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High profile celebrity weddings in 1949 including that of Prince Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth.

High profile celebrity weddings in 1949. People gather to witness the wedding of Prince Aly Khan with Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth on May 27, 1949. Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan is the Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly. Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan marries in Château de l'Horizon (55 Av. Edith Joseph, 06220 Vallauris, France), near Cannes, France. United States Vice President Alben W. Barkley marries Jane Rucker Hadley at St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri on November 18, 1949. Wedding cake at the wedding of Vice President Barkley. The newlywed couple is shown smiling.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051643
Aircraft workers at American aircraft factories, fabricating DH-4 airplanes with Liberty engines, during World War I.

During World War 1, Americans from various trades, including carpenters, painters, and women seamstresses, at work in an aircraft factory. Men and women work assembling Liberty aircraft engines to power DH-4 aircraft. Workers placing propellers on a row of assembled DH-4s in the factory. New DH-4s being started and tested on factory airfield. After testing, a DH-4 is painstakingly disassembled and packed for transport by train and ship to American units in France. In France, women carry airplane wings to an assembly shed where they are put back together and delivered to the flying units. Truckloads of aerial bombs being delivered to the airplanes. Armorers fusing and loading bombs under an airplane's wings, under watchful eye of the pilot.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051726
French Postman personally delivers postcards in response to a broadcast about the Franco American relations in New York.

French postal worker from the village of LaFayette, France, personally delivers post cards in New York City, attesting to friendship between the French and American people, on 200th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette. He arrives on an Air France DC-6. The postcards are sent in response to a broadcast over Radio Europe about Franco-American relations. Men load sacks of postcards on a cart. The French Postman rides the cart with the mail. He meets Mr. A.N. Spanel (Abraham Nathaniel Spanel), founder and chairman of the International Latex Corporation, who made the radio broadcast.

Date: 1957, January 31
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055945
Sino-Soviet Conflict over Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway. International Commission goes to Hailar Front in China.

Sino-Soviet conflict over the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway. Representatives of International Commission prepare to travel to the Hailar Front in China. They place the flags of United States, japan, and France on the locomomotive before passing through Chinese lines. Snow covers the ground. The representatives of America, France and Japan, which include women, leave the staff headquarters of General Hu Yu Kun, Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060900
America mobilizes for World War I and confronts demobilization afterwards

Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063340
German and Russian troops battle in the Soviet Union during World War II.

Vichy French newsreel (produced in German occupied France) "France Libre Actualities," with English audio dub, shows the plans and preparation made by the Germans for the campaign in North Africa during World War II. Animated map shows the territories occupied by the Allies and the Axis powers during the war. View then shifts to action of German troops in a battlefield in Caucasus region and Soviet Union. Explosions and gun fire. The map shows the German Army troops entering Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. German artillery, aircraft and infantry in action. A number of German tanks advance in a counter offensive near Stalingrad. German Luftwaffe aircraft in flight. Damaged German aircraft on the ground. Russian and German troops battle in extreme cold conditions with tanks firing at the enemy. A fleet of aircraft in flight. Troops on horseback and foot.

Date: 1942, October 27
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063437