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Sir John Dill receives the Howland Memorial Prize from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

U.S. Military Officers march across the snowy campus of Yale University, to an auditorium, to witness the award of Yale's Howland Memorial Prize to British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. U.S. Chief of Naval operations, Admiral King, and U.S. Army Chief of Staff , General George C. Marshall, take part in academic procession with Sir John Dill, and are seated on the stage during the presentation. Sir John speaks, followed by General Marshall, who remarks about the accord between American and British Forces.

Date: 1944, February 16
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054770
Scenes of Macy's 1964 Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

Opening scene shows a group of drum majorettes marching in the 1964 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Camera views alternate between spectators lining sidewalks and the marchers. Some spectators hold young children up so they can see. Several clowns are seen in bright costumes. A huge balloon float flies overhead, tethered by marchers. A float from the Radio City Music Hall carries several women dressed in white costumes, who wave to the crowd. A huge Donald Duck balloon sails high above the street. A Humpty Dumpty float is seen. Children watch intently from sidelines. An elaborate special car (The Koach,created by Barris Kustom Industries) carries cast members Ed Gwynne (Herman) and Al Lewis (Grandpa) of the Munster family television show. Spectators holding balloons as they watch the parade. The climax of the parade is a huge float carrying Santa Claus past the Macy's flagship store, at 151 West 34th Street, where marching bands line both sides of the street in front of the store entrance, to greet Santa.

Date: 1964, November 26
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056312
United States battleships passing in review on the East River, New York City

U.S. battleships pass in review in East River, on Christmas Day, 1918, Boat carrying sightseers and a tugboat, pass by a battleship, underway. Observers on deck of the anchored Presidential yacht, Mayflower, from which the Secretary of the Navy is reviewing the passing ships. Several battleships seen. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, December 25
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061049
Elementary school children seen in classrooms and with a teacher in Manhattan, New York City, school

A girl in Manhattan elementary school paints picture of the tall buildings she is accustomed to in her surroundings. Other children are also seen working on their paintings. One picture shows a policeman directing traffic. Another shows a fire station. A teacher uses their pictures to help the children learn to read. To help them learn counting, the teacher has a girl bounce a ball in front of the class. The children gather together as the teacher reads to them from a book. She has one boy come from the back to sit closer to her. One boy makes a face, showing how a rabbit looks when eating. The other children do it too. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067140
Views of wire connections to detonators on nuclear device 'Gadget' used in the Trinity nuclear test, Alamogordo, New Mexico

Views of the nuclear test device nicknamed, "Gadget", showing network of wires going to detonators surrounding core. The first ever atomic bomb device is in position at the top of its test tower, the day before it produced the first nuclear detonation in history. This device was detonated in the early morning of the next day, July 16, 1945. The detonation test event was named Trinity. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072464
Torpedoes being dropped from PBY Catalina aircraft in flight over the ocean near Montauk, Long Island, New York.

The U.S. Naval torpedo testing range in Montauk, Long Island. Torpedoes on the wings of U.S. Navy PBY Catalina. PBY in flight over the sea. The torpedoes being dropped. Men enter a boat. They hoist a torpedo to the PBY wing.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076216