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A farmer chops and brings wood into his small house in the Appalachian Mountains, United States.

A documentary examines farm families living on the Appalachian Mountains in the United States on land that is too poor to grow crops and who are poorly fed, clothed and housed. A man chops wood. A graveyard covered with snow. The man brings wood into a house and stokes a stove. The man sweeps his house.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061310
Life of a poor farm family living in a small house on the Appalachian Mountains in the United States.

A documentary examines the life of a poor farm family living on the Appalachian Mountains in the United States on land that is too poor to grow crops. A mother enters a room in her house. Children sleeping under quilts. A man enters the room. The mother dresses her child. The child cries.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061311
Children of a poor farm family feed on less nutritious food in the Appalachian Mountains, United States.

Great depression life of a poor farm family living on the Appalachian Mountains in the United States on land that is too poor to grow crops. A mother prepares and serves food. Children get dressed in the morning and take their seats at a dining table. The food served to the girls and boys shows lack of nutrition. The children eat corn bread, pork sausage, and pork gravy. The young boys and girls eat the food. Narrator indicates that there are no green vegetables, no milk or calcium sources, and no vitamins to prevent rickets and scurvy.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061312
Examples of parachute use in first half of 20th Century

Brief history of the use of parachutes early in the 20th Century. Allied Spad aircraft taxi from flightline in World War 1. One pilot pursuing another in their respective World War 1 airplanes. Numerous World War I airplanes in "dog fights." Post-war "barnstormer" being pulled by parachute from wing of a Curtiss JN-4 (Jenny) airplane. Soviet soldier jumping from a parachute training tower in 1930s. Infantry, cargo and weapons being airdropped from Soviet Tupolev R-6 bombers in flight. A Soviet manned vehicle being airdropped from a few feet by airplane. (The soldier jumps up unhurt after landing.) German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft early in World War 2.

Location: Europe
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061683
German invasion of Denmark and Norway, during World War II (Operation Weserubung)

German occupation of Denmark and Norway (Operation Weserubung) in the second World War (WW2). A German naval task force underway at sea. Crew assembled on deck of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, are ordered to their duty stations. As first step in the operation, German forces invade Denmark. A line of German troop ships tied up at port in Copenhagen, Denmark. German troops disembark and proceed into the city.

Location: Copenhagen Denmark
Date: 1940, April 9
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675062170
German Invasion and Occupation of Denmark in World War 2

German troops occupying key locations in the City of Copenhagen, Denmark, during the Second World War. Troops occupying the Danish Citadel fortress. Front of a church with inscription: "Jeg er vejen og sandheden" (I am the way and the truth). German troops in courthyard of the Citadel, folding up the Danish flag (Swastika flying from roof). German bombers dropping "OPRPI" leaflets over the city, calling for Danes to cooperate. Danish and German soldiers sharing cigarettes, as German bombers fly overhead. German Major-General Kurt Himer (Commander of the Occupying forces) and his Danish counterpart. German and Danish military officers conferring. German soldier issues nightsticks to Copenhagen's Danish City police. Views of German occupation forces moving through Denmark in motorized transports. King Christian X seen riding along city street, on horseback ,followed by small retinue of bodyguards. Several Danish citizens remove their hats as he passes. A German soldier salutes. Armed German troop ships tied up at a pier. German soldiers directing traffic. German troops and war materiel being moved by rail and truck. German troops moving in half tracks towing artillery.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1940, April
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675062171
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