A horse and a woman eat near a road. Civilians eat and dine at various fast food restaurants, lunch counters, diners, and road side stands in the United States. A woman waitress prepares coffee for people at a public diner. People drink coffee at lunch counter or diner. Examples of early fast food automation, including kitchen worker pushing bread loaves through automatic bread slicing machine. Toast pops up from high capacity restaurant toaster. Cheese or meat drops from automated slicer onto counter. Hands seen preparing sandwich at high speed. Automated system dispenses batter onto hot griddle or pan to make pancakes. Man dispenses coffee from large silver coffee urn. Close view of diners eating sandwiches and drinking coffee. Automated pancake flipping spatula on machine turns pancakes. Rapid fire scenes of food preparation. Hand with cloth wipes counter clean from crumbs. Two women wipe their mouths at same time and rise from seats at lunch counter to leave.
Immense rush of pedestrians, cars and vehicles causes traffic congestions and jams on roads of Manhattan, New York City. Groups of men talk to each other in groups on the sidewalks. Two young women in dresses walk by as group of men look on and admire them. Man in suit drops newspaper in trash can; next man walking behind him takes the newspaper back out and walks on. Rush of 1930's cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles on city streets. A man attempts to cross the street on foot but cannot find a break in the traffic. A man escorts a young child across busy street. Two women run across street toward a Chop Suey restaurant. Pedestrians pause in middle of road and prepare to finish crossing busy street. All vehicles stopped in a traffic jam on city streets. Close view of a taxi cab meter continuing to run during traffic jam. Another taxi meter view (made by Pittsburgh taximeter company). Impatient man in a taxi stands up and looks through open sun roof at jam of cars. Fare continues to escalate in taxi cab. Man exits cab in middle of jammed street and pays driver. Huge masses of pedestrians moving on sidelwalks and crossing streets, and exiting tall office skyscraper buildings. A giant crowd of men in hats beneath an elevated subway track and heading toward subway entrance. Police officer directs traffic on streets. Automated signal light with moving sign arms is seen. Various police officers directing cars and pedestrians. Many street sign messages shown close up. Man smokes cigar as traffic passes by. Another smokes a cigarette. Mass of traffic and pedestrians.
Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, New York City. Instrumental audio begins, accompanying scenes of busy roadways and traffic jams in the United States. Many 1930s automobiles seen from Ford, Chevrolet, Packard, Chrysler, and others. Passenger cars as well as delivery and freight trucks. Scenes of cars driving steadily on the highways and roads in the United States. Number of cars drive steadily on a six lane road. Scenes of cars stuck in long lines of traffic. Exasperated drivers. Drivers get out of their cars in the jam to talk to each other. A mechanic replaces flattened tire of a car on the road side. Many outdoor advertising signs featuring local businesses and services. A boy helps a girl peer over a high stone wall where she sees a "no trespassing" sign. The kids join their parents in a picnic on the roadside. A police officer on a motorcycle shakes his head in disbelief at the traffic. Signs warn drivers about traffic safety. A wooden mannequin of a policeman with arms waving to slow down traffic. A man works on the engine of a car. A crashed car and a crane. View from a valley as a car soars over the edge of the road embankment above and crashes down a mountainside, with pieces flying everywhere.
Experimental testing for loading a railway rolling stock onto a landing ship tank (LST) in England. Workers load a railroad box car on crane ropes. Crane hoists the rolling stock and put on a floating dry dock. Shackled locks on the car. Workers work on various levers and wheels of the car. A tank landing ship (LST) arrives at the dock. Worker and officer discuss, roll gears, wheels move, and the box car gets into the LST.
Loading material supply from a freight ship to a DUKW amphibious vehicle in Salerno, Italy. A man drives DUKW near the ship, material from ship lowered to DUKW and it sails away. Buildings on the harbor. DUKW drives on wheels on the shore. It reaches a storage yard where already unloaded material kept in stacks. Boxes offloaded from the DUKW.
Fifth Army enters Naples in Italy during World War II. Convoy of ships on harbor of Naples. Soldiers and officers move in jeeps and trucks. Horse carts move on roads. Crowd of civilians watch the movement of the 5th Army. Soldiers sitting on trucks move on the roads of the city. Sign 'To Rome' on street. Soldiers buy food and merchants load potatoes in a military vehicle. Sign on Bank of Naples reads 'Mussolini Has Met His Finish, Hitler prepared for him'. Derailed street cars used as barricades. Rubble and debris at a bombed portion of Naples.
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