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Double anniversary celebration in Fort Lee marking 50th year of New Jersey Borough and first permanent motion picture studio.

People gathered at the Lee theater in Fort Lee, New Jersey for a double anniversary celebration. The 50th year of New Jersey Borough and commemorating the country's first permanent motion picture studio. The Glenn Miller Story being shown at Lee theater. A banner put up for the event from May 23 to 29. Cameraman photographing turn of the century bathing models with a hand cranked camera. People watch the models. Mayor Louis F Botjer presents an anniversary plaque to a theater person. Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945 looks at the plaque. Cars on the road.

Date: 1954, May 20
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027003
Contestants of Miss America beauty contest wave at people and walk on a ramp in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Miss America beauty contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contestants of Miss America on floats as they pass along the streets of Atlantic City. The contestants wave at people. Veterans in wheelchairs watch the parade. The contestants standing and posing. They walk on a ramp. The winner of the 1945 Miss America pageant, Bess Myerson, wears the crown and cape. Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, comes from the Bronx, New York. Bess Myerson smiling.

Date: 1946
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072228
Various scenes of daily life in Springfield, New Jersey during WW2

Opening title "The Old Home Town". A young woman opens the front door of a house with a Service Flag in the window during World War 2. Service Flag displayed in house window showing one star, meaning 1 person in the household is serving in the military. Camera pans inside living room, displaying photographs of relatives serving in the military. Woman writes a letter to her son. Hand writing out letter with pen. View of the First National Bank of Springfield on Main Street, Springfield New Jersey. Woman buying ticket at movie theater box office. Movie theater displays sign that reads “Buy War Bonds and Stamps Here”. A woman enters Hoffman Drugstore Luncheonette with her child. High School students drink soda while sitting at drugstore counter while soda clerk fills soda from soda fountain. View of downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Women out shopping and eating ice cream in downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Children exit the James Caldwell Elementary School at 36 Caldwell Pl, Springfield Township, NJ 07081 and line up in front of the police crossing guard. Mailman walking down residential street and delivering mail to a woman at a house. Smiling woman closes door with Service Flag displayed. Woman shares letter with neighbor. Women read a V-Mail from abroad. Paperboy riding bike throws evening newspaper to porch. Man gets newspaper from porch. Man reads newspaper while sitting in living chair. Wife and daughter read from behind the man reading newspaper. The family reads the newspaper together. A Lions Club Honor Roll signage containing every person fighting abroad in Springfield, New Jersey. View of Springfield Township military Honor Roll. A Lions Club member adds a star beside the name Howard Lott, a soldier who died fighting in the Mediterranean. Two Lions Club members look mournfully at sign. A “Handy-Man Association” meets together near the Lions Club Honor Roll signage. Old man sawing wood while wife watches. Old man fixes bureau drawer. Man cleans window while on ladder. Old man climbs ladder to remove window screen. Woman gives doorknob to a man and he re-attaches it to a door. Man paints a porch while a woman sweeps. Townspeople enter the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey (37 Church Mall, Springfield Township, NJ 07081, United States). Townspeople attend church service. Pastor delivering his sermon. Women lower their heads in prayer during church service. View of bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078497
The Yale University Bulldogs beat the Princeton University Tigers by 43-22 in a football match in New Haven, Connecticut.

Yale University beats Princeton University in a football match in New Haven, Connecticut. The football match between the Yale University Bulldogs and the Princeton University Tigers. A large crowd of spectators cheer the teams. Yale player Tom Singleton sets a new record. The Bulldogs win the match over the Tigers by a score of 43-22.

Date: 1960, November 19
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055693
The Signal Corps recruits being trained and study communication equipment in the United States.

A training film titled: 'Pro Patria Vigilans' on the wartime and peacetime activities of the U.S. signal Corps. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur aboard the U.S. Army battleship USS Missouri during the Japanese surrender ceremonies in 1945. Aircraft flying in formation overhead. Antiaircraft guns directed towards the aircraft. Signal Corps recruits train at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The recruits dive and swim across water. The soldiers attend lecture by an officer. A sign reads: 'Field Radio Course'. Men working in the radio room and are trained. An officer training the soldiers with the help of a model. The coastal defense training of the soldiers. The soldiers study the communication equipment. An aircraft takes off and lands near the message center. A sign outside the building reads: 'Master Message Center'. Officers seated at a desk, discussing a map. (World War II period).

Date: 1947
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075796
Events of World War 2, and creation of United Nations Organization following the surrender of Germany and Japan

Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053066