A United States official sits at a desk and signs documents, as several persons stand behind him. A small flag of the United States and a small Union Jack (Navy Jack) are visible in a container on his desk, suggesting a connection with the Department of the Navy. His desk has a garland of flowers on it. After signing the documents, he raises his head and looks into the camera. (Official is involved in the World War II Enemy Alien Control Program, and/or relocation centers during World War 2.)
Alcohol production and taxation system: dramatization and animation. Dramatic raid of alcohol and tobacco tax division on illegal moonshine stills in a forest in the southern U.S. Officials of the Alchohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service walk in woods. Illegal moonshiners sit in woods with rifle in hand and sacks on ground. Horse cart in the woods. Barrels of alcohol. Men fight. The officers dynamite and explode an illegal still. Animation shows the ancient time when men discovered the intoxicating effect of alcohol in different parts of world like Greece and China. Taxes on alcohol. Excess grain used by colonial government and process of making alcohol by grain. Alcohol making industry at a farm and exchange of necessary goods with alcohol. Alcohol making industry at small scale and factory of alcohol. The production of alcohol starts in1866 and reaches 15 million dollars and 90 million barrels production rate. Truck in 1950s driving into a brewery plant. View of giant cooper brewing kettles in brewery. The process of brewing beer. Production of beer is shown, with grains like barley and rice passing through machines and into brewing kettles. Alcohol as main source of revenue. Officials work at the permissive branch for administration of laws related to liquor, tobacco, cigarette paper and tubes production. Women and men sitting at desks. Women doing typing and clerical work reviewing forms and applications. Worker adds mash through a tube to a giant kettle in a distillery. In the Seagram's bourbon whiskey distillery in Louisville Kentucky, workers assemble wooden barrels, prepare flaming barrel lids for bourbon barrels, and they pound stoppers in barrels with a mallet and prepare them for shipment while an IRS inspector looks on. Government official of the IRS supervises production, packaging and labeling services in the factory. Seagram name and Louisville location seen printed on the barrels.
Alcohol production and taxation system: dramatization and animation. Worker carries bottles of wine at a wine factory. Taxes on beer paid by brewer based on self assessment system. Beer production in factory. Workers work in factory. Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation division (A&TT) examine production center. Officials work in the department. Fields of tobacco crop. Tobacco used for chewing and smoking. Revenue collected from this production is 2 billion dollars annually. Workers make liquor at an illegal moonshine industry in rural area. Officers of A&TT enforcement branch spike raid on violators and one man escapes. Officer follows him by car and captures him.
Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation (A&TT) division film begins with sign reading "Bootlegging Breeds Crime. Stamp it Out" Closeup of handgun. Man steps out of a 1961 Plymouth Savoy and drops a violin case containing a machine gun on the ground. Vault at department of Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation contains many guns. Flashlight guns, cigarette lighter guns, and cane guns are displayed. Laboratory where substances are tested show boiling liquid in a flask. A scientist catalogs substances in a book. Molten glass is formed into beer bottles on the assembly line. Barrels of whiskey on the assembly line. Interior of mixer where mash for whiskey alcohol is being agitated.
Federal agents, also known as 'Dry agents' conduct a 'moonshine raid' in Dismal Swamp during Prohibition in the United States. They hold guns while searching for the still. Agents find a leg hold trap. African American men running the still raise their hands as agents surround and arrest them. Agents empty 180 gallons of alcohol in the still and 24 barrels of peach mash onto the ground.
The Down Beat Magazine. Newspaper headline of the Down Beat 'Petrillo lifts ban on discs', photograph of Patrillo. 'Labor Board Weighs Canned Music Fight' and Headline in Tribune 'Decca signs up with Petrillo for four years'. (World War II period).
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