Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his desk during his first term as President of the United States. Dramatization of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Dutch ancestor, Claes van Rosenvelt, working on farmland after settling down in New Amsterdam. Dramatization of Claes van Rosenvelt farming: Shows a farmer plowing a field with 2 horses pulling plow. Farmer sowing seeds on the field. Winter view of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s home since childhood, the Springwood estate in Hyde Park, New York (4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, United States).
United States currency being printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, during the Great Depression. Female employee inspecting newly printed banknotes. Women employees inspect and arrange printed currency. Americans lined up at banks. Sign says “The Terminal National Bank of Chicago is Open for Business”. Clients wait in line in front of bank teller booth. United States banknotes and coins in teller booth. Bank teller replaces deposits of clients. Enthusiastic traders at the Great Chicago Wheat Pit. A board detailing prices of commodities such as what, oats, rye, barley and flax. Wheat traders open small bags of sample grains.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt in meeting with lawmakers during the Great Depression. View of forest. A tree being felled. A Civilian Conservation Corps employee in tree after a part of it was felled. Logs being transported by train over long trestle bridge. Logs roll down to river. Civilian Conservation Corps employee surveys forest with binoculars.
Worker brushes off a pair of horses and barrels of beer. Worker transport barrels of beer. View of Broadway in New York City. Party celebrating the legalization of beer and end of Prohibition in ballrooms in New York. Couples ballroom dance as musicians play music. Lavish celebrations by wealthy citizens. Celebrations in Chicago at end of Prohibition. Nurses walking. Workmen walking. Various Americans seen working in various industries manufacturing automobiles, hats. Woman operates machine. Man working on rotating machine. Workers welding. Men digging ditch. View of steam shovel bucket scooping up dirt. United States soldiers, likely at West Point, in regalia march with American flag. Warship at sea. Flag of United States. View of U.S Capitol dome. Image of smiling Franklin Roosevelt framed by U.S. Capitol dome, with stars motif.
Challenges faced by the Allied Military Government while trying to reestablish Italian self reliance in agriculture during World War 2. Film opens showing Italian-sourced food supplies being delivered, as Narrator discusses problems of black market. He notes that Italian wheat growers who fail to declare excess grain are raided. Officials are seen entering and seizing grain from warehouse of such a grain merchant. Loaded trucks pass checkpoints set up on highways. View of official examining bill of laden from a truck being checked. Armed Italian Carabinieri ride on trucks of grain to prevent pilfering. Glimpse of AMG officials as narrator speaks of strict rationing system. Italians at a table, counting out ration coupons. Ceiling prices of all commodities seen posted at public places in Sicily. Sacks of seed potatoes being loaded from an AMG warehouse onto a horse-drawn cart that is then seen driving away, fully loaded. A boy on a farm unloades a sack of seed pototoes. Barefoot Italian women and girls planting the new crop. Fishing boats being readied to put out again. View from a fishing boat as men retrieve a large net filled with fish. An open air marketplace filled with Italian shoppers. A window sign announcing American bread. A woman shooing flies away from her open stall in the market as an old woman samples some of her wares.
A little girl dressed in white descends from a DC-6 passenger airplane operated by Linee Aeree Italiane. A dignitary also arrives with his wife. Airline passenger representative hastens up stairs to meet him and aircrew members escort him. A woman greets him with a kiss, while he is descending steps from the plane. He kisses a woman. He is warmly greeted by many people. Members of the press approach him and he is photographed as he walks.
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