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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221506-09
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1918
Country: Germany,Russia,USA
Location: Berlin,DC,New York City,NYC,Washington
TC Begins: 00:58:02
TC Ends: 01:10:44
Duration: 00:12:42
WWI - US Politicians; Post-WWI Berlin; Demonstrations; Draft Drawing; Pro-American Demonstration Title: “Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels sails for Europe on SS Leviathan. Hoboken, NJ, 15Mar19. Posing on gangway w/ military officers. 00:59:06 LS & pan over large daytime crowd as Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo & Daniels w/ families singing Christmas carols on Treasury steps, 1918. 01:00:16 Unid man into sedan. MCU of first Sec. of Commerce, William C. Redfield (1913-1919) at desk talking on telephone. Sorts papers & signs some. Agriculture Sec. David Houston (1913-1920) smoking cigar at desk, signing papers. 01:01:16 Column in Berlin street; large Hindenburg statue. Soldiers walk w/ children; people , wagons & carts thru Brandenburg Gate; large crowds thru toward camera, from above, soldiers. Soldiers & civilians w/ kids. 01:01:57 Soldiers watching man walking slack rope in front of barracks (?) as Russian (?) musicians play stringed instruments. Russian soldier dancing as others watch. Largely empty Brandenburg square. 01:02:33 Airmen at field; woman in coveralls & goggles. High angle of crowd in front of ?? w/ Red flag, placards & military band. Many men marching in demonstration filling street of large buildings (Germany?). US flag on building (may or may not relate). 01:04:05 Front of concrete building w/ damaged entrance arch; women & kids lined up waiting for food, soldiers standing around. Passed thru small window. Women & kids pose in snow; eating hot soup. 01:05:18 War Secretary & Mrs. Baker & 3 children in front of house look at roses. Baker & Navy Sec. Daniels look at big war posters. Artists Capt. Cronhardt, Pvt. Roesch & Pvt. Tobin pose in front. MCU Baker & Daniels, shake artists hands. 01:07:29 Sec. of State Robert Lansing (1915-1920) at desk, on telephone, signing papers. 01:08:19--03:08:54 Upside down shot. 01:08:55 Sec. of War Baker blindfolded drawing first draft number, 246. Woman drawing numbers & man writing on board. 01:10:11 German-Hungarian Draft Parade. Pro-American German-American demonstration w/ US flag, placards on Fifth Avenue up from Washington Square Monument. “The United States Is Our Fatherland, We Know No Other”; “Born In Germany, Made In America”. Marching band. GOOD Post-WW1 Famine; Ethnic;