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1941: WORLD WAR II SPEECH: EXT Capitol building. WS President Franklin D. Roosevelt behind podium SOT 'Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory...in grave danger...Confident...will gain...so help us God.'
MOT 1941: WORLD WAR II SPEECH: EXT Capitol building. WS President Franklin D. Roosevelt behind podium SOT 'Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory...in grave danger...Confident...will gain...so...
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NY Unemployed WPA sign
MOT 1939: NEW YORK UNEMPLOYED: INT MS Poor men on food line. MS Unemployed men eating. EXT MS Men walking pass 'Work Program Administration' sign. CU Chart of world recovery. Great Depression poverty soup kitchen.
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Guam Chamorro people
MOT 1939: US TERRITORY OF GUAM: Silhouette of man throwing fishing net into water w/ palm tree FG. Indigenous people praying in church. Priest. Spanish-American War cannon. Chamorro (Mariana Islands Indigenous people) U.S. Navy sailors...
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1937: BERLIN, NAZI GERMANY: CU Cake onto plate on table w/ sugar, cream. CU Reduction in pan being poured over plated foul. Men drinking beers at outdoor tables, tram passing BG. Cafe menu in window.
MOT 1937: BERLIN, NAZI GERMANY: CU Cake onto plate on table w/ sugar, cream. CU Reduction in pan being poured over plated foul. Men drinking beers at outdoor tables, tram passing BG. Cafe menu in window.
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MOT 1951: OIL NEGOTIATIONS
British talking with Iranians about oil Newspaper article heading 'Iran Begins Talks w/ British Aides' / British negotiator Anglo-Iranian Basil Jackson getting out of car / CU Finance Minister CU Basil Jackson members sitting at table...
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MOT 1941: NAZI OCCUPIED NORWAY: ESCAPE
VS Landing craft boat filled w/ British & Norwegian soldiers & Norwegian refugees at sea, burning coastline BG LA WS British Navy flag on ship, smoke stack FG VS Refugees on crowded deck.
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1920s: AVIATION: American aviator Charles Lindbergh standing next to aircraft, WS Monoplane 'Spirit of St. Louis' aircraft taxiing on field, in flight (poor contrast). CU Headline 'Lucky Wins' (the Orteig Prize)
MOT 1920s: AVIATION: American aviator Charles Lindbergh standing next to aircraft, WS Monoplane 'Spirit of St. Louis' aircraft taxiing on field, in flight (poor contrast). CU Headline 'Lucky Wins' (the Orteig Prize)
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1929: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH: 31st President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) speaking (No SOT, scratches) at podium. 1933: President Herbert Hoover speaking (No SOT), poor contrast, overhead key light.
MOT 1929: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH: 31st President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) speaking (No SOT, scratches) at podium. MOT 1933: President Herbert Hoover speaking (No SOT), poor contrast, overhead key light.
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1945: SOUTH KOREA: EDUCATION: VS South Korean students, young teenage males, learning English in outdoor class, boy writing words on chalkboard, students reciting (no SOT), student bowing to instructor, teacher. Foreign language
MOT 1945: SOUTH KOREA: EDUCATION: VS South Korean students, young teenage males, learning English in outdoor class, boy writing words on chalkboard, students reciting (no SOT), student bowing to instructor, teacher. Foreign language.
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1947: RED CROSS: BLOOD DRIVE: MS People entering room w/ sign, 'Blood bank donors.' MS Nurse tending to blood donors lying in bed. MCU Jar of blood w/ tubes next to bedside. MS Doctor, male, taking out bags from refrigerator storage. Blood donation
MOT 1947: RED CROSS: BLOOD DRIVE: MS People entering room w/ sign, 'Blood bank donors.' MS Nurse tending to blood donors lying in bed. MCU Jar of blood w/ tubes next to bedside. MS Doctor, male, taking out bags from refrigerator storage....
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Newspaper Printing Machines
MOT 1939: PRINTING PRESS: INT Large newspaper printing machine pressmen working & reading newspapers FG. VS Printing machine spinning out newspapers some into a stack row rolling off press. Man in hat reading paper print machine BG.
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MOT 1951: EDUCATION IN IRAN
School house math class EXT WS School yard outside large school older & younger students together / INT Math classroom w/ male teacher at blackboard mixed age of males sitting at desks older student standing / Male teacher gesturing at...
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MOT 1951: IRAN
WS Iranian soldiers troops standing at attention behind artillery lined up for for inspection American US officer inspecting weapon talking w/ Iranian soldier (no SOT) / MOT 1951: IRAN AIR FIELD: Military truck passing FG airfield...
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MOT 1951: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: COUNTRYSIDE, NAQSH-E RUSTAM
MOT 1951: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: COUNTRYSIDE: VS Mountains valley in Iran / Camel caravan walking single file line in desert / NAQSH-E RUSTAM: Tomb of Darius I of Persia carved in cliff cross shape w/ center entrance. Cliff side...
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MOT 1941: BRITAIN WAR OFFICE
WS War Office building, London INT WS English & Norwegian officials talking at desk CU Report 'Very Secret CSP 159' DRAMATIZATION: MS Norwegian official talking .
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MOT 1941: ROYAL NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE: LITTLE NORWAY, CANADA
MS Cadet about-face, saluting officer WS Recruits entering camp, guard checking identification CU Recruit's travel stickers on luggage WS Recruits being led in by second guard INT WS Portrait of King Haakon VII, banner of Norway...
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MOT 1941: NAZI OCCUPIED NORWAY: UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPER
XWS Norwegian town, mountains WS Norwegians on street VS Men secretly entering cellar INT WS Rebel journalists MS Man typing CU Prints out of mimeograph machine MS Men working machine.
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Korda 'Pimpernel' Leslie Howard
MOT 1945: Poster Laughton's 'Henry VIII'. Producer Sir Alexander Korda at desk. Construction sign Denham Studios construction men carrying pipe working on scaffolding. Poster 'Scarlet Pimpernel'. Blooper Leslie Howard (1893-1943)...
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1940: EAST INDIES AGRICULTURE: Domed jars of Quinina, Quininae Sulfas on display. Indonesians cutting South American imported, transplanted Cinchona trees, trimming bark for making quinine. Women working w/ Cinchona seeds & feather on lightboxes.
MOT 1940: EAST INDIES AGRICULTURE: Domed jars of Quinina, Quininae Sulfas on display. Indonesians cutting South American imported, transplanted Cinchona trees, trimming bark for making quinine. Women working w/ Cinchona seeds & feather...
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MOT 1951: OIL NATIONALIZATION
Tanks roll out ot keep peace Iranian tanks moving under gate one tank traveling on road peace keeping forces / Tank moving into oil refinery / WS Refinery / British technicians in control room two at desk.
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Veer Savarkar
MOT 1942: INDIA: HINDU LEADERS: Sign: Hindu Mahasabha (Presidential Office). Hindu Nationalist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar [aka Swantantryaveer Savarkar](1883-1966) sitting on bed talking w/ others. VS People gathered in small & large...
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Communal farming
MOT 1935: JERUSALEM: Guard gesturing outside walls of Jerusalem. WS Internationl YMCA building. Road crew breaking rocks w/ hammers. Dead Sea potash plant, people working. Orchestra giving outdoor performance for large seated crowd.
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1948: MAP: Yugoslavia & animated 'Iron Curtain' separating Yugoslavia & Russia.
MOT 1948: MAP: Yugoslavia & animated 'Iron Curtain' separating Yugoslavia & Russia.
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1952: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA: VS Pittsburgh industrial buildings, PAN of the Golden Triangle & downtown Pittsburgh cityscape, river & bridges. The Monongahela River, the Mon, 'The Steel City', PA, skyline
MOT 1952: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA: VS Pittsburgh industrial buildings, PAN of the Golden Triangle & downtown Pittsburgh cityscape, river & bridges. The Monongahela River, the Mon, 'The Steel City', PA, skyline