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Flashbacks show USS Wakefield being christened as SS Manhattan, and famous passengers aboard in the early 1930s
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield during World War II) in the United States. Flashbacks show the USS Manhattan being christened by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt on 5th December 1931. It is seen being launched from New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden New Jersey. View of maiden voyage on 10th August 1932, with passengers boarding the ship. It leaves a port for her first trip to Ireland, England, Germany and France. Couples dance aboard the deck of the SS Manhattan. Passengers including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Walker, Glenn Cunningham, and aviator Douglas Corrigan ("Wrong Way Corrigan") seen aboard the ship.
President of the Executive Council of Ireland Eamon del Valera meets cabinet chiefs in London, England.
President of the Executive Council of Ireland Eamon del Valera in London, England. Eamon del Valera and English cabinet chiefs come out of a building after a meeting. Del Valera shakes hands with cabinet chiefs. He leaves in a car. Car moves down a road as civilians look on.
Cardinal Lorenzo Lauri present in the huge procession during 31st Eucharist Congress at Phoenix Park, Dublin Ireland.
A huge procession during 31st Eucharistic Congress of Dublin at Phoenix Park (The Whitefields, Phoenix Park, Dublin, D08 KDC4). The procession includes Cardinal Lorenzo Lauri, the papal legate. Cardinals wear scarlet and Bishops wear royal purple dresses. Uniformed troopers of the Free State Forces are also present. About 200,000 people gathered to attend the High Mass.
Amelia Earhart spans the Atlantic in her record breaking flight.
America's first woman aviator Amelia Earhart poses near her Lockhead-Vega airplane after her record breaking flight to Culmore, London from Derry, Ireland. It took her 15 hours and 40 minutes to span the Atlantic. Earhart enters her plane and takes off.
A panorama showing Irish countryside and various cities and people of Ireland in the mid 1940's.
A panorama of the Irish countryside, sheep grazing. A map of Ireland is seen. Crowds, double decker buses, and vehicles on city streets of Belfast Northern Ireland. Statue of Lord Carson at Parliament. Activities in linen industry. Riveters and welders at work in a shipyard. Protestant Orangemen seen. A painting revering the King and Queen of England. Orangemen in dress costume in a July 12 annual parade celebrating victory at Battle of the Boyne. Custom officials on the Eire Northern Ireland border. Narrator talks about the recently independent Eireann and its people who are independent in thought and speech. Irish farmers with horse carts loaded head down a road. Farmers and business men talk in streets of Ireland and strike deals. Horses and carts among the men. An Irish boy standing with a group of sheep. Pastures and bucolic and scenic views of farms and villages in rural Ireland. Men and women spinning wool and weaving using traditional hand spinning wheels and traditional old loom methods.
Countryside and Infrastructure developmental activities in Ireland.
Exterior of an Irish Government Building in Dublin. Prime MInister Eamon de Valera addresses officials. Views of country side in Ireland. Irish ham and bacon and care and raising of pigs and cows on farms. Farmers plowing in fields, and peat is mined with large harvesting machines and cut into briquettes. Activities in beer brewing (Guiness wooden barrels seen lined up at a brewery) and auto industry with a Ford assembly line in Cork Ireland. New cars on the assembly line being assembled by Irish workers. A Dunlop rubber processing plant in Cork Ireland. Rubber boots being manufactured at the Dunlop plant. The Shannon hydroelectic scheme power project in Limerick region of Ireland; views of the power plant and the river Shannon from which it draws power. View of the hydroelectric dam. Men working atop a large electric transmission tower. Women examine an electric table top mixer for the kitchen. A woman using an electric iron on clothes, and a view of an electric waffle maker and toaster. Streets of Dublin busy with activity. Clocks, shirts, ties, and cutlery in shop windows of Dublin, along with blankets and other goods all made in Ireland. Physicians and nurses gather in a surgical theater of a hospital. Newborn baby being washed in a maternity ward. Public housing construction efforts shown transforming older thatched cottages into modern homes. Signs in ancient Gaelic are shown, recently restored as the national language of the independent Eire. Irish schoolboys enter a school building. Many have no shoes and enter the school house barefoot. A teacher instructs the school boys in the classroom.
