Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
Refine Your Search
V2 stock footage and images
- Showing 6643 to 6648 of 9941 results
more
Hide
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.
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.
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.
British soldiers watch over large number of European Jewish immigrants in Palestine
A large number of Jewish immigrants from Europe in Palestine are monitored and processed by British soldiers, after World War 2. The immigrants are in good spirits and some are dancing the Hora. Groups of immigrant men are seen. One man is seen drying clothes on stone bank of drainage ditch.
Nazi submarines being disposed of off the coast of Ireland after World War II, during Operation Deadlight
A newsreel titled "Captured Nazi subs are sunk" shows British and Polish Navy Destroyers disposing of Nazi German submarines off the coast of Ireland soon after the end of World War 2 during Operation Deadlight. View of captured submarines at dock in Loch Ryan, Scotland, including U-1271, U-1301, and a third submarine awaiting scuttling operations. In the next scene, in the North Atlantic off the west coast of Scotland and northwest of Ireland, allied British and Polish sailors from HMS Onslow and ORP Blyskawica destroyers take aim at U-2324 and then fire naval guns at the submarine. Naval guns fire several shots and U-2324 sinks in the North Atlantic.
British troops are reminded to give only name, rank, and serial number to Germans if captured.
A film titled 'Interrogation of prisoners-rank, number' shows an American officer explaining the do's and don't s for prisoners of war during World War 2. An dramatized enactment shows British soldiers gambling, sharing photos of their 'girls' and then being instructed by officers about giving away only their name, rank and number in case of being captured by the enemy. Later, these British soldiers are shown being interrogated by a German officer after capture. Some ill trained troops give away valuable information to the enemy officer.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.