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U.S. Navy performs shellback initiation on USS Marblehead CL-12 .
Shellback initiation rites being held aboard USS Marblehead CL-12 off French Indo-China coast. U.S. Navy soldiers dressed in mythological greek clothing. Undressed man playing King Neptune, sits in his court. Captain of the vessel being initiated as shellback. Men dumped into a pool(vat) as part of shellback initiation.
Chinese men emerge from school carved out of a mountain and are instructed in outdoor class. They also exercise
Men study and exercise in China. Men come out of a "Yaodong" (carved out of a mountain side) school, each carrying a text book. They sit and listen to a teacher. Teacher writes on a board. Men seated as they write holding an ink pot in one hand. They all assemble in a ground and exercise.
Harbor view in Saigon,Vietnam.
American flag flutters on bow of an vessel off the French Indo-China coast in Saigon,Vietnam. Distant ships and sampans underway in the harbor of Saigon. A traffic police in center of a busy street circle guides traffic. Men descend stairs of a building. An oriental structure at a road side. Native on an ox-cart passes through an open field.
Filipino and American customers look at clothes, crockery, sports gear at Heacocks Department Store in Manila, Philippines.
Shopping at Heacocks Department Store- Sporting goods department in Manila, Philippines. Filipino and American customers at Heacocks department store, Manila. Filipino girls at a counter. Girls look at clothes in display. Girls look at crockery at the china counter. A man looks at bow and arrow for archery at a sport section. Bargain counters. Girls buy.
Film describing social character of United States in decade leading up to World War II
Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.