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Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling talks about research in the field of food and nutrition.
'Research for Better Living': A Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service (United States Department of Agriculture) film on research work performed by the Bureau. Chief of the Bureau Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling talks about research in the fields of food and nutrition, textiles and clothing, housing and household equipment, and family economics. The Beltsville Research Center in Maryland. Large colonial styled brick building. Technicians work on food preparation and preservation inside a laboratory. They process and can vegetables and run various domestic science experiments. A food specialist compares the braising of meat with and without water. She puts the meat into containers on the stove. A researcher prepares a braised turkey leg to be served for judging. Technicians peel potatoes and insert a device to measure temperature. Trained judges from the laboratory staff taste frozen strawberries and write their verdict. A technician measures the tenderness of a berry with an apparatus. In the kitchen, technicians work to improve large quantity recipes. Technicians chop and weigh carrots, puts them into an institutional cooker and stirs. The prepared food is tried by school children. Children serve themselves and eat the food seated at a table in the school cafeteria.
Driver of a Ford Model-T is chased by two motorcycle policemen in United States.
Ford Model-T on a snowy street. Model-T driven across high railroad trestle. Car driven atop a large water pipe. Two motorcycle policemen chase the car, off road and over field as the driver tries to evade the police. Car goes up steep hill and stops half way up. Policemen pull along side and haul driver out of the car. Empty car then rolls down the hill. Driver chases the car, catches it, gets in and drives off as the comedy stunt continues. Car is driven up to a fork in road. Driver performs stunt leaping from moving car to change the barricade to the other fork, and then running and leaping back into the moving vehicle. Policemen in pursuit then take the wrong road in chase.
Views of Naval Air Station, Chase Field, in Beeville, Texas.
A sign by a building reads 'Naval Air Station Chase Field'. Car pass on road. View of Main Gate with a McDonnell-Douglas A-4 airplane displayed on a pylon. Cars entering and leaving through the gate. Sign on check post reads 'Chase Field U.S. Navy'. Fountain in front of the pylon-mounted airplane. Letters on building read 'Training Squadron 24'. Vehicles parked outside building. Letters on building read 'Home of the Cougars'. Large illustrated global map on building with star at Chase field location and aircraft flying to the four winds. Underneath "Traron-25 " is lettered.
Propaganda film depicts dream sequence of Communist martial law imposed on a typical American town
Propaganda film made for the U.S. Defense Department during Cold War, entitled “Freedom and You.” Opening scene shows a typical town in the United States, except that soldiers are patrolling and sandbags and barbed wire fencing are seen in places. Narrator, Jack Webb, approaches the camera with comment: “Frightening isn’t it.” Overview of the town. Views through barbed wire of an armed soldier and local people. Ordinary automobile traffic on the street. (Narrator suggests that this town could created somewhere in the Soviet Union to teach young Communists about the United States.) View inside an ice cream parlor with soda jerk serving customers. Numerous views typical of what one would find in an American town: Inside a bank; White Church steeple seen through trees; men conversing in ice cream parlor; inside of a supermarket; (Communist civilian chatting with soldier near barbed wire fence); a baseball game; A tray of hot dogs; school building with students outside; (Teacher inside discussing explosives and listening devices.) Teacher and students in chemistry lab; Slate identifies film title: “Freedom and You.” Boy playing with his dog is chastised by his mother; Young couple conversing over car with open hood; Man going to work kisses his daughter; Men at work in a machine shop; An airmen, marines, and a woman at a table on an air base; KC-97 aerial refueling aircraft in background; Young couple sitting in hotrod car watching as a man races a Chevy Corvette car on the runway. Group at the table give woman timing report; A single engine Beechcraft airplane on the runway; Young couple kiss in front of a M101 105mm howitzer sitting in a building; They speak with an Army officer about postponing his active duty. More views of machine shop; Family at dinner saying goodnight to small children; Father talking with small boy wearing Cub Scout cap; Film is interrupted with a dream sequence showing Communist Martial law imposed on the town. Effects are shown in small vignettes of ordinary life. The machine shop now displays a sign with the day’s production quota. Children being packed to go away to a State School. Father rebels and is seized by military guards. The church is closed for worship, and now houses a Soviet museum. Father stands trial before a military court for rebelling against the Communist State. Family testifies against him. He is sentenced to be shot. He gives impassioned speech about freedom. He is hauled into a room and is shot by a soldier with a pistol. Film ends as he wakes from his nightmare and finds everything back to normal.
Classroom and field training of FBI agents in the United States.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents undergo their training in the United States. FBI 'most wanted' posters are printed on a bank of printing machines. Prospective FBI agents in a large classroom. Instructor points to diagram of a revolver on classroom board. Training of the agents for physical fitness. The agents do deep knee bends, box using a punching bag, and practice jiu jitsu as part of their training. View of the law library at FBI headquarters. View of diorama showing bank robber hideout. Table filled with equipment issued to FBI G-men includes cameras, saws, night sticks, guns, hand cuffs, leg irons, flashlights, and explosives. FBI agents practice machine gun target practice while driving 1935 Hudson Terraplane automobiles. The agents fire at target boards. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover stands with agents who are lying in prone positions as they riddle a 1928 Chevy sedan with bullets fired from machine guns.
Routine activities of residents in a section of the South Bronx, New York City.
Scenes shot on a Wednesday afternoon in the South Bronx, New York City. View from car driving slowly uphill on Eagle Avenue heading towards 149th Street in the South Bronx, New York City. Among cars parked at the left side of a one-way street, is a 1957 Chevy that has been stripped of its tires and wheels. Apartment buildings line the street. Residents are out and about walking on the sidewalks. One man has the hood up on his big-fin 1960 Plymouth Fury automobile. Closeups as the camera car drives past some residents. Closed business establishments have heavy steel gates locked across their doors and windows. A sign advertising Ballantine beer is mounted on a building. Below it someone has painted message with partial words:"...Jtch Unknown Sinners." Small glass blocks have been broken out of an adjoining building. Camera pans down an apartment building on Crimmins Avenue, following path of external fire escape ladders. A number of people are gathered socially on the apartment house steps. A group of mixed age men play a game of stick ball in the street. A car turns into the street hugging the left side of the road to avoid interfering with the ballgame. Closeups of some players, as one (unseen) is recorded speaking about the game. (The narrator notes that this is filmed on a Wednesday afternoon in the middle of a "work week.") Camera pans people "hanging out," in the vicinity. Two men walk along the edge of an apartment building roof. A dog walks past a man tearing up a cardboard box. Men seated alone, on a fire escape; on a park bench; in a doorway; and on a box in front of a store. Boys playing frisbee and two with baseball gloves, playing catch. Police cars: one parked at a curb and one driving along the street. A young man wearing a sweatshirt with "Latin Crowns" written on it, goes into a building. Outside, another youth, in similar sweatshirt, does pull-ups on a bar at the bottom of a fire escape. A boy swings on the bar. Juvenile delinquency: Several boys start fighting and an older one steps in to break it up. A boy inhaling illegal drugs or chemicals from a paper bag, or using it to hyperventilate.
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