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Italian-Ethiopian War. Children train and march holding wooden guns in their hands walk through a field in Ethiopia.

Ethiopians load pack animals. Children practice marching with wooden guns in their hands, supervised by Ethiopian soldiers.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027061
Second Italian-Ethiopian War. Ethiopian Air Force flyers, including John C. Robinson ("The Brown Condor"), look at a map.

Footage during the Second Italian-Ethiopian war (also Second Italo-Abyssinian War). Ethiopian Air Force officers, in uniform, wearing flyer's wings, discuss a map of the area. Close view of famous African American pilot John C. Robinson, also known as the "Brown Condor" and regarded years later as the father of the Tuskegee Airmen. Robinson, a native of Mississippi, commanded the Ethiopian Air Force after volunteering his services to Haile Selassie. Robinson is seen speaking with Ethiopian pilots. Military vehicle in the background. The fliers converse among themselves.

Date: 1935
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027062
Short film showing some officers and aircraft of the Ethiopian Air Force in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War

Two Ethiopian Air Force officers converse in a hangar where several high wing monoplanes are parked with parts of them covered. Camera comes closer to one of the officers near the covered tail of an airplane, who watches several men working on an airplane. He then turns and walks toward the camera. He appears to be John C. Robinson (also called "The Brown Condor"), a native of Mississippi who volunteered to command the Ethiopian Air Force during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. He wears the uniform of a Colonel. Film concludes with closeup of a young Ethiopian officer (unidentified).

Date: 1935
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027063
Ethiopian troops prepare for war with Italy. Greet Emperor Haile Salassie

Ethiopian fighters gather near large wood and straw buildings in Ethiopia. More arrive in vehicles including Emperor Haile Salassie, who is surrounded by a cordon of Ethiopian fighters and then enters an automobile and is driven away.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027064
Emperor Haile Salassie visits and walks casually among his Ethiopian fighters

Second Italo-Ethiopian war. Defensive posts are shown in a field in Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Salassie visits and walks among his Ethiopian fighters. Sights include community walls, statue of a bull, and village surroundings.Some Ethiopian troops are uniformed, but many are not and carry primitive weapons.

Date: 1935
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027065
Emperor Haile Salassie surrounded by his Ethiopian fighters enters a car

Second Italo-Ethiopian war. Ethiopian fighters come out of a public building in Ethiopia. They accompany Emperor Haile Salassie to his car. Ethiopian fighters follow in trucks. An Ethiopian tribesman poses in ancient warrior garb.

Date: 1935
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027066