Telephone lines laid along the Florida coast in the United States. Equipment in view during the extending of telephone lines along the Florida coast. A crane beside the train station in the town of Jewfish, Florida in the upper Florida Keys. A board on the train station building reads 'Jew Fish'. The crane at work. Florida in later years: View of rolls of telephone cables outside a building. Men laying telephone cables from a roll kept on a wheel cart. A small wooden building with a board that reads 'The New Telephone Bldg., Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company'. Another small building with a few boards. One of the boards reads 'Keeping Face With Orlands'. A large concrete building with a path in the front. Trees along the side of the path.
Telephone buildings in the past and the present in the United States. Pictures showing the Bell System telephone buildings in the past. A large number of present day buildings in which beauty and efficiency are maintained. View of telephone buildings in Cleveland, St.Louis, San Francisco and New York in 1926.
Drawings and sketches of Washington DC in the 18th and early 19th Century. A film titled 'Washington, D.C., A Living City', United States. 19th Century photographs including: view of a street in Washington DC with several buildings on either side of the road. View of a document entitled "Plan of the Dress Circle of Ford's New Theater, 10th Street, Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian "castle" building (1000 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, DC 20560, United States), with a canal filled with water. View of Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Post Office building on the right. Open trolley cars moving in the street. The United States Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States) is seen from a distance.
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
Pictures and reenactments illustrating American history. U.S. First Lady, Martha Washington, presiding over discussions of fashion and politics. Reemacted footage of 17th century and 18th century shipwrights and carpenters at work in a colonial-era shipyard. Men sawing logs outdoors. Blacksmiths at work in a colonial village. Picture of Thomas Jefferson. Picture of Potomac River separating Virginia and Maryland, where Washington DC will be founded. Sketch of a farmer with horse-drawn cart, in hills of Virginia. The capital is shifted to Washington. Map showing Colonial States and interior waterways of commerce, including the Ohio and Mississippi rivers down to the Port of New Orleans.
Jazz musician Louis Armstrong in the United States. Cover of "Downbeat" magazine, celebrating Louis Armstrong's 65th Birthday. The title reads 'down beat, Salute to Satch'. Views of special issues of musical publications published on Louis Armstrong's birthdays. Titles of books reading 'Satchmo' and 'Ma Nouvelle Orleans'. A book titled 'My life in New Orleans' by Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong singing during one of his performances. Musicians playing instruments in the background. The audience applauding. Louis Armstrong performing during several of his performances, including close-up of Armstrong singing Cabaret.
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