Activities at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War I. An early morning scene shows a large number of new De Havilland DH-4 bombers, painted in French colors, parked on the airfield. Pilots and mechanics begin to move amongst the aircraft and work on them. Extended panorama of hangars and buildings with clouds in the sky. New DH-4 and Spad XIII aircraft near canvas hangars. Some aircraft stripped for parts or repair. Mechanics and pilots near the aircraft. Men smooth parts of the airfield using horse-drawn wooden platforms. Pilots and mechanics near new and repaired parked aircraft.
A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near a plow. The homesteaders look towards the sky in hope of rain. An explosion on the land. News headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar (WWI) decline of the wheat market results in overproduction and spurs dust bowl conditions: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground. Overproduction of wheat shown. Farmers celebrate the production of wheat. Tractors driven in the Great Plains.
Calendar image shows March 1933, with the 4th and 5th of March circled. View of St. Thomas’ Parish (1517 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20036, United States). Presidential limousine in church driveway. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) puts on his top hat. Presidential limousine carrying Franklin Roosevelt drives away from St. Thomas’ Parish. Inside the White House, President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk discussing with William H. Woodin, the United States Secretary of the Treasury. President Franklin Roosevelt signs a document. Sign announcing Bank Holidays on March 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1933, upon proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Guards stand outside a Northern Trust Company bank. Calendar shows March 1933, the 4th, 5th and 9th of March are encircled. United States Senate in session to pass President Franklin Roosevelt’s new banking measures, the Great Economy Bill. The senate claps for the new Speaker of the House, Henry Thomas Rainey. Calendar shows March 1933, the 4th, 5th, 9th and 12th of March are encircled. President Franklin Roosevelt speaks to the public through radio about the new banking measures. View of console radio and a family with a young child and a pet dog seated in their living room listening to Roosevelt’s speech on radio. View of several different men listening to radio. Middle-class family with five children listens to radio. President Franklin Roosevelt speaking to the people from his desk with a microphone for radio broadcast. A middle-class family listens to the radio with the children sitting on their parents’ laps. A rich family listens to radio together. A family with one teenage son listens to radio in living room. With regard to runs on banks, FDR notes that "hoarding during the past week has become an exceedingly unfashionable pastime...." He notes further that ,"it is up to you to support and make it work. It is your problem, my friends, no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail.” President Franklin Roosevelt ends speech on the economy.
Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.
Street signs showing New Jersey Avenue and N.W. L Street in Washington DC at night. A thief snatches a purse from a woman waiting at a bus stop at night. Woman attempts to run after thief. Hands searching a a street location file cabinet at police headquarters. A police officer pushes pins into an Oakland, CA spot map. Highway engineers consults a spot map in urban traffic planning. Engineer's hands using ruler for a new traffic plan Vacant lot with a frozen puddle and discarded tire in the Washington, D.C. area. A small house sitting beside a new modern building under construction at N Taylor Street and 4201 Lee Highway Arlington, VA 22207 Sign hanging outside 4201 Lee Highway apartment building reads, “NOW RENTING RENTAL OFFICE OPEN WEEK-ENDS”. In a Washington D.C. street with row houses, a dilapidated house bears a sign saying, “Rooms and Apts. Apply ACME RENTAL COMPANY 1011 7th ST., N.W.”. A closed factory with boarded windows. Some glass windows shattered in factory building. Wrecking ball smashes a wall in a derelict building being demolished in an urban renewal project. A police officer inspects a building at night. View of a Police Beat Location map color-coded according to level of police activity with montage of police on patrol in the city.
Polish men, women, and children receive new clothing and food from the United States through the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) after World War 2. In Europe, men unload relief aid boxes from UNRRA. UNRRA personnel distributes clothing from America to Polish men. Polish women sort through a box of shoes donated by the United States. A Polish woman dresses her boy with new clothes received from UNRRA. Smiling children after receiving new set of clothes. Polish boys smiling. A female UNRRA personnel distributes food to hungry children. A Polish boy licks off sauce from a can of food. Boy consumes food straight from the carton. A young Polish boy eats a chocolate bar. Polish children walk by ruined buildings destroyed from bombings in World War 2. Children joyfully running down a wrecked city street.
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