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Unemployed men get jobs in industries and a cooperative farm plan to meet market demand in the United States.

Postwar (after World War II) agriculture activities in the United States. Farming equipment in operation on farms. Canned food in a store. Flashback scenes to the Great Depression during the 1930s: A man carries a banner which reads 'Unemployed Will Take Any Job'. Unemployed men lying on a bench. A sign on a gate : 'No Men Wanted'. Shabby housing tenements and shacks of poverty victims falling apart in a rural farm area. Forward again to the post war 1940s: Smoke comes out off chimneys of a factory. American workers busy at a auto assembly line finishing new cars (appears to be 1946 or 1947 Chevrolet cars). Factory workers line up at a pay window to receive pay checks. An industrialist works in his office. Crowds of American citizens on busy city streets with pedestrians and automobiles, and shoppers looking in store windows, including store windows showing elaborate Christmas displays. A cooperative farm plan to produce what the industrial and consumer markets demand. A man milks a cow with an automatic milking machine. A woman using electricity on a farm to power a new open top clothes washing machine. Farm machines are used.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058167
American workers construct homes for farmers and school children eat distributed food in the United States.

Postwar ( World War II ) agriculture activities in the United States. American workers construct homes for farmers. A worker hammers wooden boards. A workers paints a wall of a building. A farming equipment in operation on contour farming. A farm land. Mountains in the background. Cattle and tractors on farms. A man works on drainage. A truck drives past. Trees are cut. Logs are taken to a factory in trucks. The logs are cut by a machine. Cargo is loaded on a ship. School children eat distributed food during school programs. A machine in operation. A chemist works in a laboratory. A tractor plows a field.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058168
U.S. citizens invited to send vacation photographs taken abroad to OSS in the United States during World War 2

Public service announcement to be shown to American citizens going to move theaters during World War II. U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor to Central Intelligence Agency or CIA) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovan asks the public to send in vacation photographs taken abroad. Narrator explains that photos of overseas ports, docks, railroads, and places of strategic importance in cities can be useful for the U.S. war effort (for intelligence and targeting purposes). Women workers remove pictures from mail sacks, view them for useful information, and sort them. Men examine images by magnifying glasses. Closeups of example photos are shown. Colonel L. E. Norris takes a look at photographs at his desk and holds up a card with his name and address. Narrator invites viewers to send photographs to Colonel Norris as a civilian contribution to the war effort and says, "it's one way you can help win the war."

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058203
U.S. citizens send movies and photographs taken abroad to OSS Colonel L. E. Norris in the United States during World War 2

U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovon asks the public to send pictures taken abroad to Colonel L. E. Norris in the United States during World War II, to assist in war planning and intelligence. Passengers arrive. Cameras on a conveyor belt. Passengers on a ship. Colonel L. E. Norris of the OSS sorts war photographs in his office. Employees examine film strips and photographs. OSS staff watches a movie. Still photographs of various locations including the Solomon Islands.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058204
U.S. citizens send still photographs taken abroad to Colonel L. E. Norris of the OSS in the United States during World War 2

U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovon asks the public to send pictures taken abroad to Colonel L. E. Norris in the United States during World War II. Employees sorting still photographs sent by the public. Various pictures showing foreign harbors and coastlines. Colonel L.E. Norris of the OSS examines the photographs at his desk. The employees examine filmstrips and photographs at a desk.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058205
Stanley Sayres sets a new speed record in his hydroplane 'Slo-Mo-Shun' on Lake Washington in Seattle, Washington DC.

A new speedboat record is made on Lake Washington in Seattle, Washington DC. Seattle auto dealer Stanley Sayres gets into his hydroplane 'Slo-Mo-Shun'. A man looks through a sighting instrument. The hydroplane moves on Lake Washington. He averages 160 plus miles per hour.

Location: Seattle Washington USA
Date: 1950, June 26
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058228
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