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Winston Churchill attends church on Christmas Day with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during his 1941 visit to Washington, DC
[Probably Christmas Eve, 12/24/41] Lighted Christmas tree on the Ellipse, with White House South Portico in background / crowd on lawn outside South Portico / VS lighted tree at night // 12/25/41: VS photo opportunity under awning,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
South Korean soldier smashes picture of Joseph Stalin
CU Joseph Stalin picture / MS soldier scratching poster on kiosk behind picture of Stalin / CU soldier smashing Stalin's picture / Note: exact day not known
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Items of President Dwight Eisenhower displayed at the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, KS
CU items in the museum collection including picture of Dwight D. Eisenhower / PAN bulletin boards, painting of Eisenhower / CU bulletin boards, painting of Eisenhower / MS 1914 electric auto and photo of Eisenhower at the controls of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Preparations for US atomic bomb tests on Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall Islands
Title: 'Eniwetok Atom Bomb Explosions!' superimposed over atom bomb explosion / title card: 'Top-Secret until now, these films remind the world of its choice: an unending fight for peace - or atomic war' / aerial shot of small islands in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Peary Monument being constructed at Cape York, Greenland, by members of Arctic explorer Robert Bartlett's expedition and Eskimos
Two shots of men riding dogsleds pulled by dogs a cross snowy landscape / close shot of dogs pulling sled / two men carrying metal tub filled with water on wooden boards and pouring water into wood barrel / two shots of men making...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Baby Soames, grandchild of Winston Churchill, christening; Soames and Churchill families attend
Title "Elder Statesmen in the News" superimposed over newspapers running off press / title "Churchill Sees 8th Grandchild Christened" superimposed over Soames family with maybe Clementine Churchill holding little girl's hand exiting...
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Flooding in Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri
Card: "Paramount News issue no 38" / title card: "The outstanding stories of 1951" / title "Film documents for posterity - Paramount News brings into focus again the events which left their marks upon the pages of history . . ."...
Hearst Metrotone News
Soviet peasant women smile and clap while dictator Joseph Stalin hands one of them a signed photograph.
Soviet peasant women smile and clap while dictator Joseph Stalin hands one of them a signed photograph.
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Prizes given at 4th Annual Exhibition of Press Photographers Association in NY City
Title card: 'Press Pix - Prizes Given for Best News Photos' / in gallery in Empire State Building, two women and man look at photographs on wall / Al Smith, former governor of New York, on left standing with man looking at photograph /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Track and Field events in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland
Title card: "Olympics -- Action-Packed Competition" / Intertitle: "Helsinki -- Records Fall in Track & Field" superimposed over high angle of men running track / LS crowds in stadium and 100 meter dash athletes on their marks / MS man...
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Egg rolling ceremony on Easter Sunday at White House in Washington, DC
Title "Egg rolling - White House for a 'back yard'" superimposed over crowd gathered on White House lawn / parents and children walking towards White House / little girl walking with her mother holding her hand / crowd gathered on lawn /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Contest to determine handsomest lifeguard in Miami Beach
Title: 'Florida' superimposed over line of lifeguards walking on beach past table with female judges sitting at it, crowd of people standing in background watching / closer view of female judges / closer view of lifeguards walking in...
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Tehran Conference photo opportunity during World War II
WS left to right Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sitting on porch of Soviet Embassy posing for photo opportunity / closer view of three men, photographers...
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US General Ernest Harmon, Commanding General XXII US Corps, at airfield in Berlin after end of World War II
Gen. Ernest Harmon gets off plane, other US officers get off behind him / group of officers greet officers getting off plane / group of officers stand next to plane for photo opportunity / close view of Harmon, pan across other officers...
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Edward VIII of England during his brief reign as king
Title: 'England' superimposed over British Coat of Arms / Coat of Arms / two shots of funeral procession of King George V / Garter King of Arms proclaims Prince of Wales King Edward VIII / members of College of Arms standing on balcony...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt detonates an explosion via telegraph key from New York to begin construction of Florida canal
Title card: "Florida Canal Started" / pan crowd in front of long covered speaker's stand in field / people sitting under roof, crowd in fg / MS construction chief Lt. Col. Brehon Somervell, Senator Duncan Fletcher, and Walter Coachman of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Footage compiled as part of campaign in Philadelphia to raise money to save US Navy cruiser "Olympia" from scrap heap
Title card: "A patriotic appeal . . . save the Olympia" / title "Race against the scrap heap" superimposed over shot of abandoned USS Olympia, flagship of Admiral George Dewey's fleet during Spanish-American War, sitting next to dock in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US swimmers versus Japanese swimmers in dual swim meet in Tokyo
Title "Japan vs US - world record set in swim meet" superimposed over swimmers racing in pool / two shots of US swim team entering outdoor swimming arena / two shots of US and Japanese teams lined up on side of pool / swimmers start...
Getty Images
The U.S. Supreme Court
WS, a group of tourists pose for a photograph in front of the US Supreme Court. The high court ruled today by 7 to 2 margin that homeowners in North Carolina can not sue a company that contaminated their drinking water because a state...