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World War Two aerial Europe.
World War Two aerial Europe. German combat/invasion footage.
United Nations Offensive
United Nations Offensive Korea Map showing troop movement. Great animated map showing the 38th parallel, Korean peninsula, and various locations of battle, etc.
Seoul Recaptured.
Seoul Recaptured. Korea Marines run past burning building. Fighting continues. Men fire guns. Wonuded man carried on stretcher. More marines firing weapons. Tank rolls by with Marines following. More fighting. Several tanks move through urban area. Fighting is quiet. Marines resting. Marine using field telephone. Urban Warfare
11th Airborne Flies to Korea.
11th Airborne Flies to Korea. Ashiya airbase, Japan. 187th Airborne gets ready to leave for Korea. Men board airplane. Airplane takes off. Korea Sign Kimpo Airdrome . Plane has landed. Men get off plane. Man on stretcher is put onto plane. Temporary bridge is unloaded from plane. US Officers inspect airfield, General George Kenney, Lieutenant General George Stratemeyer, General Carl Spaatz. Missles are loaded onto Marine carrier planes, Grumman F7F Tigercat.
Communist Atrocities.
Communist Atrocities. Korea Bodies on the dead lined up on the ground. Families members cry over the bodies. CU of hands on a corpse tied together. Mourners looking for loved ones. Burned out buildings. Several burned corpses. More buildings in ruins and dead bodies. Mass grave of 6000 victims. Shots of bodies.
Typhoon Hits Sakai Army Base.
Typhoon Hits Sakai Army Base. Japan Strong winds blow debris around. Buidlings with the roof torm off. Jeep drives through, fallen trees around. Damaged buildings.
Pyongyang Falls.
Pyongyang Falls. Korea Truck and troops moving. Tanks on road. Fighting begins. POW with arms raised. Ammunition explodes. Soldiers follow tanks that are moving along raliroad tracks. Soldiers with guns on the street. Wounded man on the ground is treated by a medic. Large group of North Korean POWs march through the town with their hands on their heads. US soldiers are joined by South Lorean soldiers. Soldiers crossing river. Urban Warfare
11th Airborne Drops Behind Enemy Lines.
11th Airborne Drops Behind Enemy Lines. Korea Kimpo Airfield. 187th Airborne get ready to board a plane. Men on the tarmack putting on gear. C-47 transport planes and C-119 boxcar planes take off. Planes in the air. Paratroops inside the plane. Lookind up at planes flying in formation. From inside the plane, looking at men jumping out. Looking up at sky filled with parachutes. Paratroops landing. Looking up at sky filled with parachutes. Inside a plane, General Douglas MacArthur watches the men jump. Heavy equipment vehicles are dropped by parachute. Cattle at the scene are used as pack animals. Wounded men on stretchers are loaded onto helicopters. Tanks come through.
Al Jolson Entertains UN Troops.
Al Jolson Entertains UN Troops. Korea Plane taxiing. Al Jolson talking to troops. Jolson on stage in front of troops. GIs applaud. Jolson at mic. Troops laughing. Jolson raising United Nations flag.
United Nations Offensive
United Nations Offensive Korea Great animated map showing the 38th parallel, Korean peninsula, and various locations of battle, etc.
Library of Congress Recording Lab
Library of Congress Recording Lab MCU reel-to-reel studio recording equipment with tape rolling.
Librarian/Historian Interviews
Librarian/Historian Interviews
Coolidge Auditorium - Budapest String Quintet Performance
Coolidge Auditorium - Budapest String Quintet Performance Various GV/MS/CU Budapest String Quintet performing Beethoven s Op. 59 no. 3, in C, 4th movement Allegro molto. Various GV/MS audience watching & listening during performance.
Librarian/Historian Interviews
MCU male librarian dressed in brown tweed sitting inside the music archive at the Library of Congress, talking about the history of the LOC Coolidge Auditorium performances and radio broadcasts.
Librarian/Historian Interviews
CU man holding violin, reminiscing about hearing LOC broadcasts on the radio.
Library of Congress - Great Hall
Library of Congress - Great Hall GV pan the Great Hall. High angle LS people viewing the Declaration of Intendance on display.
Photos
DO NOT USE: Recording Lab & Gertrude Clarke Whittall photos
Librarian Interview
Librarian Interview MCU middle aged male librarian seated while talking about Gertrude Clarke Whittall & her donation of five Stradivarius instruments to the LOC. He goes on to talk about the Budapest String Quartet.
Music Historian Interview - Gertrude Clarke Whittall - Budapest String Quartet Story
Music Historian Interview - Gertrude Clarke Whittall - Budapest String Quartet Story MCU man with cello resting between his legs telling a story about Gertrude Clarke Whittall & the Budapest String Quartet: Apparently Ms Whittall was hearing impaired & spoke in a voice louder than most, one night between movements just as the quartet was about to play Ms Whittall began talking loudly, the audience laughed & giggled at the scene & from his 2nd violin chair with a grin on his face Alexander Schneider says to the crowd "And now a word from our sponsor". Gertrude Clarke Whittall being the one who donated the Stradivarius instruments in which the quartet was playing.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Linda Wertheimer introduces report on senators involved in a helicopter emergency in Central America. Senators on fact finding mission in refugee camp near El Salvador border were attacked over a disputed region along the border.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Refugee camp in Honduras - people are very poor, many young children, barefoot, a woman draws water from a pump.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Mountains in Honduras. Shot of U.S. made helicopter on tarmac, close up of man pointing out bullet holes on sides.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Senator John Bennett Johnston (D - Louisiana) and Senator Lawton Chiles (D - Florida) on tarmac at D.C. airport, discuss harrowing incident. Johnston, We ve been through the Valley of the Shadow and come out unscathed. There are a lot of people fighting and dying in El Salvador and we re darn lucky not to be in the company of the latter.