A film depicts the contribution of various personalities to the history of the United States. The 31st President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt giving inaugural speech. People crowd in large number and listen to him. The U.S. Capitol Building dome. People gathered to listen to him. People view the Statue of Liberty. The Washington Monument. Statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Lafayette, Nathan Hale, and Abraham Lincoln.
Hale Wooduff, famous African American artist and Art Director at Atlanta University, discusses paintings with young women and young men student painters. African American students paint. A student moves applies ink with a roller over an engraving, and then uses a press to render the art on paper. The student examines the pressing. Two men paint a mural.
Convicts captured after freeing a kidnapped family in the United States. Mr and Mrs Hale Champion and their 19 months old daughter held captive by two gunmen. The kidnapped family disembarks from a United States aircraft. Photographers take pictures. Newspaper headline reads 'Kidnapper's Happy Ending'. Convict held by the authority.
The damaged USS Franklin arrives at the Brooklyn Navy yard in New York after the Japanese attack during World War II. Commander H.H. Hale aboard the USS Franklin. Damaged flight deck of the aircraft.
The shooting of the movie 'This Is The Army' in Hollywood, California. A sign on a theater set: 'This Is The Army'. Soldiers and a band march on a street. The band playing in front of the theater. Camera crew and director Michael Curtiz. The band moves past. Irving Berlin, Curtiz and Alan Hale talk. (World War II period).
Views of The Great Atlantic Hurricane lashing at northeast United States areas (after having already hit the North Carolina Outer Banks), and views of the aftermath and early cleanup following the storm. Regions shown include Atlantic City, Long Island (where it came ashore as a category 3 hurricane on September 15, 1944), New York City suburbs, and parts of New England. High surf flooding boardwalks and coastal cities. Trees bent over and snapped in high winds. People walking with difficulty in the high winds. Streets of towns submerged in water. Coastal docks destroyed and large boats scattered high onto shore areas. Trees, poles, and wires downed over roads and homes. Entire homes moved off of their foundations and placed down the street. The "Great Atlantic Hurricane" was the first example of a named hurricane by the Miami Hurricane Warning Office, which later became the National Hurricane Center. The name was meant to reflect the hurricane's size and intensity.
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