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Lenin and Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin after the Civil War in Russia; American food aid to Soviet Union.

Post Russian Revolution events in Soviet Russia. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, silhouetted and speaking. Commander of the Red Army Leon Trotsky seated at a table. Workers and Peasants Inspection Group is formed and its chief is Joseph Stalin. Stalin, walking with Molotov, and others, on a street. Stalin's supporters Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. People at a railroad train station. Soviet farmers harvesting grain with machinery. Woman cutting bread loaf in a bakery and weighing it to provide a ration. Cans and bags of American aid food items stacked on a counter. Russian Civilians gather near a grain scale. Canned food arriving from the United States. American Relief Administration workers handling food relief items. Scenes of American Relief Administration feeding hungry Russians. Footage of Herbert Hoover, head of the American Relief Administration, seen onboard a ship in a harbor. Children in Russia eating food: Young children in a nursery setting seated and eating as a nurse feeds them.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066490
Russian and American pilots and crew talk and shake hands at an airfield in Russia during Operation Titanic.

A film on U.S. shuttle bombing operations 'Operation Titanic' over Germany from bases in Great Britain, Italy and Russia during World War II. U.S. bombers land on an airfield in Russia. Crew disembarks from the airplanes. They shake hands and talk to Russian pilots. Officers interrogate the fliers about the mission. Russian and U.S. crewmen service the airplanes. The crew eat in an outdoor kitchen. They sleep in tents.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077129
Headlines of prominent newspapers show rising tensions in Europe, assassination of Archduke and Russia's entry in World War I

Headlines of prominent newspapers show rising tensions prior to World War 1. Headline of New York American 'Czar expects war declaration today, England and Germany ready to strike, Austrians and Serbs in big battle'. Montage of headlines from various newspapers regarding looming war. Berliner Tageblatt New York Times headlines say 'Austria and Serbia ready for war, Russia gives warning to Germany, London still sees hope for peace'. New York Times and Freier Press headlines about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. Serbian police dragging the assassin. Blood stained tunic of Archduke. Burial ceremony of Archduke Ferdinand with coffin covered with Austrian flag. Czar Nicholas II of Russia reviews troops. Various Cossack regiments being reviewed. Russian Revolution scenes and mass demonstrations and riot in streets of Moscow as Bolsheviks seize power in 1917. Russian civilians and Bolshevik loyal soldiers armed with rifles marching in mass funeral processions and demonstrations in Russia against the Czar led government. Leon Trotsky speaking to a crowd and saluting Red forces as Bolshevik troops parade. Food distribution to Russian children and people eating on snow covered streets of Moscow around time of revolution. Headlines showing Russian entry in World War I. Snow covered Kremlin. Vladimir Lenin at a desk talking. More views of newspaper headlines regarding outbreak of World War 1.

Date: 1914
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036334
Lenin's Tomb and flowers placed at foot of Joseph Stalin's statue at Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

Monuments and statues at Red Square in Moscow, Russia in the Soviet Union. View of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). Snow covered the street at Red Square. The Nikolskaya Tower (The Moscow Kremlin, Moscow 109012 Russia) in the background. Flowers placed at the foot of statue of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin. Trees in the background.

Date: 1970
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073447
American Information Agency film showing that people in friendly countries also hold misconceptions about America and Americans

From a U.S. Information Agency film about the role of that agency. Colored map shows Soviet- controlled area in red and other areas in blue. Expressing concern about false impressions among Allies, regarding America and Americans, a chart is shown depicting results of a public opinion poll conducted in January 1953. In this poll French respondents expressed the view that Americans have poor taste; are overgrown children; and are only interested in money. and no family life. Narrator adds that many French also believe most Americans live in skyscrapers and have no family life.

Date: 1954
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024520
USIA film describing the ways it conducts its world-wide operations

Segment of U.S. Information Agency film describing its world-wide operations. Map shows 217 overseas posts in 17 countries, of the USIA (also known abroad, as the U.S. Information Service). Animated map zooms in on one post, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aerial view of Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooking the harbor and city. Street scene in Rio. USIA Public Affairs Officer, William A. Wieland, is seen walking along a sidewalk in the city. Next he is seen in the office of Ambassador James S. Kemper, briefing him about USIA activities. View of the Brazilian Foreign Office building. Mr. Wieland meets with the Chief of the Cultural Division there. Book stacks in the USIA Thomas Jefferson Library in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wieland conferring with a librarian. He is also seen at the USIA broadcast facility in the U.S. Embassy. Film shifts to street scene in Cebu, the Philippines. A building displaying American and Philippine flags, is labeled: " United States Information Service." Inside, and American and a Filipino worker give bundles of literature to local workers for distribution. One, a bus driver, carries his bundle onto his open-sided bus, displaying the name, "Cebu, Autobus." He waves as he drives away. The USIA Public Affairs Officer is seen visiting the Mayor of Cebu City, Vincente S. del Rosario; giving a news release to the editor of a newspaper; broadcasting on local radio;and socializing with local editors. USIA drive a mobile movie van into a remote village where many children are playing. They set up a screen and projector. Almost everyone in town attends the showing. Scene shifts to USIA headquarters building at 1778 Pennsylvanis Avenue,in Washington, DC. Director Theodore Streibert holds a staff meeting. View of President Eisenhower addressing U.S. public media leaders about confronting the Soviet Union with truthful information about the U.S. and the West, on April 16, 1953,in Washington, DC. A USIA technician transmitting text of the speech to its public affairs officers around the world. Views of newspapers carrying the story in Paraquay, Ireland,Algeria, and Burma. The President's speech was printed in a pamphlet entitled "The Peace We Seek," ahd sent abroad where it was translated into Arabic,Japanese, Persian, and 20 other languages. Four million copies were distributed. Posters about the speech were also distributed.

Date: 1954
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024522