembly operations, at a General Motors factory in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Chassis and shaft of a truck. Universal joint and the combination gauge of truck. Workers work with machines to check perfection of these. Universal joint compared with that of a car. Rear axle checked for sturdiness by a worker. A worker then compares it with that of a car.

Date: 1923
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036580
Various steps of truck assembly by workers and quality check measures at a General Motors Company factory in Pontiac Michigan

Various steps of General Motors truck final assembly and quality check processes, at a factory in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. View of truck frames on busy assembly line with General Motors workers. Fixing chassis and engine dropped by conveyors. Radiator, gears and meters fixed. Quality check measures and gas and oil consumption record taken. Worker does final inspection.

Date: 1923
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036582