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| Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage |
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Public Domain Films Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| Available in NTSC formats: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| Available in PAL formats: (72 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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keywords: war, world war 2, wwII, D-Day, german surrender, japanese surrender, united nations, cold war, korean war |
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Synopsis: International events since the end of World War II. Flashbacks show WWII scenes of Russian troops advancing, Germans surrendering, allied forces landing in France on D-Day, allied leaders at Yalta, the meeting of U.S. and Russian troops at the Elbe River, aerial views of the ruins of Berlin, Germans surrendering at Rheims, President Truman and Joseph Stalin... (read more) |
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Information: 1951 22 min BW |
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at the Potsdam Conference, U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific islands, the flag raising
on Iwo Jima, aerial views of the ruins of Tokyo, and the Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the
battleship Missouri.
Delegates of nations, among them Gromyko and Molotov, meet in San Francisco and create a United
Nations organization. Returning U.S. troops disembark at U.S. ports and are discharged. U.S. bombers
are destroyed and factories are converted to peacetime production. Gromyko walks out of a UN debate
on the Iranian question. The U.S. proclaims the Marshall Plan and supplies for Europe are loaded on
ships at docks. Flashes of reconstruction work in Europe are shown.
Communists demonstrate and blockade Berlin; U.S. planes fly supplies to the blockaded city and the blockade is lifted. Refugees flee East Germany. South Korean voters go to the polls and U.S. troops
evacuate Korea. North Koreans attack South Korea. U.S. troops land at Pusan to aid South Korea. U.S.
and Canadian troops entrain for overseas service; British naval units and Swedish nurses leave for Korea. Turkish, Netherlands, and Australian troops arrive in Korea and are greeted by Korean civilians.
Film also includes scenes of: Street fighting in German cities, German POWs marching to prison camps, aerial view of Berlin and Tokyo in ruins, Japans surrender on battleship Missouri, General MacArthurs speech at surrender ceremony, crowds cheer end of WW II, destruction of weapons of war, creation of United Nations, President Truman, Berlin airlift, Manufacturing in America late 1940s-steel, automobile, tires and factory workers.
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