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Mail transported by train and airmail by airplanes.

United States Post office employees sort mail sacks filled with letters. A locomotive train approaching camera position and passing by at high speed. Map of United States connecting destinations and a flying plane. A man examining models of various airplanes used for air mail service. Shows postmaster General James A. Farley emerging from a plane with other men to examine the latest technology and advances in airplanes for airmail service. View of exterior of Newark Air Mail Post Office building. Men emerging from plane. A plane takes off. Men load postal mail sacks on plane. View of a pilot reenacting the look of one of the original night mail pilots.

Location: Newark New Jersey USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051774
Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk.

Various post offices across the nation. Postal employees at work. Shows a flying plane, men riding sleds, a boat by a ship, and a moving railroad train by which mail is transported. U.S. Capitol building. Postal trucks lined up at the Capitol. Shows Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk in his office. Farley signs a document.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051775
Secretary of State, Cordell Hull in his office.

Guns mounted at fort. People on hand-pulled rickshaws. Boats at shore. U.S. flag and seal of U.S. Consulate General. Shows an officer entering the office. Civilians in street somewhere in Middle East. Seal of Embassy of United States. Cars parked outside building. Various officers and women inside building. Capitol dome. Secretary of State office. Cordell Hull at desk. Hull going through documents and talking over phone. Battleships underway at sea. Newspaper headlines read 'Hull Says Nations Must Spur Trade To Achieve Peace'. Hull speaking to few men. Hull walks out of the building after collecting a newspaper.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051776
Recruitment and activities of young officers in the Department of State and Foreign Service Officers Training School

Secretary of State office, Cordell Hull seated. Applicants take written and oral examinations for recruitment in Department of State. Door sign 'Appointments : Dept. of State'. Selected candidate sworn in before joining. Successful candidate at probationary service, signs documents. People awaiting their turns in Passport registration office. Foreign service officer listens to a man and checks his passport. Door sign of 'Foreign Service Officers Training School'. Candidates attend protocol classes. Young diplomats seated around table. Cordell Hull addressing. Name of U.S. officials on wall plaque. Officer talking to a foreign family in U.S. Consulate. Other officer talks to a man. Ship at sea. Diplomat talks to a Navy officer and plan the evacuation of U.S. citizens from Spain during Spanish Civil War. Refugees board ship. Cordell Hull talks to a diplomat.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051777
Ambassadors and diplomats of the United States in Europe and Asia.

Secretary of State Department, Cordell Hull at office with his staff. World map. Door sign 'Division of European Affairs. 'Officer with other men at work. Ambassador Hugh Wilson in Berlin and Ambassador William Phillips in Rome. British and French U.S. diplomats, Joseph P. Kennedy in London, England United Kingdom; and W.C. Bullitt at conference in Paris. Consul General George Wadsworth at American consulate in Jerusalem, Palestine; and J.C. Grew in Tokyo, Japan.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051778
United States interests in South America and Latin America just before World War 2, and German presence in the Americas

Opening scene shows U.S. State Department officials of the Division of the American Republics in a meeting. They examine a map titled "Inter-American Highway" showing a proposed highway running from the border of the U.S. and Mexico at Laredo Texas, all the way through Mexico, Latin America, and into South America. View of South American farmers loading hay into a horse cart, then of cattle in a stockyard being herded by a cowboy on a horse. Aerial view of city of Rio de Janeiro Brazil circa 1938. Narrator discusses threat of dictatorships in countries of South America. Views of German ships and German contracted ships loading and unloading at Buenos Aires harbor. Narrator describes system of barter where Argentina sends goods to Germany in exchange for German-made goods. Swastika flag on one of the cargo ships. Dock crane with German sign "Deutsche Maschinenfabrik A.G. Duisburg". Letters on side of a ship reads 'Buenos Aires Maru'. Supplies unloaded from ship. Cargo stacked including wooden boxes with German writing labeled "Vorsicht - San Paulo Brasilien". In a Latin American or South American city, view of the storefront for luxury goods by Herm Stoltz & Co. A Nazi German flag hangs above the store entrance. Fine leather goods, cameras, figurines, steins, etc from Germany are shown in store window displays. View of Nazi German books on display in storefronts, including closeup of translated book "Mein Kampf" ("Mi Lucha") by Adolf Hitler, bearing an image of Hitler on front cover. A German passenger aircraft parked at an airfield, which narrator describes as being part of a German airline offering service to South America within two days of Berlin, Germany. More German airplanes are shown at an airport in South America. View of government offices in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Large crest with a bird atop an entrance. Interior office view of President Getúlio Vargas of Brazil seated in discussion with American diplomats. Narrator indicates that Vargas learned of German colonists in Brazil planning his overthrow by assassination, and therefore outlawed all Nazi activity. Poster of Vargas communicating his policies. Scene switches to exterior view of the State, War, and Navy Building (later the Executive Office Building) in Washington DC, with the First Division Monument in the foreground. Interior view of office door bearing sign for Under Secretary of State. Inside, Sumner Welles is seen in discussion with officials. He is asked about the American attitude toward Latin America. Welles describes the importance of strengthening ties between the countries of the Americas. Under Secretary Welles states that the welfare of all of the countries in the region may depend on their continued solidarity.

Location: South America
Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051779
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