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A 1950s television video recording of Jascha Heifetz performing two pieces by Debussy – “La Fille Aux Cheveaux de Lin” and “Hora Staccato”.

Using rare and, in some cases, never before seen color footage, this documentary examines World War II from the perspective of the Japanese. The film also utilizes original letters and diary entries written by Japanese soldiers and civilians during the war. Japan’s War in Color looks to present both the innocent and the guilty parties involved in what was culturally touted as a Holy War, and examine the effect it had on all of their lives.

Footage of the Japanese people and officials dealing with their national pain and humiliation.

News reel of the surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Background music is “With Honour Crowned”.

A clip from the 1943 star-studded Hollywood W.W. II movie “Stage Door Canteen”.

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Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to find video images of Isadora.I found this one in a russian website about dance.

This is a interview with Edith Russell, Titanic survivor.

A T.V. news clip which remembers the Indian Army’s contributions during the Italian campaign of W.W. II.

This 1931 animated cartoon is a rare advertising film produced by Fleischer Studios for Olds Motor Works. Hero rescues damsel in distress from villain and hits the sing-a-long trail.

Canadian poet John McCrae (1872 – 1918) was a medical officer in both the Boer War and World War I. A year into the latter war he published in Punch magazine, on December 8, 1915, the sole work by which he would be remembered. This sonnet commemorates the deaths of thousands of young men who died in Flanders during the grueling battles there. It created a great sensation, and was used widely as a recruiting tool, inspiring other young men to join the Army. Legend has it that he was inspired by seeing the blood-red poppies blooming in the fields where many friends had died. In 1918 McCrae died at the age of 40, in the way most men died during that war, not from a bullet or bomb, but from disease: pneumonia, in his case.

Originally from the 1939 Fleischer film, “Hello, How Am I”. The Popeye sub-culture is very keen on this one.

This classic WWII vintage Christmas song as performed by the Hollywood Master Chorale under the direction of Glenn Carlos. This live performance was illustrated on a screen behind the chorus in sync by the video seen here. Video produced and edited by Harry Arends

A brief, touching declaration by the father of the atomic bomb, commenting on the first, successful nuclear explosion. A moment that would change history forever.

Bob Baer and John Cencich interview a man who claims to he saw Hitler in Spain after World War II in this scene from “Ratlines.”,315,560,1.777777778,16 to 9,,https://www.youtube.com/v/fHO0N9nYeMA,fHO0N9nYeMA,Bob Baer and John Cencich interview a man who claims to he saw Hitler in Spain after World War II in this scene from “”Ratlines.””

A comical analysis of sleep and insomnia with Robert Benchley.A man getting into steaming bath, snacking from the fridge and then tossing and turning in bed, counting sheep, trying to get into different, sleeping positions, getting up for a drink of water in an attempt to get to sleep.

A short, color dramatization filmed recently in which we get to see two well-outfitted actors perform a probable scene from the Western Front in which a cool-headed combat veteran instructs the newbie as how best to make a Mills’ Bomb – OR SO WE THOUGHT until we received this email transmission from a bright-eyed fellow who preferred to be known only as “CMC”. He wished to point out that the film community had once again done us wrong and that what was taking place on screen was in fact the making of a “jam tin bomb”; he further explained:

“The Mills bomb was the familiar cast iron segmented pattern grenade with a pin and firing lever. Improvised grenades were common in 1914-15 but by 1917 were a thing of the past”.

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