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General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.
General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.
People gather around a Battleship Maine Monument during the celebrations of American Independence Day in Havana, Cuba.
On July 4th Cubans celebrate the American Independence Day in Havana, Cuba as a sign of U.S. friendship. People in colorful dresses during a parade. A crowd on the streets to watch the parade. A Battleship Maine Monument. People gather near the monument and hold posters. They hold the flag of Cuba and march.
The main street Vaclavske in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
The main street Vaclavske in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Cars parked in the street. A car passes by on the road. Man looks at a poster on the wall.
First blackout drill in Farmingdale New York, and mock bombing of aircraft factories early in World War II.
Aerial views of Mitchel Field in Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York. Major General Frank Andrews of U.S. Army Air Corps, General Headquarters Air Force, and staff standing around a large plotting board, with models of airplanes, guns and boats on the plotting board. They are planning a test of the defense of aircraft factories in the region from air attack. Five PB-2As parked in a row at Mitchel Field. Crew operating range finder and aircraft sound detector. Soldiers turn searchlight to the right. Fireman opens switch box door on wall and pulling switch to notify power station staff of the drill, which was the first aerial bombardment blackout drill of its kind in the United States. Workman pulling main power switch in power station to create blackout conditions in city as protection from aerial bombing. Night time aerial views of City of Farmingdale in New York lit up and then going dark all at once as power is cut during blackout. Batteries of the 62nd anti aircraft post artillery swing into action operating searchlights directed at incoming bombers. The bombers drop flares during the test, as ground crews practice locating the "enemy" aircraft in search light beams.B-10, the all metal monoplane bomber in flight during night. Flares descending. In the mock test, the bombers prevail and the defenses fail to protect all of the aircraft factories. End of clip shows elevated night time views of New York City and Times Square area as seen from the air and from high up tall skyscraper buildings of Manhattan. Bright lights and lit signs of city seen from above as narrator suggests the threat against New York City from aerial bombardment by a foreign force (early in World War 2).
Picnic of American Friends Service Committee members at Saline Valley Farm
Trip of American Friends Service Committee members (Quakers) to the Saline Valley Farms outside Saline, Michigan, founded by Harold Gray. Sign in parking lot of the cooperative (co-op) farm reads, "Saline Valley Farms. Office. Hostel. Store. Dairy. Recreation Hall. Canning Factory. All visitors please register." View of the main farm house. Panoramic view of the farmland from a high bluff. A boy riding a pony or small horse. View of chickens pecking at feed outside chicken coops. Friends gathered for a picnic near a large shade tree. View of the table preparations and people enjoying the picnic. Man pushes a boy on a tree swing. Man seated on the swing eating watermelon. Men playing horseshoes. View of William Simkin, Director, along with two small children beside him.
U.S. House of Representatives of the United States in session in the Capitol building; Washington DC. House floor and galleries.
Interior of U.S. House of Representatives in the House Chambers of the United States Capitol building in Washington DC. Speaker at the podium. Congressmen seated around listening to the speaker. View of reporters and citizens in the upper galleries listening and entering the gallery. View from the front of the house floor of various Congressmen as they listen to a speech. Side view toward main podium and view of seated Speaker of the House, Alabama democrat William B. Bankhead. Congressmen flip through paperwork as they listen to a speech by one of their colleagues.
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