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American citizens gather around living room console radios and portable radios in other locations, listening to news.

Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1946, December 7
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060480
General George S Patton Junior decorates U.S. soldiers in Gafsa, Tunisia, North Africa.

U.S. soldiers march towards Allied positions in North Africa during World War II. U.S. soldiers march in a single file. A Turkish Military General reviews American Military Police honor guard. Turkish General and aides. The Turkish General salutes. General George S Patton Junior decorates U.S. soldiers. The General pins a Purple Heart on Colonel TTJ Williams, Assistant Chief of Staff. He pins Silver Stars on Major John H. Gruver (middle) and Major (Chaplain) Leon Gorsline, II Corps for "entering areas abandoned by US troops and destroying equipment under heavy fire from the enemy" in the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia (Unternehmen Frühlingswind/Operation Spring Breeze). A soldier records in a notebook.

Location: Tunisia North Africa
Date: 1943, April 3
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033486
Events pertaining to withdrawal of USSR and USA from North Korea.

Events pertaining to withdrawal of USSR and USA from North Korea. Colonel General Trenty Shtikov and Kim II sung speaks at a joint assembly in Seoul. Flags of Korea USA and USSR seen in background. North Korean Flags being hosted over buildings. A scene from the People's Assembly in Pyongyang. Assembly members ask for withdrawal of USA and USA troops. North Korean flags on the walls of assembly hall. Assembly members cheer at the news of Russia's withdrawal from Korea in a later meeting. Shows a letter of thanks to Soviet Union by Koreans. Korean men,women and children collectively sign a petition. March 1946.

Location: Pyongyang North Korea
Date: 1946, March
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675028798
United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) damaged in Operation Crossroad "Test Able," risk in daily lives and discussion of radioactivity.

'Radioactive contamination' about the hazards posed by the sinking of a United States aircraft carrier and the methods to control radioactivity. United States Navy F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft taking off from United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. F6F-3 Hellcat firing rockets in air. Landing signal operator LSO using flags while guiding plane for landing on USS Independence. Kamikaze attacks at Tarawa. Anti aircraft guns on carrier cut down kamikaze planes as they attack. USS Independence flying USA flag at Tokyo Bay. Scene of surrender of Japanese at Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. Aerial view of atomic bomb blast at Bikini in 1946. The wrecked carrier Independence being towed away after it was used as a target for an atomic bomb test in 1946 as part of Operation Crossroads. Men at a construction site talk about contamination caused in sea water due to sinking of Independence containing radioactive waste. They comment, "she's all full of that radioactive poison" and with respect to eating fish in water near the ship, "would you eat fish again?" Two women dressed in furs, in a car, also discuss radioactivity. One woman says, "from what I've heard it's very dangerous. " View of 1940s car backing into oncoming traffic and almost causing an accident. An aerial view of atomic explosion at Bikini. Damaged USS Independence ship after TEST ABLE. Signs on board warn of radioactivity with words, "Keep Clear, Danger! Very Radio-Active" and "Radioactivity. Do not remain more than 2 hours." Men in small boat near USS Independence examine damage to the ship. Parts of the USS Independence being tested for radioactive contamination at the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory NRDL, Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California. The USS Independence being sunk in 1951. View of Bikini atomic bomb blast within a bay surrounded by ships. Simulation shows the effect a similar blast would have on a coastal city as a radioactive cloud covers the city. Officers holding handkerchiefs to their mouths as they enter an office building from outside. Firemen climb ladders while putting out a large fire. A house wife working in a kitchen and responding to a pot boiling over on the stove burns her hand. A man slips on a bar of soap in the shower while singing. An officer honking at an oncoming car as he is run off the road. Woman driver dressed in furs exclaims to her friend about the bad driving of men. Officer just run off the road by woman driver exclaims, "Women !" with frustration. Aerial view of test nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1951
Duration: 8 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051356
Germany bombs London during Blitz, and United States sends Lend-Lease war materiel to England (WW2)

The London Blitz. Sections of London ablaze from German bombing during Battle of Britain. US President Franklin Roosevelt signing H.R. 1946, Lend-Lease legislation in World War II. View of last page of H.R.1946, signed by Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and by President Roosevelt. United States sends war material to England. 'USA' written on Lend-Lease boxes being loaded on lorry after arrival in Britain. Huge crates of Lend-Lease war materiel on railroad flat cars pulled by locomotive. Smoke rises up from the engine. 'Machine tools, BULLARD, Bridgeport Conn.' written on crate in transit.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1941
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053392
Assembly line production of automobile parts at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

Aerial views of Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Arrow points to area. Shows plant interiors. Worker operates large press. Shows several processes such as Leaf spring assembly line, body pressing and assembly lines-welding, sanding, painting body-plant interiors final assembly line, headlight alignment and wheel alignment. Automobiles on carrier truck. Aerial view of a plant. Words appear superimposed.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030017
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