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U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt is honored at a Shellback during Initiation Ceremony aboard USS Indianapolis (CA-35).

Shellback initiation ceremonies aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship is en route to South America carrying President Roosevelt on "Good Neighbor" state visits. Ambient sound and music is heard periodically during the clip. Sailors dressed in costumes perform on the ship deck. Sailors in uniform salute an officer. Actors perform on a stage. A pirate flag on the mast of the ship. King Neptune speaks to the captain (Captain Henry Kent Hewitt). A group of sailors play a band. Spectators watch the act. In second half of clip President Franklin Roosevelt is seen watching the ceremonies and at the end King Neptune decrees that President Roosevelt, the Commander In Chief of the U.S. Navy is now a Shellback himself (having crossed the equator for the first time with the sailors of the USS Indianapolis.

Date: 1936, November 24
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043900
Sailors perform Shellback initiation ceremonies aboard USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean.

King Neptune shellback initiation ceremonies aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean. Sailors dressed in costumes perform on the ship deck. Doctors perform mock operation on a patient lying on stretcher. The sailors perform a mock beheading act. A sailor points at a spinning board that decides each initiate's fate. Initiate sailors thrown into a small water pool. They play games aboard the ship. USS Indianapolis underway to South America, carrying President Franklin Roosevelt on a "Good Neighbor" trip for state visits.

Date: 1936, November 24
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043901
Vietnamese refugees arrive in Guam aboard the SS Transcolorado, during Operation New Life.

The freighter SS Transcolorado (chartered by the U.S. Military Sealift Command, as a civilian cargo ship, designated T-AK-2005) arrives in Guam carrying at-risk South Vietnamese refugees who will be temporarily housed there under Operation New Life. (Later, most will be transferred to the United States under Operation New Arrivals.) Views of the refugees, including many children, on the deck of the ship. U.S. Marines carry a sick, or injured person from the ship on a litter. Families descend gangplank to the pier, where they are guided to hastily set up reception center. Grocery carts are employed to assist refugees carrying belongings. Local people line up to distribute items, including flip flops, to the refugees, as they pass along the pier. A merchant marine sailor assists one of the families. A woman dressed in white intercepts a Vietnamese woman carrying a small child, and directs her to a tent set up as a "Baby Center." (Many tents are seen in the background.) Inside the Baby Center, reception workers prepare food and items needed for baby care. Several Vietnamese refugee women sit on a bench in the tent, with their babies.

Date: 1975, June 8
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043922
Scenes from the life of Princess Margaret of Great Britain

Life of Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Interspersed are scenes from various periods of Princess Margaret's life, from early childhood through adulthood. Princess Margaret greeting women with babies. A young Princess Margaret shakes hands with a courtier. Her older sister, Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) is ahead of her. Sister Elizabeth helps Margaret cross a log as parents, King George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, look on. Teenaged Princess Margaret with King George VI picking flowers. Princess Margaret inspects troops wearing white uniforms. Princess Margaret with dancers in native costumes during a state visit to South Africa. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret play a game with sailors on deck while crossing the equator. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret riding black horses. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret accompany their parents, the King and Queen of England, during a wedding. Princess Margaret as a bride’s maid for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (later known as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh). Princess Margaret attends the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a white dress. Queen Elizabeth II is crowned as the Queen of England. ( Notes: The scene with Princess Margaret at the coal mine was photographed in Calverton Colliery, near Nottingham on 7 April, 1954. Near the end of the film, King George VI is seen at his coronation in 1936.)

Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044023
Walter Mondale travels during the United States Presidential elections campaign of 1984 in the United States.

The United States Presidential elections campaign in the United States. Democratic candidate Walter Mondale gives a speech during the campaign at the 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco, California, in July 1984. Mondale supporters holding banners. Picture of young boy Walter Mondale with his family. View of men in a bread line during the Great Depression. President Franklin D Roosevelt seated in a car talking to farmers or possibly CCC workers. Still photos of Walter Mondale elected captain of the football team in his school days. Still images of Mondale with Hubert Humphrey. Mondale with his wife and three children. He spends time with his family playing and dining outdoors. He chops wood and cooks food on a barbecue grill beside a lake. Footage of Mondale speaking while Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth. Mondale speaking with a group of children. A girl typing on a computer keyboard. View of an early computer screen or CRT screen as data runs along the screen. Closeups of wide eyed boy and girl children looking up and watching something. Pollution at a Superfund site. A fence and sign warning of a contaminated area. Broken barrels and chemical toxic waste sludge in a superfund area. Mondale and Jimmy Carter together on stage at the Democratic Convention of 1976, holding up their hands as as he became Carter's running mate for Vice President. Supporters at the convention cheering in 1976. Mondale meeting with world officials including leaders of China while signing an agreement. Mondale meeting with other world leaders in Vienna, Austria to discuss human rights issues with the government of South Africa. Mondale at Camp Davis assisting President Carter in negotiating the peace deal between Israel and Egypt. He is shown with Jimmy Carter, and with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. Walter Mondale traveling all over the United States during run up to 1984 election. Mondale and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro on stage as his supporters cheer the two running for President and Vice President in 1984. Monale telling a crowd, "I want to be President of the United States."

Date: 1984
Duration: 8 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044170
Montage of scenes from political life of American President Ronald Reagan

United States Presidential election campaign in the United States. The Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, accepts the Presidential nomination in his speech. His supporters cheer holding banners. Childhood pictures of Ronald Reagan with his family. He played football for the Eureka Team. He was also part of a baseball team and went to a training camp. (This clip shows the Chicago Cubs, but he did not play for them). Ronald Reagan became a Hollywood actor. He also joined the army for a few years. He sits on the 'Theater Ronald Reagan' chair. He was a strong supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (This shows FDR, but Reagan later left the Democrats and became a Republican.) Ronald Reagan is elected California governor. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan stands with George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican candidate for the Vice President. President Reagan at his inauguration at the United States Capitol in Washington DC. President Reagan is shot and is rushed to a hospital. The President resumes work after his recovery. He concentrates on the economic growth of the United States. Construction workers on both commercial and residential buildings. Scenes from the Williamsburg economic summit with world leaders including Margaret Thatcher. He also is seen speaking in Bonn Germany. President Reagan attends an outdoor church service with American troops. President Reagan visits a cemetery with wife Nancy Davis. (This is the American cemetery at Normandy on the 40th anniversary of the Invasion of Europe). The President and the First Lady visit Japan, China and South Korea. We see them walking on the Great Wall of China. He speaks at the Republican Convention in Dallas in August of 1984.

Date: 1984
Duration: 8 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044172