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The first American orbital spaceflight carrying astronaut John Glenn, "Friendship 7", before launching to space from Cape Canaveral
NASA logo. A message scrolls from a sign saying, “Glenn ready for orbital flight”. A message scrolls through the black screen “Friendship 7”. View of Times Square across the Hotel Claridge and the iconic “Camel Man” billboard. View of London, United Kingdom across the Big Ben Tower of London. View of Paris, France. Italian vegetable market vendor peels an artichoke and talks about the American astronaut, John Glenn, and his impending take off from Cape Canaveral as the first American to orbit earth. An Arab vendor sells children’s jackets. View of Hong Kong. View of Japanese neon signs in Tokyo- a Japanese kanji character meaning “East”, and “Toshiba”. A Mexican mariachi walks in a park carrying a guitar case. Views of television sets showing news about the launch of Friendship 7- the spaceship carrying John Glenn. Close-up views of various consumer vintage black and white television sets with television screens all showing scenes about Friendship 7 preparing to launch. McDonnell engineers work in Cape Canaveral to prepare Friendship 7 for launch. Engineers jot down notes. A NASA engineer pushed some buttons. An “Astronautics” scientist observes the status of the Friendship 7.
London suburb dwellers on their new allotments to produce their own vegetables in London, England during World War II.
Efforts for additional cultivation of food crops in London, England during World War II. Richmond Park being plowed up to grow potatoes during an effort to put an additional million and a half acres into cultivation. Group of children examining a tractor on a field. Farmer starts the tractor and the children run along beside as the tractor plows a field. Other civilians walking on the field and two dogs playing. View of tractor approaching low camera position and stopping just before the camera. View of new furrows plowed in land as seen from camera looking backward on moving tractor. The farm being plowed by the tractor at night. London suburb dwellers on their new garden allotments for production of their own vegetables. Families and children help planting gardens. (Similar to "Victory Garden" program in the United States.) The sites are in Brockwell, Dulwich, and Battersea Parks in the southeast suburbs of London.
Views of London, England, when it is filled with Allied military personnel during World War II. Various organizations supporting the Allied military in the city.
American troops are seen boarding a transport ship in the opening scene, heading for the war front in Europe during World War 2. Closeup of the ship leaving the dock in the United States. Closeup of soldiers on deck looking back as they depart. Glimpse of upper deck of the ship completely filled with soldier passengers. Soldiers in their multi-bunk rooms aboard ship. Soldiers on ship's deck wearing life preservers. An impromptu band of soldier musicians entertains the troops. Others pass the time in card games,and sharing letters from home. Next, soldiers are seen watching as the troop ship arrives in Liverpool, England. A British army band plays to welcome them. View from the ship of American soldiers descending a gangplank to the Liverpool dock, where U.S. army trucks and an ambulance awaited them. Sailors, and a Women's Army Corp (WAC) Sergeant, feed pigeons on dock. One sailor poses with a small English girl. Film shifts to scenes of wartime London which occupy the remainder of the film. Several U.S. Army officers walk along a London sidewalk A British woman army sergeant and a local policeman. An English Bobbie (police officer with tall helmet) poses for the camera with several sailors and an American WAC Sergeant. U.S. soldiers and Military police (MPs) posing in front of a shop with U.S. Marine Corps logo on the window. Street scene with U.S. soldier walking past a sign reading: "USA cars, No Entry." More street scenes showing various British military and police in the city. A sign reading, "American Red Cross Services for Women." Another sign reading, "A uniformed Red Cross woman. Sign identifying the "Yugoslav Relief Society" headquarters. Canadian soldiers near the headquarters of the "RCAF Overseas." A Norwegian sailor with cap reading,"Norske Marine." Street sign pointing toward :"Canadian Red Cross and Maple Leaf Club." Headquarters of the "Newfoundland Caribou Club." Uniformed women from a Canadian province. Three Canadian soldiers lighting cigarettes. A local park in the background. Sign above "Merchant Navy Comforts Club." Sign reading: "St. Columbia Catholic Services Club." An Australian soldier walking on the sidewalk. Two uniformed women consulting a guide book with two American MPs. A Scottish soldier wearing a kilt accompanying a woman. Brief glimpses of various Allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth. British soldier wearing a busby hat. "Lion Services Club" sign with lion image. "Armoured Royal Corps Club" sign. "New Zealand Forces Club.""United Nations' Forces' Club."
Prewar and wartime conditions of British, exchange of war material via lend lease, supplies rationed in Great Britain.
Prewar and early World War 2 conditions of the British in Great Britain. War ammunition for Britain transported from the United States to Britain as part of lend lease plan. Also war materiel sent the other way around from the United Kingdom to the United States, as the war progressed. A map showing the path between the United States and Great Britain through the Atlantic Ocean. Tanks for Russia from Britain. Aircraft and guns for the United States by Lend Lease. Tons of food and clothing in large containers for troops in Britain. Clusters of houses and buildings. Two men on a bridge. A lane in Britain. People in the lane. Tanks prepare for war. British soldiers in uniform. A woman seated at a vanity putting on lipstick makeup. Men and women in the streets in England. A man turns to notice the legs of a woman as she walks by. View of legs of many women walking by, not wearing stockings due to rationing. Brief shot of driver in a car in the United States as he hands his gas ration ticket to the gas station attendant. Back in England, scene as a man goes to a pub for whiskey. The pub keeper laughs at him as there is none. Men in a field harvesting grains for making industrial alcohol. Soldier painting word "Hitler" onto a bomb shell. Cartons of whiskey being transported to the United States as pay for the material that comes in to Britain. A man opens cartons from the U.S. with 'Made in U.S.A.' painted on it. Images of American made industrial machine goods purchased by the British, including machinery signs for "Cincinnati Bickford", "The Ohio Machine Tool Company", "Niles Tool Works, Hamilton Ohio", "The Cincinnati Planer Co.", "American Hole Wizard", and "Barnes Drill Company, Rockford, Illinois" A woman worker moves a large planer or drill press into position. Crane at a ship dock is seen moving a large wooden crate with "Ford" label on it. A man goes to buy cigarettes. A 'No cigarettes today' board. If there were cigarettes he would have paid the cost of the cigarettes and the tax to the shopkeeper. Close up view of coins on a table and large portion going to British taxes to pay for war. A newspaper headline which says "Britain spends 49,000,000 per day on war." Several industrial plants in Britain, with smoke and pollution rising from chimneys and stacks during high output war effort. Laborers working at a construction site, including brick layers, who pay 29% tax. Rich men who pay 97½ % tax: A man in a nice car parked in front of a church. He leads a bride in a wedding gown and possibly the Bride's father toward the doors of the church. Various views of British workers and workmen walking in and out of factories. British citizens in ration lines. Sheep being herded on pasture land in Australia. Vessels in ocean used by the British for supplies to Russia. Aircraft from the U.S. on board a ship, and British troops arriving on a ship dock.
Body of Edith Louisa Cavell being brought to England from Brussels.
Procession of the body of Edith Louisa Cavell in England. A huge procession seen walking and crowds gathered to see the procession. A carriage carrying the body of Edith Louisa Cavell, a British nurse during World War I, after it was brought back by the destroyer HMS Rowena from Ostend, Flanders to Admiralty Pier in Dover. A fleet of soldiers, nurses with flower bouquets and army band seen walking with the carriage carrying the coffin. The coffin is covered with the English flag. Soldiers bow as the coffin is brought at the Norwich Cathedral (65 The Close, Norwich NR1 4DH, United Kingdom) where it was reburied.
Royal Opening of British National Gliding championships, Lasham Airfield, England, July 29, 1967
Opening scene shows Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, conversing with an official dressed in white overalls, at Lasham Airfield (Lasham, Alton GU34 5SP, United Kingdom) in Hampshire, England. Numerous spectators are at the field and uniformed boy scouts maintain a cordon to keep them away from the airstrip and aircraft. Prince Philip is assisted as he straps into a Slingsby Type 42 Eagle. Next, the glider is seen being towed along the airstrip by a line from a tow plane (not seen). Scene shifts to aerial view from a glider high aloft over the English countryside. View of the glider with Prince Philip as it passes overhead and then, as it passes over the airfield, where numerous gliders are seen parked in the foreground. Film ends as Prince Philip is maneuvering the glider over the runway for landing.
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