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Victory pageant to celebrate the victory of Allies in World War I at Belle Isle in Detroit,Michigan

Color guard carrying flags of Allies of World War I at a victory pageant at Belle Isle in Detroit,Michigan. They pass the steps of a large building with costumed children and band on the steps. Veterans of other war on stage. Dignitaries representing Allied countries around a table on stage. One of them in a military uniform delivers a speech.

Date: 1918
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038417
Wright Brother's C model aircraft takes off and flies in United States

Wright Brothers Model C aircraft in a field during a flight in the United States. Two men turn propellers, engine starts and it takes off. It flies low over a field as a DH-4 aircraft also flies. DH-4 and Wright Model C flying low and close to each other. A blimp in flight with DH-4 in the background. (This event occurred well after the 1914 grounding of the Model C by the Army due to a series of fatal crashes).

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038702
British soldier reads war news from newspaper to assembled group of civilians in Europe during World War 1

Civilian people assembled to hear the war news from a British soldier (British "Tommy") during World War I. The soldier reading newspaper aloud to group of men, women, and children. A group of civilians pose beneath a German propaganda trademark sign, 'Gott Strafe England' (God punish England).

Date: 1918
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039557
Jubilant Crowds in Manhattan, New York City, celebrate German surrender ending World War I.

Crowds in New York City celebrate end of World War 1 near time of Armistice. View from above of crowds on 5th Avenue, in Manhattan, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor homecoming American soldiers. Camera pans across celebrants waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to the financial district, and the George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman standing below the statue, paces back and forth. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the armistice. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened at his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. View shifts to an effigy of the German Kaiser suspended high above the street, between two buildings. Men ride on the outside of a car. One "chokes" an small effigy of the Kaiser while another pummels it. Another crowd raises an effigy of the Kaiser aloft holding a white flag of surrender. A man wearing a grotesque mask of the Kaiser, with Kammerad written across the forehead. He holds an American flag. Vehicles, including a horse-drawn carriage, move along a street surrounded by vast crowds. Confetti flies through the air. Jubilant crowd wave newspapers with headline: Germany Surrenders. A double-decker bus seen in background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, November
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039606
Scenes from President Wilson's ocean voyage to the Paris Peace Conference at end of World War I

View from the escorting U.S. Battleship, USS Pennsylvania, of the USS George Washington, making way through rough seas of the Atlantic Ocean, while carrying President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference, at the end of world War 1. President Wilson working at his desk in a stateroom aboard the USS George Washington. Views from bow of the USS Pennsylvania. View from amidship of the Pennsylvania, showing a triple 14-inch gun turret and a 5-inch gun turret turned to starboard. The USS George Washington in the distant background. Scene returns to the President at his desk. Late afternoon view from the USS George Washington, in calmer waters, of the setting sun, and an escorting four-stacker destroyer in the background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, December
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039609
American soldiers in Europe building barn for animals at an encampment in Europe during World War 1

American officers and soldiers at a U.S. Army encampment during World War I. Officers greet soldiers entering the camp. Donkeys tied up. American soldiers work in the background building what appears to be a barn for the animals. Brief scene at end of clip of a car arriving at destination on a city street with a small crowd of American soldiers and some curious children gathered to meet it.

Date: 1918
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039656