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World War 2 battle scenes; wrecked buildings and masses of displaced persons in Europe after World War II.
'Problems of Peace in Europe' produced in 1948, depicts reconstruction problems in aftermath of World War II and includes footage from during the war and soon after the war. Scene of desperate and hungry civilian people (possibly in Germany but could be elsewhere in Europe) scrambling over each other and trying to find food on the ground among garbage or wreckage, circa 1945 or 1946. European peoples massing to reestablish political order and seek relief in post-war Europe. Montage of images of people from all walks of life. Reminders of war showing aircrews in bombers and bombs falling. Batteries of rockets being fired. A formation of U.S. B-17s and a B-26 aircraft with D-day stripes, in flight. Allied bombing of cities with devastating effect (likely 1944-1945). Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Aerial view of a major U.S. industrial complex, with many smoke stacks and industrial pollution. Mass of workers leaving at end of shift at a U.S. manufacturing plant or factory. Views of two different streamlined locomotives pulling passenger trains at high speed, approaching camera position. Freight trains speeding on railroads. Farmers harvesting and baling hay by machine and cultivating fields with tractor. Multiple wide views of the K-25 building of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, in Oak Ridge Tennessee, the world's largest building in 1944 when it was built, and an instrumental part of the Manhattan Project effort to develop the atomic bomb in World War 2. Huge sprawling industrial sites in America. Map of Europe. Street scene in Germany with destroyed buildings and rubble cleaned from street, but still piled up in places. Desperate, hungry, and poverty stricken German citizens rummaging through garbage piles for anything to eat or anything of value. Two very young German boys standing together on a street, with one boy smoking a cigarette. Children scrambling over trash and rubbish heaps.
Scientists working with uranium at National Atomic Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Uranium enrichment by scientists to develop atomic bomb. Work carried out on a piece of uranium at Atomic Energy Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as part of the process in creating plutonium from uranium for atomic weapons. A worker in radiation protective clothing and mask working on a uranium block with a lathe machine. Grinding of the block and exhaust tube removing fumes. The block placed on the shaper and finishing provided to the block.
Workers and officials at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
First pictures of uranium used by scientists to develop atomic bomb. Workers and officials at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, engaged in process of creating plutonium from uranium for atomic weapons. Male and female technicians handling radioactive material without getting close to it, using a pantograph. A microampere meter held in a palm is shown. Women observing through a microscope. Officials of the lab Colonel Arthur H. Frye, Dr. J.H.Zinn, and D. Norman Hilberry are seen holding a brick of super heavy uranium, and having some discussion.
A train passes through the K-25 Plant (Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation) area in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The K-25 Plant (Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation) area in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, part of atomic bomb creation facilities of the Manhattan Project. Buildings at the plant. Smoke rises from a train which passes through the area. The Power House (K-25). A police car drives past in the foreground. A board reads 'safety first always and more power to you'. A restricted area and other information written on a sign board.
Workers at the Y-12 Electro Magnetic Plant of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The Y-12 Electro Magnetic Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, established during Manhattan Project effort to build the atomic bomb. A board reads 'Tennessee Eastman Corporation', ' Employment Office' and other information. Vehicles drive past on a road. Workers leave the plant after the day's work. People walk and are searched by a guard. The workers sit in a bus. Buses leave a parking area.
Buildings at the X-10 Monsanto Chemical Company area in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The X-10 Plant of Monsanto Chemical Company in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, established during Manhattan Project effort to build the atomic bomb. Vehicles drive towards the plant. A parking area of the plant. A car comes at the entrance gate of the plant. A guard at the gate. People leave from the exit gate of the plant. A sign of Monsanto Chemical Company. A guard enters. Clinton Laboratories of the plant. A sign reads 'Prohibited Area'. Smoke stacks in the background. Important information on a board.