Crew aboard U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677), load and practice firing at a floating target. Crew fires deck guns, launches torpedoes and depth charges, and fires "hedge hog" bomb clusters. Shells hit water surface and explode. Aerial view of large explosions in water. (World War II period).
Casino de la Playa Orchestra performing at the Casino La Playa in Havana Cuba. Various musical instruments are played and the orchestra is led by conductor Guillermo Portela . Cuban dance music in which singer Miguelito Valdes, here seen playing the maracas, is featured. (Later, in 1940, Valdes was hired by Xavier Cugat as a singer.) People seen sitting behind the musicians. Nighttime illuminations on buildings. Patrons dining and dancing.
Passengers boarding and leaving the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet Steamship "Koutoubia" in Tangier harbor, Morocco. Brief glimpse of group of Spanish loyalists hurriedly boarding, to return to Barcelona. Arriving passengers slowly disembarking. Spanish loyalist passengers boarding. Officials checking passenger credentials. Smoke billows from ship's stack as it moves from dock, with passengers on deck waving.
French President Charles De Gaulle in England. The train arrives on platform. Officials stand aligned on platform. Queen of United Kingdom Elizabeth Alexandra Mary shakes hand with president and his wife. They meet Prime Minister Harold McMillan. President meets other officials. They leave the platform and get on a horse chariot. Crowd stands besides road. A woman clicks picture. President waves. A girl watches. The chariot reaches the Buckingham Palace. President and Queen Elizabeth wave from balcony. Musicians play music. Firework at night. Sailors watch. Nuns watch the firework show.
Farm boys of Texas visit different states of United States. A young farm boy in a corn farm at Iowa. The boy comes to corn crops. He looks at the crops and goes. The farm boys watch Belgian draft horse mares near Des Moines. A man leads mares on a track, he leads mare in a field.
President Woodrow Wilson of United States arriving at Gare Du Bois De Boulogne,Paris. He is on his visit for the Paris Peace Conference. He is seen sitting in a horse cart. French troops seen guarding President Wilson as he rides through the streets of Paris. Crowds gathered to greet the President. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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