A Japanese student acquaints himself with American university life. Japanese student walks around the Indiana University campus (INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000). Young American student couples sitting under a tree on campus. Some of the men are reading textbooks while lying down in the grass. A young couple walking. The young man wraps his arm around his girlfriend’s waist as they walk together. A young man rests his head on his girlfriend’s lap while lying down in outdoor bench. The Japanese student heads to the campus library. Students register for classes at Indiana University. University students fill up forms at administrative office of Indiana University. Japanese student attends his first class at the university. Japanese student speaks in English with the faculty advisor. The Japanese student sits down and fills out a form. The Japanese student attends a class. Students casually chatting with each other before the start of class. A college student smoking inside the classroom. The Japanese student watch his classmate knitting as they wait for the professor. The professor starts his lecture. A student raises his hands and answers the professor’s question. The Japanese student raises his hand. He stands up and speaks to the professor in English. 1951.
Views of diesel powered bulldozer leveling off sandy field and pierced steel planking (PSP) laid down by U.S. Army workers to quickly build landing strip at Marston Strip, North Carolina, supporting Camp Hoffman airfield (later renamed Camp Mackall in 1943). A C-47D aircraft landing on the new landing strip. This was the first use of the perforated steel planking, nicknamed "Marston Mats" (or sometimes misspelled "Marsden Mats"), which were widely employed by the U.S. Army in World War 2.
This was filmed from the battleship USS Indiana, BB-58.in World War 2. Film begins with the USS Indiana making way into a port (red channel marker on her starboard side). Vought OS2U Kingfisher scout observation floatplanes parked on her stern. Numerous barrage balloons seen aloft. Change of scene to open sea. Time 01:06 to 01:18 shows the fleet oiler USS Cimarron, AO-22 fueling the USS Indiana and a destroyer. Time 01:19 to 01:25 the destroyer USS Fanning, DD-385, moving past the Indiana. Time 1:26-01:52 shows the destroyer screen, with a battleship on the horizon, covering the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, CV-3, while a formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers patrols overhead.
U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3, for conscientious objectors, administered by Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee, in the United States. Camp number 3 is Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland. Men use lawn mowers outside the camp buildings. Men work in a garden and over the camp houses. A man uses a mower. A man reads from a book. View of camp houses. Men making roof repairs. New recruits arrive at the camp.
Manufacture and storing of butter at Swift's Brookfield Creamery in Marion, Indiana. Men remove butter from a churn. The churn revolves. Machines are used to cut butter into 1 pound ( lb ) blocks. Girls wrap the butter. The girls stack the butter in piles. A butter storage room- storing of an 800 lb block.
Film titled 'Coast to Coast , in 48 hours' depicts advertisement of coast to coast trip by train and air. General W.W. Atterbury, President, Pennsylvania Railroad; Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Chairman, Technical Committee, TAT Maddux Airlines; Clement M. Keys, Chairman of the board, Transcontinental Air Transport incorporation; Daniel M. Sheaffer, Chairman, TAT inc., Executive Committee and Jack Maddux, President, TAT Maddux Airlines sit around a table. Chairman Keys introduces the other executives seated at the table and describes their novel operations carrying passengers across the American continent, from coast-to-coast, in 48 hours, by means of coordinated rail and air operations under the aegis of the Transcontinental Air Transport Company.
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