Rubber and fruit harvesting operations at Fordlândia facility built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil, to supply rubber to Ford manufacturing facilites. View of rubber trees. Brazilian people walk on a dirt road lined with rubber trees. Orange trees in a row. Workers carry canvas bags. They climb ladders beside the trees and pluck fruits. The workers pick fruits from the ground. Banana trees in rows. Rubber tree workers pour harvested rubber tree latex from pails in to a large collection can. A man sprays insecticide (possibly DDT) in a swampy area to control insect population. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia community built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. The latex and fruit collection seen in this clip is likely on lands connected to Fordlandia. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).
Views from deck of the "El Aquario," supply ship supporting the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska flight project in 1934. The ship is passing through the Seymour Narrows, on Eastern edge of Vancouver Island, Canada. A steamship is seen approaching from the South, astern. It is a three funnel passenger ship that passes to port of the El Aquario. View from pilot house of waters at North end of the narrows. Dolphins swimming along with the ship are seen from the bow. Seagulls land on the deck and superstructure of the ship. Strong tidal currents are seen flooding in from the North.
Joseph Goebbels is finishing remarks, to the effect that we can still have a life, during a gathering of Nazi party officials, in a room somberly decorated as if commemorating a funeral (possibly that of Paul von Hindenburg, in 1934). Small pictures of Hindenburg and Hitler flank a large imposing painting of Hindenburg, over a mantle. All gathered join Goebbels in saluting and repeating "Heil" three times. Next, Adolf Hitler is seen, speaking and haranguing audiences in several different venues and circumstances. Politician Hitler, in civilian clothes, having been appointed Chancellor, stands with German President Paul von Hindenburg and Vice-Chancellor, Franz von Papen, in 1933. Hitler, in uniform, signs a document during a ceremony.
Deputy Gauleiter of Berlin Arthur Gorlitzer at a soup kitchen in Germany. He gives a short address. Old-aged men and women have soup in a large hall. A band plays on the stage. A sign announces that for this date: January 7, 1934, chicken stew and noodles are being served. Gorlitzer speaks and urges people to contribute to the "aid for winter"campaign so the poor and needy can have enough to eat.
A mass meeting of the German Christian Movement in Berlin, Germany on 1st of May, 1934. Bishop Joachim Hossenfelderand other Nazi officials and guests arrive for the meeting. Nazi stormtroopers carry Nazi flags and march in a hall. Joachim Hossenfelder speaks from the pulpit.He and his wife, present small theological books, to persons who come forward from their pews to rceive them. Bishop Joachim Hossenfelderand his family leave the meeting and enter a car. He waves to bystanders.
Nazi party members at a torchlight rally in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1934. The assembled members sing and carry flags. SA-Stabschef, Viktor Lutze, gives a speech.
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