Search Films, Videos
-
Film, VideoAWOL, all wrong old Laddiebuck
All wrong old Laddiebuck | Title on liner notes: AWOL; or, All wrong old Laddiebuck | Title on the Internet movie database WWW site: A.W.O.L. From J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress: Concerns American soldiers in Europe after the armstice [sic]. One goes AWOL with "Joy" (Miss AWOL) and after a series of mishaps with her, he is thrown in a guard house while his fellow soldiers go home. From Origin of American animation 1900-1921 notes: A cautionary tale for troops impatient to return home...- Contributor: Bowers, Charles R. - Afi/Rhode Island Historical Society Collection (Library of Congress) - American Motion Picture Corporation
- Date: 1919
-
Film, Video[World War II color footage--American and Russian troops link up at Torgau on the Elbe River]
World War 2 color footage--American and Russian troops link up at Torgau on the Elbe River | World War Two color footage--American and Russian troops link up at Torgau on the Elbe River | Inventory title: Torgau-Russians The SPECOU covers the link up of the American, British and Russian troops in Torgau on the Elbe River in April 1945. This meeting marked when Germany was taken on both sides by Allied forces, the American and British forces moving from the west and the Russians moving from the east.- Contributor: Stevens, George - United States. Army. Signal Corps. Special Coverage Unit
- Date: 1945
-
Film, VideoU.S. troops landing at DaiquirÃ, Cuba
United States troops landing at DaiquirÃ, Cuba | Title in Edison films catalog, no. 105: U.S. troops landing at Baiquiri, Cuba "These are the first U.S. troops to land on Cuban soil, June 22, 1898. The picture shows a long perspective view of the pier at Baiquiri [sic], the point chosen so strategically for the landing of General Shafter's army. At the end of the wharf are the coal dumps and ore elevators used by the mining company operating the famous iron mines at Juragua,...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1898
-
Film, VideoTR's sons' regiments during war, 1917-1918. [No. 1]
Theodore Roosevelt's sons' regiments during war, 1917-1918 Soldiers walk in formation on a road accompanied by several mounted men. Because of the soldiers' heavy clothing, it must be winter. This group may be the 26th Infantry, Theodore and Archibald Roosevelt's regiment. Following sequence is of biplanes flying in formation; third sequence is shot at a hangar where men appear to be preparing a plane for flight. The second and third sequences...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - United States. Army. Signal Corps - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918
-
Film, VideoTR reviewing and speaking to 13th Regiment at Sagamore Hill, 1917
Theodore Roosevelt reviewing and speaking to 13th Regiment at Sagamore Hill, 1917 TR speaks to several unidentified people, including a man who looks like TR, on the porch at Sagamore Hill. There are two views of TR addressing soldiers assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill: the first segment shows TR's back as he speaks; the second is a long shot of TR, shot from the rear of the group of soldiers.- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Warner Bros. Pictures
- Date: 1917