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Amateur film shot by Major John ("Jack") Churchill, brother of Winston Churchill, records their visit to the USA in 1929.
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New York: G.vs of New York. Titles: MMFE Guest's House, Long Island. Winston Churchill talking to two ladies. Winston Churchill outside a large house with a group of men and women. Central Park, US Airship over New York, Ocean Liner (S.S Berengaria ?) G.vs of New York from the Equitable Life building, Broadway, Flat Iron Building.
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Tour of American Civil War historic sites: The Seven Days Meeting Place of Lee and Jackson Walnut Grove g.vs of house. Federal Position Gain's Mill g.vs of Mill. Trenches made in 1862 Looking at Trenches in a wooded area. Sign reading: White Oak Swamp. The Sunken Road Fredericksburg g.v of road. Marye's Heights g.v of building with columns. Cemetery - graves (white crosses). Bloody Angle Spotsylvania - two men by memorials surrounded by iron fencing. Jackson's Monument, Chancellorsville - man by monument.
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Washington, The White House g.vs of the White House. Washington Monument. The Capitol
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Tour of American Civil War historic sites - continued: Gettysburg from Seminary Ridge - cannons.
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Cemetery Ridge, Scene of Pickett's Charge - g.vs of monument. Little Round Top. Monument and Hill
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Devil's Den g.vs Countryside, camera pans.
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Mr [Joseph] Widener's House [outside Philadelphia] - mansion [of art collector and co-founder of National Gallery, Washington] Bethlehem Steel Works - Factory and steam train, smokey chimneys
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Yale versus West Point 80,000 People - American Football match, g.vs of huge crowd
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New York: Wall Street, 18 October 1929. Crowds of people outside Wall Street. [Wall Street Crash was 29 October 1929]
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Leaving New York in mist - g.v of New York skyline in mist, Statue of Liberty - presumably filmed from ocean liner. S.S Berengaria (?) g.vs on board Cunard ocean liner [German vessel transferred to Britain as reparation for sinking of Lusitania].
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16mm
