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Segment of World War 2 film promoting sales of War Bonds and stamps to aid the war effort and stimulate postwar recovery

Film opens with singer on stage singing that he is a "double-duty dollar." He is backed by showgirls costumed as silver dollars. He explains that American dollars are now purchasing guns ammunition, planes, and tanks, to win the war. He alludes to how dollars will be used to fund the peace, after the war. An illustration shows schools, homes, and similar postwar investments in the country's infrastructure. Another shows futuristic cars, helicopter, and television sets. Scenes of pre-war highways filled with moving automobiles. Men playing golf. Gun club members in an outdoor shooting competition. A factory parking lot filled with automobiles and workers leaving the building at end of shift. (Message is that dollars no longer spent on war will revive private sector industry, again.) Film ends with appeal to "Buy an EXTRA War Bond TODAY!"

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032019
Strike breaks out at the Allis Chalmers factory and the CIO workers protest during strikes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Strike at the Allis Chalmers factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union-Congress of industrial Organizations(CIO) workers carry flags of America and of CIO as they move in huge crowd. Views of the Allis Chalmers plant and smoke comes out of the smoke stack. The crowd advances and a car being driven amidst the crowd. Horse driven carriage carry people. Governor of Wisconsin Julius Peter Heil walks from the crowd. He calls for help and closes the plant. Rear of a car having a spoiled glass from paint being thrown on it. Police force controls the crowd. Police sprays water on the protesting workers from fire hoses . Crowd runs all around the area. Tear gas is used to break up the crowd. A damaged police vehicle. Worker throw stones at the vehicles. (World War II period).

Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
Date: 1941, April 3
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032020
People move in front of the decorated flowers during the National Flower and Garden Show in Seattle, Washington

The 22nd National Flower and Garden Show in Seattle, Washington. Cars driven in line in front of the Civic Auditorium (321 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109, United States) in Seattle. The board at the entrance of the building reads 'National Flower and Garden Show'. People move in front of the decorated flowers. Dramatization: women enjoy in the gardens. Women clean the gardens and water the plants. Woman moves around amidst flowers. American flag formed by the flowers. Different formations of flowers. A woman holds flowers and laughs.

Location: Seattle Washington USA
Date: 1941, April 3
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032026
Police and U.S. military patrol streets to control the crowds and extinguish burning auto during race riots in Detroit Michigan

Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1943, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032040
At entrance to Supreme Court, Official gives certificates to two men and congratulates them. A woman with them holds flowers.

Flanked by the huge columns at the entrance to the Supreme Court Building, in Washington,DC, four persons stand on the steps. One, an official, presents certificates to two men and congratulates them. A woman standing with them holds bouquet of flowers. They all turn and walk into the Supreme Court Building entrance.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032071
Officials arrive in a car and security men check vehicles at Hanford camp in Richland, Washington.

Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission officials at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A notice sign at the entrance. Employees arrive in a car. The car is stopped for inspection. Occupants leave the car. Security men check the car. A security man checks an Army truck carrying solciers who show their ID cards. Military equipment. Radar anttennas. Trucks. The American flag on a pole in front of the building.

Location: Richland Washington USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032073
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