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Plymouth Massachusetts USA 1918 stock footage and images

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Tourists visit the Bunker Hill Monument, the Old State House and the State Capitol Building in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tourists visit Charlestown in Boston, Massachusetts. View of the Bunker Hill Monument (Monument Sq, Charlestown, MA 02129, United States) with buildings in the background. People walk outside the Old State House located at the intersection of Washington and State Streets in Boston. The State Capitol Building (24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02133, USA) with pedestrians walking by. View of the Custom House and Boston Harbor behind it.

Date: 1924
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064803
A group of people arrive to the town of Cummington in Massachusetts, USA.

A dramatized documentary about immigrants in Cummington. Scenes of a meeting inside a meeting hall. The speaker addresses the attendees. Men speak and present their views. Men, women and children exit a bus. They walk down a road carrying their belongings. Natives at a shop and a gas pump watch. Men, women and children do several activities inside their rooms at night. Mother sings lullaby for her infant. Film narrated in Hungarian. Music by Aaron Copland

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Hungarian
Clip: 65675050125
Scenes from a Carnival-fair in the town of Cummington, Massachusetts, USA.

Shows a woman sweeping the backyard of her house in Cummington. View of a parking lot at a fun-fair or carnival venue. People ride on a ferris wheel, including point of view shot from moving ferris wheel. Children ride on a merry-go-round or carousel. Large crowd gathered at the fair. People do shopping, visit art exhibition and visit a tent where canned goods including fruits and vegetables are on display. Oxen in pairs compete in a weight pulling contest. Boys compete in a throwing game and a strength contest to swing a mallet. People watch a horse-cart racing or chariot racing event. A man and woman order hot dogs or frankfurters at a tent. A child eats cotton candy. Family poses for group picture. A photographer sets up his large box still camera and photographs the family, as children stand nearby the photographer to watch. Scene inside a meeting hall. Men speak up. Aerial views of a canal or narrow river and countryside. A bus leaves. Film narrated in Hungarian. Music by Aaron Copland

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Hungarian
Clip: 65675050131
President Truman and his party at RAF Station Harrowbeer near Plymouth, England during World War II.

United States President Harry S. Truman, and his party, make unplanned stop at RAF Station Harrowbeer during return from the last 4-Power meeting of World War 2, held at Berlin in July, 1945. (Their planned destination, RAF Station St Mawgan, was fogged in. So the President instructed his pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Henry T. Myers, to land at Harrowbeer, when they saw it was clear.) Truman descends steps from the Presidential Airplane (Douglas VC-54C named the "Sacred Cow," used by Presidents Roosevelt, and Truman). Two other C-54 aircraft have also arrived (unseen). One carried Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, who poses with the President and three members of the British WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) identified as: Section Officer Eira Buckland Jones, Corporal Clarice Turner, and Leading Aircraft Woman Audley Bartlett. Views from inside car taking members of Presidential party to Plymouth Harbor. Groups of local people wave as the car passes through the English countryside. Larger numbers of spectators line the streets of the city of Plymouth. View of Plymouth Harbor from launch taking members of President's party out to the USS Augusta, anchored in Plymouth Sound (not seen).

Date: 1945, August 2
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064935
Images showing interests, culture, lifestyle and events involving Americans, including World War 1, in the period 1915 -1918

America in the World War 1 years, before and during the U.S. involvement in the war. View of Woodrow Wilson in academic robe and cap, as President of Princeton University. Steel mill with stacks belching smoke. Workers tap an open hearth furnace in steel mill. Children on a city street dancing and being sprayed with a fire hose to keep cool in summer. Boy hopping over the backs of his friends. Boys seated on a bench. Scenes from early motion pictures, interposed with images of Uncle Sam from Army recruiting poster: They are rapid montage comedy and stunt scenes, including Keystone Cops chasing fugitive; cars racing, gangster shootouts from cars; automobile hijinks; men raising barrier at railroad level crossing while a woman is left dangling from the raised crossing gate; car races and crosses railroad track in front of rapidly approaching locomotive; comic car chase down; line of 3 open top cars racing over an edge into a deep ditch, a motorcycle taking flight off of a road and into a river; a man waving warning flag frantically at a blasting site; The Cunard Ocean Liner ship, RMS Lusitania, underway; Newspaper front page about torpedoing of the Lusitania. American soldiers boarding troop ship for France in World War 1; View of the troop ship deck filled with U.S. soldiers. Various scenes of U.S. troops in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France during World War I: amid war torn ruins and destroyed buildings in France; firing French 75s and heavier artillery; soldiers charging across no-man's land; French and American soldiers caring for wounded behind the lines and in trenches of the battlefields; soldiers placing helmets and identification cards of fallen soldiers on rifles that are inverted, bayonet into ground.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036807
Armistice brings WWI fighting to an end, on November 11, 1918. German troops surrender. American troops leave combat zones.

Armistice ends hostilities of World War I. German troops surrender and large groups of Germans marching. American flag hoisted to symbolize Allied victory. American troops leave the war zone. People all over the world celebrate the end of war. People gather in New York to celebrate the end of World War I, smiling and waving happily.

Date: 1918, November 11
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049722