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Fiorello LaGuardia and officials of Permanent Joint Board of Defense (PJBD) review troops in Victoria, British Columbia.
Members of the Permanent Joint Board of Defense (PJBD), a U.S.-Canada Joint Defense Board, meeting in Victoria, British Columbia early during World War 2. Officials come out of a building. Officers review troops, together with the first chairman of the PJBD, New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Canadian honor guard lined up as La Guardia and Candian officers review them. Soldiers march.
Wife of heroic pilot with her baby. She displays his burned shoe and flight suit. He won Victoria Cross and is recuperating.
Wife of British RAF (Royal Air Force) pilot who was awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down an enemy aircraft while his own aircraft was burning. She lifts her baby from a pram in front of her house. She displays her husband's burned shoe and flight gear. She then reads formal letters about award of the Victoria Cross. Her husband pilot is seen with two other RAF fliers relaxing amongst other service personnel at a medical recuperation facility. They sit at a small table and smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).
Scenes of life and American lifestyle in many American cities in late 1940s; famous American landmarks.
Flags of various NATO member countries. Flag of NATO. Film 'The Atlantic Community' introduces the United States as a NATO member. American landscape views. American men,women and children walk to church. Memorial marking first settlements in America. Back Bay neighborhood along bank of Charles River in Boston. Side and front view of Old State House in Boston. Pedestrians and traffic with 1940s automobiles on busy streets of Boston. Exterior view of Faneuil Hall and flower market in Boston. Civilians walk in street and cars drive by. Sweeping views of Harvard University campus buildings. View of New York city. Sweeping view from ground upward of Empire State building in midtown New York City. Manhattan Island New York City as seen from the water. Tall buildings and skyscrapers of Manhattan. Upward panning view from ground to top of Empire State Building in 1949. Busy street in New York city. American people at work including a man operating precision manufacturing equipment, a woman typing on a typewriter, and a man carpenter sawing wood. A seamstress sews clothing, an executive on the telephone in an office, factory workers at work; bricklayers working; women examine clothing designs, draftsmen at work on drawing plans. View inside a locomotive of the engineer operating a railroad train at high speed. View from exterior of passenger train as it approaches and passes by. Aerial views of farmland and hay in fields under a dusk sky. Elevated view of American industrial factories and smoke pouring from chimney stack pipes. Cowboys with herd of cows at the foothills of Rocky mountains. American dam on a massive lake. View of the Mormon Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mormon temple from a distant elevated position with mountains in background, and then a street level view of Salt Lake Temple with statue of Brigham Young in foreground and 1940s vehicles. Aerial view of Lockheed Constellation aircraft in flight. American landscape views. Mountains and oceans. Golden Gate Bridge. Niagara Falls view. Fort Montgomery. The Rainbow Bridge from U.S. to Canada.
Dutch Princess Juliana with her children at their Canadian refuge (WW2)
The Dutch royal family in Montebello during their exile in Canada (World War 2). Dutch Princess Juliana with her children in Château Montebello (392 Rue Notre Dame, Montebello, QC J0V 1L0, Canada). The Dutch royal family fled the Netherlands after Nazi German invasion. Princess Juliana and her children later left England for Ottawa, Canada. Children, Princess Beatrix and an unidentified girl playing near a waterway. Princess Irene inside a playpen. Princess Juliana pushes her two children sitting together on a swing. Princess Beatrix falls off-balance from the swing while Juliana is holding the infant Princess Irene.
Governor General Alexander Cambridge being given a welcome in Ottawa, Ontario.
Alexander Cambridge arrives as the new Governor General of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Officers greet Governor General Alexander Cambridge. An aircraft flies over the Peace Tower. Honor guards lined up outside the Canadian Parliament Building (111 Wellington St, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Canada) in Parliament Hill. Governor General with officials. Governor General Cambridge with his wife Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone as she holds flowers in her hands.
Dramatization. Dr. David Livingstone seeing the Mosi-oa-Tunya (later named Victoria Falls) for the first time.
Dramatization. African tribesmen lead Dr. David Livingstone to Victoria Falls, a waterfall on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe. David Livingstone is seen holding a walking stick. David Livingstone disembark from canoe with African guide, who asks him if there are waterfalls in Livingstone’s country. View of the Victoria Falls. David Livingstone goes back to the canoe and sets off with African attendants. David Livingstone and African attendants sail the Zambezi River. David Livingstone and African attendants disembark from canoe. African attendants show David Livingstone the Mosi-oa-Tunya, which David Livingstone names as “Victoria Falls”, after Queen Victoria. David Livingstone and his African men walk closer to the Victoria Falls. View of the Victoria Falls.
