Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. A Landing Craft Tank underway from Portland Harbor. Portland breakwater in the background and ships anchored behind the breakwater. Four LCTs underway. An LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) hung out over the side of a transport ship. An LCT passes in the background. Normandy task force underway at sea. Two LCTs with barrage balloons aboard them. Ships at anchor in Weymouth bay. An LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway at sea. A transport ship sends a blinker signal to another ship in the background.
New York Harbor in New York City, United States. Steamers and boats underway in New York Harbor and the skyline of Manhattan in the background. Tall skyscrapers along the coast. A sailing ship with 2 masts underway by sail in the harbor. The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island.
A film about the role of African Americans in the history of America. A dramatization shows an African American priest tracing the history of America and the role of African Americans. The Granary Burying Ground in Boston. Pictures of the Boston Massacre. The Bunker Hill Monument (Monument Sq, Charlestown, MA 02129, United States) with soldiers in the foreground. A copy of 'Valley Forge'. Events leading to and after the independence of America. Men cut trees in a forest. Pictures related to the American Civil War of 1861. Ships in water as the war is fought. The Statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) in Washington DC. An African American couple in the countryside. A railroad track is seen.
A film about the United States President Richard Nixon's visit to Asia and Europe. President Nixon visits the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre (6FG2+7JV, Nanjing Rd (W), Jing'An, Shanghai, China, 200041). President Nixon and other Chinese officials raise a toast at the farewell banquet. President in his speech talks about a world of peace, independence, and justice. Clip closes with general views of Chinese citizens walking and talking, including many on bicycles. Chinese people walking in area of Tiananmen Square. Chinese civilians on street. Chinese grade school students in a classroom with one girl standing and reciting. An aircraft in flight shortly after takeoff.
Assembly line workers in the Ford River Rouge plant attach Ford car body to car chassis. Henry Ford and his son, Edsel Ford, examine a Ford Model 18, with a V8 engine. Next scene is outdoors, with Edsel Ford seated behind the wheel of the one millionth Ford V8 car, a Deluxe Fordor sedan, which rolled off the line on June 20, 1934. Henry Ford and another company official stand beside the sedan. Next scene shows the two millionth 8 cylinder Ford car driving on the road. Prominent Lettering painted on the car identifies it as the 2 millionth Ford V8, a 1935 model 48 sedan. A line of several more 1935 model 48 sedans follow on the road behind it. Final scene shows Edsel Ford and Henry Ford in a 1936 Ford Deluxe Sedan as it is coming off of the final assembly line.
View of a Ford Motor Company iron ore mine during winter. Snow covers the ground. Closeup of a ore car running up the Tiple. View from up on the Tiple as a iron ore car reaches reaches the top. Scene shifts to a bulk carrier freighter docked at pier. High above are a line of railroad open hopper cars. the next scene shows a large bulk carrier ship steaming away. Scene shifts to the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where huge cranes and clamshell buckets are raising iron ore raw material into the plant. Closeup of an operator inside a compartment low in the crane, controlling the bucket. Another view of the cranes at work. A huge pile of iron ore at the River Rouge Plant. A dragline bucket being moved through an ore pile. Iron ore in a container moving along a conveyor. Hot Molten slag being poured into a special crucible on rails, beneath a steel furnace. A long line (a train) of slag-filled crucibles. Slag being dumped from a crucible onto the slag heap for use in road building and making cement. A steam shovel being used to load slag into a large railroad car. Men with shovels cleaning up areas of the plant. Tractors pulling wagons in the yard. More piles of raw materials for making cement are seen next to factory and railroad tracks where 2,000 barrels of cement are made daily.
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