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Tennis champion, Bobbie Riggs, demonstrates, to a sailor, the correct way to hold a tennis racquet

Demonstration of how to grip a tennis racquet, on tennis court of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in Waikiki, Hawaii. Tennis champion, Bobby Riggs,demonstrates the way to grip the tennis racket. A sailor watches and listens to his instructions. ( Note: Bobbie Riggs won the Wimbledon singles, doubles and mixed doubles championship in 1939.)

Location: Waikiki Hawaii USA
Date: 1945, August 29
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059779
Soviet forces demonstrating their prowess and weapons in 1941 during World War II

After credits, opening slate refers to the battle front of the future, battles of the Motherland. Opening action shows a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Momentary glimpse of the nose of a Mig-1 with engine running. Then a stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft takes off. Two of them are seen in flight overhead, and then several more. Scene shifts to some captured German prisoners of war being escorted by Soviet armed guards. Troops and more prisoners walk down gang planks from a large flat river barge. A T-26 tank sits overlooking the barge as its occupants depart under guard. Scene shifts to an advanced model T-26 Soviet tank moving across a field. Another is also moving in the background. Other tanks move past the camera, through sand, and past trees. A Soviet BT-5 tank speeds past the camera. Soviet troops firing Quad-mounted PM M1910 Maxim machine guns as antiaircraft weapon. Other antiaircraft weapons firing at a German Bf 109 aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial view of a German Stuka Dive Bomber (Ju-87). Soviet gunners firing a camouflaged 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun. A German Bf 109 fighter aircraft turns and makes a gentle dive . Next, a burning aircraft is seen plummeting to earth. A large explosion. Two 85mm antiaircraft gins firing. More German aircraft are seen and another one is shot down. Several early ,model Soviet T-26 light infantry tanks run in formation over sharply rolling hills in what appears to be a testing or demonstration ground. several explosions occur near them as they move. Field artillery firing from concealed positions in woods. A tree is felled by shelling and an explosion nearby raises huge clods of earth. Soviet infantry charge through barbed wire. One soldier carries a mine detector. Soviet troops charge through woods. Several German prisoners of war are taken. Numerous German prisoners seated on the ground in an open field.

Location: Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1941, July 27
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675060459
Malaria control in Mengshih, China near the Burma Road during World War II.

Activities in Mengshih, China near the Burma Road during World War II. Animated map shows the Burma Road and highlights Mengshih, Paoshan and the Huitang Bridge. Chinese men work for malaria control in Mengshih. The head of Anti-Malaria Institute of the Chinese Government Dr. Y.C. Yao looks through a microscope in his office. A sign reads 'Malaria Laboratory Rockefeller Foundation Chefang, Yunnan, China' at laboratory facility founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1939 with efforts from U.S. Secretary Henry Morgenthau. A Chinese doctor examines and treats a Chinese boy affected with malaria. Blood samples of children are taken from earlobe and put on slides, and then examined under a microscope in the laboratory. Chinese boys (the "health boys") fill pesticide spray cans and then spray pesticides in a narrow stream. Another worker spreads pesticide in powder form to control mosquitoes. A Chinese official instructs the boys working for malaria control. Chinese men inspect the area near bushes and inspect ladles filled with water samples. Chinese official Mr. Chen meets Mrs. Sweet, the wife of a Rockefeller Institute physician.

Location: Mengshih China
Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060847
Adolf Hitler addresses Reichstag at Kroll Opera House; Hitler addresses outdoor gathering at Heldenplatz in Vienna.

Fragment of speech by Fuhrer Adolf Hitler as he addresses the Reichstag, meeting in Kroll Opera House, on April 28, 1939, in Berlin. The German Reich national Eagle insignia in the background, and Nazi Swastikas on either side. Reichstag members respond with cheers and Nazi salutes. Next scene is unrelated: Adolf Hitler on podium, preparing to speak at a huge outdoor gathering at the Heldenplatz in Vienna, Austria, on March 15, 1938, following the Anschluss. The crowd chants 'Heil'. Civilians give Nazi salute during the gathering in city square.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1938
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031403
Polish citizens commemorate victims of Wawer Massacre, raise Adolf Hitler puppet in effigy during WW2

Destroyed city blocks and rubble in Warsaw ghetto during World War 2. A man writes “WAWER” on pavement as reference to the 1939 massacre of 107 Polish civilians by German forces in Wawer, near Warsaw. Women leave flowers on pavement to commemorate victims in Wawer. Pavement Polish graffiti with the symbol of the PW Polish Underground State. Polish men play with a cartoon Adolf Hitler paper marionette puppet hung on a wall. Polish men hoist cartoon Adolf Hitler puppet in effigy up a lamppost. Bottom of streetlamp with graffiti words written in German.

Location: Warsaw Poland
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078892
United States troops watch attacks made by A1-H aircraft in flight over enemy positions at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam.

U.S. troops lay prone on ground next to runway with M-16 rifles during attack of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. One soldier crouches behind soldiers lying on ground. Troops wait for an attack. Soldier takes aim. Tank moves fast at Tan Son Nhut, kicking up dust. Open field, smoke rises from the distant background. C-123 aircraft in flight overhead. Air Force personnel with M-16 rifles pass on runway. Bodies of dead Vietcong along the edge of runway. B-40 rocket on ground. Troops around trucks and trailers. A1-H aircraft bombing enemy. Clouds of smoke rise in the far background from bomb hit. Smoke rises from building in the background. UH-46D helicopter flies by in the background with supplies hanging from sling. Fireball rises up from explosions. (Vietnam War period).

Location: Saigon Vietnam
Date: 1968, February 1
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052342
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