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Comparison tests between British Centaur Cromwell tank and U.S. M-4 tank at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen,Maryland.

Comparison tests being performed between British Centaur Cromwell tank and U.S. M-4 tank at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. The tanks are rolled on various types of surface such as concrete, mud and sand to compare their maneuvering capabilities.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029166
Four British working men and four American counterparts visit officials concerned with war production, in New York City and Washington DC (WW2)

A British film entitled, "People to People." Four British working men, visiting America, are seen in overcoats on the deck of a ship passing the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor during World War II. They are accompanied by four American workers who were returning on the same ship, from a similar visit to England. Closeup of the eight men, named by the narrator, who calls them trade unionists on an exchange visit. Brief view of Chiang Kai-Shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference in 1943.Camera pans closeup over Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-Shek. Brief views of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943. Closeup of Roosevelt and Churchill, with Anthony Eden standing immediately behind them. Closeup of Stalin and Roosevelt, with U.S. Army Air Force Chief, General Henry H.(Hap) Arnold and British General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, conversing behind them. Scene shifts back to the men aboard the ship in New York harbor, with the New York City Manhattan skyline of buildings in the background. Next, the eight men are seen climbing steps to New York City Hall. Inside they are welcomed by New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The group is then seen entering a building in Washington, DC, where they sit down at a table with Donald Nelson, Head of the U.S. War Production Board. In the Department of Labor building they meet William Hammatt Davis, Head of the War Labor Board, and also the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins. After that they are seen heading into the White House, where they are met by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who comes out of the White House to greet them on the porch. (Narrator says she later invited them inside for tea.) The men are next seen climbing the Capitol steps. Vice President Henry A. Wallace comes out to greet them and comments about industrial production not only during the war, but in the time of peace to follow.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029522
British and American working men on exchange visit meet with labor representatives in the United States (WW2)

Four British working men and their four American counterparts on an exchange visit to the United States enter a building in World War II. They are seen inside, seated at a table opposite representatives of American labor organizations including the American federation of Labor (AFL), the Congress of industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Railroad Brotherhood. During the meeting, one of the American workers states that they had just returned from England. One of the American labor representatives asks the English workers what they think about these exchange visits. They respond in support of them, and note they had an similar exchange with Russians as well. They also discuss international labor unity and its importance in winning the war. The British contingent note that they need more time to meet rank and file American workers to make any assessments. The subject of women filling jobs in war industry was viewed as affecting the lives of all women during the war and afterwards.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029523
British working men on exchange visit to America question members of a Labor-Management Committee in New Jersey (WW2)

British working men and their American counterparts on exchange visit in the United States. The group enter a building of the Star Electric Motor Company. Inside they are seen sitting in on a labor-management committee meeting. The British workers ask whether the company's worker suggestion program is successful. The company managers say it has and helped increase war production. The British ask about having any deadlocks in labor-management relations, affecting war production, and are told the U.S. War Production Board would be called upon to resolve such a matter. The issue of continuing such labor-management cooperation after the war is discussed. (World War II period)

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029524
Pairs of American and British workers on exchange visits meet workers at American cities across the country

Logo of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers Union Local 407 in New Jersey is shown. Narrator says it it one of the places a group of 4 English and 4 American Working men were to see on their exchange visit to America. View of their luggage The group is seen examining a map of the United States as they plan to make their visits in pairs to save time. They decide that each British worker would visit the hometown of an American counterpart. One pair leaves to visit Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The pick up their luggage. Another pair are going to Detroit, Michigan. They pick up their luggage. The third pair is going to St. Louis, Illinois. They pick up their luggage. The final pair are going to Los Angeles, California. They pick up the last remaining pieces of luggage. One pair of workers is seen entering the Chrysler plant in Detroit. The American was welcomed home to America from his trip to England. View inside the plant of an African American woman working beside an older man, where they were making tank and marine engines. The visitors examine the gang drill presses containing multiple drills operated by a single operator. They stop to say hello to the American's daughter who also works at the plant, checking to assure parts met tolerances. It was noted that she was paid the same as any man doing the job. The pair of visitors are met at the American's home by some company union workers. They sit together on the step outside the house and get acquainted. An infant inside the house looks out the window at them. Scene shifts to Los Angeles where another English-American visiting pair is seated outdoors and the wife of the American brings out some bottles of beer for them to all share. Change of scene shows the pair visiting the offices of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, where they meet celebrities Edward Arnold, George Murphy, Dick Powell, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman, Helen Hayes and Lena Horne. Edward Arnold, President of the Guild's Board, speaks with the pair, alone explaining how every actor in Hollywood belongs to the Guild which is affiliated with the America Federation of Labor (AFL). Arnold shows the pair his union card. Closeup of the card.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029525
British worker and his American counterpart in labor exchange program visit the Lockheed aircraft plant in Los Angeles, Calfornia

A British guest on labor exchange program visit to the U.S. leaves the home of his counterpart American host in Los Angeles, California. They leave in the American's car and drive a considerable distance to the Lockheed Aircraft Company facility. View of Honor Roll listing 15, 174 Lockheed affiliated members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The British-American pair walk past a Lockheed Ventura airplane under construction. View of a room filled with P-38 Lightning fighter planes completing final construction, outside the plant. A film clip of the maiden flight of the Lockheed Constellation aircraft (Later designated C-121 by the Army Air Corps) is inserted at this point. It shows the Constellation taking off from the factory airstrip in 1943, and climbing without raising its landing gear. View of aircraft fuselage under construction, where the British worker is inquiring about the manner of its assembly. Next he is seen observing a turntable press operation being run by men and women workers. View of workers using pneumatic hand tools to remove wrinkles from edges of pressed products. A woman punch operator is seen with safety straps on her hands that pull them away each time the punch comes down. Another woman worker demonstrates an electric spot welder. (The observing visitors are required to wear safety goggles in case sparks are created by the process.) Closeup of the aircraft part being spot welded. More workers operating similar machines in the plant, including an African American man and woman. Workers placing a large sheet of aluminum into a machine that fabricates wings for the P-38 fighter plane. Closeup of the British worker and his American counterpart on a balcony overlooking the production line for the Lightning aircraft. View across the production line floor. The two look into the factory first aid station available to workers and also see the transportation section where worker carpools can be formed. Employees are seen obtaining ration books and driver licenses from government clerks working in the plant itself. Employees are seen eating outdoors under foliage camouflage and others gather at an indoor eating site. Next, a section of a B-17 flying fortress wing, is seen moving out of a manufacturing jig. New components are immediately placed into the empty jig for construction. View of final installation area for B-17s, An overhead crane moves a finished wing, including engines, to be mated with its fuselage. Glimpse of numerous B-17s being assembled. A finished B-17 bomber being towed out of the factory.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029526