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People gather to take a guided tour during the opening of Madurodam in the Netherlands.

People gather for the spring opening of Madurodam, a miniature park located in Scheveningen district of The Hague, in the Netherlands. The village is also described as the 'Lilliput of the lowlands in Holland' by the narrator. Two children observe moving miniature cars on the model road in Madurodam (George Maduroplein 1, 2584 RZ Den Haag, Netherlands). Small model houses in the small-scale surroundings, visited by people gathered for the opening. The crowd watches as a tall actor playing as 'Gulliver' awakes from his slumber. Gulliver gives children a tour of Madurodam. People observe a bridge amidst the model village as a train passes over it.

Location: The Hague Netherlands
Date: 1954, April 19
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026994
The Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II

Scenes filmed by Navy and Marine combat photographers, of the Battle for Iwo Jima, in February and March, 1944, during World War 2. View from a boat offshore, of Mount Suribachi, on the Island of Iwo Jima. Warships of the U.S. 5th Fleet attack with naval gunfire, as landing craft manuever near shore. U.S. Marines aboard Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) head for the beach, with the heavy cruiser, USS Baltimore (CA-68) in the background. U.S. Carrier-based Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft drops bombs on Mount Suribachi. Landing craft arriving at a fairly level area of beach. U.S. marines moving cautiously on the beachhead. The USS Baltimore and a Fletcher class destroyer offshore in background. Marines hunkered down with smoke rising near them, and then moving forward again, through the black sands. Closeup of a marine with flame thrower. Several U.S. Chance Vought F4U Corsair aircraft fly overhead, dropping bombs on the mountain. Marines continue to move forward, under constant fire from Japanese small arms. A heavy landing craft Infantry, LCI(H) moves toward shore in background. A DUKW ("Duck") coming ashore. Marines using a crane to offload a 105mm howitzer from a landing craft. As they raise the gun, the landing craft moves away and marines Hook the howitzer to a DUKW to help move it. Next, marines are seen setting up two 105s on the beachhead and firing them. Marines with more artillery pieces stacked on the beachhead. A gunboat, LCI (G), firing from close to the shore behind them. Marines digging in sand that the narrator calls the floor of an active volcano. Smoking sulphur gases are seen rising behind them. The USS Baltimore firing her guns from close to shore. Machine gun tracer rounds crossing the beachhead, as Naval gunfire resumes from offshore. Marines crawling and then occasionally sprinting forward across the sand dunes. (One carries a stretcher.) Four marines carrying one wounded back to the beachhead, on a stretcher. Two marines carry another between them. Marines scrambling over brush and rough ground. View from hillside of marines climbing up from below, as shell bursts only a few yards away. Scene shifts to later in the battle for Iwo Jima. A catapillar tractor is parked near bodies of Japanese soldiers strewn across the landscape. (Narrator notes that more than 14 thousand such dead had been counted by March 6, 1944.) Finally, the iconic moving images of U.S. marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi.

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037791
Log book entries depict events that took place on USS Franklin as it was underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

The film 'The Saga of the Franklin' to honor and remember the men who served in the U.S. Navy during during World War II. A board reads USS Franklin (CV-13). The log book of the ship. An entry from the log book. The ship leaves San Francisco, California in February 1945. A U.S. flag flutters on the ship. The ship in the western Pacific Ocean. A fleet of ships underway at sea. Aircraft take off from the deck for a mission on July 4th, 1944. The target is Iwo Jima, Japan. Other ships nearby. Guns are fired. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes on a ship. An aircraft in flight. Explosions on the ground below. A Kamikaze aircraft is hit by guns fired from USS Franklin by Air Group 13. Rocket equipped aircraft struck Japanese ships. Aerial view of burning ships in water. Kamikaze aircraft in flight. A Kamikaze aircraft which has been hit, falls downwards in a mass of fire. It crashes into water. A Kamikaze aircraft crashes into water near a ship. A ball of fire rises up. A Kamikaze aircraft crashes into USS Franklin on October 30, 1944. After being repaired, USS Franklin reaches Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A band plays to welcome the ship. U.S. Navy WAVES ( Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) on the ship. A U.S. Navy Vice Admiral decorates sailors. Air Group 75 and 35 aboard the ship. Aircraft on the deck. An aircraft takes off from the deck of the carrier. An aircraft prepares for a take off. A white diamond painted on the tail of an aircraft in flight. An aircraft comes in for a landing. An LSO ( Landing Signal Officer ) signals using flags. He makes a signal for an aircraft to cut off its engine while landing. The aircraft makes an arrested landing. An aircraft lands on its nose. Men sunbathe in Hawaii. A party abroad USS Franklin. A cake to celebrate the 9000th landing on the carrier. Ensign A. W. Graf who had made the landing cuts the cake.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050826
Queen Wilhelmina goes with Prince and Princess in coach to inaugurate assembly's new session in The Hague, Netherlands.

Queen Wilhelmina leaves for the inauguration of the assembly's new session in The Hague, Netherlands. Queen arrives at the gold encrusted coach with Prince Consort Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Juliana. Soldiers stand aligned with rifles. Guard salutes as Queen mounts the coach. Coach drawn by eight horses leave.

Location: The Hague Netherlands
Date: 1932, September 29
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026486
Trial of Hanns Albin Rauter in the Hague, Netherlands.

Trial of World War 2 Nazi war criminal Hans Albin Rauter in the Hague,Netherlands. Various witnesses are called on. Nazi German police leader is being questioned by judges and the man responds to them standing in the center, in front of the tribunal. Views of prosecution desk and tribunal seen in turns.

Location: The Hague Netherlands
Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Dutch
Clip: 65675030786
War crimes trial. Closing statements and sentencing of Hanns Albin Rauter in the Hague, Netherlands.

Trial of Nazi German war criminal Hanns Albin Rauter in the Hague, Netherlands, after end of World War 2. Closing statements. One among the attorneys, K.T.M. van Rijckevoorsel, LLM, stands up and reads out some documents. Judges in tribunal listen to the statements. Accused Hanns Albin Rauter stands up and makes a speech, saying that he concluded he was not a war criminal having studied his conscience. The court is then adjourned with the announcement that sentence will be passed in a few weeks and the policemen escort Rauter out of the building and take him to a waiting police van.

Location: Den Haag Netherlands
Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Dutch
Clip: 65675030788
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