United States soldiers share a Christmas dinner with five poor Chinese children during World War II. The group is seated around a restaurant table. Chinese calligraphy adorns the restaurant wall. The soldiers and Chinese children eat with chopsticks. Soldiers and children take noodles and other dishes from a common plate. Soldier offers a dish to a girl. Girl takes morsels of meat from the soldier’s plate. People with chopsticks taking noodles from a common plate.
United States soldiers treating five poor Chinese children to Christmas dinner during World War II. They are seated around a restaurant table. Soldiers and children take noodles from a common plate. A Chinese boy eating noodles from a small bowl. A Chinese woman puts some noodles on American soldier’s bowl. The soldiers and Chinese children eat with chopsticks. After the meal steaming hot towels are brought. A soldier wipes the face of a Chinese boy with the towel.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives at the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran. He climbs the stairs. Marshall Joseph Stalin stands at top of the stairs. The U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Joseph Stalin sit on a porch of Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Cameramen take photographs. General George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Admiral EJ King, General HH Arnold, General Sir Hastings Ismay, Sir Alexander Cadogen, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Averell Harriman and Marshall Voroshilov stand behind.
A view of an art museum in Munich, Germany during World War II, featuring Romantic Realism art favored by the Nazi government. Joseph Goebbels arrives at the museum. People greet him and shake hands with him. Military officers in the background. He tours the museum and is followed by other officials. A view of various paintings and sculptures in the museum. “Durch die russische Steppe” by Rudolf Lipus. A painting of Adolf Hitler hung on the wall.
Two women stand near a coal furnace in United States. They open the upper door of the furnace. Burning coal in view. A woman adds coal from a bucket. She turns the coal with a poker. A woman checks ash from a tray in the bottom. A man checks the furnace. Another man shows that no smoke is in stove pipe above the furnace. Students gather around as designer explains the parts and the functioning of the furnace with the help of a diagram. The designer and another man demonstrate how the smokeless fire box can be retrofit into existing furnaces. (World War II period).
A man, with only one arm, prepares wallpaper. He takes water from a bucket and wets the wallpaper paste with a brush. He takes a stool and puts wallpaper on the wall. The wallpaper is printed with a design and pasted to a wall as a decorative covering. He presses the wallpaper. He puts back the stool on the side and presses the wallpaper on the lower part of the wall.
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