United States Secretory of State, Cordell Hull, seated in his office in United States. He places important documents into a folder. He dons his hat and walks out of the office. He waves his hand and walks past the corridor.
Operation New Life in the United States. United States Navy personnel give supplies and provisions to Vietnamese refugees. The refugees get into special buses. A crowd of refugees wait to board the buses. A row of buses moves with refugees on it.
Operation New Life in the United States. United States Navy cooks prepare food on portable stoves and ovens. Vietnamese refugees stand in a line to get the food. Men, women and children holding plates laden with food walk out of tents.
Operation New Life in the United States. A Vietnamese refugee reads out the names of other refugees. United States Navy personnel stand next to them. A black flag with a white cross flutters on a pole. A group of Vietnamese refugees pose for a photograph.
An animated map of Canada and the United States. Radio communications Tower over hilltop. Workers installing underground communications cables. Telephone communications in everyday life. A woman homemaker in a house holding a young child and talking on a corded telephone. The little girl also talks on the telephone. A business man talking on corded telephone. Men and women working in an office. Man in suit in a business office talking on a yellow corded telephone. Teletype machines of United Press International and other news agencies operating on a long table. Man looks at a screen and speaks over the phone. A cable ship laying communications lines at sea. An animated map showing the undersea cable connections to various places.
The film 'The Unfinished Revolution' opens by showing people recovering after the Great Depression in the United States. Most scenes circa 1929 - 1931 (but film produced in 1960s). Landmarks in Washington DC: the United States Capitol building with 1940s and 1950s cars and taxi cabs on roads in foreground. View of exterior of Supreme Court building. Closer view of U.S. Capitol and then of the White House in Washington DC. Also the Washington Monument. Scene changes to the American West and a herd of sheep and of cattle grazes on pastures or ranch. Cowboys on horseback herd cattle on a giant field with snow covered mountains in the background. Farmers work in a field picking cotton. Scene changes to New York City with view of Manhattan skyline including Empire State Building, with new skyscrapers in construction in the foreground. View of market area and tenements; push cart vendors lined up on a street in a lower east side New York City neighborhood, and a Ford sedan on the street. Busy New York City streets filled with cars and pedestrians at end of 1920s. Children standing on fire escape in poor downtown area look down over suspended laundry lines between tenement buildings. An officer looks out from small window of a raised booth traffic light as the lights on the booth change color. A Ford automobile assembly line. Engineers work in a factory with minimum wages. A farmer plows a field of potatoes using four horses. A wheat thresher working a field. Trains at a crossing, on a bridge, and coal cars lined up at a coal yard. Busy New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor filled with people around time of 1929 stock market crash and start of Great Depression. Frenzied stock market scenes. Board outside a factory reads 'No Men Wanted'. Scenes of silent railroad yards and dormant factories. A man plays an accordian and collects coin donations. Jobless people wait in relief lines, soup kitchen lines, unemployment lines or queues and bread lines. Unemployed and homeless men asleep in public areas.
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