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American soldiers and Australian soldiers arrive in Buna, New Guinea during the Battle of Buna-Gona.

A film on the Battle of Buna-Gona in New Guinea during World War II. A map showing distance of Buna from Australia and Port Moresby. Thick jungles in Buna-Gona. American soldiers arriving in aircraft. The troops in trucks. An aircraft in flight. The soldiers inside the aircraft. Men trained in Australia. The aircraft arrives at a field. Australian soldiers get out of the aircraft. The soldiers and Papuan natives in the field. The natives carrying supplies move across a marshy area in the jungle. The soldiers holding guns crossing a water body. The soldiers moving across a bridge. The soldiers among the trees. The soldiers and the natives working to build a log bridge in the jungle. An M-3 tank moving on the bridge with a soldier atop the tank. Other soldiers watching the tank. Engineers building another bridge in the jungle. The Papuan natives carrying the supplies move on a path in the jungle. The natives wading through a water body. The 114th Engineers building a native-type hut. Wounded soldiers are carried on stretchers on the bridges by the natives and are evacuated. The soldiers and the natives beside the hut drinking from cups. The natives watch the soldiers. Several soldiers seated on the ground. A few soldiers inside the hut planning their action.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066260
The premiere for Universal's movie 'A Countess from Hong Kong' directed by Charlie Chaplin

A Benefit Premiere, "A Countess from Hong Kong," directed by Charlie Chaplin, has its gala opening at the Sutton Theater, 205 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022. Hollywood movie celebrities seen include Bobby Darin, Jules Stein, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Senator Jacob Javits, Lew Wasserman, Van Johnson, Pamela Tiffin, Lynda Bird Johnson, Milton Rackmil, Jack Valenti, and Susan Stein, daughter of Jules Stein. The premiere is a benefit for 'Research to prevent blindness' founded by Jules Stein.

Date: 1967, March 17
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041324
Newfoundland residents confront confederation decision

Canadian and Newfoundland dignitaries in a meeting with a map of Canada in the background. Old man and woman seated on bench with a pet dog. Two men talking on the porch of a house. Poster on wall reads 'Newfoundlanders vote for Confederation'. Views of other pro-confederation campaign posters. ‘Vote Responsible Government’ written on brick wall of Sydney Coal. Anti-confederation activist Peter Cashin. People enter a building to vote on the measure.

Date: 1948, July 29
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023018
Charlie Chaplin celebrates his 77th birthday with his family, Sophia Loren, Tippi Hedren and John Houston in London.

Charlie Chaplin celebrates his 77th birthday during the filming of 'A Countes from Hong Kong' in London. A Charlie Chaplin figure on a cake. Charlie Chaplin puts his hat on the figure. Hollywood actors including Sophia Loren and Tippi Hedren present. Photographers click pictures. Oona O'Neill arrives with her daughters Josephione and Victoria. Charlie Chaplin's family including Sydney Chaplin and the film's actors near the cake. He cuts the cake as they look on. Veteran movie maker, director John Huston offers his congratulations and speaks to Chaplin.

Date: 1966, April 28
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031163
Psychedelic drug Lysergic acid diethylamide discovered by Dr. Albert Hofmann is used for mind control in the United states.

Film depicts administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The LSD is given to people without informing them. A man talks about some events and cries. A close up of a man who worked on this program. On 21st September 1977, Stansfield Turner, Director CIA speaks about Mission Mind Control. Members are seated in a hall. News correspondent Paul Altmeyer stands in front of the Headquarters of OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in its original WW2 era location in Washington DC. The first mind control work began from this Headquarters. The members who are the part of this mission are the shapers and molders of OSS. U.S. General, William Joseph Donovan nicknamed 'Wild Bill' and Boston industrialist Stanley Lovell who is the Head of OSS R&D and is also called Dr. Moriarty. Lovell poses for a photograph and also talks about OSS job and that it was in this atmosphere that the search of mind control began. OSS Captain George H. White has formally been with the Bureau of Narcotics. Paul Atmeyer reads the diary of George White and talks about his training and schooling. Michel J. Burg talks about George and his technical knowledge. Another friend of White who is a narcotics officer talks about him. A close up of George White. A note written in White's diary. George White worked on a truth drug at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington DC where the experiments were conducted. View of exterior of Saint Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington DC. A 1952 CIA memo says the aim is 'controlling an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will'. Exterior views of the Sandoz Laboratory buildings in Basel, Switzerland where doctor Albert Hofmann believed that they had discovered and found a psychedelic drug and the discovery was LSD. Retired Chief Psychologist for CIA, John Gittinger, talks about the powerful drug and is being interviewed publicly. CIA's interest in LSD was intense but they were worried that the Russians would get hold of it. Commentator notes that mistaken intelligence reported that Sandoz Laboratory was going to put 100 million doses of LSD on the open market. Concerned, the United States was prepared to buy the entire supply. However, through information learned from Freedom of Information Act filings, John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, tells the interviewer that this was mistaken information caused by a mixup when an American military attache confused milligrams versus kilograms, so there were in fact only 100 doses on the market. Brief footage of CIA chemist, Dr. Sydney Gottlieb.

Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 8 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047225
Donald Campbell, in his Bluebird sets a speed record of 403 miles per hour, over the sands of Lake Eyre in Australia.

Donald Campbell sets a new world record over the sands of Lake Eyre in Australia. Campbell seated in his 'Bluebird' sets a speed record of 403 miles per hour and beats his father's record of 360 miles per hour. His wife hands him a toy before he begins his ride. Crowd gathered to watch the record setting. Cameraman records the event.

Date: 1964, July 27
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043299