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Farmers set up irrigation for fields in village of Fuentiduena , Spain, during civil war

Documentary film depicts conditions during Spanish civil war. Activities of people in Fuentiduena village. Farmers plow their fields using wooden plows and horses to pull them. A farmer sowing seed by hand. Farmers planning irrigation of dry fields. Men climb hill carrying picks and mattocks to cut irrigation ditches. They work cutting a ditch along a line laid out on the ground. A dog sits watching them. One farmer uses a wooden tool to tamp the base of the new irrigation channel. Men working at the river edge to connect the new irrigation ditch. Other farmers using picks to steer the water as it begins to flow into the fields. Artillery fire is heard in the background.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062079
Spain recruits and trains soldiers for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War. Boy walks with his father, back from farm fields, to greet another son home on leave from duty with the Republican army. That son, in uniform, is seen surrounded by family members. He talks to a small boy wearing a soldier's hat, sitting in his mother's lap. The father and other son arrive and the soldier and his father embrace. Members of the family, from the very old, to the youngest, smile and listen as the soldier speaks about his adventures. Next, the soldier is seen drilling village boys after they return from work in the fields. Villagers watch from roadside. Scene changes to recruits in uniform marching in a square. The soldier and several of his village friends are also seen drilling. A large number of recruits are seen drilling in Madrid. Families and sweethearts say farewells as new soldiers prepare to depart for duty. Military trucks, displaying red flags, wait to carry the new soldiers away. Next, they are seen driving away with soldiers riding in back.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062085
Liberated men receive shoes and clothes and are interviewed after their rescue from Cabanatuan Prison Camp in the Philippines (WW2)

United States prisoners of war are freed after the Raid at Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija, Philippines during World War II. Shoes and clothing are issued to the liberated men. Men wear the shoes. A former prisoner smiles after receiving new clothes and shoes. Man puts on a new pair of socks while other soldiers watch. Tents in the background. The liberated men are interviewed in front of Guimba East Central School building (MQ5C+MRW, Barawid, Guimba, Nueva Ecija).

Date: 1945
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062297
Construction of buildings for the Nutrition Center and the Ministry of the Interior in Caracas, Venezuela.

Construction of new buildings in Caracas, Venezuela. Exterior of a building. The President of Venezuela Marcos Perez Jimenez and officials walk outside a building. Two new buildings are under construction for the Nutrition Center and the Ministry of the Interior. People gather outside a building. A car drives past on a street. Buildings in the foreground.

Date: 1953, November 30
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062538
Activities of U.S Merchant Marines and American ships underway in the United States in the 1920's and 1930's.

The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines in the period between World War 1 and World War 2. Newly launched German, Italian and Japanese ships underway at sea. Ships including the German liner Bremen and the Italian Ocean liner Rex are seen underway. People gather at a dock. American ship underway in heavy seas with waves crashing over. Point of view shot at heavy seas from deck of a ship. A man works in a ship radio room. A man watches through binoculars and uses a sextant. Sailors row a small boat with oars in heavy seas. A sailor decorated by officials of the Merchant Marines. Dock workers and ship construction workers at a shipbuilding yard in the United States working on building new ships. American liners are seen undereway including: SS Washington off shore of New York City skyline and skyscrapers, SS Manhattan also off shore of Manhattan, the SS Lurline, the SS Mariposa, and the SS President Hoover (named for Herbert Hoover) underway at sea. The U.S. flag fluttering from a flag pole. The text of the declaration of policy under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is shown.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062737
Men gather in a large number to enlist in the the United States Navy, in San Francisco, California, during World War 2

Recruitment of new Navy personnel in a Navy Department building in San Francisco, California. Men gather outside the building. They enter and leave the building. Sign boards outside the building read: "Let's Go Why Wait" and "Arise Americans" encouraging men to enlist in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. A board outside the entrance of the building reads: 'US Navy recruiting'. Military representative seated at a desk inside the building. New recruits gather inside the building and wait in a queue to give their applications to be recruited for posts.

Date: 1941, December
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062832