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Grounds, buildings, stores and power generation facilities at Fordlandia in Brazil
Views of the facilities at Fordlândia, a rubber plantation and processing facility in Brazil, built and operated by Ford Motor Company to supply rubber to Ford manufacturing. A group of Brazilian rubber tree workers comes out of the woods and is walking on roads of Fordlandia. View of houses and roads. People standing in a corridor. People shopping at a store that sales cigars and various other items. View of the power generation facilities and warehouse and industrial buildings of Fordlandia. A large water tower with 'Ford' written on it. Machinery under shelter near the water tower. A worker adjusting power generation equipment below the water tower. Water running into a tank below the water tower. (Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).
Meeting of United Nations Security Council at Lake Success, New York.
Officials and visitors seen in audience, during meeting of United Nations Security Council, at Lake Success, New York (During timeframe that large UN General Assembly had been meeting at Flushing Meadows, New York.) Camera men record event from booth above meeting hall. Close up view of camera man operating motion picture camera in recording booth. Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union sits next to Polish delegate, Ludwik Rajchman. Press photographers take pictures of people in the audience, including two fashionable women in 1940s fashions including fur coats. Joao Carlos Muniz, of Brazil, is seen with bandages on his face. He chats with Australian delegate, Herbert Vere Evatt. USA delegate, Edward Stettinius is seen, next to Sir Alexander Cadogan of the United Kingdom.
Brazilian troops prepare to fight against Nazis with alliance of U.S. troops during World War 2
Brazil enters World War II against Germany. Map of Brazil shown. Crowds gather on the streets of Rio de Janeiro as war is declared. German embassy is closed for safety of Brazil. Stores and shops are closed in Axis countries. Axis ships are confiscated at sea. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President of Brazil Getúlio Dornelles Vargas meet and sign documents of alliance between two nations. Lend-lease military equipment is unloaded from ships. U.S. and Brazilian pilots meet. U.S. pilots give training to Brazilian pilots. Planes take off. Brazilian pilots fly trainer planes to Brazil from the U.S. Flags of Brazil at mast. Brazilian airplanes take off for patrolling the coast. Brazilian ships depart from Brazilian shipyard. Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas promises to defend the coast of Brazil. Ships underway at sea. U.S. sailors stand at attention aboard a ship at a Brazilian port. Workers work in an ordnance factory. Brazilian armed forces and U.S. troops march parade. Military equipment pass on road.
Eurico Gaspar Dutra being sworn in as the new President of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The swearing-in ceremony of Brazil's new President Eurico Gaspar Dutra in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Eurico Gaspar Dutra acclaimed as the new President of Brazil. Aircraft carrier USS Franklin D Roosevelt (CV-42) arrives for the ceremony, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay with Sugarloaf Mountain in the background. Aircraft in flight overhead. The Mayor of New York, Fiorello Henry La Guardia also arrives for the ceremony. Mayor LaGuardia along with other officials coming out of an aircraft. People gather in a large number to greet him. Officials gather at the congress for the ceremony. Eurico Dutra along with officials arrive in a car at the Palace (Palacio Tiradentes). Eurico Gaspar Dutra being sworn in as the President of Brazil in the Hall of Congress after being handed over the reins by provisional President Jose Linhares. The new President, the first in Brazil elected by direct popular vote, shakes hands with other officials and dignitaries.
Women voters in the United States participating with the League of Women Voters.
Women Voters' League meeting. Guest speaker from Brazil talks to league meeting attendees. Narrator comments on the work of the women's suffrage movement in the United States that led to this point. Women in classes sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Male instructor at world globe. Female instructor demonstrates how to mark a ballot. Woman at store newsstand buys a newspaper. Children in street at play and in a fight. View of a slum area and of abandoned, blighted property with eroded land in front. Labor picket line and picket holding and men in a fight during a picket line demonstration. Grain truck with sign 'UNRRA' and "Mercy Wheat" sign on it. Mayor of New York Fiorello Laguardia with unidentified man at a factory. View of United Nations General assembly in meeting. Men and women meet at home. They vote by a show of hands. Woman writes letter and so does a man. Woman places letter in mail box. Woman hands letters to a Senator. Senator reads letters. (World War II period).
Riots in Brazil as Joao Goulart is ousted from Presidency of Brazil in coup d'état
Joao Goulart ousted as the President by an army rebellion (coup d'état) in Brazil. Protesters on street with banners in hand. Joao Goulart disembarks from an aircraft. Soviets at a trade show in Brazil. Runaway inflation or hyper-inflation and worker discontent led to riots in Brazil. Rioters damage shops on the streets in Brazil.
