Film begins showing a passenger train moving through landscape, empty except for some cattle grazing. The setting is Texas, the United States, during World War 2. A young boy is on the train, wearing a a British school uniform (or possibly Norwegian school uniform), with short pants. He sits with his knees up, reading a book about the American West. Other books about the West are on his seat. Scenes from movies of the West that are in the boys mind are shown. They show vintage western film reenactments of stage coaches being defended; cowboys riding en masse; cowboys fighting Native American Indians; teams of horses pulling stage coaches; gun fights in various places; exterior of the "Last Chance Saloon"; and a cowboy riding a bucking horse in a saloon. As the train arrives at his destination, the boy readies and leaves the train. A man in a 10 gallon hat meets him and shakes his hand. Camera pans over landscape containing a single ranch or farm house. The boy is seen running all around the property. A tractor pulls a disc cultivator over some of the land. Now dressed in a western hat and long pants, his host takes him to meet one of the ranch hands who is working on an automobile. They walk by a man driving a tractor. Next they visit a man shoeing a horse. They wave at some men using hand tools to cultivate some crop. They walk past a tall windmill. Cattle are seen grazing in a field. After their exploration, the Host sits on a porch as the boy reads more information in a book. Another view of grazing cattle. A lone cowboy on a horse looks over the land.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines. Western railroad lines under construction in the United States. Groups of men driving in railroad ties for western railroad expansion in 1800s. Horse drawn wagons carry equipment for railroad construction. Men work constructing railroads. A gusher oil well spraying oil. View of a port area with many idle tall sailing ships and merchant vessels docked in the harbor, seemingly replaced by railroads as chief method of transporting goods. Close up of a masthead of a woman on one of the sailing ships. Reduction in the number of ships because of inadequate financial assistance by the government. Actor portrayal of ironclad ship ramming a wooden tall sailing ship during Civil War. U.S. military forces unload foreign-bought ships during Spanish American War of 1898. U.S. soldiers unload supplies and bring them ashore on beaches of Cuba. View of paddle wheel steam ship named "City of Memphis" steaming on Mississippi River. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. Tug boats push massive freight loads along a waterway in the United States. Men on the deck of a ship that is cutting through ice during spring thaw on the Great Lakes. Ship passing through lock of a domestic U.S. canal. View from inside the wheel house a large domestic waterway ship in the United States.
Major General James Doolittle and Lt. General Carl Spaatz of the United States Twelfth Air Force, Colonel Willis, as well as French Major-General Bergeret and other American and French officers attend ceremonies at the presentation of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk planes by the U.S. Army Air Forces to the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco during World War II. American troops parade before a hangar. Officers stand in front of P-40 planes lined up near the hangar. The band plays in the parade. French Moroccan horsemen. Officers salute the American and French flags. Opening cameraman slate indicates January 9, 1942, but this is an error as the event took place on January 9, 1943.
Various statues in Washington DC. Lafayette Statue in the center of Lafayette Square (Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States). Andrew Jackson statue in center of Lafayette Square. View of Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau Statue by Fernand Hamar and General Tadeusz Kościuszko Statue by Antoni Popiel in the square.
A map points Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona in the South Western region of United States. Animation points the Kiowas, Pawnees and Apaches tribes living in this region. A building at a field in Texas. A flag on the field. Men in car. Painting of a man and women on horse-cart. Animated globe points places.
Scenes of Tornadoes in the U.S. during a Super Outbreak in early April 1974, when a series of tornadoes struck numerous states including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the Canadian province of Ontario. A man receives a call at a radio station during tornado in United States. He goes to door and see outside. He comes back and gives warning on radio. Message received at local emergency center. A man announces warning. A helicopter flies and relays report of tornado sightings from flying helicopter. A man talks on phone giving sighting reports. A meter indicates wind speed. View of tornado bearing down on Louisville Kentucky downtown buildings after having hit state fairgrounds. A cameraman takes video. A man talks at National Warning System. A man points location of tornado on a map. Various departments having meetings. Police jeep on road. Scenes of Tornado. People carry dead ones on stretcher and in hands.
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