Crown Princess Beatrix of Netherlands, on visit to Los Angeles, California. She stands with others in a courtyard as U.S. and Netherlands National Anthems are played over speaker system. Flags of the U.S. and Netherlands are displayed. The Princess holds large bouquet of flowers, that she gives to attendant as she moves to a small stage with microphones, where she is interviewed. One microphone carries letters KNX.
The United States Presidential elections campaign in the United States. Democratic candidate Walter Mondale gives a speech during the campaign at the 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco, California, in July 1984. Mondale supporters holding banners. Picture of young boy Walter Mondale with his family. View of men in a bread line during the Great Depression. President Franklin D Roosevelt seated in a car talking to farmers or possibly CCC workers. Still photos of Walter Mondale elected captain of the football team in his school days. Still images of Mondale with Hubert Humphrey. Mondale with his wife and three children. He spends time with his family playing and dining outdoors. He chops wood and cooks food on a barbecue grill beside a lake. Footage of Mondale speaking while Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth. Mondale speaking with a group of children. A girl typing on a computer keyboard. View of an early computer screen or CRT screen as data runs along the screen. Closeups of wide eyed boy and girl children looking up and watching something. Pollution at a Superfund site. A fence and sign warning of a contaminated area. Broken barrels and chemical toxic waste sludge in a superfund area. Mondale and Jimmy Carter together on stage at the Democratic Convention of 1976, holding up their hands as as he became Carter's running mate for Vice President. Supporters at the convention cheering in 1976. Mondale meeting with world officials including leaders of China while signing an agreement. Mondale meeting with other world leaders in Vienna, Austria to discuss human rights issues with the government of South Africa. Mondale at Camp Davis assisting President Carter in negotiating the peace deal between Israel and Egypt. He is shown with Jimmy Carter, and with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. Walter Mondale traveling all over the United States during run up to 1984 election. Mondale and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro on stage as his supporters cheer the two running for President and Vice President in 1984. Monale telling a crowd, "I want to be President of the United States."
United States Presidential election campaign in the United States. The Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, accepts the Presidential nomination in his speech. His supporters cheer holding banners. Childhood pictures of Ronald Reagan with his family. He played football for the Eureka Team. He was also part of a baseball team and went to a training camp. (This clip shows the Chicago Cubs, but he did not play for them). Ronald Reagan became a Hollywood actor. He also joined the army for a few years. He sits on the 'Theater Ronald Reagan' chair. He was a strong supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (This shows FDR, but Reagan later left the Democrats and became a Republican.) Ronald Reagan is elected California governor. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan stands with George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican candidate for the Vice President. President Reagan at his inauguration at the United States Capitol in Washington DC. President Reagan is shot and is rushed to a hospital. The President resumes work after his recovery. He concentrates on the economic growth of the United States. Construction workers on both commercial and residential buildings. Scenes from the Williamsburg economic summit with world leaders including Margaret Thatcher. He also is seen speaking in Bonn Germany. President Reagan attends an outdoor church service with American troops. President Reagan visits a cemetery with wife Nancy Davis. (This is the American cemetery at Normandy on the 40th anniversary of the Invasion of Europe). The President and the First Lady visit Japan, China and South Korea. We see them walking on the Great Wall of China. He speaks at the Republican Convention in Dallas in August of 1984.
Opening scene shows U.S. President Ronald Reagan holding a little girl, and then standing with officials and Secret Service agents, as he prepares to enter a car. Closeup of him smiling. Closeup of President Reagan signing his autograph for spectators in a crowd. Next, Reagan and his wife Nancy are seen on November 4, 1980 waving to supporters at the Century Plaza Hotel, celebrating his election victory as the 40th U.S. President. The President elect says a few words of thanks to them. Views of the crowd cheering. Adopted son, Michael Reagan holds his son Cameron as he and his wife, Colleen Reagan, join Ronald and Nancy Reagan on the stage, followed by daughter Patricia Reagan and son Ron Reagan. The crowd cheers the President elect and his family. At this point the film begins showing images about Ronald Regan's life, starting with baby pictures; his parents; Tampico, Illinois, where he was born; Dixon, where he is seen in a school picture and with boyhood friends. A photograph of "Dutch" Reagan President of his High School Class. Reagan in photo with other members of the Eureka College football team, in Eureka, Illinois. The seal of the college. Pictures of Reagan with college classmates and teammates. Reagan posing in bathing suit when he was swimming team coach. Young Reagan, after graduation, as a sports announcer, sitting at a microphone labeled: "WHO" in Davenport, Iowa. The broadcasting tower of that radio station. A Track and field event taking place. Reagan posing with a pipe in his mouth, at the WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. A baseball game in progress before a full stadium of spectators. In 1937, a Chicago baseball team is seen boarding a ship to a Spring training camp in California. (Narrator states Reagan accompanied them.) Aerial view of buildings at the First National Studios (home of Warner Brothers) in Hollywood. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, circa 1952, being applauded at a gathering when he was President of the Screen Actors Guild. Views of Reagan in U.S. Army uniform. A U.S. Army C-47 aircraft taking off from a field under attack, with fires burning and smoke rising (possibly during Japanese December 7, 1941 attack on installations in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii). U.S. Airmen standing on a ramp next to a Douglas C-47B-1-DL transport aircraft (tail number: 43-16145). What appears to be a ViP version of a B-50 aircraft parked on a ramp with an honor guard at the stairway. Ronald Reagan, in uniform, signing up for active duty. Later, Captain Reagan, U.S. Army Air Forces, is seen with other uniformed men at a gathering in Warner Brothers studios. The entrance of Paramount Pictures studios in Hollywood. A large group of studio employees walking between buildings. Reagan speaking, as President, of the Screen Actors Guild, at an outdoor gathering. Actor Robert Young and film industry executives stand nearby. Reagan, as Chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council, addresses a dinner gathering of that organization. He is also seen testifying before he House Committee on Un-American activities Committee (HUAC) on October 23, 1947.
The last portion of Emma Lazarus’sonnet,"The New Colossus," is shown as engraved on a tablet inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrations of immigrants arriving and felling trees to build dwellings in America. Reenactments of early English, Scottish, and Dutch settlers building houses and working at crafts in New England. Italian sulphur mine workers in Louisiana. Immigrants, from France and Switzerland, planting vineyards in California and New York State. Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, sowing seed and cultivating crops in the Midwest. Polish and Welsh immigrants in American coal mines. African Americans harvesting cotton on farm fields in the United States south, including a woman picking cotton with her baby riding on her long collecting bag. A Spaniard on horseback in the Southwest. Mexicans working in Texas oil fields and on ranches of New Mexico. Greek and Portuguese fishermen with huge catches of fish. A German technician working with fine instruments. Hungarian and Russian immigrants working in steel mills. Irish, Slavs, and Chinese, building railroads. Closeup of lumberjack's axes and saws cutting trees. A forge and a blacksmith shoeing a horse with horseshoes. A woman at work with a spinning wheel. Railroad ties and rails being placed. An antique railroad workman's locomotive and car. Men installing telegraph wire on rough poles. A early historic railroad 0-4-0 steam locomotive (appears to be one of the few replicas of "The Atlantic" which had been built in the 1830s) pulling a single small passenger train car. Cowboys on horseback rounding up steers. Herds of cattle,sheep, and pigs, bound to market. Farmers tilling soil with horse-drawn cultivators, preparing tobacco leaves for drying, and loading cotton bales. Machines spinning thread in a textile mill or factory. Fabric weaving machines at work. An early steam boat underway in a river. Early model automobile driving on dirt road. Wright Brothers' Wright Flyer airplane in flight with several persons on board. Early tractors and harvester machinery working on a farm. Glimpses of American industrial plants and transportation in rapid succession (some of it showing building of Hoover Dam and building of the Chrysler Building in New York City). Oil well drilling and a "gusher" oil well spouting oil upward. Steel mills, locomotive trains, and then a scientist in a laboratory working with beakers and a solution. Dynamite charges blasting away sides of mountains and gorges, and scenes of dam construction and dams opening to allow water gushing. Large electrical control levers being thrown to run electricity, and scenes of electric transmission towers and facilities. Natural gas storage areas. Golden Gate bridge under construction and high rise skyscraper buildings being constructed, including the Chrysler Building circa 1930 while still under construction in New York City. Aerial view of New York City. Camera panning over the gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery.
Atomic bomb production and its use in the United States. Doctor Ernest O. Lawrence experiments with the cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley. View of the exterior and interior of the cyclotron. An animated diagram shows the results of the splitting of the uranium atom. Diagram shows a nucleus, electrons and protons. Atomic structures of Helium, Lithium and Uranium. A diagram of the creation of barium and krypton, and the release of atomic energy. Aerial and ground views of Y-12 atomic energy testing, uranium enrichment, and manufacturing plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee created during Manhattan Project. Workers walking on the grounds of the the plant. The Trinity Shot first atomic explosion is shown near Los Alamos, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Flash of explosion and a cloud of smoke rises as seen from U.S. Army cameras 6 miles away. Two other views of the explosion are seen from other camera positions while narrator explains the effects. U.S. President Harry S. Truman speaks of the need to keep the secrets of the atomic bomb among the U.S., the U.K, and Canada, alone, until they find successful techniques to control the bomb and protect the world from total destruction. He indicates that he will work the the U.S. Congress in the effort and make the power a force for world peace. Truman asks that God guide the U.S. in how to use the technology in His ways and for His purposes. (World War II period).
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