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Tips for raising babies and children in good health in the United States
1940's vintage educational film on raising healthy and happy children in the United States. Teenage girl and boy, in bathing suits, paddling a canoe in canal. The boy paddles the towards the bank of canal and they both climb out and watch another couple in canoe pass. Young children play with a dog in the garden. A young boy holds a ball. A woman breast feeds her child. Baby lies on his stomach. Baby in the mother's lap. Baby jumps on a bed. Toddler of four years old in garden, plays and stand by walker. Babies by the chair and table. More children in the garden. Babies smile. Children of seven, eight, and nine years old play. Healthy young children. A young girl climbs up a pole. A boy in shorts hoists himself on a pullup bar.
Sunday Worship Service at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, New York City, dedicated to "Bundles For Britain" (WW2)
Views from balcony in rear of sanctuary. Crucifer leads clergy and choir of men and boys toward altar, followed by color guards with flags, including those of the British Empire, at start of Sunday Worship Service in St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Saint Thomas Church 1 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019) in New York City. Rector Reverend Roelif Brooks stands before the altar, facing the congregation, as crowds of parishioners come forward carrying their "bundles for Britain" to aid war-torn British civilians in World War II. Clergy at the altar arrange the bundles in two piles and then pray to bless them. Scenes at the altar, as clergy arrange the packages into two piles. View of clergymen accepting bundles from parishioners. View of Crucifer leading procession of color guards with British and American flags, along sidewalk outside the church along 53rd Street, New York City. The street is lined, at the curbs with cars, and with onlookers on the sidewalk. The procession rounds the corner and enters the church's main entrance on 5th Avenue.
Exterior features of structure of British fighter aircraft Spitfire
Military Training Film 'Identification of Aircraft, The Spitfire'. Two British fighter aircraft Spitfire take off. RAF Spitfire planes in flight. Hangar on the air base in the background. Pilots in the background. Recognizable features of the fighter aircraft Spitfire. The Spitfire can be recognized by its elliptical wings, rounded tail, flat structure on top, single radiator, nose and small cockpit area with a curved roof. The plane lands, two ground crew members rush towards the plane and hold the wing.
Animated film with the help of diagrams depicts radio transmission and reception.
Training film The Wizardry of Wireless, on radio transmission and reception. View of a diagram with Grid Potential written on it. The oscillating action causes the antenna current to alternate. Alteration depends on turns of wire in the coil. Man demonstrates the direction of current flow on instrument. Animated picture of the electromagnetic waves from a tower. The transmitters are connected and antenna current passes through them. Diagram with sound waves, battery and the transmitter.
Depiction of radio transmission and reception through diagrams.
Radio transmission and reception. Electromagnetic waves come in contact with antenna. Animation shows electromagnetic waves passing. A tuning coil is placed in antenna for better connectivity. This process adjusts antenna frequency. Diagram shows the tuning coil with a pendulum. The dots traveling on circuit show the frequency of reception. Diagram shows water line and the pebble. The filament circuit heats up. Incoming waves in the grid. Man holds torch in hand and opens it. Coil is placed on each end of magnet. Sound waves reduced from entering the diaphragm.
Varying sentiments about war and labor in lead up to World War 2. Roosevelt delivers his war message in the United States.
Disturbances and conflicting views about war versus isolationist approach in the United States prior to World War II. Officials speak about lend lease and officials with anti-war involvement stance advocate protectionism. Speakers include Senator Gerald P. Nye. and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Wendell Willkie speak advocating a unified approach. Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma speaks. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress and delivers his war message. Pacifist student protestors on street in front of the White House with anti-war banners that read 'Peace Mobilization'. Counter demonstrators also picket, including a man with a sign, "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." Vehicles drive past in front of the White House. A group of women anti-war protestors are seen seated at an event, and together they pull down black veils in front of their faces. German Bund officials (German-American Bund) are seen meeting at an outdoor rally, and then again at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1939. A band plays and the leader Fritz Julius Kuhn gives a brief speech during which a protestor leaps the stage and is beaten down by Bund members. Workers on streets protesting for various labor rights. They march and picket on a street. Demonstrators for other causes in American society in the early 1940s, including a woman demonstrator who carries a sign advocating civil rights or equal rights that says "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?" Clip ends with scenes of violence at various labor strikes, including scabs (strike-breakers) being attacked, beaten, and hit by strikers, and authorities directing water hoses on strikers to repel them away from a building gate.