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Aspects of U.S. industry including public information, agriculture, transportation, and water power.
Excerpt from film entitled "Power Behind the Nation." It opens showing glimpse of two men on a park bench, discussing a newspaper article, followed by views of men at work in a radio broadcasting studio. Next is shown a Western theme set being constructed for a motion picture, at a Hollywood film studio back lot. Closeup of Director and crew filming an actor on horseback as he rides up to a wooden building displaying a Dance Hall sign. Next, a director and film crew are seen working on an elaborate set with a chorus of women in white gowns. Scene shifts to film makers watching a finished production dealing with colonial era America (ostensibly an educational film). Another film is seen being made at a set resembling a European town. Next, views of American farms are shown with various crops under cultivation, including fruit orchards.Farm machinery is seen in use, including Tractors, harvesters, and combines. Grain is shown being harvested and processed in the field, and cotton being picked. Closeup of cotton bolls on the plants. Men are shown collecting sap from sugar maple trees in the northeast U.S. for making syrup. In the U.S. Northwest, a flock of sheep is seen grazing in a field. A herd of cattle are shown in the Southwest, U.S. A field of grain is shown and then a section of crops irrigated by small ditches. Then a large man-made irrigation canal is seen. View of a ramshackle building and yard in a desert. Women harvesting vegetables from irrigated plants. Apples being sorted by machine. A pair of steam locomotives pulling a train and a diesel locomotive pulling freight cars, all ostensibly carrying fresh produce to market. Several shots of railroad freight trains in different settings. A truck moving along a country road. A tugboat working beside a large ocean-going cargo ship on a river in the U.S. More shots of ships and inland canals. A ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in California. An aircraft under construction. Passengers deplaning from a continental Airlines DC-3 parked on a ramp. A prototype U.S. Navy Lockheed XR6O-1 Constitution aircraft taking off. (Only two R6V aircraft were made, Bureau Numbers 85163 and 85164.) A Sikorsky helicopter in flight. Closeup of Captain in cockpit of a TWA Boeing Stratoliner airplane as it taxis out of parking place. Industrial buildings close to a river with water flowing below a dam. The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.
People queue to buy U.S. Saving Bonds in the United States to contribute towards the development of the country.
A documentary depicts industrial development in the United States and urges the purchase of war bonds to preserve the American heritage and way of life. Water flows through a dam on a river to produce electricity. A power house. Electricity is supplied to houses and industries. A glass tumbler factory. Machines using electricity in operation. A line of finished articles. A man mixes a color in a mixer. A scene with lightning flashing. Neon lights of Times Square, New York City, at night, with many lit sign boards using electricity. A child with a dog. Farmer, doctors, a businessman at work. Scenes of New York City. A ferry in water. Skyscrapers in the city and traffic on busy city streets. A line of people to buy U.S. Saving Bonds. Savings bonds on a table. A view of Mount Rushmore. Two women serve small children seated in chairs. The U.S. flag flutters in breeze.
People join hands and walk towards the horizon in the United States.
A documentary depicts people in the United States. A group of people in a garden. Children seated together. A view of skyscrapers. People working on a farm. Two people sail a boat in a water body. Water falling from a spillway in an industrial area of a city. The Statue of Liberty. A political map of the U.S. Joining of hands with the map as the backdrop. People walk towards the horizon.
Under Secretary of State George Messersmith gives testimony about the Hans Eisler case and Dorothy Thompson to HUAC commission
Excerpts of testimony by United States Under Secretary of State, George S. Messersmith, to the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) in Washington DC. Ambassador Messersmith raises his hand and is sworn in, and then seated beside his legal counsel, Norman M. Littell. Ambassador Messersmith gives testimony about Hans Eisler and Dorothy Thompson related to his own time in Berlin Germany in the 1930s on behalf of the U.S. State Department. He references his work with U.S. diplomat Sumner Welles. He says that he read the Eisler file to refresh his memory. He says that although they were not involved in the war at the time the responsibility on the State Department had increased. He talks about a case related to columnist Miss Thompson. He looks into his papers He talks about the time when he was posted in Berlin and Austria and she made a number of visits. He laughs. He tells about officers who showed prejudice in examining visa papers.
During HUAC hearing in the United States, Herbert Biberman is questioned about his affiliation with the Communist Party
A hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the United States, under Congressman J. Parnell Thomas (the "Thomas Committee") . People seated during the hearing. Hollywood director and screenwriter Herbert Biberman is questioned about his occupation in the Screen Writer's Guild and his affiliation with the Communist Party. Biberman begins his response and does not directly or quickly answer the question, which draws an angry, heated response from J. Parnell Thomas pounding a gavel, shouting from Congressman Thomas and from Robert Stripling, and demanding an answer. Biberman is subsequently asked, "are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party" and Biberman begins a response in which he decries the work of the committee and its negative effects on the Hollywood film industry. Biberman, one of the "Hollywood Ten," is dismissed from the stand.
War veterans learn the art of pipe making as they work on machines at Bertram's Pipe Shop in Washington DC, United States.
A dramatization about veterans of World War II as they learn to make pipes in Washington DC, United States. A World War II veteran Bob Ballad of 69th Infantry Division looks at a pipe. Bertram's Pipe Shop in Washington DC. A number of pipes being displayed in a window at the shop. Bob Ballad outside the shop. He goes there to learn the art of pipe making. Several war veterans learn to make pipes during a training course organized by the Bertram's. Partially disabled men work on machines and learn various operations involved in the process of pipe making.
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