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The AAA-sponsored 500 mile race at Twin City Motor Speedway, on Labor Day, September, 4, 1915.
AAA-sponsored 500 mile race at Twin City Motor Speedway in Minnesota, on Labor Day, 1915. Scenes of racing cars running and of groups of cars as they begin the race, with racing teams pushing their cars off. Race driver, Dario Resta, who had earned a pole position with a qualifying speed of 102.8 mph, is seen as he pulls off the track in his Mercedes, abandoning the race, after completing 110 miles, because the cap on back of his oil pump had come off, causing pump failure and oil loss. His racing crew surround the car. The next scene shows Resta posing beside his Mercedes, number 24. One of his team playfully pokes him in the ribs. Flagman steps into track and waves as officials in two passenger cars drive past.
General Orozco, General of Mexican Federal forces seen posing for camera and watching his forces in action
General Pascual Orozco, Federal General in Mexico stands in front of a building and poses for camera. Next view shows Mexican federal soldiers firing from trenches. Men in the background. Opening slate indicates there is a price on Orozco's head (possibly indicating film is from mid 1915 following Orozco's escape in the United States from arrest on charges of conspiracy to violate U.S. neutrality laws, preceding his capture and death in 1915)
The Battle of Stalingrad during World War 2
The Battle of Stalingrad, Russia. Animated map shows the Battle of Caucasus and the Crimea. Germans plan to capture the Russian oil fields. Stalingrad is bombarded from German aircraft. Smoke rises due to the explosion. German guns fired. Wrecked Soviet buildings in Stalingrad. House to house fight in the streets of Stalingrad. The Russians fight back. Snow covered mountains. Maps show Russian encirclement of Nazi German forces. Marshal Nikolai Voronoff confers with his aides. (World War II period).
Animated map depicts the area covered by the Soviet Union and its major physio-graphical features.
Animated map of the Soviet Union. Animated map depicts the distance between United States and Europe. A map of the Soviet Union. The map locates the White Sea, the Volga River, the Caucasus Mountains and Siberia. The east west expanse of the Soviet Union is depicted as 4662 miles. Animated map depicts the area covered by the Soviet Union which is equivalent to the areas of Canada, the United States and Europe put together. A map locates the Caucasians Mountains on the map of the Soviet Union.
Natural beauty and agriculture in the mild Black Sea coastal region of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Life of people in Georgia Soviet Socialist Republic. Men ride horses on a field. A woman at the bank of a pond near a dam and waterfall. Narrator discusses the beauty and warmth of this area of the Caucasus mountain region on the Black Sea. Women rest in the yard of a convent. Women and men hanging and curing Turkish tobacco leaves in open air. A woman smoking a long pipe of tobacco. A woman leads a team of oxen to till and cultivate a piece of land using an ancient, slotted, rotating tiller. A herd of goats graze on a mountain slope.
Polish Refugees travel three years and 3 thousand miles to Iran during World War II.
Many Polish refugees are seen in the final phase of their monumental trek of three years and three thousand miles from Poland, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Poland in 1939, where polish refugees crowd roads carrying their belongings in wooden carts and other conveyances. They are seen at a rest stop where they obtain food. Animated map shows path of refugees fleeing East into the Soviet Union, following the German invasion in August, 1939. The path continues Southeast in 1941, as they flee from the German campaign, Operation Barbarossa, into the Soviet Union. Their journey continues along the west coast of the Caspian Sea, through the Caucasus, to Persia (Iran). Views of refugees arriving at the Persian border, where they are seen near many tents, and being provided with articles of clothing from British and American Red Cross Stations. Refugees donning new shoes and other items. Young girls having their hair styled. Refugees sit at long tables where they receive hot meals. A teacher conducts an outdoor class for Polish refugee children. Closeup of children at their desks. Refugee women are seen tilling soil to plant crops, while fathers and grown sons and daughters leave to join the new armies of the Polish Government in Exile. Views of Polish women, in uniforms marching and of uniformed armed Polish soldiers, as well becoming part of the Allied war against the Axis powers. Polish refugees at an outdoor shrine, offering prayers for the safety of their members in the military. New polish refugee arrivals at the Persian border being greeted by others, many of whom are family members.
