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President Eisenhower gives a speech after he awards Medals of Honor to for heroism in the Korean War at the White House.
President Dwight D Eisenhower awards Medals of Honor for heroism in the Korean War at a ceremony in front of the White House. After presentation the President speaks of the gratitude of the nation, and says he hopes there will be no need for any more battle citations. Relatives of awardees and spectators. The awardees on stage: Sgt Hiroshi Miyamura, USA; Lt James L Stone, USA; Sgt David B Bleak, USA; Sgt Alford Lee McLaughlin, USMC; Private Robert Ernest Simanek, USMC (retired); Lt George H O'Brien Jr, USMC; Lt Raymond G Murhpy, USMC. Secretary of Defense, Charles E Wilson and others watch. The President poses with the awardees for the press.
The Toyland parade with decorated floats during Christmas celebration in Philadelphia, USA.
Christmas celebration in Philadelphia, USA. Toy shaped floats with people on it. Different floats prepared by the people. The float with a box reads 'Jack in Box'. Duck shaped float. Santa Claus with young children on a float. Children wave to Santa Claus. Santa Claus climbs up the ladder and people watch him.
San Francisco traffic and views of SF Municipal Railway cable cars number 510 and 506 in San Francisco, California.
The city of San Francisco, California. A cable car moves along on the street. "Van Ness Avenue California and Market Streets" sign on the trolley. Passengers seated inside. Traffic on the street. People get off and on the cable car. Pedestrians walk by. The cable car moves down a steep hill street. Cable car going down California Street near Powell Street, and passing the Rolls Garage (formerly Crest Garage). Passengers look out the windows. Cable cars number 510 and 506. A passenger standing inside. Several signs on the cable cars including 'Municipal Railway of San Francisco', 'Powell and Hyde Street', 'Powell and Market, Bay and Taylor'. The driver in the cable car as it moves down a hill.
Workers plow, cut, trim and carry sugarcane in a sugarcane field.
View of a sugarcane flume across a valley in Hawaii. Workers plow in sugarcane field with three large gang plows that are drawn back and forth in the field. A steam tractor with wires leading to plow on sugarcane field. Trimmed and cut sugarcane crop in the field. Workers carry head loads of sugarcane. Trimmed stalk of sugarcane floated to the mill in flumes.
Views from low-flying airplane, of red sandstone mountains in Arizona, United States
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona as seen from an airplane at low altitude. Tall shadows of the rocks.
Forks of Cypress plantation home and other sites, likely in Alabama, circa 1939; African American man tending a large bell.
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary "The Land." A seemingly abandoned, dilapidated house at an unidentified farm or former plantation location, possibly in Alabama, during the Great Depression. Spanish moss hanging from nearby trees. Views of a different, wooden, rundown house with a front porch, possibly at a different location. Scene changes again to a third different house, this one made of brick. A lone African American man emerges from double doors of the house. He walks up to a bell, cleans it, and rings it. Distant open view in front of the bell includes a valley and river (possibly the Tennessee River in western Lauderdale County, but not confirmed.) Scene changes again to show the first house and the trees with Spanish Moss. View returns to the location with the man tending the bell. Next scene shows the Forks of Cypress plantation house in Florence Alabama, (Lauderdale County). View of the old main Greek Revival Forks of Cypress house built in 1830 for James Jackson. View of the west elevation of the house. The smokehouse is seen behind and to the side of the main house. A clothes line with clothes on it is beside the smokehouse. Chickens walk on the porch of the house, past its tall colonnade of 24 ionic columns. (Note: The house burned completely in a 1966 fire). Next scene is again the elderly African American man at the brick house location. He looks around, mumbling to himself, walks back towards the house, and pauses on the front steps. The first wooden house with Spanish moss in nearby trees is shown again. Scene returns to the elderly African American man who enters the brick house and closes the doors behind him. Film directed and narrated by Robert Flaherty.
