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Preventive measures undertaken by ships and consideration of safe havens before getting underway in the Pacific Ocean.

A documentary on the occurrence of tropical cyclones. US Navy warship underway in the Pacific Ocean. View of U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865) advancing in heavy seas, with waves crashing over deck. Next scene shows Destroyer USS Tuner (DD-834) also in heavy seas. View of LST USS Walworth County (LST-1164 at port with a tug boat pushing her away from docks toward open sea. Various U.S. Navy warships in a calm harbor. USS Frederick (LST 1184) moving out of harbor. Preventive measures taken by ship's crew require analysis of: tropical cyclone forecasted danger area, measure of the harbor, and the type of vessel involved. Safe havens should be known. Books related to typhoon safety measures on a table. Sasebo Harbor in Japan is one of the safe havens. A map locates the Sasebo harbor. Hills and mountains in the background. The harbor is well equipped with repair and service facilities. Ships anchored in the Sasebo harbor.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1971
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076787
African American athletes make their mark at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany

Opening scene shows stadium filled with spectators for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. View from behind six sprinters ready to start the 100 meter dash. Front view closeups of African American runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. Official fires gun for the start, and the runners are off. Camera tracking the runners shows Jesse Owens well ahead of all the rest, at first, but Metcalfe soon catches up with him. Crowd roaring and cheering in the stadium. Scoreboard shows Owens first, Metcalfe, second, and Osendarp (of Holland) third, separated each by only one tenth of a second. The American National Anthem can be heard in the background. The next event is the men's high jump. Sign shows the bar initially set at 1.97 meters height. The first competitor is Gustav Weinkötz of Germany. He fails to clear the bar. Next is Hiroshi Tanaka of Japan, who also fails to clear. Bar is reset to 2.03 meters (6 feet-8 inches). African American, Cornelius Johnson makes the next attempt. He successfully clears the bar and the crowd roars its approval. (He had set a new olympic record.) Three American flags flying over the stadium as the U.S. National Anthem is again heard being played.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077353
Children play musical instruments and spin silk at a school maintained by Belgian priests in the Philippines.

Natives of the Philippines. Exteriors of a school building maintained by Belgian priests. Filipino boy students of the school are seen. Exteriors of a church. School children lined up on the school grounds. The school band plays musical instruments. Silk culture being taught to the natives using techniques from Japan. The natives operate devices to spin silk and manufacture silk.

Location: Philippines
Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078043
Scenes of women in various roles and fashion during the late sixties

A stylist grooms a woman, wearing fashionable go-go boots and polka-dotted micro mini dress. An British women's rights and feminist organization, marching on the street holding signs and placards with messages like “Equal Pay NOW!” and “Free Contraception” during the first women's liberation march. The crowned Miss World 1966, Reita Faria, smiles. Women wrestlers. A female wrestler throws her opponent, a black woman, on the wrestling ring floor. A mass wedding inside a stadium in Japan. Miss World 1966, Reita Faria, smiles with Miss World 1966 runner-up contestants (Miss Brazil- Marlucci Rocha, Miss Greece- Efi Fontini Plumbi, Miss Yugoslavia- Nikica Marinovic, Miss Italy-Gigliola Carbonara). Two policewomen, patrolling the street together, salute at the camera. Opening sequence of “Echo Newsreel” featuring a scene of various topics, such as the Big Ben Tower.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1969
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079020
United States soldiers talk to villagers in Saint-Marcouf, Normandy (WW2)

United States soldiers enter the village of Saint-Marcouf, in the Manche department in Normandy, France during World War 2. Soldiers pass by sign “Saint-Marcouf”. United States troops carry rifles. French villagers walking. Soldiers talk to an old French man and woman. Soldiers sitting on the street side of what is now known as the “Route du 5 Juin 1944”. Soldier smoking a cigarette during a break. Groups of soldiers crowd outside a damaged house. Soldiers talking to a French man. A soldier talks to children. A little girl points upwards. A statue of the Virgin Mary stands among the rubble. A statue of Jesus Christ on the Cross leaning sideways inside a church wrecked. Words by George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army says “No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan”. A “V” is superimposed over marching soldiers and a ringing Liberty Bell.

Location: Saint-Marcouf Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079438
Parts of a Japanese Fu-Go paper balloon bomb (WW2)

A video explaining the components of a Japanese Fu-Go paper balloon bomb- a weapon launched by Japan to drop bombs on the United States during World War 2. A United States Navy personnel inspects the Fu-Go paper balloon on its ballast. Paper bags and sandbags tied to the ballast of the Fu-Go balloon bomb. Payload comprises of incendiaries and anti-personnel bombs. Inflated “Type B” Fu-Go balloon made of 5 ply “washi” rice paper. United States Navy personnel lets go of holding the ballast of balloon bomb. Man unfolds a piece of rice paper. Man ripping a piece of rice paper, demonstrating the durability of the material. Fu-Go bomb inflated with hydrogen gas. Man holding the escape valve of the Fu-Go balloon bomb. Escape valve is shown as made of pressed steel and has a rubber gasket. Pressure is exerted by the rubber ring the escape valve. Spider bracket of escape valve.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079563
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