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U.S. Air Force training film about ditching a B-17 bomber
Model of a U.S. B-17 and views of crew members inside a B-17 are shown in a training film about ditching. The B-17 model shown (with all 4 engines feathered) striking the water during ditching. Scene shifts to B-17 crewman bracing themselves as the plane ostensibly hits the water. having a discussion on the ramp at Eglin airfield in Florida. Aircraft parked in the background.
American pioneers conquer the west in the 1800s, compared to 1940s workers
The U.S. Capitol dome at night. Montage of U.S. Declaration of Independence with view of U.S. founding fathers at time of American Revolution. Reenacted depiction: 17th century immigrants or pilgrims arriving in the U.S. on large sailing ships. Group of men marching while carrying a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag. Depiction of Betsy Ross with U.S.A. flag. A covered wagon at sunset. 18th century men cutting down trees. 18th century men building a log cabin. Settlers arrive to the remains of their burned out cabin. A stage coach on the U.S. prairie. A covered wagon in the midwest. A stage coach traveling through grass lands. 18th century depiction of a western town in the United States. A white man and a Native American Indian man driving the last spike to complete a railroad as the steam locomotive starts. An 18th century steam locomotive passes by. Actual footage of external view of 1940s factory or production plant. Inside 1940s factory men are building engines. Wide shot of workers entering factory. New York City street scene. Los Angeles street scene. A rancher mends a barbed wire fence. Cowboys-ranchers on their horses. Fisherman pulling in nets on shore. Tobacco farming. Leather worker. Shirtless worker wielding a pick axe. Plant worker turning a large valve. A woman painter with a maritime village scene...perhaps Provincetown. A woman scientist in a laboratory. A 1940s family at the dinner table. Farm laborers harvesting melons. Man drives a tractor with woman riding behind him.
Harnessing of different forms of energy and utilization of manpower for the industrial development of the United States.
A documentary depicts events in the development of the United States and shows scenes of commerce, industry and natural resources. Shirtless men in khaki shorts (US Army?) practice calisthenics during an exercise drill. American men and women work in a factories and peace time industries post war, and laboratories (scene of a chemist with test tubes and beakers and burners). A man blowing glass. Harnessing of water, wind, solar and soil energy. Scenes of turbines, generators and motors to use energy. Men working in factories to increase production. Smoke comes out of stacks and chimneys. Iron ore processing and hot conditions. People work in different industries. Mass production in the U.S. Typewriters being assembled in a factory. Kitchen hand mixers on an assembly line at a manufacturing plant. Assembly line of automobile industry. 1940s era cars and trucks moving along assembly line in car manufacturing factory.
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.
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).
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.
