"Get your new ration books and identity cards here" seen written on a sign. British civilians line up to obtain new post-war ration books, after the end of World War 2. Women shopping for rationed food. British ships idle in ports as exports wane. View of New York harbor with tugs and barges and Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers in background. Woman holding poster advertising First International Auto Show (held from February 5-10, 1949, at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Twenty-fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, in New York City), including European cars to be shown in New York City. British cars in their first car show. One of the cars shown is the 1948 Ghost Minx with two women seated inside it. A 1948 Jaguar convertible is also shown. Communist parades in Europe and Asia. Start of Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild after the war. Newspaper shows President Truman signing Foreign Aid Bill.
Soldiers standing at attention on a field as they are reviewed by British officers together with U.S. General Eisenhower (likely circa World War 2 era). Officers inspect the soldiers. Wide shot of ship passing in front of Fort St. Angelo, Malta. Some British sailors at a port. Operation Hurricane atomic bomb test done by Great Britain: Atomic bomb blast is shown, which occurred October 3, 1952. British family seated at a dinner table in a house talking during a meal. Paintings of merchant ships underway at sea. A statue. British King George VI presenting award to a British soldier. Brief shot of British soldiers running from a bunker or low trench doorway outward toward battle at El Alamein. British tanks advancing on sand terrain in North Africa in World War 2. Exterior view of homes of some British families. Shops and buildings along the sides of a street. British people walking on a street near shops and businesses. U.S. soldiers also seen among them. A U.S. Army soldier stops to shake hands and talk to two British civilian men. Traffic of cars and buses on street behind them. Wide shot of British parliament buildings, bridge, Big Ben clock tower.
U.S. Navy carrier operations in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Men firing guns from the aircraft carrier. Smoke due to the firing. USS Essex underway. Aircraft parked on the deck of the ship. Guns fired along the port catwalk. The tracers head skyward. The flight deck personnel move a U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat, with wings folded, across the deck.
Black Sea port of Yalta, Crimea, with snow topped mountains in distance. Soviet high speed patrol boats move through the bay. View of shoreline and water. A long column of German prisoners of war being marched under guard. Local civilians identifying and mourning over fallen relatives, laid out in a field. One is carried away in a coffin. Line of surrendering German prisoners continues marching.
Arctic cruise of the Whaler "Herman." Stefansson camp at Banks Island. Several ships of ill-fated Stefansson expedition (Canadian Arctic Expedition) in a harbor.The name "Alaska" can be seen on stern of one. Two-masted schooner ashore on beach. The four-masted schooner S.S. Holmes, appearing partially sunk and leaning to port. Two men in cold weather gear on board, working to repair her. Later view of the SS Holmes appearing to have been uprighted. View from a boat proceeding along a shoreline. Christian Theodore Pedersen, Captain of the "Herman" with another man, possibly William J. (Levi) Baur, both in fur coats, being welcomed by Charles D. Brower, owner of a store at Point Barrow. He poses with them and others in front of his store.The camera pans other buildings in Mr. Brower's compound.
Life of Soviet Georgian people of Batumi, in the Adjar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. Adjarian people milling about on streets in the Black Sea coastal city of Batumi, Adjar. Busy sidewalk cafes. Men, women, and children shop for fruits and vegetables from stalls on a street. Men at a roadside cafe. People swim at a Black Sea beach. A ship waits in the Black Sea port at Batumi, as travelers leave Batumi, in small boats, to board her. Scenes of Yalta, after the passengers arrive there. People milling about on a city street with shops in Yalta, Crimea. A horse drawn cart being pulled as it ascends toward a nearby summit of the Ai-Petri mountains. Elevated view from the mountains of Yalta toward vineyards and toward the south shore of the Black Sea.
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