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Sightseeing United States sailors visit landmarks in Washington DC, United States and Annapolis, Maryland.

United States sailors visit Washington DC area. View of the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland (Slate the precedes this shot incorrectly states that it is the U.S. Capitol). View of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, as seen from the U.S. Treasury Building. Traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue. View of exterior of U.S. Treasury Buildings, with sailors descending steps. View of the South entrance of the White House. A sailor standing next to Tidal Basin views the Washington Monument in the distance. Exterior of the side of the Lincoln Memorial, with two U.S. Navy sailors walking toward the building. Sailors descend the steps of building. The south entrance of the White House. A sailor looks at the Washington Monument from Tidal Basin. The sailors in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060985
Various scenes of kidnapping, FBI investigators in tie shop, FBI car chase criminals, and the Washington National Cathedral

Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.

Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078870
End of World War II and signing of UN charter in San Francisco, United States

United States and Soviet Union soldiers celebrate their victory as world War 2 comes to an end in Germany. "Elbe Day": Soviet and American soldiers meet at the River Elbe on 25-26 April, 1945. View of Nazi swastika being blown up at Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg Germany in 1945. Scenes of celebration in the streets of Paris with French civilians cheering American and French soldiers and celebrating the end of World War 2. French women kiss soldiers. Crowd gathered in Times Square in New York celebrating VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day). Foreign Ministers of fifty nations arrive at San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter. United States President Harry S. Truman addresses the delegates at the closing ceremony of the conference on June 26, 1946. Ships bring American soldiers back home, including some wounded, after World War 2. Women and families on dock at harbor wave and smile at arriving troop ship with American soldiers returning home. Also seen are soldiers of other countries including Soviet Russian soldiers returning to their families at a train station, with smiling and tearful family reunions. Cemeteries with headstones honoring soldiers who died in the war. Military hardware being scrapped to make peacetime goods. Views of explosive charges being set and military aircraft being blown up for scrap. Piles of scrapped military vehicles. A woman in a factory organizes newly manufactured clothes irons. Workers in a factory perform final assembly on newly manufactured ovens and stoves for homes.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037571
Unemployed men get jobs in industries and a cooperative farm plan to meet market demand in the United States.

Postwar (after World War II) agriculture activities in the United States. Farming equipment in operation on farms. Canned food in a store. Flashback scenes to the Great Depression during the 1930s: A man carries a banner which reads 'Unemployed Will Take Any Job'. Unemployed men lying on a bench. A sign on a gate : 'No Men Wanted'. Shabby housing tenements and shacks of poverty victims falling apart in a rural farm area. Forward again to the post war 1940s: Smoke comes out off chimneys of a factory. American workers busy at a auto assembly line finishing new cars (appears to be 1946 or 1947 Chevrolet cars). Factory workers line up at a pay window to receive pay checks. An industrialist works in his office. Crowds of American citizens on busy city streets with pedestrians and automobiles, and shoppers looking in store windows, including store windows showing elaborate Christmas displays. A cooperative farm plan to produce what the industrial and consumer markets demand. A man milks a cow with an automatic milking machine. A woman using electricity on a farm to power a new open top clothes washing machine. Farm machines are used.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058167
The United States Constitution created at the Philadelphia Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The history of the United States. 1783: Soldiers of the new republic after their victory in the American Revolutionary War. Soldiers on horseback meet new citizens. They watch as men carrying baggage walk away. A banner on a road separating two states reads 'New Hampshire Boundary'. A merchandiser demands money from two men to cross the border. Pictures of the land which farmers gave up because they could not pay back. Bankers inside a building. People on the streets. Delegates at the Philadelphia Convention in Pennsylvania. Pictures of people demanding new central government. Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the US, walks supported by two men to the convention building. Several people stand around and watch. General George Washington, the elected President of the convention. He delivers a speech. He states the need for unity, a sound financial system, war debts to be paid, trade to be encouraged, national government to protect rights and perform functions. The delegates speak at the convention. The convention in progress. President George Washington with Benjamin Franklin and a few men at a final private conference during which they decide the government should have clearly defined substantial powers. The Preamble to the United States Constitution created on 17 September 1787, read out at the convention. Benjamin Franklin gets up with the help of two men. George Washington signs the constitution. Benjamin Franklin with George Washington. The carving on George Washington's chair. George Washington, the first President of the United States. People greeting the President. Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, organizes a bank to receive taxes and import duties that pays off national debts.

Date: 1953
Duration: 8 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066550
The United States demobilizes following World War II

Opening illustrated slate shows reduction of Amercan Armed forces personnel from more than 12 million in 1945 to only a little over 1 and a half million in 1947. U.S. Navy submarines are seen docked in storage. Men work spraying protective coatings over guns on Navy ships as they are placed in storage in the "Mothball Fleet." A lone sailor is seen on the deck of a ship with vast number of mothballed Navy destroyers in the background. A B-24 Liberator bomber being dismantled and a B-17 parked with engines removed, seen through stack of propellers in foreground. Airman sets a demolition charge. Views of several bomber aircraft being blown up as junk. Stacks of junked and scrapped American war materiel rusting. View inside a mill where molten metal is being processed (ostensibly recycled from junked war materiel). Narrator speaks of beating guns into plow shares. Several views of molten metal being poured into and from ladles. Views inside post-war factories returning to peace-time production, where industrial heavy equipment, railroad wheels, kitchen appliances, home appliances, rubber tires, and new 1946 Ford automobiles are assembled (looking exactly like the 1942 models).

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058353