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Robert Templer visiting in 1953, and Robert Thompson being interviewed in Malaysia during the Malayan Emergency

Film about guerrilla war for independence fought between Commonwealth armed forces and Malayan Communist Party in Malaysia. View of a steam locomotive train in 1953 pulling in to a station. Sign on side of railroad train shows a picture of a British royal crown and below it reads, "Coronation - North British Locomotive Company - 1946 - Glasgow. No. 25767". British Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer in train. General Gerald Templer meets people. People read a notice in the state of Malacca. Policemen carry a stand board. A troop carries a farm equipment into a house. People walk on road and work on fields. Interviewer seen with former Secretary of Defense for Malaya Sir Robert Thompson (Robert Grainger Ker Thompson). He asks what was the communist answer to the new the villages program. The two discuss communist work in villages, race problem, and related issues.

Location: Malaysia
Date: 1966
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068131
Some U.S. Army soldiers focusing on leisure after World War 2, and some attend Army extension classes in the United States.

A post-war U.S. Army film (after World War 2) in 1945-1946 contrasts dice and pool playing soldiers with the soldiers who take Army extension classes to prepare for jobs in civilian life following demobilization and discharge from the Army. Group of U.S. Army soldiers in a room as they play pool at a billiards table. Soldiers in a barracks room seated on a bed and on the floor throwing dice in a game of craps. The soldiers play cards and smoke. Contrast is shown with U.S. Army students seated in a class. An officer takes lessons. A soldier takes notes. A young teacher or professor explains a concept with the help of a blackboard. View of the Hôtel Miramar in Biarritz, France (built in 1927 and demolished in 1978). Aerial view of a building with interconnected corridors. Street level view of the University of Calcutta Senate Hall in Calcutta (Kolkata), India (hall designed by Walter Granville; one time home to the Asutosh Museum of Indian Art; demolished in 1960). People walking in front of the Senate Hall as a car and a pulled rickshaw go by. In next scene, a sign reads 'Fox-Hole Campus'. An officer holds a mechanical model and explains a concept to students. A soldier works with equipment and an African American soldier stitches clothes at a sewing machine. A sign "Learn today; Earn tomorrow" as soldiers learn skills to help them in the civilian sector after separation from the armed forces. A solder works on a model. Pamphlets on a desk with the names of different subjects written on them that U.S. Army students can study to learn skills and jobs, including Automobile Repair Shop, Retail Bakery, Service Station, Grocery Store, Metal Working Shop, Shoe Repair Business, Small Sawmill Business, Beauty Shop.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068736
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. testifies about profits on war contracts during Senate Hearings,1947 in Washington DC.

Senate Hearings,1947 in Washington DC. Officials and dignitaries seated for Senate Hearings, 1947. Howard Hughes, Jr. is questioned. He testifies about profits made on war contracts by him before Senate War Investigating Committee. He says that he has not made any profits on war contracts in year 1946. He asserts that any profits he made came from selling oil well tools and Grand Prize Beer (of Gulf Brewing Company) which are not the subject of the investigation. He further comments, "if I didn't make a little money somewhere, how could I put 9 million dollars into the Flying Boat?" Views of Hughes and other dignitaries sitting during the hearings.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071720
Sailors are released on point system, workers leave war plants and line up for new jobs in Long Beach, New York.

U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.

Location: Long Beach New York USA
Date: 1945, August 23
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072162
Joseph T McNarney,Georgy K Zhukov and Alphonse P Juin attend the Joint Allied Control Commission conference in Germany.

Joint Allied Control Commission Conference in Berlin,Germany. Joint Allied Control Commission Conference in session to resolve the conflicting economic and political policy. Members of board and representatives of four nations General of the United States Air Force Joseph T. McNarney,Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Marshal of France Alphonse Pierre Juin attend conference. United States Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes addresses German civilians on Vital policy at Stuttgart in 1946. U.S. Ambassador Robert P. Murphy,Senators Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg,Matthew Connelly and General Joseph T. McNarney seated at speaker's stand.

Location: Germany
Date: 1948
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072577
Prior to U.S. Presidential Election of 1968, Richard Nixon recounts his past and tells how he got into politics.

Self-portrait of Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon that how he got into becoming a member of U.S. House of Representatives in 1947. Nixon replies that soon after World War II ended some Whittier Republicans approached him about running for a seat in the United States House of Representatives and he accepted. A picture of Nixon during his campaign in 1946. He says America is a great country because American people are competitive and it does not mean competition in the destructive sense. He considers America a great country in terms of competitive people and says that competitive spirit is a great driving force in any nation. And he says it is the reason why politics appeals to him.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1968, November
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073742
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