CHRISTMAS: royalty-free footage in our collection
(see
also separate Santa
Claus list)
CHRONOLOGICAL
LIST
220679
15:57:22 - 16:10:42
1914 - 1918 c
England
SIL B/W [WWI Newsreel Excerpts - Various]
INCLUDING:
15:59:47 - 16:00:08
'Home on Leave - Tommies direct from the trenches arrive in London
for Christmas'. Troops leaving railway station. Soldier buying turkey from market stall
220737
19:48:56 - 19:58:29
1916
France SIL
B/W WWI - La Revanche des Francais
Devant Verdun [Reel 2]
INCLUDING:
19:54:13 - 19:54:45 Still photograph of Christmas service held at Fort Douaumont.
Officers from the fort pose for cameras.
221093
18:49:02 - 18:58:16
1916 - 1919 c
England; France
SIL B/W [WWI Scenes - British Home Front
- Versailles]
INCLUDING:
18:50:30 - 18:51:27
Christmas in the trenches - troops wrapped up against cold wait to
cook Christmas puddings in trench surrounded by snow - drop pudding containers
in bucket of water on fire - portions of pudding served up - CU soldiers enjoying
their Christmas pudding.
220693
05:00:13 – 05:01:52
192?
Russia
England
SIL B/W [WWI - British Newsreel Excerpts]
Christmas in Petrograd
under Soviets; Collecting wood for fuel. Women street cleaners.
220996
09:06:46 - 09:07:20
1917
USA Si b/w TR Calls on Neighbours
At Christmas, 1917
Man,
woman and two children out of car and into house in countryside. Theodore Roosevelt arrives behind them
with gift and gestures for all to pose for camera.
220525
21:20:30 - 21:21:23
1923 - 1929
USA
Si b/w PresidentÕs Family Enjoys
Christmas Aboard Mayflower
Nitrate
decomposition at head. Calvin Coolidge and family board yacht. President Coolidge
with Captain Andrews and Governor Clements of Vermont.
John
Coolidge, son of President standing in group
Mostly
unusable
220722
01:02:15 - 01:03:03
1930s
USA si B/W
Lion Cubs at Christmas
Christmas at zoo
- lion cubs hanging from decorated tree - elephant carrying Xmas presents
- monkey with tinsel - lion cubs in tinsel
220209
06:01:10 - 06:46:45
1930s-1940 Germany
SIL COL&B/W Eva
BraunÕs home movies
Part One
INCLUDING:
06:25:07
– 06:25:54 Interiors, children
play with toys by Christmas tree, Officer playing with baby.
221097
10:23:57 - 10:25:06
1938
USA SD B/W Children Of Many Nations Send
Xmas Message To World
Group of kids in
national dress on stage - children of foreign ambassadors & officials
stationed in Washington DC - vars CUs, most look worried. Nicaraguan girl gives funny speech hoping
everyone gets the toys they want 'from Baby Jesus', then all kids join in
to wish viewers a happy Christmas.
X221376
01:39:48 - 01:54:32
1939/40 Pennsylvania, USA Sil COL [Home Movies, color - Wedding, 1940; Family ca 1940; 1939 Payne Family & Christmas]
INCLUDING:
01:51:12 CU Santa Claus on title: Christmas 1939. Baby on rug in front of book shelves playing w/ rattles & doll, smiling, trying to crawl. Fireplace w/ small decorated christmas trees in front & objects on mantle.
01:52:09 MS Christmas dinner table w/ candles & place settings. Family seated at table.
01:52:33 Title: Payne’s Toy Land. Title: The House Pop Pop Built. Doll house outside & boy & girl look at. Inside, dollhouse by decorated Christmas tree & other toys. Shots of various family members sitting on sofa & chairs.
01:53:44 Woman out of car at curb, up steps towards camera.
01:53:58 CU daffodills. Woman feeding squirrel. CU pigeons on sidewalk
VERY GOOD reel for content & color.
X221376 01:54:33 – 02:00:00 1939/40 Pennsylvania, USA Sil COL [Home Movies, color - Suburban Summer; Christmas & Family, ca 1939]
INCLUDING:
01:56:37 Title: Grady Tree Decorated Christmas tree in corner in front of two windows w/ light curtains.
01:56:52 Title: The Seipt Residence Man smoking cigarette playing w/ still camera. Woman laughing on chair. Couples at punch bowl being served. Men pouring shots of alcohol from bottle of liquor into glasses.
01:57:52 Spindly Christmas tree; woman sitting in chair nearby; family posing & waving. Fireplace fire burning. Several Lionel model railroads of different sizes running on tracks on table top.
01:59:26 CU model rr w/ light on; other shots. Large Christmas Santa topples to reveal title: The End
221135
17:23:12 – 17:27:31
1940
England;
SD B/W
INCLUDING:
Christmas
1940, choir sings O Come All Ye Faithful.
Father returns home in uniform, hugs little girl. Xmas tree in room. Tube shelter life with Christmas trees.
Night shots: spotters, searchlights. Incendiary fire bomb raid on London.
London on fire: flames, firefighting, water pumped from
Thames river. Buildings
blazed. People in shelters. Fires, searchlights & anti-aircraft
guns (Ack-Ack). German plane
down in flames.
220188
01:17:22 - 01:27:32
1940s ?
England
B/W 8th AAF GIs Christmas Shopping,
England
Piccadilly - London Street in rainy daytime w/ Wrigley
sign & covered monument or fountain. Odeon seen. GI
gets direction from police. Xmas
gift stand & GIs & women looking in windows. Boy comes up & asks GI for chewing gum. Given. Flower vendor w/ GI.
YMCA, GIs board bus & walk along sidewalk. 8th AAF making wooden toys for British kids. Drinking in pub. Red Cross gift wrapping packages.
220887
04:57:33 - 05:06:58
1940s
USA SD B/W American Scene #6, The: Steel
Town Reel 1 of 2
INCLUDING:
05:02:05 Italian
immigrant worker seen at home with family and kids by Christmas tree; opening
presents.
Tracking shot in
open hearth. Workers shovel dolomite
into furnace. Charging scrap
iron. Operator at gigantic bucket
full of hot iron - iron poured into furnace. Foremen - their teenage boys playing football; good crowd cheering
shots. Teenager in school principalÕs
office. Physics class - looking
at internal combustion engine. School
cafeteria scene. Children out
of school.
SN
504-001 00:12:12 - 00:27:32
1940s
USA SIL COL [Home Movies - 1940s
Pt2]
INCLUDING:
00:19:57- 00:21:46
Christmas parade through city streets, Detroit ?; large vertical ÔCadillac
LaSalleÕ sign on building; inflatable elephant, snowman, hippo etc. plus vars
floats in shape of animals; clown
pulling large drum w/ face.
220624
01:02:41 - 01:03:12
1941
England
Sd b/w Britain Marks Black Out
Christmas
Exterior - Soldiers
round Christmas tree with presents. Children running down Anderson air-raid shelter. Interior large shelter with kids in paper hats
playing with balloon.
220584
09:40:30 - 09:46:42
1941 + 1942
Germany Eastern Front
Si b/w Der Winter 1941 - 1942
An Der Ostfront
INCLUDING:
09:44:08 - 09:44:55
German troops cutting Christmas tree, carried into living quarters.
Group of soldiers running out of hut to greet postal delivery - postman carried
on shoulders. Groups of troops moving sleds.
LN
400-264 09:29:47 - 09:37:42
1942
USSR SD
B/W [Unid. Battle of Stalingrad]
Pt. B of ?
INCLUDING:
09:29:47
- 09:30:30 Christmas of 1942,
people in Red Square collect Christmas trees; people w/ Christmas trees on
back of truck drive thru woods. MCU
child w/ tree over shoulder. Huge
lighted Christmas tree in middle of big hall, people dance around it, kids
play on slide, look at little dancing dog, play various games, winning boy
flips other boyÕs nose, Christmas tree on merry-go-around.
220544
04:14:09 - 04:23:56
1942 - 1943
Russia (USSR)
SD B/W
re Battle of Stalingrad
Maps the Russian
encirclement of Nazis at Stalingrad. Cossacks, tanks & infantry. Marshal Voronoff confers with his aides.
The encircling Red armies meet in Dec. 1942 - troops hugging in snow. Christmas 1942 celebrations. War production. Flamethrowers, rockets, and artillery
are used to force the surrender of remnants of 22 Nazi divisions - infantry
through huge snowy steppes. Stalingrad
destruction. Last shot fired.
Flag hoisted. Nazi generals
capitulate. Huge column of defeated
Germans. Maps Russian
gains and cites statistics on Nazi losses thus far in the campaign.
220544
03:36:13 - 03:45:37
1942?
Russia (USSR)
SD B/W
Montage historic
Russian battles. Citizens pray
in Orthodox churches on Christmas Day.
Russian tanks, cavalry units (Cossacks), and ski troops advance at
speed beneath air support. Battle
scenes in snow. Villages are liberated - Volokolamsk, Yepifan, Tarussa, Yasnaya-Polyana,
Venev, Rogachev, Mozhaisk,
Borodino, Kaluga - and refugees return.
TchaikovskyÕs house; TolstoiÕs
house.
220476
17:05:01 - 17:05:33
1943
Egypt SD
B/W Christmas Shopping In Cairo
Allied soldiers in
souk (market). Bargaining with
Arab shopkeepers over carpet and souvenirs. Soldiers look at silk stockings in shop window and buy pair.
GIs into carriage with parcels.
220594
03:10:31 - 03:14:55
1943
Curacao
Sd B/W [German Newsreel excerpts -
German Submarine Torpedoes Freighter]
German submarine
off Curacao in Caribbean, prow
through heavy seas. Below decks
- sailor in bunk. Sailor decorating small Christmas tree. Galley - cook putting
food in oven. Slicing cake. Calender
showing 24th December. Crew opening Christmas presents. Map showing
Curacao - Submarine on surface - lookout spots ship - alarm - dive. Interior
shots - Captain using periscope - sailor at radar ? Fire torpedo, guages.
Sub comes to surface and Captain comes out to look at wreckage of torpedoed
allied freighter.
221055
08:00:04 - 08:10:15
1943
Germany
SD B/W
INCLUDING:
08:02:46 - 08:04:50
German soldiers take part in raffle to win a goose at Christmas; CUs
geese w/ name tags ÔHansÕ etc. INT
Red Cross nurses prepare gift parcels for the front - crates w/ ÔFrohe WeihnachtenÕ. German airmen at tables near beach (Atlantikwall)
& in workshop carving toys for children - CUs toys inc. bookends w/ carved
rams & whole toy town made of wood.
221119
10:00:10 - 10:10:00
1943
Germany
SD B/W
INCLUDING:
10:03:57 - 10:07:22
Alpine village where German mothers & children evacuated to - children
play in snow - CUs house names - INT woman making Christmas decorations. Kids attend Christmas party. Train through snowy station, Christmas
tree thrown onto tracks & collected by man. Wounded soldiers served special dinner. Gifts taken to wounded soldiers in hospital
& women working in Signal Corps on Eastern Front. Channel coast - Luftwaffe pilots &
sailors at sea on minesweeper - man dressed as Father Christmas.
LN
400-292 21:10:11 - 21:15:39
1943
USA SD B/W
Small town streets
& vacant lot, car & van leaving intersection. Delivery van past houses, kids sitting on curb w/ leaves around
them, talking about Christmas and lack of presents.
21:10:49 Battleship guns firing at night; bow thru
heavy seas. Captain given report,
other sailors talking on bridge, giving orders. CU of letter written by USS North Carolina
sailors to Macy Department store in NYC for gifts for kids. Letter read over picture of dolls, stuffed
animals, football; packing & mailing w/ gift certificates. Toy planes.
21:12:48 Sailors raising signal flags & doing
deck activities, closing hatches, firing guns. Blowing bosun's whistle; cut to kid blowing whistle. Kids in NYC having a party, eating cake
& ice cream. SOF kids introduce
themselves to each other. Small
girls play w/ dolls. Mother &
others talk to dads on newwsreel. Singing. w/ Christmas tree behind.
21:15:26 Sailor at rail watching ship in convoy.
220767
23:36:45 - 23:42:01
1944 6/12/1944 Luxembourg
Si b/w WWII - GIs Give Christmas
Party for Children
Groups of children
with mothers in churchyard ? playground ? US Troops mingling - one on small
guitar (mos)
St Nicholas. Some
children in costume. Children singing ( mos ) . Nun helping to give sweets
/ candy to children. Children play traditional games - parade
in party dresses. St Nicholas in jeep with two angels.
220767
23:42:03 - 23:49:08
1944 25/12/1944 Luxembourg Sd b/w WWII - Christmas Carols
Soldier directing
choir who are in open air - snowy conditions. They sing Silent Night. Closer
shots choir - men and women - sing O Come All Ye Faithful.
23:48:19 Interior,
group of troops gathered round radio in front of Christmas tree
220912
15:38:07 - 15:49:44
1944
Belgium - France?
SIL COL [Chateau Thierry
- Part 3]
Fighting in Liege
-
INCLUDING:
Christmas near Aachen
- Interior ruined house in countryside.
Damaged castle - Nazi
HQ? Cooking outdoors. Decorating Christmas tree. Road sign for Lamersdorf, Duren and Langerwehe.
15:48:44 jeep through badly ruined street. Paris? - Tanks and American troops parade.
Use of this footage
requires a credit as follows:
ÒIncludes footage
from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of CongressÓ
220468
01:27:05 - 01:29:07
1945
France SD
B/W Eisenhower Talks to Fighting
Men at the Front
Ike by jeep gives
Christmas speech to small group of soldiers. Soldier gives Christmas message to camera. Promises to be home
next year. Ike speech in French
for French troops. Other soldier
gives speech to camera. Troops say Merry Christmas to Ike.
Title: 'Help shorten
the war. Buy that extra war bond.'
220468
01:42:31 - 01:43:59
1945
USA SD B/W Lew Lehr Shows How NOT to Wrap
Christmas Packages
Comedy sketch. Fat comedian wraps presents badly, talking
in silly Germanic accent. CU
foot slips on toy truck. End
title: ÔFinish the job: Buy victory bondsÕ.
220472
09:35:21 - 09:36:09
1945
USA SD B/W President Truman Delivers A
Holiday Message To Nation
Dec45
Crowd on lawn of
White House. Truman speech (Sd)
for first Christmas after end of war.
221131
09:11:02 - 09:25:23
1945
England; Germany
SIL B/W Dresden - Bombing of Dresden
Part 2 of 2
INCLUDING:
09:11:31
- 09:12:07 Dance, RAF &
troops dancing in uniform, some Canadian w/ Christmas decorations behind. Men drink beer around fireplace in pub?
221242
18:35:14 - 18:39:16
1945
Germany? SD B/W European Tragedy Pt 4 of ?
INCLUDING:
18:39:00 Displaced children celebrate their first
peaceful Christmas, men pull in carriage w/ Father Christmas, kids at the
table entertained by army officers.
Ship into harbor people wanting to emigrate on the dock, all smile,
wave.
200519
01:08:53 - 01:17:34
1947
Russia Si
col Russia Post
War
INCLUDING: Snow on
steps. Woman clearing snow.
01:09:24 Winter street
scenes - shops, pedestrians. Pan
across city. Bomb damaged buildings.
More street scenes.
01:11:14 Sign for
Christmas 1947. Children looking
at Xmas decorations.
01:11:36 Russian
Orthodox priest gives blessing to crowd in open air.
221314 05:28:40 - 05:38:56 1949 COL SD USA Snoqualmie, Washington; A
Tree Grows For Christmas
05:29:12 Animated scrapbook showing
illustrations of Christmas scenes.
05:29:48 Man canoeing along lake
w/ trees behind. POV through
large woods w/ western mountain behind. Balsam pines, spruce, hemlock, douglas fir, cedar & pine christmas
trees. Harvesting, cutting by
young men w/ saws. Narration
says Òmany more trees are destroyed by over-crowding, insects & disease
than are cut for Christmas. Man
walking on snow through poor trees. POV along highway lined by trees.
05:31:19 Forest tree nursery,
women weeding; men digging & planting for christmas tree farm. View of farm trees; cattle. Man planting seedlings on sand dune to
hold down erosioin. Man, boy
& dog walking thru christmas tree farm. Sign: Thinned for Christmas
Trees 1918 at base of large trees.
05:32:33 Pile of cut christmas
trees tagged saying money from sale returned to Snoqualmie National Forest. Boys carrying cut trees, bundled & loaded onto truck; piled high
passes. Rubber tired wagon puplled by two horses bring trees in. Others brought by tractor. Truck leaving farm on highway.
05:33:50 Man tagging trees to
be cut, thinned. Stump culture
shown w/ new trees growing from previously cut stump. Horse team pulling wagon out of woods. Truck bringing to large staging yard &
bundled & tied. Other trees
ited in holding devices. Boughs
trimmed for wreaths. Steam engine
& freight cars loaded w/ trees, men make notes. Warehouse & Farmers Produce Market
w/ trees unloaded. Sign: Only 7 Days Left to Christmas on car beside
vacant lot used as sales yard. Man
takes tree home in car & kids run out gate & carry it into yard, father
trims & puts in pail of water. Put into stand in house & filled w/ water. Trimming tree with icicles & decorations
by fireplace; toy train around base.
221191 05:10:23 - 05:19:58 195? USA sd COL The Evolution Of The Oil Industry (195?) Pt. 2 of 3
INCLUDING:
05:17:13 Pulling pipe & casing set before detonating
perforator to release the oil. Christmas
tree installed. Man at Christmas
tree valve. Large pump working
the well. Storage tanks and operating
pumps.
221108
17:03:12 - 17:03:54
1952
usa SD B/W News In Brief: New York
Eisenhower &
Mamie photocall at home around Christmas tree w/ grandchildren Dwight David
II, Barbara Ann & baby Susan - kids play w/ train set - little Dwight
kisses Mamie under mistletoe.
221311 22:08:09 - 22:14:08 1953 USA Col Sd
A Christmas Gift
Encyclopaedia Britannica
22:08:16 Store window w/ toy car & figures on cotton blanket. Feet of
man decorating window putting more toys in window; he puts hands over ears
as hears & sees screetching wagon pulled by Linda & brother Jerry
to take toys to fire station for donation. POV following wagon. Man comes
out & oils the wheel.
22:09:22 Int. of fire station w/ engines lined up (shot fromlow angle. Firemen
working on toys, shows Linda a doll & admires her mittens. Walks thru
new gifts to leave the older toys.
22:10:38 Fire alarm & firemen slide down pole, get clothes & onto
truck & leave.
22:11:25 1950s home interior & mother gets up to let them in. Linda forgot
her mittens.
22:11:55 Linda at piano at school ready to play but hands stiff from cold.
Kids sing jingle bells & play tamborines. Get surprise gifts; Linda gets
a red truck. Back to the station to look for mittens but firemen ha put on
tree w/ as a gift.
22:13:33 Creche, Christmas morning at home; Linda gets up & goes to Christmas
tree; she gets white fur muff. The End. (GOOD Color)
220290
06:39:04 - 06:40:06
1956
USA sd B/W Savings Bond Trailer - Rock
Hudson on Christmas Savings Bonds
Ext. Rock Hudson
home with mail box in FG
Car arrives Hudson
says hello
Hudson exits &
removes Christmas tree from trunk whilst promoting US Savings bonds. Public
Service announcement; Government Treasury Bonds;
220796
16:37:35 - 16:38:34
1958
USA SD B/W Washington DC - Season's Greetings
From Embassy Tots
Diplomatic Corps
kids give Season's Greetings wearing national costumes. All sing Christmas
Carol.
221041
22:28:25 - 22:38:15
1960
USA SD COL Teenage Christmas
[Part 1]
Sign 'Trinity Church
- Tonight! Youth Meeting 7:00pm'. INT
church hall - vars teenagers preparing mannequins and costumes for nativity
scene - some moaning about time spent - 'Hey, if we got finished tomorrow
maybe we could have a skating party down at the lake!'.
22:30:28 Teenager Sue at home w/ mother - 'you've
no idea how much time that nativity scene is taking'; Mother shows Sue greeetings
card & reads inscription 'May the joys of Christmas be with you' - 'Maybe
you should send one of these to yourself'.
22:31:41 Teenagers preparing nativity scene outside
church; two small kids start asking questions - shooed away 'we're awful busy'.
22:33:45 Two of the teenagers decorating large
Christmas tree - mother admires tree & they discuss perils of Christmas
shopping - 'the way people push and shove to get up to the counter - they
remind me of animals' - 'I wonder if they haven't forgotten the real meaning
of Christmas'. Girl receives
upsetting phone call from church secretary; 'somebody's been throwing snowballs
at our nativity scene'.
22:36:19 Three teenagers examine wrecked nativity
scene -'they've even taken Mary's costume...it's sacreligious'. Two kids they shooed away seen running
off - one persuades the other two not to act rashly and they decide to go
to the kid's house to explain the meaning of Christmas.
221041
22:38:16 - 22:47:58
1960
USA SD COL Teenage Christmas
[Part 2]
Teenagers arrive
at the kids' house; mother out, older sister apologises for the mess; refuses
to believe little brother and sister would have stolen Mary's costume and
vandalised the nativity scene. Kids
out, deny stealing at first until Sue explains relevance of the costume -
little girls takes it out from under chair wrapped in newspaper - stole it
because 'Mommy needed a new dress'. Kids sent to their rooms - 'l'l deal with you later' - teenagers
take some responsibility for not taking time to answer kids questions about
the nativity - damage can be fixed - 'We're more interested in trying to fix
up how your brother and sister feel toward us - and Christmas'. Invite them all to the church Christmas
programme - 'I'm not interested'.
22:43:15 Sister explains lack of interest - mother
working all hours, no money etc. 'God
cares - he cares so much he gave us a very wonderful gift, his son, Jesus
Christ'.
22:44:32 Teenagers take the two kids to help clean
up nativity scene - tell them about JesusÕ birth, relevance of Christmas etc.
Kids say: 'Can we go now?'
221041
22:47:59 - 22:55:46
1960
USA SD COL Teenage Christmas
[Part 3]
Sue at home wrapping
presents by the fire - stressed out and behind schedule & due to go carol
singing. 'My friends expect certain things of me' - Mother: 'Don't you think
the Lord expects certain things as well?'
22:49:49 Teenagers in church hall singing 'Hark
the Herald Angels Sing' - Sue comes in late w/ Mitch - they see the two young
kids outside by the nativity scene - think they're going to vandalise it again
but actually showing it to their sister and explaining the Bible story. Teenagers go outside and sing 'Away in
a Manger' to them.
220464
10:23:58 - 10:31:34
1960s
USA Sd col Atom and Eve
The benefits of atomic
power. Ultra modern, futuristic
household goods and equipment.
Reel One
Reflection in metal
object doctor tending patient. Child
with ironing board and washing machine. Opening refrigerator. Girl combing hair with tiny radio by
feet. Eating popcorn with remote
control? in hand. Talking on
telephone. Radio. Christmas tree by fireplace & woman
opens present. Audio typing with
reel to reel player. Frying eggs, opening oven. Polishing nails at vanity
stand. Serving cocktails to guests.
Atomic plant. Meters and lights. Pink animated atom.
10:26:12 Title with
woman dancing. Tiny generator.
Light bulb. Woman in blue 1900s
costume then 1930s costume. Dams
and hydroelectricity. Turbines.
Electric towers. Railway station. Aerial view city. Woman in blue dances. Atomic generating stations. Stills aerial views New England industry.
Woman looks into microscope and dances with light bulb. Map shows North
East USA regions covered by Connecticut Yankee Electricity Company. Woman dances i n living room amidst furniture. 10:30:02 Exterior
power plants. Voice over re depletion of conventional fuel. 10:30:39 Oil &
pipeline & transportation. Train carriages. Woman dances by graph.
Names of companies pooled in Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company.
220878
12:31:26 - 12:32:41
1961
USA SIL B/W [Christmas Savings Bond Advert]
Blonde woman to camera
in living room with Christmas tree.
Puts saving bond on toy train which passes increasingly large houses
with future dates signposted to indicate profits reaped.
200565
12:02:10 - 12:02:57
1965
USA Sd B/W Christmas Chopping - 'Cut Your
Own Tree' Sends Folks To Woods
Women & children
up hillside of Christmas tree farm.
Families cut their own fir trees for Christmas. Woman & three kids load into back
of stationwagon. Wave good by.
200565
12:13:19 - 12:14:18
1965
USA Sd B/W A Christmas Message by Walter
Brennan
Walter Brennan standing
surrounded by Christmas presents; says (SoF) he would like to receive envelope
containing United States Savings Bonds. Buy Bonds for Xmas appeal. Decorations around. 'And Merry Christmas To You.'
Government Promotion;
Loans; Economics; Christian Religious Holidays;
221052
03:03:59 - 03:15:19
1968
USA; OUTER SPACE
Sd col NASA - Debrief
Apollo 8 - Introduction [Part
2]
INCLUDING:
03:09:28 - 03:13:17 Christmas Eve - night shots street scenes - neon lights, xmas
trees, shop windows - moving news flash / zip re Apollo 8 - Newspapers - VO
Bob Hope comments on space flight. Surface
of the moon - long tracking shots.
221348
07:43:13 - 07:46:25
1968
USA si B/W [NASA material: Houston command
centre & Successful Apollo VIII Return]
INCLUDING:
Houston
Space Center press room, reporters at tables filing reports over phonelines;
typewriters. TV sets goin. Christmas wreaths hanging on openreel tape mchines.
Styrofoam Sanata Claus. Man smoking & listening to small transistor rdio.
Others w/pipes & cigarettes. Signs: No Admittance Working Press Only.
Visitors' Entrance Eat Door.
221348
07:43:25 - 07:58:53
1968
USA si B/W Apollo VIII Houston Control Center Activity & Christmas
Cake Decorations
INCLUDING:
07:46:25 Slte: 25 Dec68 Merry Christmas MOCR Apollo 8. Control room activity, men walking about, at desks, CU. Various views. MCU of men talking in groups.
07:50:08 Sign: Merry Christmas to BlackTeam & F/C Division from Network Controllers and F/S Division. NASA Christmas cake w/greetings on icing. Cake rolled in& cut, passed around. Control room activity.
221052
03:15:20 - 03:25:35
1968
USA; OUTER SPACE
Sd col Apollo 8
INCLUDING:
Surface
of moon - VO astronauts' Christmas message to America - read from Bible -
The Creation, Genesis - 'From the crew of Apollo 8 we close with good night,
good luck and Merry Christmas - and God bless all of you on the good Earth'.
220354
14:44:40 - 14:49:04
1980s
Germany, England
SD COL&B/W [Military
Postal Service]
Air Force Now
INCLUDING:
14:47:29 Staff loads mail bags onto conveyor belts
& into planes. Staff talk
re mail volume at Christmas time & pixillation mail bags piling up in
chute.
POV shots motorway
or autobahn in Germany.
Sign: 'mail is up'. Man finds letter in pigeonhole.
Still illustration
reindeers w/ caption re Christmas mail.
220612
10:17:35 - 10:19:35
1988 06Dec88 USA SD COL [President Reagan
& Nancy Light National Christmas Tree]
06Dec88 Nancy wearing festive red and carrying
dog with President Ronald Reagan standing next to Christmas tree. Reagan talks re Jewish and Christian festivities
- 'Judeo-Christian tradition' of US. Reads poem. Presses
button to light Christmas tree [not seen].
LN 504-149 21:27:35 - 21:29:45
194? B/W
Sd
Snowtime Serenade - Sly Old Gentleman
w/ Gloria Jean, The Milt Herth Trio, The Sportsmen, Lee, Lynn & Lou
Alpine Octet
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS
MUST BE CLEARED!
Gloria Jean in front of mirror singing That Sly Old Gentleman, w/ Christmas
decorations on dresser.
21:28:58 Dissolve to snow
& mountains & stock footage montage of winter skiing, skating, bobsledding,
etc. 21:29:15 Interior of lodge & large number of
couples & band dancing around tables & singing Jingle Bells.
Ln 504-149 21:29:45 -
21:32:34
194? B/W
Sd
Snowtime Serenade - Winter Wonderland
w/ Gloria Jean, The Milt Herth Trio, The Sportsmen, Lee, Lynn & Lou
Alpine Octet
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS
MUST BE CLEARED!
Hands open curtains to snow on trees; Three young women singing: Walking In A Winter Wonderland in front
of people at tables in lodge, w/ accordion player. Applause.
21:31:12 Man at piano playing
chopsticks, then drums & double-keyboard organ playing (Milt Heath Trio)
to same group at tables in ski lodge. CU foot pedals. Applause.
XLN
505-019 00:22:40 - 00:33:46
1956
Austria
SD COL The String Choir
(Second Edition)
Encyclopaedia Brittanica
- Prod. in Vienna w/ Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Narration describes
the string choir and what makes constitutes it. Double bass, violin cello, violas, violins. Various shots of musicians and groups. Playing CorelliÕs Christmas Concerto w/
harpsichord.
00:26:3? Playing Mozart. Plucking violins, changing tone, etc.
Other instruments playing Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance w/o out strings.
XLN
505-068 19:23:21 - 19:34:10
1957
USA SD COL Children In Winter
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Films
INCLUDING:
19:23:21
- 19:31:17 Slow travelling shot down frosty suburban street. Young kids Jerry & Jane play outside
their house, now covered in snow - Jane picks up a huge icicle - snow too
dry to make snowmen so Jerry goes to get sled - kids look at buds on plants.
Jerry pulls Jane on sled w/ dalmation Sparky - father pulls both kids
on sled down steet to Christmas tree market.
19:26:55 Choosing a Christmas tree - display in
snow w/ sign 'Selected Nova Scotia Christmas Trees Here' - kids look at spruce
& pine trees - pull chosen tree home on sled. January: Jerry clears path through heavy snow from house to
street ('that's a chore for boys').
Sparky the dalmatian in deep snow - sees birds & rabbit. INT kids in house w/ mother - look out
window at snow - mother dresses kids warmly & they go out sledding. Jane & friends skate on frozen school
playground. Jerry & friends
sledding down slope - good shots of smiling kids.
X221158
19:51:05 - 20:00:48
1948
USA SD COL Winter On The Farm
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Films
INCLUDING:
19:51:05 - 19:55:34 December - Young kids Joan & Jerry Johnson out of farmhouse
in snow notice animal tracks - rabbit nearby. Kids get axe & sled from shed, go
to cut down Christmas tree. Fox
in snow. Jerry pulls Joan on
sled. Deer fawn in woods. Jerry chops down small tree - VO 'Joan
thinks Jerry is a good woodsman'. Kids
pull tree back on sled.
XLN
505-137 12:31:33 - 12:46:47
1953
USA SD COL The American Revolution
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Films
INCLUDING:
12:36:43
- 12:40:29 Cannon firing
montage. Portrait of British
evacuation of Boston. Map shows
defeat of Washington's troops; actor dressed as Washington writes in journal,
blows candle out; British-paid mercenaries celebrate Christmas, windows smashed
to represent attack.
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