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Saint Thomas Virgin Islands 1931 stock footage and images

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An American plane lands on Virgin Island

View of coastline and fields on Virgin Island. Men in a boat as one of them sails it. A man climbs onto the mast of the boat. American plane lands.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058638
American boat underway in water, Virgin Island

View of coastline in Virgin Island. Types of flowers, American boat underway in water. Lush green mountains and slopes. Cranes and railroad cars at a coast.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058640
United States soldiers talk to villagers in Saint-Marcouf, Normandy (WW2)

United States soldiers enter the village of Saint-Marcouf, in the Manche department in Normandy, France during World War 2. Soldiers pass by sign “Saint-Marcouf”. United States troops carry rifles. French villagers walking. Soldiers talk to an old French man and woman. Soldiers sitting on the street side of what is now known as the “Route du 5 Juin 1944”. Soldier smoking a cigarette during a break. Groups of soldiers crowd outside a damaged house. Soldiers talking to a French man. A soldier talks to children. A little girl points upwards. A statue of the Virgin Mary stands among the rubble. A statue of Jesus Christ on the Cross leaning sideways inside a church wrecked. Words by George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army says “No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan”. A “V” is superimposed over marching soldiers and a ringing Liberty Bell.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079438
Pilgrims walk in a religious procession and pray at Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec, Canada

Religious faithful gather at Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré (10018 Ave Royale, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec G0A 3C0, Canada), a national Catholic shrine in Quebec, Canada. The exteriors of the shrine. People gathered outside the shrine to celebrate the annual novena to the blessed Mother of Mary. Exterior view of the original former shrine building. Pilgrims in the religious procession, led by Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec. People kneel at stations of the cross and pray for loved ones and those away fighting in World War II. People outside the shrine. Two women in wheelchairs. People pray in the shrine. A statue of the Virgin Mary inside the shrine. View of many crutches and assistive devices that were left at the shrine by those who received miracle cures from afflictions.

Date: 1942, July
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067927
Political prisoners stage a play in Valencia, Spain, during era of fascism under General Francisco Franco

An organized theatrical group of prisoners stage a play at a prison in Valencia, Spain. The leading character is a missionary who preaches the Christian Gospel to Native American Indians. Prison audience applauds. Painting of Virgin of Merced, Saint of pardon, Saint of prisoners, adorns the wall of the theater. Director and staff of the prison applaud. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048279
Passengers visit Fort-de-France, during a cruise aboard a Hamburg-American Line steamship, SS New York, in the Caribbean.

Hamburg-American ocean liner, SS New York visits the port of Fort-de-France, in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Three Women passengers,in swimwear, lean against the ship's railing as other passengers sun themselves lying on deck chairs on the ship's deck. The Island of Martinique can be seen in the background. Another scene shows buildings in the town of Fort-de-France. Crew members lower a tender from the ship to carry passengers to the town. View from the tender underway with crew and passengers aboard, and the SS New York seen at anchor in the background. They pass a two-masted sail boat. View of local people carrying baskets of goods on the town pier. Fish and lobster in a basket. A woman carrying a keg and package on her head. Children walking along the pier with their mother. Local women buying and selling goods. Local people conversing in what the slate calls "a peculiar French patois." Two women and two girls (one holding a doll) conversing. The Fort-de-France Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Fort-de-France) built of wood except for its steel steeple. The park of La Savane, with statue of Josephine, Empress of France, wife of Napoleon,who was born in Martinique. Passengers returning to the SS New York,climb a gangway from their tender, as local boys in small boats wait nearby for the chance to dive for coins from the passengers aboard the ship.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068688