Display of Autumn hats in Germany. German designers showcases their fall hat designs. Models display various designs of hats. They depict simplicity as the new trend.
Disturbances and conflicting views about war versus isolationist approach in the United States prior to World War II. Officials speak about lend lease and officials with anti-war involvement stance advocate protectionism. Speakers include Senator Gerald P. Nye. and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Wendell Willkie speak advocating a unified approach. Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma speaks. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress and delivers his war message. Pacifist student protestors on street in front of the White House with anti-war banners that read 'Peace Mobilization'. Counter demonstrators also picket, including a man with a sign, "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." Vehicles drive past in front of the White House. A group of women anti-war protestors are seen seated at an event, and together they pull down black veils in front of their faces. German Bund officials (German-American Bund) are seen meeting at an outdoor rally, and then again at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1939. A band plays and the leader Fritz Julius Kuhn gives a brief speech during which a protestor leaps the stage and is beaten down by Bund members. Workers on streets protesting for various labor rights. They march and picket on a street. Demonstrators for other causes in American society in the early 1940s, including a woman demonstrator who carries a sign advocating civil rights or equal rights that says "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?" Clip ends with scenes of violence at various labor strikes, including scabs (strike-breakers) being attacked, beaten, and hit by strikers, and authorities directing water hoses on strikers to repel them away from a building gate.
United States engineers at Chanute Field, Illinois. Engineers work on equipment inside an aircraft factory. Americans prepare for defense as war accelerates in Europe during World War II. New guns, warships and warplanes being manufactured.
Girls roller skiing on road in Del Monte, California. Women pose for a photograph with their roller skis, which look like short snow skis with roller skates mounted on the bottom. The skiers carry ski poles to help move. Group of girls wearing roller skis to introduce a new sport. One of the girls falls down.
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini convenes non-resident Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) fascist youth in Rome, Italy. 5000 members of the Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) joyfully jump out from their tents, run around camp group. Italians, living outside Rome, send their children to a fascist youth camp in Rome to learn about Fascist values and its vision for a “New Italy”. Benito Mussolini, wearing a crisp white summer suit, talks with other Fascists officials. Balilla youth wave their hats in anticipation for Mussolini’s arrival. Balilla youth give a Roman Salute to Mussolini. Benito Mussolini speaks to the young Balilla children.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare in World War I. Dramatization of a division chemical officer going over chemical warfare situation with the chemical officer from a new division. The officers seated inside a tent exchange notes. Gas casualties are taken out of ambulances. Disciplined soldiers return to rest areas at the Division Headquarters. A soldier removes his mask and goes to sleep.
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