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Application of science in manufacturing of chemicals and plastic products in United States
Highlights the importance and role of science in business. Application of science in Chemistry to produce new chemicals and substances. Various new forms of plastic being manufactured in factories. Plastic telephone receivers being manufactured in a production plant. Articles made of new plastics. A new lucite plastic capable of transmitting light. A man holds lucite test tube, pipe and other articles made of plastic. He hits the lucite tube against a counter to show that it does not break. He demonstrates that curved lucite can "pipe" light through curves akin to electricity or water. Men take out synthetic rubber from a machine. Synthetic rubber made of coal,air and water being processed in a factory.
Work Progress Administration projects in West Virginia during the Great Depression.
Shows 'Closed' sign on gate of a factory during depression. Jobless men sitting idle on benches. A young man asks another man for some money. People with signs and banners on road including a sign "Unemployed, will take any job." Desperate unemployed men going through trash looking for food or anything of value. Men sleep in doorways. Men in soup kitchen lines and waiting for handouts and relief. Manufacturing factory whistle blows and men are seen going to work. Smoke stacks working again at industrial area. Men shoveling field. Men and women entering a factory. Men in a pay line to receive pay at a factory. Smiling faces of people. A parent tossing a young boy into the air playfully. A young girl drinking milk. A man handing bags of food groceries to a happy wife. Pictures of bottles of milk and plates of breads. People enjoy a swimming pool. Children play on a merry go round and on a see-saw, as seen from child's point of view on the ride. A couple holding kids. A tall building under construction and surrounded in scaffolding. Construction of Tri-County airport at Clarksburg. Men working to build the runways. A plane taxis on a completed runway beside them. A man working to seal abandoned mines to prevent pollution of the water supply. Construction of a retaining wall is shown at Richwood Avenue in Morgantown West Virginia to prevent collapse of the roadway and homes above it. Construction shown of a hydro-therapeutic unit at Morris Memorial Hospital for crippled children, especially those suffering from infantile paralysis (polio). Children suffering from infantile paralysis in cots. Scene of construction of a new building at Marshall College (later Marshall University) in Huntington West Virginia, for an elementary training school. A new Gymnasium at Fairview High School is shown, and a new Assembly hall for the 4-H camp at Jacksons Mill. The new building for the African American High School at Morgantown is shown. View of a swimming pool, and people diving and swimming. Scene changes to a Sewing room, with many women working at sewing machines powered by foot pedals, and making garments for needy families. View of a Nursery school, and a small black child being bathed in a bath tub. Children playing in the yard of the nursery school.
Housing and Urban Development representative with flood victims in a model trailer home, Rapid City.
Operations after floods in Rapid City. Interior of a model trailer home. HUD (Housing and Urban Development) representative writing information taken from flood victims. Rooms and furnishing in mobile home. Flood victims sign papers. Two more victims arrive at model trailer home. Sign on model home reads 'Emergency Temporary Housing and Information Center'. Trucks with workers installing power lines to new trailer homes. New trailer homes in the background. Trucks on road with new trailer homes. Trucks lined up with new trailer homes.
Telegraph agency informs newsreel editor about an event in United States.
International Newsreel uses printed press as source of information and entertainment in connection with telegraph news agency. Interiors of office in telegraph news agency with journalists and editors in press room or news room. A man using a vintage telephone, seated in front a typewriter, telephones an event from telegraph operators' room to newsreel editor. Newsreel editor and cameraman seen in newsreel news office as they receive word by phone and get ready to leave for location where event took place. They board a DH-4 biplane aircraft, carrying tripod and moving image camera (in protective box) to film the event.
The United States Constitution created at the Philadelphia Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The history of the United States. 1783: Soldiers of the new republic after their victory in the American Revolutionary War. Soldiers on horseback meet new citizens. They watch as men carrying baggage walk away. A banner on a road separating two states reads 'New Hampshire Boundary'. A merchandiser demands money from two men to cross the border. Pictures of the land which farmers gave up because they could not pay back. Bankers inside a building. People on the streets. Delegates at the Philadelphia Convention in Pennsylvania. Pictures of people demanding new central government. Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the US, walks supported by two men to the convention building. Several people stand around and watch. General George Washington, the elected President of the convention. He delivers a speech. He states the need for unity, a sound financial system, war debts to be paid, trade to be encouraged, national government to protect rights and perform functions. The delegates speak at the convention. The convention in progress. President George Washington with Benjamin Franklin and a few men at a final private conference during which they decide the government should have clearly defined substantial powers. The Preamble to the United States Constitution created on 17 September 1787, read out at the convention. Benjamin Franklin gets up with the help of two men. George Washington signs the constitution. Benjamin Franklin with George Washington. The carving on George Washington's chair. George Washington, the first President of the United States. People greeting the President. Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, organizes a bank to receive taxes and import duties that pays off national debts.
Glimpses of industrial and commercial activities in the United States
Miners arriving above ground on a rail car. Open coal cars filled with coal. A steel furnace. A commuter railroad train. A man operating a tracked crane at a city construction site. Workers and equipment at a road and tunnel project. Home builders starting on foundation of a new house in the suburbs, with view of a new suburban neighborhood being built in background. Views of various construction activities: a mobile home; a high rise building; a residential house. Factory workers on an automobile assembly line are seen assembling engine, transmission and other parts to chassis. Salesman showing a car to prospective woman customer a a new car dealership. Bushel baskets of vegetables, fruits, and assorted produce at a sidewalk market. Several shoppers seen on Connecticut Avenue, in Washington, DC. Businesses seen include: The Camalier & Buckley shop, Raleigh's haberdashery and the Mayflower hotel (in the background). New automobiles stored in a yard, including many station wagons, and a sedan car being offloaded from a truck. Man doing major bodywork repairs on a car. Doormen in red uniforms assist patrons in taxis at a hotel or apartment building.
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