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Famous persons gather at The Greenbrier Resort for its reopening celebrations in 1948

Scenes from reopening festivities in 1948 for the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, following its closure (usage as a government medical facility) in World War 2. Famous men and women pose for photographs. Closeup of Mrs. Fulton Cutting Junior. View of Winston Guest with his wife C.Z. Guest (formerly Lucy Douglas Cochrane) standing with John Simms Kelly ("Shipwreck" Kelly) and his wife Brenda (formerly Brenda Frazier). Dolly Dorelis wearing sun glasses. Mrs. Byron C. Floyd. Then Congressman John F. Kennedy poses with his sister, Kathleen ‘Kick’ Kennedy.

Location: White Sulphur Springs West Virginia USA
Date: 1948, April
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037948
Aerial views of Greenbrier Resort buildings, golf and tennis facilitiesin 1948, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Aerial views from aircraft flying over The Greenbrier Resort buildings, golf course, and tennis courts in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in the United States. People seen below playing golf and tennis. (This footage was shot during reopening festivities for the resort in 1948, after it had been closed and used as a government medical facility in World War 2.)

Location: White Sulphur Springs West Virginia USA
Date: 1948, April
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037949
Henry Cotton wins inaugural Greenbrier Pro-Am golf tournament at The Greenbrier Resort in 1948

Winners are recognized and receive their awards at the inaugural Greenbrier Professional-Amateur (Pro-Am) golf tournament at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The golf tournament, later known as the Same Snead Festival, finished on April 19, 1948, and served also as a marquee reopening event for The Greenbrier Resort following its use as a U.S. military hospital in World War 2. Brief shot of scoreboard at end of tournament. British golf professional Henry Cotton stands with his amateur partner Merrel Meigs. They are joined by the tying first-place team of Johnny Bulla and his amateur partner John Simms Kelly (Shipwreck Kelly). Also with Kelly is his wife Brenda (nee Brenda Frazier). Meigs holds a silver tray prize commemorating the event. Henry Cotton receives $1800 prize money ($1000 as the top finishing professional with a par 70 score, plus $800 for team competition). Kelly also receives a prize money envelope for his team's first place tying score. View of spectators walking on the Resort grounds. Crowd coming across a foot bridge led by golfer celebrities Bing Crosby, Chris Dunphy (Christopher J. Dunphy), and Ben Hogan. Elevated shot of play underway on the green. Shot of crowd moving to a new hold during the competition. Shot of golf ball landing in a muddy puddle.

Location: White Sulphur Springs West Virginia USA
Date: 1948, April 19
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037950
Scenes from 1948 Greenbrier Resort inaugural Pro-Am golf tournament

Golf scenes on the course of The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Players including celebrities present for the reopening of the resort after its closure during World War 2. Four players stand together in front of the golf country club building then known as "The Casino." They include Railway industrialist Robert R. Young (host of the event), British filmmaker J Arthur Rank (a then business partner of Robert Young in their Eagle-Lion Films endeavor), Britain's Duke of Windsor, and former U.S. Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana. Several scenes of the four men playing golf, including shots with the Duke of Windsor putting, with pipe in mouth, and J. Arthur Rank putting on the green.

Location: White Sulphur Springs West Virginia USA
Date: 1948, April
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037952
Soviet people endure during invasion by Germany during Operation Barbarossa in World War II

Film begins showing Soviet industrial complex with many smoke stacks emitting dark fumes. A banner is raised in front of a statue of Joseph Stalin. Soviet workers turn wheel and use wrench to install a large shaft into a machine in a factory. A large number of Soviet people descend stairs from an electric distribution network at a hydroelectric dam. Soviet head of state Mikhail Kalinin is among the persons seen in the group. Spectators stand on a platform above the dam where a large sign is displayed. View of the dam with gates open and water pouring through to the lower level of the river. Scene shifts to military parade on Red Square in Moscow. during World War 2. A formation of trucks carrying anti-aircraft guns drive along the street. Soviet T-34 tanks are also in the parade. Joseph Stalin waves from a balcony on the Kremlin as the parade passes. Soviet workers also join the parade, carrying banners and marching in a dozen parallel columns along Red Square. They exit in columns around both sides of Saint Basil's Cathedral. Soviet heavy artillery batteries fire at night creating great flashes of light. A shell strike destroys a building. Soviet troops fighting in close quarters among debris in a Russian city. Dead German soldiers lying in debris on a city street. Some are surrounded by weapons and belts of ammunition. A Soviet soldier removes a swastika from the top of a steel bridge. Soviet citizens walk about the ruins of a city during a lull in combat. A child emerges from an underground bunker. Russian sailors walk together along a street. Soviet people gather at an outdoor market, where they purchase foods.

Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675037964
Soviet Minister Molotov welcomes a number of dignitaries in Moscow, Soviet Union

Wide views of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Cars and traffic on busy streets of city of Moscow. Molotov, Foreign Minister, welcomes a number of dignitaries at airport and at a railroad station in Moscow, Soviet Union, as they arrive for the "European Conference on Peace and Security in Europe" held from November 20 - December 2, 1954 (a Soviet-organized event serving as a propaganda counter to NATO and western alliances). Scenes at airport as locomotive train and railroad cars arriving at railway station and dignitaries of various soviet regions greet Molotov and other officials. Dignitaries including representatives of Estonia, Latvia and Czechoslovakia review honor guards and parades.

Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1954
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675037995
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