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General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
Johnson addresses Congress on voting rights; Martin Luther King Jr and activists march for civil rights in Selma, Alabama.

United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson seeks end to civil strife in the United States. Exterior view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building illuminated at night. Inside view as the President addresses Joint Session of Congress to push a voting rights bill (Voting Rights Act) to end discrimination in voting. Dignitaries and members of the Congress are seated. Next scenes are all from civil rights marches in the U.S. during March, following the March 11 beating death of minister James Reeb. Protestors march on streets all over the country in solidarity with the Selma, Alabama marchers. They carry banners. A banner reads 'We March With Selma'. Another banner says "We Shall Overcome". The people march on streets and carry banners in a Harlem, New York demonstration. The demonstrators gather in large number to pay tribute to Unitarian minister James J. Reeb. Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church (410 Martin Luther King St, Selma, AL 36703, United States) in Selma, Alabama which was a headquarters for the drive for the right to vote. A sign reads 'Brown Chapel'. The people gathered during the campaign. Leader of African American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with other officials. View of protestors in the second Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery on March 9, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr marches with the people for Civil Rights. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King with white ministers, African American and white citizens, and civil right workers marching on the street. The police stand blocking the road at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marchers stand. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to a policeman. The marchers kneel on the street and pray. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King Jr with other officials speaks to the marchers. After praying the marchers turn around and go back to Selma. They cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Date: 1965, March 15
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069346
People gather at the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, at end of the third Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march.

The end of the third Selma-to-Montgomery march during the American Civil Rights Movement. Marchers relaxing in front of the Alabama State Capitol (600 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36104) in Montgomery, Alabama. The gathering includes African American and white American men, women, and children. People hold a large American flag. A white man smokes a pipe.

Date: 1965, March 25
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044204
1940 launching of USS Hornet (CV-8); accomplishments of USS Hornet, famous for the 1942 Doolittle Raid during World War II.

A film titled 'The Life and Death of The USS Hornet' dedicated to the workers of America's shipyards and war plants during World War II. The Capitol building in Washington DC. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gathered at press conference to announce the bombing of Tokyo Japan by Doolittle Raid forces in April 1942. Reporters run out to phones and typewriters. A man at NBC microphone in 1943. The headlines of newspapers read 'Japs Murder Doolittle's Fliers'. American people in groups and families listen to radio broadcasts, gathered at work and in living rooms around radios to hear the radio news. They buy newspapers at newsstands. Headline of newspaper reads "Carrier Hornet was Shangri-La". Workers at shipyard, factories, machine shops. Men and women war workers of varying ages and races, including white, Japanese-American, and African-American seen welding, machining, and working to buld the ship and its parts. Scenes from the launching of USS Hornet CV-8 in December 14, 1940, with sponsor Annie Reid Knox at the launching.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074562
Bombing runs are conducted on practice target USS Alabama, BB-8, destroying the ship

USS Alabama (BB-8) serves as a bombing practice target and is destroyed by Phosphorus bombs in the Chesapeake Bay, off the coast of Maryland, United States. Views of the USS Alabama at sea. A U.S. Army DH-4 single-engine bi-plane bomber of the 1st Provisional Air Brigade is prepared for a bombing run. Army soldier inspecting bombs attached to bottom of plane. The bomber in flight toward the target. Bombs released from the bomber. Huge explosions from phosphorus bombs on the mast birds nest area of the USS Alabama. The ship is completely shrouded in white smoke. Subsequent bombing run on the ship days later. The ship is struck by 2,000 pound bombs and quickly tips sideways and sinks in shallow water. Close views of the wrecked ship with mast toppled and massive destruction on deck.

Date: 1921, September
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049968
U.S. President Kennedy talks about respecting African American citizens and giving them equal rights during a speech on Alabama in Washington DC.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy's speech on Alabama in Washington DC. The White House. United States President John Kennedy seated at a desk and speaks over a microphone. The President speaks about the discrimination of blacks by whites in the United States. He talks about the University of Alabama not giving admission to two clearly qualified young Alabama residents (James Hood and Vivian Malone) who happened to have been born African Americans. President Kennedy says that the nation is founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. The President says that it is possible for the American consumers of any color to receive equal service in places of public accommodation, to register and to vote in a free election without interference or fear of reprisal. President Kennedy talks about respecting African Americans and all Americans and urges people not to discriminate and to uphold civil rights. He says that no city or State or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore them.

Date: 1963, June 11
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069273