Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert stand and talk in front of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC, their invention. A woman technician hands over paper results. Readings are taken from a meter on the control panel of the early computer (the first electronic, general purpose, programmable digital computer). A technician attaches equipment to a control panel. A woman works on a terminal interface while a man checks results using an abacus. Numbers are observed as they light on a display.
A training film titled 'Seabee Specials Indoctrination' on training of Seabees. Aerial view of a training station in the United States. Seabees at work. Men aboard trucks arrive at the training station. An officer instructs them. They are taught about discipline, appearance and drill. They walk upstairs. Seabees seated in a room. A man instructs them. They learn about ship parts and gear. The Seabees on a training ship. They work and are being trained on the ship. An instructor instructs a student. The chief instructor supervises the activities. All parts of the ship must be checked carefully. Any damage must be checked.
A training film about training of Seabees in the United States. The Seabees are trained by their instructor. They tighten a rope. The splice is called combination lock splice. A man wraps a tape around strands of a rope. Each strand goes over one and under the next strand. Cutting and tying of the strands. Men make cargo nets. The nets are loaded with supplies and are lowered in a landing craft and a ship. An instructor points out the parts of a winch for a student. 'Safety First' written on a side of the ship. Handling of load with help of the winch.
A training film on training of Seabees in the United States. Use of slings to handle case cargo. The Seabees load a ship. A case is tied with a sling. Gasoline and oil drums are taken aboard the ship. Wire rope slings are used to carry steel landing nets. Men aboard ships. The wire rope slings are used to carry heavy crates. Jumbo booms are used to load even more heavier things. Four winches are used to control the boom. Lumber being loaded. Mock up of a 25 foot landing craft being loaded. A truck loaded on the ship. Hatch covers are replaced. Everything is adjusted in position by the Seabees. The loaded ships underway at sea.
A film about the conditions at Nazi German concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. Camp area with buildings. A dead body on ground with mutilated face. Dead bodies near a live wire fence. Dead include Russians, Poles and Czechs. A Russian woman liberated from a slave camp look at the dead.
A film about the conditions at Nazi concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Penig concentration camp in Germany. Camp inmates mainly Hungarians. Woman lying in beds at the camp. An Allied medic attends a patient. Wounds on back, and feet of the inmates. Inmates suffer from various diseases. Allied soldiers help to evacuate women and other inmates to a German air force hospital. Injured and sick being carried on litters. Red Cross helps in evacuation of inmates. Injured lying on litters outside the hospital. Trucks lined up outside the hospital. Woman being carried inside the hospital. German nurses help in evacuation. Woman lying on litters as they smile.
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