Various types of neon lights and signs in the United States. Neon signs read as 'More', 'SP', 'Illinois Central', 'Armour' and 'Up'. Reflection of neon signs on water and car. Neon lights form a bear glass and building shape.
Neon lights and signs in the United States. Neon signs read 'More', 'SP', 'Illinois Central', 'Armour' and 'Up'. Reflection of neon signs on water and a car. Neon lights in various shapes and on numerous buildings.
Demonstration of survival techniques in tropical rain forests in the Philippines. Children row a boat in a river. Aerial view of a bridge over the river. Animated map of the Mekong River in South East Asia, the Congo River in Central Africa and the Amazon River in South America. Aerial view of inland water ways. Heavy foliage on either side of the river. United States Air Force Captain Jim Holt demonstrates basic survival tricks and techniques in tropical rain forest: he cuts bamboo and makes a jar from it. He fills stream water in the jar. He adds purification tablets in the water. He uses a probe stick to test water depth and avoids deep holes. The stick supports him while walking on a rocky path. He searches for food in rocks with the stick. He moves along the rocky path. He sits and rests.
Belgians living under German occupation in Brussels during World War II. Women and men ride bicycles in the streets of Brussels, Belgium. People walking in a crowded street, likely near the Great Place or Bourse de Bruxelles. A woman in an elaborate hat walks past people in the street. Trams move along the city roads. Civilians and military personnel dining at a street café. A view of the ‘Maison du Roi’ or King's House and the Guildhalls at the Grand Place (Grote Markt, 1000 Brussel, Belgium), the central square of Brussels. View of the Great Place and its square. Soldiers look at birds in cages. Vendors selling various foods and vegetables. A woman vendor slicing cheese. German Luftwaffe airmen taste the cheese as civilians look on.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. U.S. Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Commander of the U.S. Seventh Army, along with a soldier aboard a troop ship. Soldiers mark a sheet. Lt. Gen. Patton with a cigar in his mouth as he goes over the side of the ship. He climbs down a rope net into a landing craft. Lt. Gen. Patton seated aboard the landing craft, accompanied by several armed soldiers and officers, including a Brigadier General, as it approaches a beach in the Gulf of Gela, South-Central Sicily. A captain and soldier help Lt. General Patton to get off the landing craft. Patton and officers, including the Brigadier General who accompanied him on the landing craft, stand together on the beach. Patton and the Brigadier General both wear 1st Armored Division patches on their uniforms. General Patton stands watching as army vehicles including trucks,halftracks,jeeps, and heavy armor, offload from Landing ships. Officers and soldiers on the beach take temporary cover as explosions occur close offshore, from enemy artillery fire.
Two High School boys stand on a New York city street. Tenament buildings are behind them. children play on the sidewalks and in the street including one riding a home-made roller skate box scooter with the number 2 on it. The boys walk past many children. They are making not of buildings with inadequate fire escapes. Scene suddenly shifts to a boy standing on a bridge overlooking railroad tracks. He is annotating a map or buildings along Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Next, the student is seen presenting information about this matter and engaging in a discussion about it with classmates. Later, a student spokesman is seen presenting findings about housing inadaquacies to an assembly of people. Local people demonstrate in the streets, carrying banners decrying current conditions. Scene shifts to new housing projects with playgrounds and seemingly better conditions for the residents. Children are seen running in Central Park. A woman (teacher) with children on a ferry boat looking at the skyline of lower Manhattan. (World War II period).
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