View of train that has just arrived carrying Ambassador to the United States for Germany, Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff . Count von Bernstorff waves from rear of railroad car.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Men gather in Masters Hall in the State House of Representatives in South Carolina. Majority of African Americans sit in the hall. An African American speaker speaks in the hall in front of everyone. Another African American man eats on the table. They talk amongst themselves. A man drinks. One of them puts his shoes on the table. A man puts his legs on the table. They misbehave. Speaker asks everyone to wear shoes. White visitors seen in the gallery. An intermarriage bill passed in the meeting. People talk. African American people cheer.
Navy gunners assemble 20mm and other guns on Liberty ship in the sea, New York, United States. Officer moves upstairs with a bag in hand. He talks to the other crew members on the ship. An officer in a compartment talks to a crew member. Crew members look at a locomotive loaded on the ship. Life boats check. Repair kit and other important things on the ship.
Navy gun crews report to the officers on the ship in the sea, New York, United States. Officers discuss in the conference room. Ship captains get convoy orders. Charts on a board in the background.
The ship warped away from the pier and joins another ship in its convoy position in New York, United States. Crew members and officers on the ship. Smoke from the stacks. Flags on the ship.
Impresario Mike Todd passes away in New Mexico, United States. He dies of a plane crash. Mike Todd with his wife actress Elizabeth Taylor. People greet them. Lockheed Lodestar passender airplane parked on runway. Close up view of airplane door with name "The Liz" being opened ("The Lucky Liz"). Mike Todd boards the plane. Buildings in the background. The parts of the crashed plane in a rural area of New Mexico where it crashed killing Mike Todd, Art Cohn, and pilots Bill Verner and Tom Barclay.
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