Life in a Zionist workers'colony in Palestine (later Israel). The Moshav Nahalal colony where every farmer has his own backyard. A farmers looks at domestic animals in his backyard. The boys and girls in the family of a farmer seated around a table and eating a meal. A farmer washes his hand and his wife milks a cow. Farmers at a milk plant. The milk is collected. A woman washes clothes. A communal colony or commune or kibbutz where the standard of living is very low. People live in straw houses and own nothing. People in the colony. The Geva colony (kibbutz) where the standard of living is very high. View of well established buildings. Mothers who take turns caring for the community's children. Two young children in a pram. Several two and three year old children taking shower baths under supervision of one of the mothers. Children in a play room. Children having a communal meal. Men and women harvesting grapes. People walking to a communal dining room. The communal laundry with clothes drying on a line. Members of the Kibbutz planning communal working activities.
Holy Fire ceremony in Jerusalem, Palestine. Soldiers stand with guns. The former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, seated at a desk and in discussion. The Holy Fire ceremony in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A congregation stampedes as people light up candles from the holy fire. (World War II period).
Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.
U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.
Dog sleds being used to bring supplies from West Base to the ship, USMS Northstar, in Bay of Whales, Antarctica, as West Base is being abandoned, during the 3rd Byrd Antarctic Expedition. The Barkentine, USS Bear, is seen at the shore, as well. One of the expedition seen skiing down the hill.
U.S. explorer Richard Byrd's Antarctic III expedition in Antarctica. A man skiing down a snow hill. The ship, USMS Northstar, at the shore in the Bay of Whales. Dog teams pull sleds loaded with supplies from the West Base, which is being abandoned. Supplies are being loaded onto the Northstar by a crane. A tractor tows load.
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