Dramatization. Henry Morton Stanley arrives in Ujiji to meet David Livingstone. Livingstone’s Muslim African servant, Abdullah Susi, runs out of the house to meet caravan of Henry Morton Stanley. Susi introduces himself to Henry Morton Stanley. African servant informs his master of another white man’s arrival on his sickbed. African servant helps Livingstone stand up from bed. David Livingstone meets Henry Morton Stanley for the first time. Henry Morton Stanley utters his famous words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”. Livingstone gently nods in affirmative. Livingstone and Stanley shake hands. Livingstone and Stanley talk about news outside Africa over snacks. David Livingstone bids good-bye and leaves.
A steam locomotive train carrying freight pauses in the desert in Iran during World War II. Train engineer and brakeman exit the train and receive new orders from a dispatcher. Iranian train engineer reads dispatch before climbing back into the locomotive.
Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl I and wife, Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, meets military officials and commoners in Vienna shortly after their coronation. Empress Zita receives flowers, shakes hands with children. Austro-Hungarian citizens welcome the new emperor and his wife. Empress Zita and Emperor Karl receive more flowers from adoring children. Emperor Karl I meets Austro-Hungarian generals and infantry. Emperor Karl I speak to soldiers fighting for Austria-Hungary during World War 1, giving them reassuring pat on the back. Emperor Karl I rides a horse with retinue. View of Italian prisoners-of-war in Austria. Emperor Karl I onboard SMS Szent István, also known as His Majesty's Ship Saint Stephen (the last of four Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy).
German laborers pour concrete from cement mixers during work on the Siegfried Line defense fortification in western Nazi Germany. Two men talk beside a high-speed cement mixer. Concrete pours into bucket that are then hoisted to pour into forms. Mixers rotate, process cement. Mixer pours cement down shoot into forms. Water being sprayed on newly created Dragon's teeth tank barriers to cure concrete via hydration. Shirtless laborers dig soil with shovels amongst surveyor's stakes indicating placement of new barriers. Men walk in trench. Man arranges grasses outside finished bunker to ward off soil erosion. Men tamp down soil with shovels. A man waters newly planted pine tree saplings.
A young Major Fiorello La Guardia, future mayor of New York City, seen in uniform and smiling in front of the camera.
A female host wearing an U.S. army uniform, reads a letter from a sergeant asking to hear news about Marshal Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Partisan forces. Yugoslav communist revolutionary and President Josip Broz Tito, also known as Marshal Tito, with some of his fellow officers, meeting with Allied officers during World War II. Josip Broz Tito with his loyal partisans at his mountain headquarters in Yugoslavia. One of the few early footage segments of Josip Broz Tito. A cameraman walks away as Josip Tito talks with others.
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