Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai air base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Elephant stands on cargo net weaves from effects of drug. The elephant falls on the net. The elephant tries to get up. The United States Army (USA) special forces tie the cargo net around the elephant. The cargo net being lifted by a forklift. The net containing the elephant being placed onto a wooden pallet.
Scene from fight between professional boxers Mike Leonard and Jack Cushing, staged at the Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A.. Several spectators in background.
General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.
Medium tractor on proving ground, Aberdeen. Medium tractor T-31 moves over muddy terrain. Tractor moves over terrain with and without 4.5 caliber gun on M-1 carriage.
Mortar carrier T-21 circles the field at Aberdeen proving ground. It moves over rough and level terrain. Soldiers open rear door revealing mortar. Soldier climbs into the carrier and inspects grenades and other equipment. (Note: The 4.2" M2 heavy mortar recoil was hard on the halftrack chassis so the T-21 was cancelled and never adopted.) (World War II period).
World War II events related to Lend Lease program by America to aid war supplies to Russia. Group of American and Russian officers walk down a street and climb onto a platform. The officers include Brigadier General D G Shingler, USA; General S L Scott, Persia; Major General D H Connolly, USA; A Smrnov, Russia; Major General A N Korolyov, USSR; Colonel CP Porter, Iran; Major General II Obrazkov, Russia and Major J Tchernowitz, USA. Colonel Porter and General Connolly make their speeches. Officers on platform listen to the speeches. Russian and American flags on end of the platform. A group of Russian and American officers celebrates USA Day at Borghi Airport in Tehran, Iran. The group listens to the speech by General Obrazkov. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and reporters at the scene. Officials on stand applaud, shake hands and salute. Officers in audience salute. Close up of Audrey A Smirnov, Russian Ambassador to Iran.
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