Brazilian natives in Brazil. View of a thick forest area with a rock formation. Small houses with a dirt road in front. Three Brazilian girls seated on a bench. View of a bridge over a river. Native people walk on a road. Thatched huts in the background. A girl and a boy wearing shirts of same print. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia community built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. The village scenes shown in this clip may show Brazilian workers connected to the Fordlandia rubber plantation)
A dockyard in Brazil. Rusted boats at the dockyard. Rusted remains of the deck of a boat. Two rusted boats in the water at the dockyard. From a Ford film showing scenes in Brazil related to Ford rubber plantation (Fordlandia).
Buildings, fine houses and gardens in Brazil. A building, possibly a grand hotel, with large trimmed umbrella shaped trees in the foreground. A car parked on a street under an umbrella shaped tree. Two young capybaras with their mother in a cage. An old monumental building with palm trees in the foreground. A path with a canopy of trees overhead. Vehicles and pedestrians on the road. A number of fine houses and gardens. A rock garden with a small bridge in one of the houses. A woman walks in a park. People walk towards a large statue in the park. View of a church in Brazil.
June 10, 1940, American man, in San Francisco barbershop, reads newspaper report that Italy enters World War 2 as part of Axis and against France and Britain. Barber cuts the mans hair. They both look over at a portable radio on a counter and listen as President Roosevelt denounces Italy's action. American family with a husband, wife, and boy sit in a living room and listen to the radio while William L. Shirer broadcasts from Compiègne as France signs an armistice with Hitler. Views of railroad carriage in clearing surrounded by German troops in formation. Hitler strides with Hermann Goering, Admiral Erich Raeder, and others. Statue of Marshal Foch. French General Huntzinger, and his delegation escorted by German officers. Hitler and his delegation rise as the French delegation enters the rail car. Germans drape Nazi flag over the Glade of the Armistice monument (French: Clairière de l'Armistice). View of the Eiffel Tower. German troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysee in Paris. Hitler's railroad train entering Paris station. Hitler taking an early morning tour of Paris in an open car. Hitler and party admiring the Eiffel Tower during German invasion of France and occupation of France. View from Eiffel Tower of German troops marching along street. German rail guns in new positions on coast of France, pointed toward the English Channel and England. The German rail guns moving on tracks and firing. Animated map showing Allies overseas possessions. German residents in Brazil in largely German communities, with German schools, German school children, Nazi textbooks, and Nazi German newspapers in a town in Brazil. A Hermann Goering glider club operating in Brazil, as a glider is prepared for flight. View of Japanese residents in Brazil on behalf of Imperial Japan. SEDTA German airline planes with bomb racks operating in Ecuador, South America. Germans exercising at exclusive German clubs in Argentina, modeled after Hitler Youth. Narrator indicates these operations represented a "Fifth Column" ready to take over.
Ambassadors in White House to meet with President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Washington DC. Spanish ambassador to United States Don Fernando De Los Rios Urruti disembarks from a car. He enters the White House. He poses for pictures at the conclusion of a meeting (he is without a country as the Spanish Civil War has just ended with Franco's Nationalist forces winning, so Fernando De Los Rios, as a Nationalist Spanish leader, no longer represents Spain). He leaves after conferring to President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cameramen click pictures. Italian ambassador to U.S. Prince Ascanio Colonna in White House with another official. Officials talk to one another.
Dr. Julio Prestes de Albuquerque, Brazil's new President visits United States. U.S. President Herbert Hoover greets him. A ship arrives at port in New York. President Prestes walks down stairs with officials. He poses. Boat in sea. U.S. and Brazilian Presidents pose at white House in Washington DC.
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