Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Navy divers in the Virgin Islands
Title superimposed on a diver underwater with a speared fish, "Underwater Hunt - Threat for Frogmen" / A diver with three tanks of compressed air jumps into the water; another with a speargun dives / The men underwater on the sandy...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Soviet embassy in Washington, DC throws lavish party for 35th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Title: "Washington -- Curtain Lifted for Party at Red Embassy" over black then superimposed over cake with hammer and sickle on it / MS EXT Soviet Embassy / MS Soviet flag flying on embassy / CU embassy plaque / high angle servers put...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pilot Apollo Soucek flies Naval Aircraft Factory PN-12 seaplane
Person leans into cockpit of a PN-12 seaplane with propellers spinning / men standing around small barometer / men in suits watch man enter cockpit / CU Navy pilot Apollo Soucek dons leather helmet and enters cockpit / VS airplane takes...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Women participate in war efforts during World Wars I and II in the US and the UK
[GHOC Episode V-02] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Women in War, Too" / [Daly City, CA] VS women at work during World War I: wheeling debris on rail cart, shoveling, throwing things into rail car / VS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Food supplies for sailors transferred from ship to carrier on the Mediterranean Sea
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 74" / title "Food Afloat - Supplies for Fleet Delivered in Rough Seas" superimposed over refrigerator ship in stormy seas / POV from back of aircraft carrier, looking at water splashing and ship /...
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During Korean War, US troops land on beach at Pohang, South Korea
Card: "Paramount News issue no 97" / title card: "Film communique from Dept. of Defense and newsreel cameramen" / title card: "Big push in Korea!" / sailor on US Navy ship talking on radio, troop transport in background / shot from ship...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: naval battle
Title card: "Sur Les Divers Front (On Various Fronts)" / World War II / French language / view from airplane of planes in flight / United States Navy ships in battle / CU guns firing across water / ship being hit / explosions / planes...
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Project Mercury control room and preparation for launch
NASA control room at Cape Canaveral for Project Mercury / various CU engineers /CU clocks and monitors / spotlights at night as final preparations are made at launch pad / truck of liquid oxygen loading contents onto missile / United...
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Pennsylvania Governor John S. Fine speaks about the state he governs
Title card: "'Pennsylvania Week'" superimposed over Pennsylvania state seal / PA Gov. John S. Fine seated at desk between retired Navy Commodore William W. Behrens, at left, and state chairman of "Pennsylvania Week" Ross L. Leffler, at...
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United States Navy tests firing guided missile from submarine
Title "Dramatic Test Guided Missile Fired From Submarine" superimposed over submarine on ocean surface / WS length of submarine USS Barbero on surface, guided surface to surface missile Regulus emerges from housing in front of conning...
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A U.S. sailor writes mathematical equations on a chalkboard.
A U.S. sailor writes mathematical equations on a chalkboard.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: action in the Pacific
[Video unstable at times] World War II / Pacific theater / military ships and aircraft carriers at sea / military planes in flight / American insignia on plane taking off from aircraft carrier / ships firing / anti-aircraft guns firing /...
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U.S. sailors relax in a lounge on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk .
U.S. sailors relax in a lounge on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk .
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First Lady Mamie Eisenhower launches the first Atomic Sub Nautilus.
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower launches the first Atomic Sub Nautilus.
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Uniformed members of the WAVES stand in the shape of an anchor on an aircraft carrier in San Francisco.
Uniformed members of the WAVES stand in the shape of an anchor on an aircraft carrier in San Francisco.
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Changes in US military command in DC; at NATO, French president awards Gen. Ridgway the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor
Title: "Change of U.S. Military High Command" superimposed over honor guard saluting at Bolling Field, Bolling Air Force Base / Intertitle: "Gen. Vandenberg Leads Exodus…" superimposed over Retired Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt...
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Sailors put on goggles to watch a hydrogen bomb explosion from the deck of a ship.
Sailors put on goggles to watch a hydrogen bomb explosion from the deck of a ship.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, General Omar N. Bradley, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and General J. Lawton Collins stand around a globe.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, General Omar N. Bradley, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and General J. Lawton Collins stand around a globe.
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Members of the WAVES, wearing uniform dresses, practice jumping jacks.
Members of the WAVES, wearing uniform dresses, practice jumping jacks.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Franklin D. Roosevelt leaves Annapolis, MD, as he starts his vacation
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt sitting in back seat of open car shaking hands with man standing beside car, crowd surrounding them including sailors standing in formation and Navy officers / Franklin's son Elliott with his wife Ruth standing...
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Rockettes perform dance routine on roof of Radio City Music Hall in NY City for US Navy sailors and officers
Title card: "Rockettes put kick in fleet visit - Music Hall dancers do famous number to welcome sailors" / two shots of Rockettes performing dance routine as sailors and officers watch / sailors and officers watching / close shot of...
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President Franklin Roosevelt passes through Panama Canal on the USS Houston, en route to Hawaii
Title card: "News Flashes!" / shot of USS Houston moving through Panama Canal towards camera / overhead shot of soldiers standing at attention on docks / Pres. Franklin Roosevelt on deck of ship with officers and officials as it sails...
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Navy doctor on submarine checks sailor's respiration after a prolonged stay in USS Haddock to study the effects of long range cruises
MS Sailor breathing thru a respirometer beside a device as doctor on the right looks on / Note: exact day not known
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United States Navy tests steam catapults on aircraft carriers
Title "Carrier Saratoga Tests Steam Catapults" superimposed over pontoon raft catapulted off ship into water making big splash / WS new aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at dock in Brooklyn Navy Yard / large steel pontoon raft lifted by...