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Assorted modern architecture and highways in the United States in the late 1960s
Cars are seen parked at the Marina City (300 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654, United States) in Chicago, Illinois, United States. A helicopter flying over New York City. Views of various New York City skyline buildings and skyscrapers, including 40 Wall Street or the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, as seen from low aerial flight. Low aerial view of the John Ferraro Building (111 N. Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012) in Los Angeles, California. Low aerial views of stacked highway interchanges and highway lanes in the United States.
Winter storms and cold in United States, and Europe and far eastern regions during winter of 1963.
People walking wearing winter clothes in streets of Chicago, Illinois. Views of the frozen shore areas and ice on Lake Michigan in city of Chicago. Chicago River is jammed by ice. View of railway tracks covered with snow in Europe. Dripping ice on statues. People wearing gloves. Narrator describes snow events in Italy including Florence, Italy. Youth run and slide on ice on frozen river in Italy. Car passing on snowfield. Houses covered with snow and collapsed due to snowfall in Japan. Japanese men and women removing snow using spades and snow shovels. Japanese people shovel snow near homes. Men removing snow from around snowbound railroad trains where passengers had been trapped.
Immigrants to America working in various hard labor jobs and factories early in the 20th century.
Point of view shot out the front of a steam locomotive railroad train as it speeds along a track in western United States. Men stacking wood lumber for boat shipment beside a canal in the early 1900s. The mill and stacks of lumber seen across the canal. Miners at a coal mine ride an open car full of coal as it emerges from a mine in West Virginia, as seen from camera riding on same coal car. Glimpse, from a passing train, of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Immigrants to the United States, from various European countries, at work in industrial production jobs. Men in factories; working at a power forge in a steel mill; Lumber operations: Men cutting down large trees with hand axes and sawing logs for timber in a forest, using large 2-man saws; Butchers moving sides of beef in a meat packing company. Women working in a metal parts factory (appears to be a sink faucet manufacturing company); women working in a textile spinning mill operation and stacking moving machine shelves with spools. A hose set up from a fire hydrant spraying water in a city street and children in bathing suits running underneath to play and cool off in hot summer weather. Montage of various still and moving images: Immigrant children in classrooms and in school yards. A woman instructing new adult immigrants in an English language instruction class. Immigrant workers engaged in skyscraper construction, high in the air without safety equipment. An iron worker perched atop a vertical steel beam with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A woman posing on a horizontal bar. Men and women posing in the surf at a beach. People at beach watching as a group of men create a human pyramid on the sand. A little girl with her feet in the surf. Boys in a classroom, with two of them dirty from work and another boy sleeping with his head on his desk. Mothers and fathers at home asking about what the children learned in school. A young girl leading a group of school children in reciting the pledge of allegiance (pre-1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance is heard recited by a group of children, without the "Under God" wording that was added in 1954). Still image of a young girl employed in a fabric mill (child labor).
A map gives a comparison of various endurance flight across the Atlantic from 1909 to 1921.
Various endurance flights and their comparison. A map of the United States as it depicts the comparison of various endurance flights from 1909 to 1921. Map compares various flights like the 1910 flight by Glenn Curtis, trans continental flight in 1919 by O.C. Read, non stop trans Atlantic flight by Captain John Olcock. 1st transcontinental flight by R.C. Towler in 1912.
Early 1900s car traffic on streets of New York City; car usage in America versus rest of world
Demand of Automobile in the United States. Shows a photograph (ca. 1900) of a policeman ordering a horseless carriage off New York City streets. Picture of men on horseless carriage and on bicycles. Views of traffic of 1910's and 1920's cars and other vehicles on busy, traffic filled streets of New York City, as a police officer directs traffic between the lanes of automobiles. Figure shows that out of 26 million of automobiles, 77% is in the U.S. and 23% in rest of the world.
The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in World War II
On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.
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