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Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in a car for a press conference and returns sitting atop back of rear seat, in Canada

View of Canadian Houses of Parliament. Crowd awaiting arrival of visitors. Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden arrive in a Cadillac convertible automobile, standing up in the back, waving to the crowd. As they step from the car, they are greeted by the Canadian Premier, Louis St. Laurent. Churchill is smoking a cigar. Brief scene of Sir Anthony Eden descending steps from airplane at Rockliffe Airport, Ottawa on June 29, 1954. Premier St. Laurent escorts Churchill and Eden into the East Block Parliament building. Numerous Royal Canadian Mounted Police in uniform. Churchill and Eden sit at a large conference table along with Sir Archibald Nye, British High Commissioner in Canada, who orders Mounted Police to remove all photographers and reporters from the room. Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden descend steps and enter their car, sitting on the back of the rear seat. They wave to crowd as the car drives away. As they pass the crowds lining the street, Churchill raises his right hand in the famous "V" for victory sign. The are escorted by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, some on motorcycles. Quick view of photographers and reporters recording the event inside the meeting room before being asked to leave by the British High Commissioner, Sir Archibald Nye.

Date: 1954, July 1
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024176
President Roosevelt speaks to crowd in Ottawa. Montage of World War II milestones and military action.

President Franklin D Roosevelt speaking from steps of Parliament, in Ottawa, Canada, during World War 2. Behind him stands Canadian Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Large crowd gathered. Crowd waves at the President. The sequence then shifts to a montage of World War 2 milestones shown in newspaper headlines and battle scenes such as American battleships and destroyers firing on coastal targets; .troops in an amphibious assault; U.S.marines wading ashore, after leaving landing craft. Field artillery firing. Newspaper reads 'Italy Quits'. Newspaper slowly burns. The sequence returns to Roosevelt speaking on steps of Canadian Parliament. US, British and Canadian flags side by side. View of a very large gathering of Canadians at the event.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051794
General Eisenhower receives an honorary doctorate from University of Toronto, Canada.

United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower visits Canada. General Eisenhower at the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (53 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON, Canada) in Ottawa, Canada. He places a wreath on the tomb as photographers click pictures. General Eisenhower salutes as Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King stands next to him. General Eisenhower arrives at the University of Toronto (27 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada). He enters the building. General Eisenhower talks about the friendship between United States and Canada. He accepts the honorary doctorate by the University of Toronto and extends his support to the cause of education.

Date: 1946, January 14
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059957
U.S. propaganda film during WW2, "Know Your Ally: Britain" showing war battle scenes and scenes of life in England

'Know Your Ally: Britain' - An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi German propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance during World War II. Scenes in the United States of a college football game as a player makes a touchdown and a crowd erupts in loud cheering. Football team at blocking and tackling practice on a practice field. A World War 2 tank fires. British and American soldiers fire artillery and infantry forces running on a battlefield. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Views of soldiers of China, Russia, Britain and the United States. Allied troops march. Idaho, United States and Britain on a map showing population. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians on a road including cars and double-decker buses and pedestrians showing congested space in Britain. People talk to their neighbors. British policemen seen. British citizens emerge from underground transit system. Groups of British men, women and children in crowds are seen. Image of British Bobby police officer with hand up and narrator relates that British police do not carry a gun. Newspaper headlines about a strike, a catastrophe in Britain. Animated map of the Great Britain shows that it is surrounded by sea. Ships at sea. An old man and a boy sitting on a stoop with a model of a tall masted sailing ship. Brief views of cities in different parts of the world, including Sydney Australia; an unidentified South African port; an aerial view of the city of Wellington, New Zealand; parliament and government buildings in Ottawa, Canada; a large passenger ferry boat passing by with the skyscrapers of Manhattan New York City in the background.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072087
Miners use explosives to extract ore and collected ore being transported in a silver mine in Ontario, Canada.

'Silver mining in Ontario ' about mining operations in silver mines in Ontario, Canada. Silver mines in Northern Ontario, Canada. Miners line up as they enter a lift that takes them 400 feet underground to a mine. A man at a throttle as he pulls it. Miners conduct drilling in the underground mine. A miner drills into the roof of the mine. Rocks being blasted with an explosive. Pieces of rock after the blast. A worker with a mine helmet with a torch in front. A miner drills into the rocks to extract silver. Timber being used to support broken ores after the blast. Ore being drawn out by a man as he empties it out in a container car. Men push around the cars. An electric engine pulls the cars to a central station.

Date: 1920
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058840
One dollar bills being burnt at the Bank of Cannada in Ottawa, Cannada

At the Bank of Cannada in Ottawa staff members put one dollar bills in bales of five hundred bills so as to take them out of circulation. These bales of one dollar bills are put in sacks and are burnt in a furnace. Since one dollar bills have a life span of one or two years they are destroyed.

Date: 1946, November
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037423