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CHRISTMAS: royalty-free footage in our collection

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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     Presidents 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 Brauns 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 principals 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 Cadillac LaSalle 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 boys 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.  Tchaikovskys  house; Tolstois 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 Hans etc.  INT Red Cross nurses prepare gift parcels for the front - crates w/ Frohe Weihnachten.  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:
Includes footage from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress

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: Finish the job: Buy victory bonds.

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 many 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 Jesus 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 Corellis 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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