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African American athletes make their mark at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany

Opening scene shows stadium filled with spectators for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. View from behind six sprinters ready to start the 100 meter dash. Front view closeups of African American runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. Official fires gun for the start, and the runners are off. Camera tracking the runners shows Jesse Owens well ahead of all the rest, at first, but Metcalfe soon catches up with him. Crowd roaring and cheering in the stadium. Scoreboard shows Owens first, Metcalfe, second, and Osendarp (of Holland) third, separated each by only one tenth of a second. The American National Anthem can be heard in the background. The next event is the men's high jump. Sign shows the bar initially set at 1.97 meters height. The first competitor is Gustav Weinkötz of Germany. He fails to clear the bar. Next is Hiroshi Tanaka of Japan, who also fails to clear. Bar is reset to 2.03 meters (6 feet-8 inches). African American, Cornelius Johnson makes the next attempt. He successfully clears the bar and the crowd roars its approval. (He had set a new olympic record.) Three American flags flying over the stadium as the U.S. National Anthem is again heard being played.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077353
African American soldiers engaged on all fronts in World War 2

Film opens with map of the world showing the various theaters of operation in World War II. Narrator refers to Allies liberating town after town, as they advance. View of American troops being welcomed in a European town during an advance (probably Italy in 1944). Next, African American troops are seen boarding troop transport ships. A huge convoy of ships is seen from the air. Huge piles of war materiel on a dock. Ammunition being delivered by landing craft from the transport ship USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) to American troops at a beachhead in the Pacific. An African American sailors directs the lowering of a piece of artillery from a ship into a landing craft. Construction equipment being used to clear the way for a new landing field. Docks, roads, and bridges being built as the Allies advance. American troops in the swamps of the South Pacific. American Army engineers clearing trees to build the Alaska Highway (ALCAN Highway) in 1942. Corps of Engineers building the Ledo Road (from India to China) during the war. African American soldiers building a bridge across a river in Europe. A U.S. Army truck under fire, driving along a dirt road in Europe as shells burst all around it. U.S. troops firing various kinds of field artillery and tank guns. U.S. infantryman using a flame thrower. Closeup of African American soldier using a bayonet and others firing small arms. A tank being blown up by artillery fire. A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero aircraft maneuvers overhead in the Pacific theater. An African American soldier runs to man his Browning .50-caliber, water-cooled antiaircraft machine gun, and begins firing as the Zero fighter plane strafes his position. Closeup of Japanese pilot in his cockpit and his machine guns firing from leading edges of his plane. His rounds strike all around the U.S. gunner, who turns and follows him with more fire. His tracers show behind the plane. Closeup of the African American gunner as he continues firing. View of the Japanese airplane rolling over and diving. Next the Japanese plane, aflame, crashes on a tropical island and explodes. (Note: It is apparent that some of these combat scenes have been made up of clips from other sources, edited into this film.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077359
Nike Missile components replaced by soldiers of 178th Ordinance Detachment in Taipei, Taiwan during operation Hurry Up.

American soldiers in Taipei, Taiwan during Operation Hurry Up. Soldiers of the 178th Ordinance Detachment carry a mechanical system for a Nike missile from the missile to table. They carry in a new identical component, and install it into the missile.

Location: Taipei Taiwan
Date: 1958, November
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077571
Christmastime at Berghof in Berchtesgaden,Germany. Children play with toys.

Christmastime at German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's residence Berghof in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Herta Schneider's daughters Uschi and Gitta Schneider play in a room at Berghof. Children of Martin and Gerda Bormann seated on a mat as they play with toys. (Martin Bormann is Adolf Hitler's personal Secretary.) A Christmas tree with lots of tinsel is behind them. Gitta Schneider seated on floor. Her father, Erwin, a 1st Lieutenant (Oberleutnant) in uniform, plays with Gitta while Herta changes her. He holds her wearing her new outfit.

Location: Berchtesgaden Germany
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077781
Interiors of castle Herrenchiemsee Palace in Herrenchiemsee, Germany

Herrenchiemsee Palace in Germany. AKA "New Palace" and "Bavarian Versailles" Interior shots show the Great Hall of Mirrors with its ceiling frescoes. A view of lake Chiemsee through a window.

Location: Herrnchiemsee Germany
Date: 1940
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077784
Eva Braun's family and others take part in a line crossing ceremony aboard a ship underway in arctic waters of Atlantic Ocean

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun's family aboard a ship underway in the North Atlantic Ocean. Men from Eva's family and others clad in white clothes come on to the deck of the ship for a Line Crossing ceremony (probably to mark crossing of the Arctic Circle). Those conducting the ceremony are dressed in costumes, some as warriors. One is dressed as King Neptune. Ceremony being performed on the deck to initiate those who are crossing the line (Arctic circle) for the first time. Officers and other passengers look on. The new initiates are subjected to many hijinks, such as mock shaving for the men. The affair is terminated as the intitiates are prodded into the swimming pool aboard the ship. Some of them are being thrown into the pool as others look on.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077796
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