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Segment of World War 2 film promoting sales of War Bonds and stamps to aid the war effort and stimulate postwar recovery

Film opens with singer on stage singing that he is a "double-duty dollar." He is backed by showgirls costumed as silver dollars. He explains that American dollars are now purchasing guns ammunition, planes, and tanks, to win the war. He alludes to how dollars will be used to fund the peace, after the war. An illustration shows schools, homes, and similar postwar investments in the country's infrastructure. Another shows futuristic cars, helicopter, and television sets. Scenes of pre-war highways filled with moving automobiles. Men playing golf. Gun club members in an outdoor shooting competition. A factory parking lot filled with automobiles and workers leaving the building at end of shift. (Message is that dollars no longer spent on war will revive private sector industry, again.) Film ends with appeal to "Buy an EXTRA War Bond TODAY!"

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032019
Strike breaks out at the Allis Chalmers factory and the CIO workers protest during strikes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Strike at the Allis Chalmers factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union-Congress of industrial Organizations(CIO) workers carry flags of America and of CIO as they move in huge crowd. Views of the Allis Chalmers plant and smoke comes out of the smoke stack. The crowd advances and a car being driven amidst the crowd. Horse driven carriage carry people. Governor of Wisconsin Julius Peter Heil walks from the crowd. He calls for help and closes the plant. Rear of a car having a spoiled glass from paint being thrown on it. Police force controls the crowd. Police sprays water on the protesting workers from fire hoses . Crowd runs all around the area. Tear gas is used to break up the crowd. A damaged police vehicle. Worker throw stones at the vehicles. (World War II period).

Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
Date: 1941, April 3
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032020
People move in front of the decorated flowers during the National Flower and Garden Show in Seattle, Washington

The 22nd National Flower and Garden Show in Seattle, Washington. Cars driven in line in front of the Civic Auditorium (321 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109, United States) in Seattle. The board at the entrance of the building reads 'National Flower and Garden Show'. People move in front of the decorated flowers. Dramatization: women enjoy in the gardens. Women clean the gardens and water the plants. Woman moves around amidst flowers. American flag formed by the flowers. Different formations of flowers. A woman holds flowers and laughs.

Location: Seattle Washington USA
Date: 1941, April 3
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032026
A guard checks the vehicles passing through Camp Hanford entrance at Richland, Washington.

Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. Sign on Guard shack at entrance to Hanford site reads 'All Vehicles Stop For Inspection'. Vehicles pass through the check post which is manned by a guard. A car stops. The guard opens the door of the car and checks. He opens the trunk of the car and checks.

Location: Richland Washington USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032064
Technicians of the Atomic Energy Commission collect samples and work on equipment in Richland, Washington.

Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. The side of a car reads 'Atomic Energy Commission'. A technician comes out of the car. He places a radiation monitoring instrument on a pole and picks up a cylindrical piece of equipment. He removes a polythene cover from the equipment and fixes it to the instrument. Technicians work on a vehicle. A technician uses a pipette to take out a liquid from a bottle. He drops the liquid on a plate. He takes the sample and puts it into a machine. A technician uses a suction device to collect a sample of soil from the ground. He places a Geiger counter or other radiation monitoring gauge on the ground.

Location: Richland Washington USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032065
Technicians wearing protective suit work in radiation zone at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington.

Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A technician wearing protective gear takes a reading from a gauge in radiation zone. He moves the valve of the gauge. A sign on a door reads 'Radiation Zone'. The technician opens the door to leave the area. He is met by Health Physics technician who uses scanning equipment to measure radiation on him after he removes his protective clothing and places it in a box. The protective gear reads 'SWP' (Special Work Permit). He then proceeds to a step-off pad where he removes his boots and respirator which are also boxed up, as contaminated.

Location: Richland Washington USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032066
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