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Hollywood actor Dick Powell composes and sings "The Road is Open Again" for the National Recovery Administration
Framed photographs of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson on a wall. A song writer writes a song on behalf of the National Recovery Administration (NRA). He falls asleep while writing the song. As he "dreams" actors portraying Washington, Lincoln and Wilson appear in his room asking him why he wants to write such a song and they're reassuring him that Franklin D Roosevelt is the right way. When he starts singing his new song, he finds himself alone, but he knows that Franklin Delano Roosevelt will lead the USA back on the road to prosperity. He sings "The Road is Open Again". Film is a National Recovery Administration and New Deal propaganda piece during the Great Depression.
Independence Day celebrations in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1918
Population celebrates independence of Czechoslovakia, October 28, 1918, with the fall of the Hapsburg Empire, near the end of World War 1. Streets of Prague are seen filled with marching throngs and cheering spectators. View of new national flag flying from tall building overlooking Wenceslas Square.Statue of St. Wenceslas visible below. Animated map outlines general area to encompass the new Czecho-Slovak Republic. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Germany launches Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union, which has been mobilizing for war, during World War II
Film begins with animated map depicting conquest of the Balkans by the German-Italian Axis powers. With Southern flank now protected, Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, View of German troops goosestepping on parade in large formation. German troops being transported on parade in formation of wheeled open personnel carriers. Glimpse of upper part of Spasskaya Tower and clock overlooking Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of Soviet heavy industry complex with many smoke stacks. New farm tractors being moved on a railroad train. Scene segues into train carrying Soviet tanks, and then continues with scenes in a steel mill, a machine shop, a tank factory, and an artillery plant. Soviet troops parade bearing left shouldered rifles and singing as they march. Soviet civilian men are seen reporting for duty in the military and then training in hills overlooking a war plant complex. New Soviet recruits training with calisthenics and with small arms. A Soviet soldier speeds past the camera on a motorcycle and segues into a soldier on a horse jumping over a barrier, and then into several Soviet soldiers in uniforms, with rifles, diving into a swimming pool and swimming across it. Film ends showing Soviet troops in formation bringing their rifles from present arms position to pointing forward, as they march.
USAF Brigadier Daniel James sworn in as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at a ceremony in Washington DC
Swearing-in of United States Air Force Brigadier Daniel (Chappie) James, Jr. as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, at the Pentagon, Washington, DC. U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin R Laird administering an oath of office to Daniel James, Jr., during the latter's swearing-in ceremony as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Brigadier General James's wife and son standing by his side as he takes the oath of the office. Secretary Laird congratulates General James. A photographer takes pictures. Secretary Laird and the General James posing. General James speaking on the occasion. His wife and son standing beside him. The audience applaud at the end of the speech. U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater and Democratic U.S. Representative L Mendel Rivers shaking hands with the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. A few officials go up the platform and congratulate General James. All the officials get up from their seats and go up the platform to congratulate the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Defense Secretary Laird speaking to the officials and the officials shaking hands with General James and his family.
The Morrison and Knudsen construction company contracts to build dams in Afghanistan and commences operations
Film opens with camera panning over the rugged, arid regions of Afghanistan. Broad view of the city of Kandahar, where modern buildings are being erected. Street scene in Kandahar shows numerous pedestrians walking along a road. View of new homes and other buildings recently constructed. Scene shifts to agricultural activities and products. Men bring products to market carried on backs of donkeys. A man harvesting some type of crop in a valley farm. Houses in a valley farm. View of a river. View of camels grazing on semiarid land. Executives of Morris and Knudsen construction company are seen in their offices, discussing a contract to build dams and irrigation canals in Afghanistan. Next, are shown stacks of skins from new born Karakul sheep, which earn Afghanistan millions of dollars annually in exports, and would, along with other assets, pay for the project. Morrison and Knudsen engineers are seen working over plans for the project. Potential employees for the project are seen being interviewed. A field engineer is seen receiving his passport as he prepares to fly to Afghanistan. A uniformed officer enters an office building to present the first requisition for supplies to be obtained for the project. A man reads a Radiogram requesting supplies. A purchasing agent begins processing the requests. A woman types necessary requisitions and others work on the requests. A steam locomotive is seen speeding along a railroad, as supplies begin arriving at American seaports for shipment abroad. A freighter loading supplies for trans-shipment to Pakistan. Longshoremen use pikes to roll heavy timbers for loading. Forklifts move heavy crates for loading. A freighter crew loads large wooden crates by means of the ship's cranes. The supplies,including prefabricated structural items are loaded into the ship hold. A sea bird perches on a ship. View of the stern and wake of a ship carrying supplies for the Afghanistan project. View of Karachi, Pakistan (where Morrison and Knudsen maintain an expediting office). Local people walking and riding bicycles. A camel pulls a wagon heavily laden with cargo. Views of cargo being offloaded from a freighter. Men on the dock load cargoes into cars of the Pakistan Northwest Railway. A freight train heading North toward the Afghanistan border. Views from the moving train as it enters a tunnel. Views, from the train, of rural Pakistan.
The need of public film production and information shared by the film in Japan.
A documentary film 'New Eyes New Ears' about public film production and use in Japan. A Japanese child in a crib. A young boy plays with a pot containing hot bars. A girl pats a cat. Children walk on a boundary wall. Children wave from a train. Boys and girls study in a library. People gathered. Animation depicts people confined to their own sections in Japan. Animation depicts the way the gap between people from various sections of the world can be reduced. Pictures of information centers in Japan. Book records and old reels in an information center. Art, reference work and records from many countries in the information center. A cameraman clicks pictures of students studying in the United States. The picture is put on a bulletin board in Japan. Women look at the bulletin board. People watch a movie. The movie shows : A woman works in a laboratory. A doctor studies an X ray. People make paintings. Women sing. Workers construct a house. Japanese personnels visit the United States.
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