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President Truman and Hollywood stars promote the sale of war bonds in the United States (WW2)

War bonds being sold in the United States during World War II. U.S. President Harry S. Truman opens a bond drive as he buys a war bond from Secretary of Treasury Fred M. Vinson. U.S. Army General Jonathan Wainwright with Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania during a ceremony to promote the sale of war bonds in Philadelphia. Wainwright's family at the ceremony. A bond rally at former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. In a drive organized by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry, Hollywood stars sell war bonds. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt seated in a chair. Hollywood celebrities including Merle Oberon receives applications to register for the Roosevelt bond.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945, November 1
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050693
Electrified tunnels, terminals and routes in the United States.

A film about means of transportation from ancient times to the modern in the United States. Exteriors of an electrified railroad terminal in Pennsylvania. Cars and people outside the terminal. Electric waves being depicted by an animation. A railroad train enters an electrified tunnel. Another train comes out of a tunnel. A train pulls up at a station on fully electrified Philadelphia-Paoli route.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050751
Group of workers make dolls, animal toys and assemble a doll's house at the Schoenhut Company in Philadelphia, PA.

Men and women workers working in the toy industry in the United States, probably all at the Schoenhut Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Woman workers attach hair to dolls heads and curl the hair. Another woman attaches heads to the dolls. A number of dolls on the table. A man assembles many toy horses at the Schoenhut Company. Toy animals and circus dolls made by the Schoenhut Company are shown in a small Humpty Dumpty Circus tent. A man assembles a doll house.

Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064464
Investigation of suffocation deaths of four inmates at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, PA.

Investigation of Suffocation deaths of four inmates at the Holmesburg Prison. View of the Holmesburg County Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A man closes the gate of the prison. State and County Officials discuss amongst themselves and then enter the jail. Scenes of punishment unit used to overheat the air tight cells the men are kept in.

Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1938, August
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034101
Montage of U.S. scenes covering various parts of the nation

Opening scene shows a wheat field in the United States. White hot molten metal collected in ladles as a furnace is tapped. Sandstone buttes the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley Park. Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, looking North from the Art Institute. A white church in a suburban setting. The Japanese cherry trees in bloom along the Tidal Basin in Washington,DC. A major river and an old fashioned stern wheeler River Boat cruising on it. A street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana. A roadway in Florida. A fishing village scene in New England. A formation of oil well pumps operating out West. Cowboys herding cattle. View of the Statue of Liberty with dramatic sunset behind it. Two U.S. Marines conversing as they look at the Manhattan skyline in New York City. Aerial view of the skyscrapers on Manhattan Island. View of Times Square in Manhattan, with the Astor Hotel visible (It was razed in 1967). Police officer directing traffic at an intersection. Two Marines walking past the United Nations Building in Manhattan, New York City. View of the General Assembly Building and construction site of the The Dag Hammarskjöld Library Building being added in front of it. Camera pans upward showing Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Camera pans the U.S. Capitol building, followed by the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument (viewed from steps of the Lincoln Memorial across the reflecting pool, in Washington, DC. A Marine color guard marches across the lawn in front of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park Virginia, as the Marine Band marches and plays. Closeup of the Memorial with American flag flying above it.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064859
African American soldiers serving in wars, especially World War I; Memorials to African American United States soldiers.

A film on contributions of African American soldiers in various wars, but mostly focusing on World War I era. African American workers at an oil field with oil derricks talk to each other. Depiction of African Americans serving in the Spanish-American War and advancing towards a battlefield. African American man speaks about his experience of the war. Scenes of excavation and construction of the Panama Canal. Huge earth moving equipment at work and a man triggers an explosive detonation during the dig. A U.S. Navy ship underway in the newly completed Panama Canal. World War I scene of a U.S. Army unit including African American soldiers marching through a town in France, in formation, with a military band leading the march. African American soldiers of the 813th Pioneer Regiment near Marseilles France work to build a railroad. Also scenes with soldiers from the 332nd Labor Battalion, and the 808th Pioneer Regiment clearing an area near Verdun. African American soldiers of the 8th Illinois infantry (later the 370th infantry) running with the rifles as they mobilize for battle in France. African American soldiers of 371st Regiment and 372nd regiment crossing battlefield during World War I. Members of the 369th regiment in battle. Railroad guns and heavy artillery firing during World War I. American soldiers leaping from a trench and running across no mans land during battle. African American soldiers of the 369th infantry ("Harlem Hellfighters") receiving awards, medals, and citations at an awards ceremony in France during World War 1. Henry Johnson and other African Americna soldiers marching in New York City victory parade soon after the armistice ending World War I. Graves of soldiers at Arlington Cemetery as seen from a moving vehicle. Images of grave markers for several African American soldiers and officers. Two African American soldiers approaching the All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Close-up view of the memorial and plaque on the memorial. Several other memorials in the U.S. showing African American soldiers. View of a facsimile of the 371st Infantry Regiment, 93rd Division (colored) memorial in France, near the towns of Ardeuil and Séchault. Dramatized depiction of the memorial being destroyed by the invading German Army on June 15, 1941. African American preacher speaks in a church.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077351
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