Berlin Olympics: torch lit; Jesse Owens winning race
With the 'Anschluss', the annexation of Austria, Hitler created a Greater Germany. Here, the Nazi dictator's arrival in Vienna is greeting by cheering crowds.
Scenes in Changchung after Japanese victory in first battle of the war with China: Shows buildings destroyed by shells. Japanese pay homage to their dead.
Shanghai: Thousands demonstrate with flags and banners as Japan has declared war on China. Troops search civilians. Crowds run along train platform as they flee the city. More demos and troops disperse crowd.
Japanese troops carrying flag march into city as children watch. Rooftops of city and street scenes. Japanese army ride on horseback. Burning buildings and injured troops taken from trenches on stretchers.
London Underground Bombs (1939): 7 Injured after explosions at Leicester Square and Tottenham Court Road Tube Stations - IRA suspected: exterior Leicester Square tube; wreckage inside.
Amelia Earhart, aviatrix, starts flight to England from US 1932): take-off; in flight; arrival in Londonderry; surrounded by crowds; in flight to England; interview in England.
Southwark Bombs (1939): 11 bomb outrages - IRA suspected: damaged power station; damaged pub; clearing up; shop windows broken.
National Government formed under Ramsey Macdonald to deal with budget deficit: Shows crowds in Downing St. Shows Ramsey Macdonald leave to see King. Labour MPs Margaret Bondfield, Arthur Henderson and Arthur Lansbury into 10 Downing St. Macdonald is heard answering press questions - 27 August 1931.
Opening session of newly formed National Government creates intense public interest in Westminster - 7 Sept 1931: Shows hundreds of people outside Houses of Parliament and MP's including Ramsey Macdonald walking through crowds. Demonstrators with banners saying 'Hands off wages' and 'To heel with the Royal Commission' and line of police.
PM Ramsey Macdonald returns to Lossiemouth his scottish birthplace 'for a rest' after the General Election- 9 Nov 1931: Shows crowd waving as Macdonald walks through. Children pull his car along. Macdonald speaks to the people of Elgin standing on a bench in front of large crowd. With hands on lapels he says he's very tired and 'Rome was not built in a day'.
