A film dramatizes the rise of Nazi party and corresponding life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. A Nazi flag being hoisted. A German couple seated. Two men talk in a street. A Nazi brownshirt harangues civilians on a street. People listen to him and do not unite to object. Karl, a farmer, listens. He tills a piece of land. Nazi officers close down a shop. A man works in an ammunition factory. He returns home from work. His children are eating food. German equipment and troops on advance. The ammunition factory worker joins the German Army and leaves for the war front. He kisses his wife as he bids goodbye. German troops loaded onto a truck advance. Artillery is fired and infantry advances ahead. German troops fight against the Allies in Stalingrad, Soviet Union and Normandy, France.
Mansions and buildings in Newport, Rhode Island. A rocky shore and a driveway. Large buildings in a business district. Automobiles on a street. Pedestrians milling about on the street. A bunting draped house. Exteriors of a church and an inn. A streetcar moves on the road in front of the hotel or inn. A horse drawn carriage passes by and and numerous early model cars on a street. Exterior view outside the gate and inside the gate of "The Breakers" mansion owned by the wealthy Vanderbilt family. Traffic moving past he gated entrance to the mansion.
African American education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. College male African American singers around a piano practice a capella singing. An elderly female conductor conducts music. The woman conductor is seated at a piano with sheet music in front of her. The men sing (possibly gospel music or spirituals).
A film by the Harmon Foundation titled "African American education for American living: Art in the African American schools" about academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. A map of the United States depicts the proportion of African Americans to the total population as one out of every 10 persons. Next are a series of close-up views of various African American people of all ages. Well-dressed, college aged Black men and women are shown. An African American woman and man farmer are shown in an agricultural setting. The man holds a young girl. Close-up views of African American boy and girl as they smile in a school classroom. A map of the United States locates places of African American education in the country. Another map locates centers of African American education. Scene changes to a studio art class at Howard University in Washington DC. A class of young women and men paint a subject who is posing in the front of the room, wearing traditional African clothing. Professor Lois Mailou Jones instructs and advises a male student artist. Various portraits made by students depicting a man in African clothing. College students paint pottery. Male African American Students place ceramic pottery in a furnace as a male professor describes operation of the furnace. A young black woman paints a ceramic ware.
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. A water front and the Mississippi River. View of Exchange Alley. A street car and automobile traffic in Royal Street. Cars and horse drawn wagons around Lee Circle on St. Charles Street. Pedestrians and a mule drawn wagon in Old French market. Exteriors of the old Cabildo as a car pulls up at its entrance.
A film about a school in Pittsford, Vermont, where citizens undertake a democratic effort to start a hot lunch program for students. Students of a variety of ages seated in a school classroom, as a teacher talks at the front of the room near the black board. Children go to an area of the room to pickup lunch bags that they brought from home. At lunch time, students eat lunch. A teacher, Mrs. Croft, and her husband who is the janitor also eat lunch. They think of providing hot lunch to the students. Mrs. Croft and her husband walk out of the school house as they discuss about getting a stove to provide hot lunch to students. They meet Mrs. Davis, a student's mother. They talk about the need of hot lunch. Mrs. Davis convinces other parents. Parents of the students attend a meeting at the school. Mrs. Croft asks for their help to provide hot lunch to the boys and girls at school. Mr. William, superintendent of the school, says that an increase in taxes can lead to a hot lunch.
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