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US Army training film on Basic Signal Communication, focusing on field wire lone construction
A training documentary depicts the laying of signal communications field wire by U.S Army personnel in World War 2. A man puts a wire line in the combat area. A wire line team puts the line on a terrain. A communication officer gives instruction to the wire line team. The officer on a map outlines the general routes to be followed in laying the lines. The team members move towards the command post area from which the lines will be laid. The wires being laid and the end wire is given to the wire chief who ties it into the switch board. A member of the team puts the wire on the tree so that it is not damaged. The extra wire being tied with support and the truck moves. Another truck comes . The men on the command post follow the line to check its installation. A man ties a wire with a support and he ties a mark on it. Tags tied on the special construction points. The man after tying the tags gets in the truck. Men put the line inside of the curve. The reel of wire is exhausted and the men attach the end and a new reel being placed. The new reel being placed in the line. The wires are connected to the test telephone. A man checks the wire. Animation depicts the location of the wire and coils from the terminal. A hand holds C-114 Coil and shows the working.
Views of Jerusalem and surroundings with both Jewish and Arab residents in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Late 1930s and early 1940s life in Jerusalem, Palestine. Views from 1917 era as British military patrol under British Army General Edmund Allenby advances in military trucks up the plains from Gaza. Arab forces riding on camels. The Arabs move in support. Jerusalem is captured by the British in 1917. British men in the city. Jerusalem aerial view of late 1930s and approximately 1940 "new" Jerusalem contrasting the ancient and old parts of the city and new buildings. Narrator descriptions and visual portrayals of nationalism among Jewish and Arab residents in Jerusalem. Jewish men construct what the narrator terms as "a typical Zionist house just going up" Jewish civilians walking on the streets including one woman pushing a baby carriage. Cars move on a street and a view of a bus moving up Queen Mary Avenue. Jewish residents at a beach of Tel Aviv. They enjoy the water and dance the hora at the water's edge. A British man teaches an Arabic farmer the modern methods of agriculture. Men harvest food grains with a harvester. Arab boys in a class get a proper education "as in Europe." Palestinian girls in dresses play a game of basketball. The ex mayor of Jerusalem Hussein al-Khalidi in the center and other people around him.
American aviator Howard Hughes tests a Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner in Seattle, Washington.
Aviator Hughes tests the new Boeing Stratoliner aircarft in Seattle, Washington. Planes parked outside a Boeing production plant hangar. Howard Hughes talks with two men beside a parked Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner. The men examine part of the plane (possibly part of its new pressurized cabin system). Hughes boards the Stratoliner. The plane taxis and takes off for a test flight.
Urbanization process and development of automobile in United States
Depiction of 1889 Oklahoma land rush with a mass of claim seekers racing across land on horseback and in covered wagons to claim land. Reenactment of frontier claim seekers submitting their claim papers to a clerk in an office. Actual footage of pedestrians and traffic on a busy city street in the very early 1900s. Reenacted scene of early horse drawn trolley or street car. A man and woman riding on a tandem bicycle built for two. Early but reenacted footage of people on a bicycle built for four riders. Actual footage of a very early automobile race in the 1910s or 1920s. Views of a Ford automobile assembly line with new vehicles being assembled. The body of a new car is lowered into position on the chassis. Wheel rims run down a track into place on an assembly line. A car operating on a street.
UAW-CIO negotiates 1st National Wage Pact with GM after striking over the issues
Opening Slate reads,"Fisher"( overlaid on "Pontiac") The United Auto Workers (UAW) Pontiac strike committee is seen in discussions. Several wear hats reading,"Local 594." They discuss their strike at the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and General Motors (GM) Company's intent to bring in Strike Breakers. View of union members on a picket line outside the factory. They swarm over a car carrying Strike Breakers, determined not to allow them through, even pushing it backwards. Uniformed policemen forcibly enter the fray and try to prevent the strikers from denying access to the plant. Men and women strike supporters looking on. Strikers begin to rock a Strike Breaker car. Policeman wielding a billy club walks toward union supporters. Closeups of men on the picket line. Some drinking water from a supporter. View of the factory building with sign reading: "Fisher Body, Pontiac Division, General Motors Corporation." Newspaper headline reads," Dickinson Sends State Police to Pontiac Strike." (Luren Dudley Dickinson was Governor of Michigan in 1939. Glimpse of car with painted sign reading: "Michigan 157 State Police." A phalanx of armed State troopers, carrying billy clubs, moving toward the strikers. They deploy across the street from the picket line, with the intent of protecting GM property. Strikers leave and State policemen are seen on empty road and sidewalk. Strike Breakers do not appear. But members of other unions, supported by hundreds of citizens of Pontiac soon fill the area in a massive display of solidarity with the UAW cause. Closeup of a little girl in the gathering. Closeup of a man holding a little girl, next to a woman. Headline in Detroit News reads: GM and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Executives to Confer on Strike." Camera pans down rapidly from top of a General Motors office building. Eight CIO officials stand at the entrance of the building. Closeup of Philip Murray, President of the CIO. Camera pans across the officials, showing Walter Reuther, of the UAW, standing next to Philip Murray and UAW President, R.J. Thomas next to Reuther. A group of UAW union members and supporters marches around the GM office building. View from a high building, downward shows union members and supporters parading in formation on the sidewalk in front of the GM headquarters. View at street level of reenactors parading in much less disciplined manner. Some playing musical instruments. Families in the group. A man walks behind a moving 1928 Chevrolet automobile and then climbs upon its roof. Another glimpse of the highly disciplined paraders seen earlier. Men clowning around in the street. Another view of sidewalk filled with union members and supporters. UAW newspaper reads: GM Strikers Win, announcing 1st National Wage Pact, ratified by membership. UAW-CIO negotiators looking over the new contract.
A ship being launched and a girl dealing with Liberty Bonds in World War I
A new ship is seen going down the ways and hitting the water in a river, with a huge splash. There isn't much superstructure on the ship. A smiling young woman in an office, leafs through a handful of new Liberty Bonds supporting World War 1.
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