Camera on a slowly moving overhead conveyor shows numerous stacks of sheet metal next to machines in the stamping section of the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, Indiana. Next, as a stamping machine slowly rises open, men remove automobile frame parts from it. Closeup of the stamping machine slowly stamping the frame parts which men then remove from the press. The name Studebaker appears on the machine. At another location men are seen removing stamped auto fenders from a similar press. Closeup of a machine slowly pressing sheet metal between a pair of mating presses to form a fender. Worker holds finished fender up for the camera. In the auto body section of the factory, men place an auto body frame on a wheeled dolly. Next workers are seen placing a lower rear body section on a car being assembled. Other workers are seen hand grinding and otherwise smoothing surfaces of assembled auto bodies. In final scenes, workers sit inside the assembled bodies and apply trim to the interior using tack hammers and other tools.
Film opens showing the U.S. Congress filling the U.S. Capitol chamber on April 2, 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany. Four days later, on April 6th, President Wilson is seen in black topcoat and top hat delivering an address from a building in Washington, DC announcing that Congress approved his request for a declaration of War. Former President Wiliam Howard Taft sits nearby. View of President Wilson dressed in summer white, relaxed and very casual, speaking impromptu to a group of persons in front of a brick building. Patriotic bunting is seen nearby. Change of scene shows Woodrow Wilson's youngest daughter, Mrs. W.G. McAdoo,Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo. An unidentified old woman is nearby.
Display of a fuel cell powered truck of the U.S. Army in St. Louis, Missouri. The fuel cell powered U.S. Army truck drives along a road. The truck stops and a man gets off. The hood of the truck opens. The man looks under the truck hood. He displays fuel cells under the hood. The cells come from chemical hydrazine which produces electricity by air oxidation, and does not need recharging. The truck drives away. (Example of early electric vehicle concept.)
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur is buried in Norfolk, Virginia. The body of Douglas MacArthur in the America flag draped coffin is brought to Saint Paul's Church for services. Many prominent persons are present for the final rites. U.S. President Lyndon B.Johnson is represented by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. MacArthur's son, Arthur MacArthur IV accompanies his widowed mother, Jean MacArthur. View of funeral services being conducted by rector in church. From the church the body is taken to MacArthur Memorial for internment. Interiors of the Memorial. He receives national honors. The people mourn his death. The coffin of MacArthur lying in the MacArthur Memorial.
The Annual Junior Boxing Tournament in Annapolis, Maryland. Young boxers of naval families sit and receive instructions from a referee at an academy. The referee measures the weight of a young boxer on a weighting machine. Two boxers fight in a boxing ring. They display enthusiasm and display their skills during the match.
The Sammamish Slough Outboard Classic in Seattle, Washington. The race starts. Boat racing skippers underway at Lake Washington while in the race. A racing skipper climbs up a ridge terrain beside the lake and falls down. Boat racing skippers pass along a narrow, twisted and inland waterway. A cow runs away. A woman and clothes on a string in the foreground.
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