Laborers work in Chromite mines in the Philippine islands. Country scene- Philippine landscape. Small power plant outside Manila. Turbines. Chromite Mines in Masonite. Filipino laborers load chromite ore on Evalial ship "Farnmoor". Ore bucket being loaded by laborers. American engineer and Swedish captain watch loading, Swedish flag on the stern. Ore buckets move past rail roads.
Benguet Gold mining company in the Philippine islands. Judge Haussmann, American mining tycoon in his office in Manila with his chief clerk Mr. Duggleby. Benguet consolidated Gold Mining Company, Baguio. Several views of a mine. Miners coming and going from work. Miners leave shaft housing. Ore buckets being carried by miners. Interiors of a mine. Miners enter and leave cages. Miners drill with air blowers and pneumatic drills. Pouring melted gold into bullion molds.
Balatoc Gold mining company in the Philippine islands. Balatoc Gold mining Co., Baguio. Various views of mines and buildings. Ore buckets pass along a rope way. Ore train leaves a mine. Sign: 'Balatoc Mining Company'. Ore buckets being carried via railroads. Judge Haussmann, American mining tycoon in his office in Manila with his chief clerk Mr. Duggleby.
A formation of French motor gunboats underway at sea. Several Bretagne-class dreadnought battleships. Some minelayers and formation of aircraft overhead. A a group of triple stacker destroyers. Bretagne class battleship underway at hight speed.The dreadnaught battleship Richelieu in rough seas and later firing her 8 forward guns.
A German Königsberg-class light cruiser prepares to depart from a dock in Germany. Many civilians are on hand to wave goodbye to the crew who line the ship's railing. View from aircraft overhead, at the cruiser underway slowly, in calm waters. Scene shifts to the German submarine, U-45, speeding on the surface and creating a notable bow wave. Crew members are seen on the boat's conning tower. Final view of the U-45 is from a low flying bi-wing aircraft (possibly an Arado 95 float plane).
The last portion of Emma Lazarus’sonnet,"The New Colossus," is shown as engraved on a tablet inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrations of immigrants arriving and felling trees to build dwellings in America. Reenactments of early English, Scottish, and Dutch settlers building houses and working at crafts in New England. Italian sulphur mine workers in Louisiana. Immigrants, from France and Switzerland, planting vineyards in California and New York State. Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, sowing seed and cultivating crops in the Midwest. Polish and Welsh immigrants in American coal mines. African Americans harvesting cotton on farm fields in the United States south, including a woman picking cotton with her baby riding on her long collecting bag. A Spaniard on horseback in the Southwest. Mexicans working in Texas oil fields and on ranches of New Mexico. Greek and Portuguese fishermen with huge catches of fish. A German technician working with fine instruments. Hungarian and Russian immigrants working in steel mills. Irish, Slavs, and Chinese, building railroads. Closeup of lumberjack's axes and saws cutting trees. A forge and a blacksmith shoeing a horse with horseshoes. A woman at work with a spinning wheel. Railroad ties and rails being placed. An antique railroad workman's locomotive and car. Men installing telegraph wire on rough poles. A early historic railroad 0-4-0 steam locomotive (appears to be one of the few replicas of "The Atlantic" which had been built in the 1830s) pulling a single small passenger train car. Cowboys on horseback rounding up steers. Herds of cattle,sheep, and pigs, bound to market. Farmers tilling soil with horse-drawn cultivators, preparing tobacco leaves for drying, and loading cotton bales. Machines spinning thread in a textile mill or factory. Fabric weaving machines at work. An early steam boat underway in a river. Early model automobile driving on dirt road. Wright Brothers' Wright Flyer airplane in flight with several persons on board. Early tractors and harvester machinery working on a farm. Glimpses of American industrial plants and transportation in rapid succession (some of it showing building of Hoover Dam and building of the Chrysler Building in New York City). Oil well drilling and a "gusher" oil well spouting oil upward. Steel mills, locomotive trains, and then a scientist in a laboratory working with beakers and a solution. Dynamite charges blasting away sides of mountains and gorges, and scenes of dam construction and dams opening to allow water gushing. Large electrical control levers being thrown to run electricity, and scenes of electric transmission towers and facilities. Natural gas storage areas. Golden Gate bridge under construction and high rise skyscraper buildings being constructed, including the Chrysler Building circa 1930 while still under construction in New York City. Aerial view of New York City. Camera panning over the gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery.
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