A film about assembling of a sea mule tug in the United States. The instrument panel of the tug being connected. An oil-air pressure gauge being assembled. A wire cable being guided down a control tower. A cable being fastened to a terminal block. A heat indicator tube being removed. A tachometer being assembled and a cable being plugged in.
A film about assembling of a sea mule tug in the United States. Propellers of the tug being connected and a nut being tightened. A wrench being used to tighten the nut. A fair water being placed to hold the propellers in place. A rudder shaft is lifted and a packing is placed on the rudder. A weller wheel placed into position. A steering cable passes around the wheel. The end of the cable being secured and a lock is fastened. A hull bumper being lifted and fastened. Engine oil level being checked. A 5C sea mule tug as men work on its deck. Central steering and central control towers on the deck.
A film about assembling of a sea mule tug in the United States. A 5B sea mule being launched and it takes to water. Men attach a push bracket to the tug. Checks for gasoline leaks being made. The ignition button is pushed to start the engine. The tachometer being checked. The tug gets underway.
A film about assembling of a sea mule tug in the United States. A 5B sea mule tug demonstrates its ability to turn with ease. Men on the deck of the sea mule. A man rotates the steering wheel on the deck. The sea mule pulls six oil barges weighing 100 tonnes. The mule tug tied to a barge. It pulls the barge down a river.
A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini as he conducts the NBS Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast of Giuseppe Verdi's Ferza del Destino in the United States. Musical note of the Ferza del Destino. Toscanini conducts the orchestra as men at the radio station work on controls. A tower at the radio station. Various instruments being played by the members of the orchestra. Toscanini conducts the orchestra.
Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini is seen in a room of his house, Wave Hill, in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Toscanini is handed a record by teenage boy (possibly his grandson) and Toscanini plays the record on a console phonograph player. He walks up and down in the room as he listens to the music. Narrator discusses Toscanini's rejection of fascism. and then names various other Italians living in the U.S. who similarly reject fascism: Next shot shows Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini delivering a lecture to a class at Harvard University. Italian writer Giuseppe Antonio Borgese leads a small workshop class at the University of Chicago. Italian American press publishers of newspaper Il Nuovo Mondo (Giuseppe Lupus, Aurelio Natoli, and Carlo Emanuele Prato) are seen gathered at a desk in New York City. An Italian editor, Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi, works at a newspaper establishment. An Italian priest and patriot, Don Luigi Sturzo, reads a book. Another close-up view of Arturo Toscanini.