Fountain and pool in front of U.S. Capitol. Washington Monument in Washington DC, United States. Voice of America Headquarters, Wilbur J. Cohen Building, 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC. News editorial and newsroom staff busy writing materials for broadcast Teletype tapes being cut by journalist. Banks of teletype machines receiving news from all over the world. VOI staff person assembles incoming story from teletype machine printer. Vast files of VOI broadcast tape recordings related to many countries. One file rack is labeled: Lao, Thai, Cambodia. Staff member retrieves tapes while another signs for some.
Newsreel titled 'America's pledge of Allegiance'. A huge crowd of about 500,000 citizens of the United States assemble at Central Park in New York. Among the crowd dignitaries, sailors, military and police officials can also be seen. A person addresses the assembly. U.S. National Flag is hoisted. A speaker at the podium recites the Pledge of Allegiance and the crowd repeats after him.
Men digging and laying out pineapple fields. Farmers planting pineapples. Farm Tractors used in pineapple plantation work. Harvesting farm workers carry baskets of pineapples on their heads, and then unload the harvested pineapples in a central area with a truck nearby for transport. Close-up views of the planting and harvesting process for pineapples.
Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Shows a U.S. Navy fleet stuck in the ice in Antarctica at "Little America." Coast Guard Icebreaker Northwind and landing crafts break and loosen the ice. The fleet is freed and gets underway. Aircraft are prepared for exploration missions. Cameras including K17 models,film reels and other photographic apparatus are loaded aboard aircraft. Radar magnetic detectors are mounted on the plane to detect minerals under the ice. Aircraft takes off. Shows Admiral Richard E. Byrd aboard an aircraft flying above Antarctic glacier. He drops a boxed U.S. flag from the plane's window.
History of the circus in North America. Scenes of drawings, sketches, still photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding the circus. Cites George Washington donating a horse to the circus. Discussion of18th Century English circus organizer, John Bill Ricketts, and a newspaper clipping promoting his circus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sketch of his circus hall in Philadelphia. Scenes and information about P.T. Barnum and the famous elephant Jumbo, and singer Jenny Lind, known as "the Swedish Nightingale." Drawing of men with rings standing on stools. Drawing of a cab in front of a building. Promotional sign for the Central Park Menagerie and International Circus Company. Vintage footage with scenes of a Ringling Brother Barnum and Bailey circus train arriving in a city circa late 1920s, pulled by a steam locomotive. Circus performers. Crowds of circus goers milling near a Side Shows entrance sign. A clown inflating the clothes of another clown to a giant size. Chimpanzee rides an elephant and a donkey stands near its foal. Lions, hippos, giraffes, dogs in the circus. Large crowd present during the circus viewing elephant, horse and lion show of the circus. Scenes of the circus parade processing around the big top tent. A tamer handling a female lion (tamer appears to be Clyde Beatty). A male lion walking on high wire parallel tightrope.
Streets of Manhattan New York City crowded with pedestrians prior to World War II. Views of Americans at work: miners; farmers; factory workers; office workers. A drafting room. Montage of inventions in America: lightning rod atop roof; cotton gin in operation; telegrapher using a key; anesthetists in operating theater; rotary newspaper printing press; a telephone; an arc welder; early incandescent lamp; early submarines; steam turbine; 4-engine high wing airliner; early X-ray tube; gyroscope compass; singer sewing machine; early television; farmer hooks cows to mechanical milking machine, cat expresses dismay at not getting milk; architectural draftsmen at work; rows of apartment buildings; automobiles crowding roads; sanitation street sweeper truck at work; eggs and dairy products in refrigerated case; Surgical team in an operating theater; Scenes in a modern U.S. hospital; children being cared for, and in schools and colleges; Soldiers marching during World War I; U.S. soldiers marching in World War II; people relaxing on crowded beach; recreational hunting and fishing activity; A football game in progress; a baseball game; horseracing; track & field events; a rodeo; a basketball game; golfing; Ten pin bowling; boys play marbles; frog jumping contest; skiing; springboard diving; motorboat racing; water skiing;ice skaters with sails; Joe Louis boxing with Max Schmeling in 1938; auto racing with cars crashing; Railroad timetables in a rack; Henry Dreyfuss Commodore Vanderbilt New York Central locomotive and interior of dining car; 1935 Chevrolet sedan pulling a trailer; Road sign "Arizona welcomes you"; Motorcycle policeman pulls driver over; roadside motor hotel; girl serving at drive-in diner; signs for hot dogs, beer, cheesburgers; workers preparing sandwiches, pancakes,bacon and eggs, coffee and coca cola, using some machinery; Customers eating at a lunch counter; Welcome sign at Van Nuys California with symbols for Kiwanis, American Legion, Rotary; a Delta Sigma Phi fraternity building. Scene of a person's hand signing a membership certificate document for the Calibou Lake Mountain Club.
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