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Mentally disabled people learn many trades like sewing and cutting hair in Southbury Training School, United States.

Southbury Training School in Connecticut, opened in 1940 and imparts trade knowledge to mentally disabled persons. Narrator mentions Dr. Grover Powers, pediatrician on the faculty of Yale Medical School and charter member of the Southbury Board of Directors. A person walks in snow covered mountains. A sign reads 'Southbury Training School'. Exterior of the training school. The school aims to keep in mind the potential not the limit of the mentally disabled. Southbury employs a concept of "Cottage parents." Cottage parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson converse with Cottage Life Director, Gary Thorne . People move in groups. Two women look at rows of dresses. A man cuts hair. A person works on a shoe. Close view of an orthopedic shoe and a giant shoe. Several mentally disabled women work on sewing machines. A distinguished gentleman speaks with a paper in his hand. Another man speaks from behind his desk. Front of Southbury Training School with the American Flag near it.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 6 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033422
Workers manufacture propellers at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation Plant in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation Plant in Hartford, Connecticut. Workers manufacture constant speed full-feathering propellers in the plant. Columns of standing propellers. Men work on various machines. Workers use machines to curve the contours of the hydraulic propellers. They smooth the bushings, polish the blades, and check for variable pitch and blade angles. The finished propellers are moved on wheeled dollies for storage.

Location: Hartford Connecticut USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057836
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt is greeted by a large crowd in Hartford while heading for Boston.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt on his way to 3rd 'campaign' speech in Boston. He is greeted by a large crowd in Hartford, Connecticut. The President addresses the crowd. People take cover under umbrellas. A group of people waves to the President. The President speaks into a microphone from an open car. Other officials seated with the President in the car. Woman with a campaign sign that says "Forward with Roosevelt" A procession of cars moves along a street. President Roosevelt inspects Pratt & Whitney airplane engine factory. He also views a number of rifles and various armament on display. A crowd assembled on a street.

Location: Hartford Connecticut USA
Date: 1940, October 30
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053247
Igor Sikorsky at the controls of the VS-300A helicopter during a free flight. It rises and then settles back to the ground.

The VS-300A helicopter, built by the Vought-Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation,Stratford, Connecticut. Demonstration free flight without cables attached to ground. A slight improvement on the VS-300, the sign on side of helicopter reads, 'VOUGHT-SIKORSKY VS-300A' This is an early 300A with two tail rotors. Inventor and Engineering manager of the company, Igor Sikorsky, is at the controls. The helicopter ascends and then descends and lands.

Location: Stratford Connecticut USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044897
Germany bombs London during Blitz, and United States sends Lend-Lease war materiel to England (WW2)

The London Blitz. Sections of London ablaze from German bombing during Battle of Britain. US President Franklin Roosevelt signing H.R. 1946, Lend-Lease legislation in World War II. View of last page of H.R.1946, signed by Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and by President Roosevelt. United States sends war material to England. 'USA' written on Lend-Lease boxes being loaded on lorry after arrival in Britain. Huge crates of Lend-Lease war materiel on railroad flat cars pulled by locomotive. Smoke rises up from the engine. 'Machine tools, BULLARD, Bridgeport Conn.' written on crate in transit.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1941
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053392
A NAM meeting and U.S. naval and air forces advance in preparation for World War II.

The United States on alert in the beginning of World War II. A National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting. The NAM President talks addresses the group. He talks about the national defense requirements and ways to meet the mass production. The Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine plant in Hartford, Connecticut. Workers in line arrive for work. Men work to manufacture engines for American bomber and fighter aircraft. Manufactured engine parts stacked in stands. U.S. Navy Curtiss-Wright CW-22Bs in flight. A naval task force underway at sea below. The ships advance amidst explosions.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057831
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