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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.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051775
Working and parts of a smokeless coal furnace explained by an instructor in United States.

Two women stand near a coal furnace in United States. They open the upper door of the furnace. Burning coal in view. A woman adds coal from a bucket. She turns the coal with a poker. A woman checks ash from a tray in the bottom. A man checks the furnace. Another man shows that no smoke is in stove pipe above the furnace. Students gather around as designer explains the parts and the functioning of the furnace with the help of a diagram. The designer and another man demonstrate how the smokeless fire box can be retrofit into existing furnaces. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053439
A one-armed man paints a room and pastes wallpaper on the wall of a room in United States.`

A man, with only one arm, prepares wallpaper. He takes water from a bucket and wets the wallpaper paste with a brush. He takes a stool and puts wallpaper on the wall. The wallpaper is printed with a design and pasted to a wall as a decorative covering. He presses the wallpaper. He puts back the stool on the side and presses the wallpaper on the lower part of the wall.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053440
Captured heavy machine gun, light machine gun and Japanese infantry rifles.

Japanese weapons demonstrated to United States Troops. Japanese soldiers in action. Captured heavy machine gun Model 92 shown and its parts explained. A telescope demonstrated to troops. Its elevation and depression explained. Officers describe Japanese guns to troops. Japanese light machine gun model 1936 explained with its mechanism. Japanese infantry rifles 1905 and other models explained. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053494
Private Snafu gets captured by German soldier as he neglected to care for his weapons and equipment.

Animated film of Private Snafu explains to take care of the weapons. A headline reads 'US soldiers best armed in world'. U.S. weapons unbeatable if taken care off. The cartoon character sits in a tent with a newspaper. He does not take care of his weapons. A Nazi soldier arrives. Private Snafu comes out of the tent and tries to kill him with his weapons. But the weapons do not work as the weapons were neglected. Nazi soldier comes with knife and captures Private Snafu. He tries to escape in his jeep but the steering wheel of the jeep comes out. Private Snafu in a jail. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053497
Commanding Officer asks depot workers to work overtime for supplies loaded for a convoy departure, United States.

United States Naval intelligence obtains information that submarines are heading towards a projected convoy route. The port Commander advances the departure time. Army Service Depot in view. Supplies and goods in the depot to supply U.S. soldiers with necessary supplies during World War 2. People work in the depot. Supplies loaded, tested, cataloged and stored. Women operate radio. The port Commanding Officer asks depot workers to work overtime. The workers load supplies. The code given to them for the operation is code '0000'. The supplies arranged efficiently. Ambulances parked. Equipment, bulldozers, weapons, food material, dresses, medical supplies, tea, coffee, salt, sugar, gasoline, parachutes, medical supplies and telephone equipment loaded. 'Field ration D' written on several boxes. The consignment loaded in railroad cars.

Date: 1943
Duration: 7 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053519