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Achievements of African Americans in art, literature, music science, and medicine in the United States, in the late 1930s and 1940s.

A film about achievements of various African American men and women citizens in the United States. A statue of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University in Alabama. View of African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in a laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous "Harlem Renaissance" African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. A football game underway in one of the colleges, and view on the field as quarterback throws a pass.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078146
Ambassador Bridge, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Detroit Public Library

View of the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan with Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The international suspension bridge as seen from the American border side of the Detroit River. People walking outside the Detroit Institute of Arts museum (5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States) located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. The main building of the Detroit Public Library (5201 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States).

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080816
Art and Culture in Japan

View of Edo/Tokugawa period Ukiyo-e prints made by Harunobu Suzuki, Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” print by Hokusai. An artist carves a small wooden statue. Hand places wooden statuettes on display. Japanese men examine ceramics made by artisans. Dancers perform Odori and Mai dances. A Japanese dancer performs with a doll.

Location: Japan
Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025124
Gallery exhibition of Swiss art from the Medieval Ages to the Modern Period in Zurich, Switzerland.

An exhibition of artwork and sculptures at a gallery or museum in Zurich, during World War 2. Sculpture of the Virgin Mary. Medieval sculpture of a man. Visitors view artwork including paintings inside the exhibition hall. Swiss paintings, lithographs from the Medieval and Renaissance periods on display. A couple views portraits from the 19th-20th century. People view the exhibition. Modernist nude sculptures on display.

Location: Zurich Switzerland
Date: 1944
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675020614
Various Circus acts with different animals and performing arts

Scenes from the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. Faces of smiling children in audience as they watch trapeze performance. A globe with 'The Greatest Show on Earth' appears prior to the tiger show. Tiger raises its forefeet on the back of a man. Tigers stand on stools. Men on cycles play basketball. In an elephant show, women stand on the back of elephants and then ,the elephant swings a woman in its trunk. Leopard show is also seen. Artists perform various stunts on ground.

Location: Nashville Tennessee USA
Date: 1977
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675023779
People gather at an opera house in Germany; various performing arts in Nazi Germany; Winterhilfswerk fund drive

People gather at an opera house in Germany. Dancers perform a high kick routine in the hall. People watch the show and applaud. Some are Nazi German soldiers in uniform. View of an acrobatic show with a floor show followed by a trapeze act entertaining an audience in Germany. Men play in an orchestra in a symphony hall or opera house. Conductor leads orchestra. View of various instrument sections up close, including trumpets. View from behind violin players as they read music and play. Woman model on a stage comes forward and stoops with a tin can to accept contributions in the annual Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes drive, for relief for needy people in Germany during the winter. Street scenes of youth carrying tins and accepting coin and money contributions from German citizens for the Winterhilfswerk fund drive. A small child adds a coin to the tin. A Nazi officer adds a coin. A group of men crowd around to put coins in the tin. People watch them. Brief montage scene of German armament in World War 2, including artillery being raised to fire, close-up view of tank tread as tank advances, German Navy ships underway in the ocean, low-flying German aircraft flying overhead in the sky including a Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor aircraft.

Location: Germany
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027587
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