Forest fire prevention activities to ensure a continual supply of timber in California. Forest fire in the timber area of pine forest in California. Forest fire reduces and destroys forest productivity. Donkey engine with spark arresters are good devices to ensure losses against forest fire. Man cleans side or 'right-of-ways' of rail road. Oil powered locomotive carries tree logs. Written on the engine of the locomotive is, 'Pickering LBR Co'. Organized fire crews are stationed at strategic points to combat forest fires. Man with a shovel tries to extinguish the fire.
Man fells snag which is a source of 'spot fire'. Men dispose slash by piling it and burning it in winter. View of small area burned due to slash disposal. Logging roads and railroads serve as fire breaks. Truck drives down a logging road. Sign reads 'No Smoking'. Men throw lit cigars on forest ground that starts a fire. Man extinguishes fire by putting dirt over it with his shovel. Timber takes around 50-75 years to grow.
Importance of forest for wood supply and water for irrigation and health. Production film 'Good Turns for Our Forest'. View of America's forests of earlier years. View of dwindled American forest. View of a wood lumber processing mill with railroad trains hauling large timber to the mill. Forests provide wood supply to America and water for irrigation. River running through a forest. View of a dam with gates opened, for power generation. Children at a medical camp. Sign reads 'Children Open Air Preventorium 522 Chamber of Commerce Los Angeles California'. Children at the camp pose in a group standing on and near the camp entry fence. The children perform group calisthenic exercises. The boys and girls run and play around and on top of a small log cabin.
United States President Harry S Truman with Vice President Garner in Texas during an election campaign. President Truman in car with Vice President John Nance Garner 'Cactus Jack'. Man with a sheep. Sign on the sheep reads 'Dewey Goat', and Truman is seen petting the sheep that represents his opponent. Crowd greets President Truman in San Antonio and waves as his car goes by on a street. Truman is seen posing in front of the Alamo. Next Truman visits Austin Texas where he addressed Civil Rights, according to the narrator, saying that his opponents, the Republicans, don't want public unity. President Truman meets on his moving railroad train car with Sam Rayburn, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. President Truman addresses a large crowd gathered outdoors in Fort Worth Texas. Next seen shows his opponents activities: Crowd greets Governor Thomas E Dewey in Oakland California. Banner reads 'Welcome Governor Dewey'. Railroad train of Governor Dewey is seen moving on train tracks. Scenes of Republican presidential candidate Dewey with Mrs. Dewey addressing a crowd in Kelso, Oregon. Officials there present him with a string of fresh caught salmon fish as a gift. Governor Dewey on dais with his wife. Mrs. Dewey addresses crowd.
Last few seconds of countdown for launch of NASA Apollo 11 mission from Cape Kennedy in Florida. Saturn Rocket ignites and liftoff commences carrying Apollo 11 on the first manned mission to moon. The crew includes Neil A Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E Aldrin.
President Ronald Wilson Reagan and former Vice President Walter Frederick 'Fritz' Mondale meet in their second Presidential debate in Kansas City in 1984. President of League of women voters Dorothy Ridings. Sound is absent from first minute of clip.
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