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French civilians, bombed out buildings and rubble on a street in a French town during World War II.

A damaged French town in 1944 during World War II. French civilians stand near a bombed out building. Rubble on a street. Trucks loaded with men drives past the bombed out building.

Date: 1946
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061139
Burning and damaged buildings in a French town during World War II.

A damaged French town in 1944during World War II. Smoke rises from a burning building in the far background. The burning French building. French civilians remove their belongings. Wounded and injured people are evacuated. A damaged railroad station with wrecked locomotives.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061140
French Marshal Philippe Petain in a car flanked by motorcycle police drives on the streets in a French town as a crowd cheers.

French Marshal Philippe Petain in a French town in 1944 during World War II. Philippe Petain in a car flanked by motorcycle police drives on the streets as a crowd cheers. Damaged buildings alongside a street. Petain shakes hands with civilians. Petain speaks into a microphone and addresses the crowd.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061142
US Army Major General Walter Short testifies during the investigation of Pearl Harbor attack in the United States.

Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan during World War II in the United States. Officials of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desks and Major General Walter C. Short, U.S. Army (retired), addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. He states that he appeared for the hearing of Pearl Harbor attack in August 1944. No indication was made by the war department about the attack. No information was furnished by them. If they had furnished the information, some decisions or actions could have been taken. He talked to officials of the war time division, but no conclusions were made.

Date: 1946, January 22
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061894
Filipino women work in houses and offices in the Philippines.

Activities of Filipino women in the Philippines shortly before World War II, from a 1944 film showing pre-war scenes. Filipino women in homes and offices. A Physical Education teacher watch a group of female Filipino students jogging in two straight lines. Faces of young Filipino women smiling. Pairs of dancers perform Filipino folk dance Cariñosa with handkerchiefs. Two women talk amongst themselves while shopping in a crockery shop. A woman stitches clothes using a sewing machine. Some of the women work in their houses. A woman practices archery. Women wearing various traditional Filipino dresses such as the Maria Clara dress of the Tagalogs and Batawi for Muslim Tausug women. Tagalog women wearing Terno dresses made of Piña or Pineapple cloth. A woman shows her Terno’s ‘Butterfly sleeves’. Filipino women working as soda fountain waitresses and Blues singers. Women doctors and nurses in a hospital. Young Filipino women and men dance the Jitterbug.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062337
Filipino people at homes and market places in the Philippines before World War 2.

Activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II (from a 1944 film showing earlier scenes). A wedding ceremony in a church in the Philippines. A Roman Catholic priest officiates a Filipino wedding. Children play with see-saw outside a traditional Bahay Kubo house. A man offers ‘ulam’ or dish to accompany with rice. Interior of a house. A Filipino woman cooks pochero, a stewpot dish. Men and women seated at a table eating food. A woman scoops rice to her plate. A man wearing a Barong Tagalog having dinner at home. Filipinos roasting ‘Lechon’ during an outdoor barbecue. Suckling pig cooked over charcoal. Filipinos enjoying barbecue dishes. People buying vegetables such as ampalaya (bitter melon) and jicamas at the wet market. Vegetable in baskets. Houses in the background. Narrator warning about food and water safety and risk of dysentery. Scene closes with wartime views in World War w of Japanese soldiers marching in the Philippines.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062338