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Trieste (Monfalcone), Laying the keel for the first of two cruisers to be built for the Royal Thailand Navy in St. Marks Shipyards. The Bishop of Trieste officiates. Present: The Minister of Thailand, members of the commission, the Prefect of Trieste and other civic authorities. The launching from the Monfalcone shipyard of the 2nd unit of the mercantile fleet of Italy, the motorship "Vettor Pisani". ...

"Peasants in the Fields" Farmers. "Rothenburg on the Tauber" (color) Bavarian district. Medieval buildings with lush plants. "Dinkelsbuhl" Facades of businesses with flowers, hotel, local civilians, street scenes. 01:04:02 (switches to black and white) Street views in Dinkelsbuehl. CU, entryway with memorial plaque. Schoolgirls in white walk in the road. 01:04:58 "Heidelberg" (color). Scenic views ...

Young men (displaced persons) crowded on benches outdoors, pan and CUs, at unknown DP camp location. Baby in a carriage. 01:12:44 DPs display the numbers tattooed on their forearms from the Nazi concentration camps. Women sit on a bench and knit. A young man washes his feet under a faucet. Waking on a path. Large group of people stand beneath a castle. CUs, scar on the leg of a man, presumably a result ...

Street scenes, streetcars, bicycles, automobiles, people on the move, traffic cop in busy intersection at the crossing between the Old Town and the Freedom Monument Plaza in Riga, Latvia. 01:00:35 The Latvian Freedom Monument, the letters inscribed on the monument read: TEVZEMEI UN BRIVIBAI [To Fatherland and Freedom], a soldier stands guard at the base, pan up the same monument to the statue of a ...

(Czech Newsreel Material) EXT shot of the raising and lowering of the Czech flag over Czech Palace. Two shots of voting tickets being collected from members of Parliament in Vladislav Hall at the castle. Travelling shot of Edvard Benes entering Czech Parliament, mounts rostrum and bows to applauding members of the National Assembly. MS of Benes on rostrum of Parliament, during the playing of the Czech ...

The de Brouwers and their neighbors Joseph and Yvonne de Hemptinne, take a self-guided tour through Germany in July 1936. The film begins with an introduction of each traveler on the "Voyage au Pays Rhenan, taken in July 1936 by bicycle, boat, train, and car." Yvonne de Hemptinne (acting director for the film), Denise de Brouwer (acting treasurer), Joseph de Hemptinne (acting mechanic), and Carl de ...

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

Morris Horn, M.D. served in Europe in WW2 as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps and died while serving his country. Dr. Morris Horn married Ruth Carlson Horn in the Commodore Hotel in NYC in August 1932 by Rabbi Albert Martin. Ruth (1913 - 1999) was a noted patron of the arts and innovator in Bridgeport, Connecticut's arts community. She was the daughter of William Carlson, an automobile industrialist, ...

From the opening titles of the film: "This film was made on the eve of the dissolution of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Diaspora - the Jewish community of Morocco. Within a short time, ancient and established communities were rooted out: inhabitants of the mellah in the large cities, the kasbahs in the desert of the south, and the remote villages of the Atlast mountains. Via the camera ...

Title on screen: Ozaphan 11/39 Monatsschau; Krieg in Polen (Loosely, November monthly report on the war in Poland). View from a low-flying aircraft of smoke and destruction on the ground, including a bridge collapsed into a river. Title on screen: Brennende Haeuser kennzeichnen den (?) Rueckzugsweg der Polen [Burning houses indicate the retreat of the Poles]. Aerial shot along a line of burning structures ...