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Shot Baker and shot King nuclear test explosions conducted by the United States in 1946 and 1952, respectively.

Nuclear bomb testing footage. Continuous colour film of atomic bomb shot Baker from Operation Crossroads on July 25, 1946, as well as film of the Ivy King shot from Operation Ivy on November 15, 1952. Both nuclear tests were conducted by the United States.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051247
Opening of fountains at Peterhof (Petrodvorets) on August 25, 1946, after their restoration from destruction in World War II

Film opens showing devastated snow-covered remains of Peterhof Palace and its fountains, in Leningrad, after the Russians ended the siege of that city in January, 1944 of World War II. The next scenes show crowds gathered on 25 August, 1946, to celebrate the newly restored fountains, which are seen spraying water again. (Narrator notes that Russians now call the place Petrodvorets, meaning Peter's Palace.) An official speaks, at the ceremony, about the architecture of Petrodvorets and its cultural masterpieces still to be restored. Glimpse of statuary and array of fountains. Closeup of several young women holding flowers. Another shot of the fountains spraying along both sides of a central pond, with spectators crowded along the extreme sides near lines of trees.

Date: 1946, August 25
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054039
Japanese women dressed in kimonos walk along sidewalks in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day of 1946.

Citizens and United States soldiers walk along the streets in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day (Oshōgatsu) of 1946. Japanese women and children dressed in kimonos walk along a sidewalk. Some Japanese men and women are also seen wearing face masks. They are wearing face masks during winter influenza season. A woman wearing a surgical mask and fur coat glances at the camera as she walks by. Japanese women and children walking along the streets.

Date: 1946, January 1
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060769
English war bride is interviewed on arrival in New York, where she and her child are reunited with husband

Upon arrival in New York City, by steamer from England, a British war bride Ethel (Barcham) Johnson with her child Carol Ann Johnson, is interviewed with her former American serviceman husband Herbert W. Johnson. She says she is on her way to Kansas City and feels nervous. Her husband says they are going to spend a few days in New York. The wife says she is looking forward to meeting her mother-in-law, whom she hopes will like her.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053331
Rudolf Hess seated in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany.

Nuremberg Trials. All present are standing as Panel of judges enters the chamber and takes their seats. Flags of several nations behind them. Rudolf Hess Deputy to Adolf Hitler, is tried at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. The judges of the Nuremberg Trials sit. United States flag in the background. Attorneys and translators don headsets with microphones. The defendant Rudolf Hess is seated in the dock alone. Judge ask about reference to a medical report. Hess speaks to his attorney about it. Rudolf Hess is asked about his "forgetfulness" and memory about the period before his flight to England. His ability to properly participate in his trial and defense is put in question. Prosecution asserts that he should be tried regardless of his claims of amnesia.

Date: 1946
Duration: 5 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675054185
Comments by former President Herbert Hoover, serving as honorary chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee

Former United States President Herbert Hoover seated at a desk and delivering comments for the media. The U.S. flag behind him. The 71 year old Hoover is speaking in his role as honorary chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee, appointed by President Truman after World War II. President Hoover speaks of difficult conditions and suffering of people in post-war Europe and England, but also discusses the balance needed between relief and rehabilitation over the world, without putting too much drain on the American economy.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050664