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Japanese worker chips rust from pipe fitting at Akita Oil fields in Yabase, Japan.

Japanese workers work at Akita Oil fields in Yabase, Japan. View of oil wells. Wreckage of furfural and propane refining plant. Japanese worker chips rust from pipe fitting. He removes asphalt from sludge pit. View of partially completed oil refinery with an ox-cart carrying empty oil barrels in the foreground.

Date: 1947, September 2
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023230
People face drought, rations, closed factories and black marketeers during post-war period in Europe and UK.

A documentary depicts life of people in the post-war ( World War II) economic challenges and hard times in Europe and the United Kingdom. (Before Marshall Plan of 1948). Animated map of Western Europe. Ruins and debris of buildings in cities of Europe damaged during the war. Two women walk past rubble. The damaged buildings. People cross a damaged bridge. A man at work during the construction of a bridge. Men make boats. Smoke comes out from a factory. A man in the factory makes a part of a machinery. Another man paints a machine part. A man fixing a machine part. Men at work in the factory. A man uses different equipment. A man and a woman eat food. A French farmer plows a field with the help of two horses. Scene in Norway of boats in a harbor. Norwegian fishermen at a dock. A fisherman untangles a fishing net. People buy food from shops. They walk on a street. People wait in a line for bread ration because of drought. Loaves of bread on display in store window. A coal processing plant exterior. A small steam locomotive moves on tracks at the factory yard. Close up view of two coal miners with black soot on faces and bodies as they dig out coal from a mine using a pick axe. British citizens walk in a line to get coal. A man distributes equal amounts of coal to the British men and women in the queue, who receive a coal ration loaded into a bag. A power plant. A man operates factory controls (controls made in Liverpool), reducing output to lower levels due to power rationing. Different machines at work. View of a large industrial cog wheel slowing to a stop, and a large compressor in a factory slows to a stop. A view of a city. People walk in a street. British men and women enter a food shop in England, with a sign at the doorway indicating that bread is being offered only by ration. A woman feeds hens in a yard. A farmer negotiates with another farmer to sell livestock, but he shakes his head to refuse the offer. People in a city purchase food and other goods in a black market. A woman buying food from a black marketeer. She hands him a pile of cash bills in payment. Italian women picking olives beneath an olive tree in Italy. A man enters a food shop and speaks to a woman; the shelves in the shop are almost empty. A railroad train freight car moves on tracks. A railway freight car factory in Belgium. Men at work in the factory. A man checks a line of completed rail car wheels in the factory. Freight cars lie unused in the factory yard as French customers cannot buy them since the company in Belgium will not accept French Francs in payment. An unemployed Italian man sitting on a wall collects cigarette butts. Weavers in Holland dig in a peet bog as that their weaving jobs are not available.

Date: 1947
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069770
Henry Kaiser, Howard Hughes and Ralph Brewster speak on investigation of the 40 million in war planes in Washington.

Senate's investigation of the 40 million war time airplane contracts in Washington, United States. Several officials seated at a desk discuss. Industrialist Henry John Kaiser talks about the early period of World War II when the Axis destroyed Allied ships and airplanes and they were defeated. An airplane parked on an airfield. American aviator and industrialist, Howard Robard Hughes speaks into a microphone. He talks about investigation of a case and his two airplane project. United States Senator from Maine Ralph Owen Brewster speaks against Hughes and asks about the 40 million dollars.

Date: 1947, July 31
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070368
Elliott Roosevelt and John Meyer speak during the investigation of a 40 million in war time plane contracts in Washington

U.S. Senate investigation of 40 million dollars in war time airplane contracts to Howard Hughes' firm. Officials seated around tables during Investigation of National Defense Program. John W. Meyer speaks into a microphone while testifying to senate committee. Senator Ferguson asks him questions. United States Army Air Force officer and son of late U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, testifies on his role. John Meyer, Hughes publicity agent, speaks about his side of lavish war time party expenditures.

Date: 1947, August 4
Duration: 5 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070369
Ralph Brewster and Howard Hughes speak during the investigation of 40 million in war time plane contracts in Washington.

Senate's investigation of 40 million in war time plane contracts to Howard Hughes firm in Washington, United States. Men and women enter a building. Several officials seated at desks. American aviator and industrialist Howard Robard Hughes testifies. A man speaks into a microphone. United States Senator from Maine Ralph Owen Brewster speaks. Hughes accuses Senator Brewster of mis-statements. Brewster refutes the charge. People applaud. Cameramen record the event.

Date: 1947, August 7
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070370
A large crowd gathers to watch harness racing Hambletonian in Goshen, New York.

Harness racing Hambletonian held in Goshen, New York. Replica of the trophy. A large crowd gathers in a stadium. A car arrives. The race starts. Sulkies move along the race track. People watch the race. Cars parked in the background. Hoot Mon wins. Owner Frances Dodge Johnson Van Lennep, of Castleton Farm, seen holding the trophy.

Date: 1947, August 7
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070371