- Title: VM-578A
- Summary: 1945: RECALLS HISTORIC EVENTS OF 1945.
- Description:00:29:59 - AERIAL OVER NEW YORK CITY, ZEPPELIN POV EAST SIDE CIRCA 1945 00:30:08 - MS STREET CORNER: 1ST AVENUE & EAST 47TH STREET CARS, TRUCKS BUSY STREETS CIRCA 1945 00:30:17 - MS WOMAN & DOG LOOKING OUT OF TENEMENT APARTMENT WINDOW 00:30:19 - MS BAR PATRON MAKING TOAST TO BARTENDER BEFORE DOWNING A SHOT OF ALCOHOL. NEIGHBORHOOD BAR 00:30:21 - CATTLE ON WAY TO NEW YORK CITY SLAUGHTERHOUSE 00:30:24 - LS PAN EMPTY LOT WITH BIG PILE OF DIRT, BOYS WRESTLING IN LOT, CLIMBING TO TOP OF MOUND 00:30:37 - MS ALL AMERICAN TOW HEAD PRETEEN WITH BANDAGE ON HIS HEAD 00:30:41 - HS LOOKING AT EAST RIVER, FLOATING BARGE, FACTORIES ON OTHER SIDE 00:33:58 - MONTAGE WAR FOOTAGE. RAISING AMERICAN FLAG AT IWO JIMA. CHINA, BURMA. WAR IN EUROPE. 00:34:53 - MONTAGE BURNING BUILDINGS, NAZI WAR PLANES DROPPING BOMBS. ECU PAYLOAD 00:35:13 - MS WAR ZONE ROAD SIGN READING: "ROAD UNDER SHELL FIRE, KEEP 75 YARD INTERVAL. WESTERN FRONT, GERMAN ARMY PULLING BACK, ALLIED MP DIRECTING TRAFFIC 00:35:26 - ALLIED SOLDIERS MARCHING THROUGH SMALL BRITISH TOWN, BOARDING BATTLESHIP, LEAVING GREAT BRITAIN 00:35:36 - MONTAGE SHIPBUILDERS WORKING IN BRITISH BOAT YARD, SHIP YARD 00:35:49 - MS & LS NAZI SYMBOL ATOP BUILDING. LS BLOWING UP NAZI SYMBOL FROM BUILDING. EUROPEANS BURNING IRON CROSS FLAG, DESTROYING SYMBOLS OF HATRED. MS MAN CHISELING OUT NAZI SYMBOL CARVED IN WALL 00:36:06 - MS CELEBRANT CLIMBING UP CITY LAMP POST WITH HIS DRINK, BRITISH FLAGS HANGING. LS STREETS PACKED WITH PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WWII 00:36:21 - AUGUST, JAPAN'S SURRENDER, HISTORIC SIGNING, ELECTRONIC BILLBOARD IN TIMES SQUARE ANNOUNCING JAPANESE SURRENDER. HS STREETS PACKED WITH CELEBRANTS, MINIATURE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN STREET 00:36:37 - ALLIED SOLDIERS COMING HOME, WALKING UP GANGWAY MS SOLDIERS / MUSICIANS PLAYING, DANCING 00:36:55 - SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS DANCING IN CITY STREETS WHILE HAPPY OTHERS WATCH 00:37:10 - MONTAGE CITY STREETS PACKED WITH HAPPY PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WORLD WAR TWO WWII. PATRIOTISM FLAG WAVING 00:37:16 - POV MOVING THROUGH MASSIVE CROWDS IN NEW YORK CITY. 00:37:43 - CELEBRANTS CELEBRATING INTO THE NIGHT. MAN WAVES BRITISH FLAG, PEOPLE DANCING IN THE STREETS, NEON SIGNS, BLINKING VAUDEVILLE SIGN 00:38:17 - LS PAN YALTA, SNOW CAPPED MOUNTAINS IN B/G 00:38:24 - FEBRUARY, 1945 MONTAGE BIG THREE IN YALTA FDR LOOKING PALE. THE ALLIED TRIUMVIRATE: FDR, STALIN, CHURCHILL. SCENES OF THE MEETING, MS BIG THREE POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS 00:40:23 - HS PAN CROWDS IN FRONT OF OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE MS ROYAL FAMILY, QUEEN MOTHER, PRINCE PHILIP, CHURCHILL ON BALCONY GREETING HORDES OF CELEBRANTS MS ROYAL FAMILY WAVING FROM THE BALCONY 00:40:48 - MS WINSTON CHURCHILL READING SPEECH, MOS 00:40:52 - FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S FUNERAL. CASKET ON TRAIN, TRAIN LEAVING STATION. POV ON TRAIN PASSING HORDES OF SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS ON STATION PLATFORM & TRAIN TRACKS 00:41:20 - HS FUNERAL CORTEGE, PROCESSION. FLAG DRAPED CASKET. CU CITIZENS WEEPING INTO HANDKERCHIEFS. SOLDIERS FOLDING AMERICAN FLAG IN CEMETERY, 21 GUN SALUTE 00:41:47 - HARRY TRUMAN, STALIN & OTHERS WALKING DOWN STEPS, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS. POTSDAM 00:42:00 - HS POTSDAM CONFERENCE, MS CLEMENT ATTLEE 00:42:07 - LS PAN MILAN STREETS FILLED WITH ITALIANS FILLED WITH RAGE. CU MUSSOLINI DEAD BULLET RIDDLED HIS MISTRESS UNDER HIM 00:42:20 - ITALIANS HANGING MUSSOLINI, HIS MISTRESS & COMPATRIOTS IN MILAN AFTER EXECUTION 00:42:27 - LS COMMAND BUNKER WHERE HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE 00:42:31 - STILLS 00:43:01 - MS NEW LEADER IN INDONESIA, SUKARNO 00:43:03 - MS GANDHI IN NEW DELHI. MONTAGE HORDES OF INDIANS. WESTERN LEADERS SHAKING HANDS WITH INDIAN LEADERS. GANDHI AMONG FOLLOWERS, INDIANS RUNNING TOWARD BUILDING. HS MASSIVE CROWDS, INDIA 00:44:19 - MONTAGE WWII AFTERMATH, EUROPEAN CITIES DESTROYED, COVENTRY, DRESDEN, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, WARSAW, STALINGRAD, COLOGNE 00:45:13 - CU PILE OF DEAD CORPSES 00:45:21 - MS SOLDIER LOOKING INTO HOLE FILLED WITH DEAD CORPSES, VICTIMS OF HATE. HATE CRIMES 00:45:32 - GERMAN SOLDIERS & CITIZENS FORCED TO VISIT CONCENTRATION CAMPS & VIEW DEAD BODIES IN OPEN CASKETS. NAZI DEATH CAMPS. 00:46:00 - POV PASSING OVER GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE 00:46:10 - SAN FRANCISCO CITY SCENES, TROLLEY CARS. MARQUEE READS: "UNITED NATIONS FILMS" 00:46:18 - PEOPLE IN MOVIE THEATER WATCHING FILM FROM THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN EUROPE, HATE VICTIMS. CU POOR SUFFERING PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD 00:48:29 - AFRICANS CELEBRATING IN THE STREETS, DANCING, SINGING IN COLORFUL DRESS 00:48:54 - ARABIC WOMEN COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE WALKING SINGLE FILE INTO DOORWAY 00:48:59 - CU ARAB MOTHERS HOLDING YOUNG CHILDREN 00:49:02 - OPERATING ROOM, DOCTORS PERFORMING AN OPERATION 00:49:21 - MS NURSE WEIGHING INDIAN WOMAN ON SCALE 00:49:26 - MS NURSES LEANING OVER PREGNANT WOMAN'S BELLY LISTENING FOR HEART BEAT. PRENATAL CARE 00:49:32 - MONTAGE ARABIC MOTHERS & CHILDREN AT HEALTH CARE CU BABY BEING INOCULATED, GIVEN A SHOT, NEEDLE 00:49:48 - CU FARMER RUNNING SOIL THROUGH HIS HANDS 00:49:55 - MONTAGE FAMINE VICTIMS, STARVATION, STARVING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, ITALY, BURMA, CHINA, BENGAL 00:50:08 - LS PAN GRAIN FIELDS BLOWING IN THE WIND 00:50:13 - MONTAGE HARVESTING CROPS, CU THRESHER CUTTING FIELDS, MACHINE TILLING SOIL 00:50:22 - MS BLACK COUPLE IN FABRIC STORE, INDIAN WEARING A TURBAN SHOWING THEM BOLTS OF FABRIC 00:50:32 - "MODERN" SHOPPING MALL IN UNIDENTIFIED AFRICAN CITY 00:50:53 - CU MONTAGE PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD, YOUNG TO OLD. MULTI NATIONAL 00:51:36 - SMALL TOWN CARNIVAL, AMUSEMENT PARK RIDES, FERRIS WHEEL, CU CHILDREN RIDING ON FERRIS WHEEL HUGE SWIMMING POOL. MS TWO DIVERS DIVING AT SAME TIME FROM DIVING BOARDS. SYNCHRONIZED DIVING 00:51:47 - MONTAGE MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY, CLINTON LABORATORIES. CU SIGN READING: "PROHIBITED AREA CAMERAS, FIREARMS, EXPLOSIVES, BINOCULARS ARE FORBIDDEN". 00:51:52 - EXTERIOR & INTERIOR SCENES OF OAK RIDGE. URANIUM 00:52:12 - MONTAGE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB BEING TESTED IN LOS ALMOS DESERT, NEW MEXICO. LS MUSHROOM CLOUD 00:52:42 - POV FLYING OVER HIROSHIMA POST ATOMIC BOMB WASTELAND. LS LOOMING MUSHROOM CLOUD 00:52:50 - REPRESENTATIVES FROM 50 COUNTRIES ARRIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE 00:54:13 - UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, APRIL, 1945. DELEGATES LEAVING POST CONFERENCE 00:55:14 - CU UNITED NATIONS CHARTER 00:55:26 - EXTERIOR & INTERIOR UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS SCULPTURES, ART WORK, NATIONS FLAGS FLYING
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-578A