Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India visits United States for better understanding and friendship between the two countries. Street view of Carlyle Hotel (35 E 76th St, New York, NY 10021, United States) in New York City, and, inside, ceremony on August 1 where Indira Gandhi receives prestigious U Thant Peace award. Selection Committee Chairman presents speech. Indira Gandhi delivers a speech about culture, traditional values, and philosophy. Photographers take photos. Street view of Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Avenue Manhattan, New York City) in New York with traffic passing by. Inside, she addresses the Foreign Policy Association. She talks about the Green revolution, Balance of payment, Gross Domestic Product, and nuclear weapons. Association members seated at a table. Rajiv Gandhi, elder son of Indira Gandhi, is seen seated at table with association members.
Highlights the importance and role of science in business. Application of science in Chemistry to produce new chemicals and substances. Various new forms of plastic being manufactured in factories. Plastic telephone receivers being manufactured in a production plant. Articles made of new plastics. A new lucite plastic capable of transmitting light. A man holds lucite test tube, pipe and other articles made of plastic. He hits the lucite tube against a counter to show that it does not break. He demonstrates that curved lucite can "pipe" light through curves akin to electricity or water. Men take out synthetic rubber from a machine. Synthetic rubber made of coal,air and water being processed in a factory.
Segment from a film on the early political life of Franklin D Roosevelt. Scenes of crowd and delgates at the Sam Houston Hall in Houston, Texas, during the Democratic convention of 1928. Alfred E smith, Governor of New York, is nominated as the Presidential candidate. He later persuades Franklin D Roosevelt's to run for office of Governor of New York. Scene of New York State Capitol, Albany, New York. Roosevelt was elected and is seen seated at a desk, as he arrives in Albany, for the first time. He is seen seated and conversing with Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, wife of the Lieutenant Governor, at an inaugural ball. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is seen standing and chatting with others behind Roosevelt. Herbert Lehman is at the far right of the group, behind Roosevelt
First scene shows foredeck and bridge of USS New York (BB-34) in World War 1. Second scene shows U.S. New Mexico-class Battleship underway. In the next scene, a sailor is signaling with a blinker from the bridge of a battleship ( Pennsylvania or New Mexico). Line of battleships in formation with the USS Texas (BB-35) leading. Quarterdeck view of U.S. Navy Pennsylvania-class battleship. View from deck of the battleship USS Texas or USS New York, looking forward. The final scene is a view from the quarterdeck of the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) looking out toward the SS George Washington (ID Number 3018) as they travel to France with President Woodrow Wilson on board in December 1918, for the Paris Peace Conference.
Shows 'Closed' sign on gate of a factory during depression. Jobless men sitting idle on benches. A young man asks another man for some money. People with signs and banners on road including a sign "Unemployed, will take any job." Desperate unemployed men going through trash looking for food or anything of value. Men sleep in doorways. Men in soup kitchen lines and waiting for handouts and relief. Manufacturing factory whistle blows and men are seen going to work. Smoke stacks working again at industrial area. Men shoveling field. Men and women entering a factory. Men in a pay line to receive pay at a factory. Smiling faces of people. A parent tossing a young boy into the air playfully. A young girl drinking milk. A man handing bags of food groceries to a happy wife. Pictures of bottles of milk and plates of breads. People enjoy a swimming pool. Children play on a merry go round and on a see-saw, as seen from child's point of view on the ride. A couple holding kids. A tall building under construction and surrounded in scaffolding. Construction of Tri-County airport at Clarksburg. Men working to build the runways. A plane taxis on a completed runway beside them. A man working to seal abandoned mines to prevent pollution of the water supply. Construction of a retaining wall is shown at Richwood Avenue in Morgantown West Virginia to prevent collapse of the roadway and homes above it. Construction shown of a hydro-therapeutic unit at Morris Memorial Hospital for crippled children, especially those suffering from infantile paralysis (polio). Children suffering from infantile paralysis in cots. Scene of construction of a new building at Marshall College (later Marshall University) in Huntington West Virginia, for an elementary training school. A new Gymnasium at Fairview High School is shown, and a new Assembly hall for the 4-H camp at Jacksons Mill. The new building for the African American High School at Morgantown is shown. View of a swimming pool, and people diving and swimming. Scene changes to a Sewing room, with many women working at sewing machines powered by foot pedals, and making garments for needy families. View of a Nursery school, and a small black child being bathed in a bath tub. Children playing in the yard of the nursery school.
Operations after floods in Rapid City. Interior of a model trailer home. HUD (Housing and Urban Development) representative writing information taken from flood victims. Rooms and furnishing in mobile home. Flood victims sign papers. Two more victims arrive at model trailer home. Sign on model home reads 'Emergency Temporary Housing and Information Center'. Trucks with workers installing power lines to new trailer homes. New trailer homes in the background. Trucks on road with new trailer homes. Trucks lined up with new trailer homes.
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