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Coal which is drilled out and transported to industries forms the backbone for the industrial development in the U.S.

A documentary depicts industrial development in the United States and shows scenes of commerce, industry and natural resources. Red hot iron sheets on a conveyor belt in a factory. An industry. Men at work in factories. A small waterfall depicting natural resources. Miner in blue denim shirt in a wagon. A goods train carries coal. A coal cutter in operation. Coal is drilled out and transported to industries. A woman at work in a factory. Smoke comes of chimneys and stacks. Miners come out of a mine.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050572
Many scenes of mining and processing of natural resources in the 1940s for industrial development in the United States.

Various scenes of industrial development in the United States with focus on industry and natural resources. View of terraced pits of a mine. Men on a scaffold in a stone quarry using picks to. A field of oil derricks with a derrick in the foreground pumping oil from the oil field. Coal is fed into a large rotating drum machine. Bulldozer digging earth at a copper mine. Man using a power tool to shape granite. Many blocks of building stone. A mining worker pushes the handle to trigger a TNT explosion and a large amount of rock and dirt explodes outward at an iron ore mine. A black locomotive engine pulling full coal cars on a railroad beside the largest open pit mine in the world. A hear firing process at a factory for a very large dome of glass. Worker in a factory or plant melting aluminum. Molten copper is poured to be cast in molds. Rolled, drawn, and spun copper is produced. Logging operations are shown. Lumber jacks climb a giant tree and cut the top third off. It crashes to the ground. Two men use axes to cut a deep groove in a giant tree to fell it. The trees shown being harvested are Giant Sequoias or Giant Redwoods. A massive Giant Redwood tips and begins to fall as lumber jacks finish using axes to cut it to its tipping point. Men use a two man saw to cut a felled giant redwood into sections. Large logs of Redwood being rolled off a platform into water to be floated to a sawmill. Men in a lumber sawmill work with a giant saw as it cuts huge slabs of pine lumber. Stacks of finished lumber shown at a mill. A wooden home under construction using lumber. Pulp wood is shown, then a view of a man in a suit observing the loading or unloading of giant paper rolls at a ship harbor, with skyscrapers of the city skyline in the background. Printing press in operation as it applies color and ink to giant rolls of paper. Newspaper workers unload finished newspapers from a newspaper printing press and stack them. (World War II period).

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050573
Aspects of U.S. industry including public information, agriculture, transportation, and water power.

Excerpt from film entitled "Power Behind the Nation." It opens showing glimpse of two men on a park bench, discussing a newspaper article, followed by views of men at work in a radio broadcasting studio. Next is shown a Western theme set being constructed for a motion picture, at a Hollywood film studio back lot. Closeup of Director and crew filming an actor on horseback as he rides up to a wooden building displaying a Dance Hall sign. Next, a director and film crew are seen working on an elaborate set with a chorus of women in white gowns. Scene shifts to film makers watching a finished production dealing with colonial era America (ostensibly an educational film). Another film is seen being made at a set resembling a European town. Next, views of American farms are shown with various crops under cultivation, including fruit orchards.Farm machinery is seen in use, including Tractors, harvesters, and combines. Grain is shown being harvested and processed in the field, and cotton being picked. Closeup of cotton bolls on the plants. Men are shown collecting sap from sugar maple trees in the northeast U.S. for making syrup. In the U.S. Northwest, a flock of sheep is seen grazing in a field. A herd of cattle are shown in the Southwest, U.S. A field of grain is shown and then a section of crops irrigated by small ditches. Then a large man-made irrigation canal is seen. View of a ramshackle building and yard in a desert. Women harvesting vegetables from irrigated plants. Apples being sorted by machine. A pair of steam locomotives pulling a train and a diesel locomotive pulling freight cars, all ostensibly carrying fresh produce to market. Several shots of railroad freight trains in different settings. A truck moving along a country road. A tugboat working beside a large ocean-going cargo ship on a river in the U.S. More shots of ships and inland canals. A ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in California. An aircraft under construction. Passengers deplaning from a continental Airlines DC-3 parked on a ramp. A prototype U.S. Navy Lockheed XR6O-1 Constitution aircraft taking off. (Only two R6V aircraft were made, Bureau Numbers 85163 and 85164.) A Sikorsky helicopter in flight. Closeup of Captain in cockpit of a TWA Boeing Stratoliner airplane as it taxis out of parking place. Industrial buildings close to a river with water flowing below a dam. The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050574
People queue to buy U.S. Saving Bonds in the United States to contribute towards the development of the country.

A documentary depicts industrial development in the United States and urges the purchase of war bonds to preserve the American heritage and way of life. Water flows through a dam on a river to produce electricity. A power house. Electricity is supplied to houses and industries. A glass tumbler factory. Machines using electricity in operation. A line of finished articles. A man mixes a color in a mixer. A scene with lightning flashing. Neon lights of Times Square, New York City, at night, with many lit sign boards using electricity. A child with a dog. Farmer, doctors, a businessman at work. Scenes of New York City. A ferry in water. Skyscrapers in the city and traffic on busy city streets. A line of people to buy U.S. Saving Bonds. Savings bonds on a table. A view of Mount Rushmore. Two women serve small children seated in chairs. The U.S. flag flutters in breeze.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050575
People join hands and walk towards the horizon in the United States.

A documentary depicts people in the United States. A group of people in a garden. Children seated together. A view of skyscrapers. People working on a farm. Two people sail a boat in a water body. Water falling from a spillway in an industrial area of a city. The Statue of Liberty. A political map of the U.S. Joining of hands with the map as the backdrop. People walk towards the horizon.

Date: 1947
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050576
Under Secretary of State George Messersmith gives testimony about the Hans Eisler case and Dorothy Thompson to HUAC commission

Excerpts of testimony by United States Under Secretary of State, George S. Messersmith, to the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) in Washington DC. Ambassador Messersmith raises his hand and is sworn in, and then seated beside his legal counsel, Norman M. Littell. Ambassador Messersmith gives testimony about Hans Eisler and Dorothy Thompson related to his own time in Berlin Germany in the 1930s on behalf of the U.S. State Department. He references his work with U.S. diplomat Sumner Welles. He says that he read the Eisler file to refresh his memory. He says that although they were not involved in the war at the time the responsibility on the State Department had increased. He talks about a case related to columnist Miss Thompson. He looks into his papers He talks about the time when he was posted in Berlin and Austria and she made a number of visits. He laughs. He tells about officers who showed prejudice in examining visa papers.

Date: 1947, September 25
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050663