Interior of a tread manufacturing company in Akron Ohio. Workers at the assembly line working with various machines. Men assemble various parts of the half track tread with the help of a hand tool. Man checks a tread. Other treads piled up in lines on the floor. A man examines the assembled tread.
Interior of Goodrich Rubber Company plant in Akron Ohio. A tire inside a vulcanization machine undergoes the vulcanizing process. A man monitors the heat and pressure gauge. Another man operates the vulcanizing machine. Once the process is complete, a man hooks the tire to a pulley to pull it out from the machine. A clear view of the huge tire. Man stands in front of the gauge and checks readings.
People of Anderson perform demonstrations imitating German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazi martial law. 'Fifth Columnists' ride through the city. They capture the City Council. They force their way into the Mayor's chamber at City Hall. A notice stating 'Information for Andersonians is read out to the Council officials. The Mayor, Police Chief and other officials are arrested at gunpoint. The 'Fifth Columnists' seize money from an official. The Council officials are led out of the City Hall amidst armed 'Fifth Columnists'. They are taken to a camp for imprisonment with other civilians. The captors with a canon in the foreground as the prisoners watch from an enclosure. (World War II period).
People of Anderson, South Carolina perform demonstrations imitating Adolf Hitler's Nazi martial law over Germany. A large crowd gathered in the streets to view the reenactment. The actor posing as German Führer Hitler in the car. The mock Nazi salutes, overdone intentionally in trying to be humorous. "Nazi" soldiers march through the crowd. The "Nazi" actors charge and seize the armed citizens assembled behind stacked cotton bales outside a building. The radio proclamations by the "Hitler" actor partly in gibberish and partly in English. The continuous mocking Nazi salutes by the other actor beside "Hitler" in the radio station. (World War II period).
Superintendents and development men from Goodyear tire companies come for a conference in Akron Ohio. They disembark from the train, take their belongings and proceed towards the venue. View of downtown street of Akron. Goodyear managers from all over the world attend the conference. Sam Steere and his cotton mill men, Kox and Kavenagh from Windsor, along with Harry Post are seen. , Cormen and Peperika from South America are seen. Views of tire production underway at Goodyear plants. Old rubber tires seen at a reclamation plant. View of an Airplane wheel being constructed. Tank treads stockpiled at St. Marys, Ohio. View of tanks crossing a field and warplanes soaring over them. View of back of St. Mary's Goodyear molded rubber plant.
Press and media persons with other spectators witness the inflation and raising of a great many helium-filled barrage balloons made by Goodyear in Akron Ohio, at Wingfoot Lake. Men filling balloons with helium gas. Various balloons and blimps flying high in the sky. "Goodyear" is written on some of the balloons. View of Wingfoot Lake below the balloons. A Goodyear stratosentinal balloon with six large fins capable of flying to 15,000 feet. Barrage balloon seen landing as air rather than helium is let into the lower fin as a stabilizer. A blimp with writing "Goodyear Lifeguard Tires" on it.
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