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Secretary of State George Marshall speaks to 86 boys from 43 States at "Boys Nation" event in State Department

Event in "Boys Nation" agenda at Washington, DC, when 2 young men Boys State representatives from each of 43 States gather in Washington DC. They assemble in the auditorium of the State Department. Secretary of State George Marshall arrives and shakes hands with a one of the young men who officially welcomes him. He delivers a speech and leaves the hall. View of State Department building (725 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006, United States) with several cars parked outside.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048173
Various scenes of kidnapping, FBI investigators in tie shop, FBI car chase criminals, and the Washington National Cathedral

Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078870
War veterans learn the art of pipe making as they work on machines at Bertram's Pipe Shop in Washington DC, United States.

A dramatization about veterans of World War II as they learn to make pipes in Washington DC, United States. A World War II veteran Bob Ballad of 69th Infantry Division looks at a pipe. Bertram's Pipe Shop in Washington DC. A number of pipes being displayed in a window at the shop. Bob Ballad outside the shop. He goes there to learn the art of pipe making. Several war veterans learn to make pipes during a training course organized by the Bertram's. Partially disabled men work on machines and learn various operations involved in the process of pipe making.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059199
Hollywood stars visit Washington, DC, to voice their objections about proceedings of the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC)

Hollywood stars (members of the newly formed, Committee for the First Amendment) visit Washington D.C. to express their objections to the actions of the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC). Opening scene shows movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on a sidewalk at Indendence Avenue in Washington, DC, Southeast of the Capitol building which is seen behind them. A police car is parked at the curb and an officer is standing in the street. Next, they are seen posing with Hollywood personalities, including Danny Kaye and June Havoc, among others. Views of the group from different angles, and from behind a group of photographers taking pictures. Then they begin to walk towards the location of the HUAC hearings, with Bogart and Bacall in the lead. They proceed up the steps of the building. Scene shifts to the hearing room inside, where Screen writer, John Howard Lawson, is being sworn in. He begins to testify. During his testimony, the Chairman, Representative John Parnell Thomas, of New Jersey, finds it neccessary to gavel for order and appears to berate the witness. Lawson leaves the witness chair and departs. Another view of the hearing room.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1947, October 27
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067494
Improvement of miners, condition of mines and factories and civilians of war affected countries of Europe, by Marshall Plan.

Film titled 'Me and Mr. Marshall' depicts developments of coal mines in Germany and aid to other European nations affected by World War II. German coal miners dig deep in a coal mine soon after the end of World War 2. Volunteers awarded at a ceremony. Volunteers board a train and proceed for work at coal mines. Volunteers eat food, give their shoe size, under go training on mine machinery. Miners on lift move underground. Miners at end of the day walk out tired and blackened by coal dust, from a mine. Miners take hot showers after work and get clean clothing hung high on ropes. Salary given to workers for a day's work. Headlines of German newspapers about Marshall Plan. General George C. Marshall speaks his plans at a meeting in Washington DC, America. Aerial views of ruined buildings and factories, wrecked harbor, refugees in tenements in Europe after World War II. Buildings, monuments and bridges in London and Eiffel Tower and other buildings and civilians on roads in Paris, and view of Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union. Map shows countries under Marshall recovery plan. View of meeting in progress of Conference for European Economic Cooperation in July 1947, in the Grand Dining Room of the French Foreign Office. Meetings of leaders of nations adopting Marshall plan. Ruins of industries of Germany. Ruins on the ground after war in London, with Big Ben in the far distance. Workers at a factory. Miners take a horse inside a coal mine. Empty coal cars at a German coal mine. Men push coal cars full with mined coal out from mine, on rails. Views of buyers in suits at a German trade show and conference, promoting German products and industries to potential buyers in other countries, a few years after the end of World War 2. U.S. Congress and President Harry Truman in Washington DC approve the Marshall Plan and provide monitory aid to other European countries. Scenes in Germany as it recovers economically after the war: Workers in a factory. Harbor, fruit and vegetable market; customers in a bakery; coal cars and machinery at a coal mine under normal operation under the plan.

Location: Europe
Date: 1948
Duration: 12 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036984
Baseball player Babe Ruth honored at Yankee Stadium, 1947

Newsreel clip of a ceremony held at Yankee Stadium in New York to honor ailing Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth. View of 58,000 fans who turned out to see Ruth and the game between the Yankees and visiting Washington Senators. Announcer notes Ruth recently had "serious throat operation" for what turned out to be cancer. Ruth, wearing overcoat, walks toward microphone and waves to cheering fans. View of large crowd of baseball players and dignitaries around home plate. Effects of cancer treatment evident in Ruth's thinned-out hair, stooped posture, and weak, raspy voice. Speaking into microphone, he thanks everyone for their kind words. Yankees and Senators players stand and cheer, fans give Ruth a standing ovation.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1947, April 27
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038810
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