An African student from Ghana walks with her American sponsor on the street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. African student buys a Mamas and the Papas album at The Record Bar store, possibly at the Henderson St location. Close up of record in the shop, The Frivolous Five and Brahms (Conducted by Antal Dorati). View through shop window at African student on sidewalk with her American host, likely on E Franklin St. They enter a dress store. African student browses racks of dresses. A salesgirl helping the African woman. African students and friends view prints for sale on the street. An illustration depicting a bull. Ghanaian student talks to a fellow African student at the Old Well of the University of North Carolina (E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA).
U.S. paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division participate in joint Army-Air Force "Operation Arctic Night."conducted from 2-13-1956 to 3-14-1956, in Greenland. With ambient temperatures of minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, Paratroopers in Arctic parkas, with their parachutes underneath, are so burdened that they waddle like penguins as they board waiting C-124 aircraft, at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Sign erected in snow reads: 'North Pole, 802 Miles, Fort Bragg, N.C. Home of 82nd Airborne 3500 Miles'. Troops seated inside C-124 aircraft. A flight of three large Douglas C-124C Globemaster aircraft, in formation, carries the entire group of 700 paratroopers, who make a mass jump from the aircraft to land on the Greenland icecap. Parachutes billowing as troopers land on the ice. They assist one another as they land. The paratroopers dig snow shelters and build shelters with ice blocks on the icecap.
Weird boat made of junk ready for ocean trip-maybe'. A twenty five feet high and four ton heavy boat made by beachcombers in Fort Bragg, California. A beachcomber climbs onto the boat made by using fifteen thousand rivets picked up from city dump. A propeller on the boat is also seen. Beachcombers hope to sail to Germany in the boat, some day.
Coast Guardsmen wearing white uniforms perform drill maneuvers with their rifles along the Cape Fear Riverfront in Wilmington, North Carolina. They stand in place and move their rifles synchronously during the drill. A single Coast Guardsman performs drill maneuvers on the deck of a ship. Coast Guardsmen supervise and guard the site of a large liquor bust during Prohibition. The bust is at the corner of North Water Street and Market Street in Wilmington North Carolina, on the bank of the Cape Fear River. A Coast Guard ship moored at pier along Water Street. Hundreds of wooden boxes heaped along Water Street in front of what is today the Alton Lennon Federal Building and Courthouse, between Market and Princess streets. Workers destroy the boxes with axes and sledge hammers while Coast Guard look on. Illegal liquor flowing in the street. Men continue to remove more boxes from the building at the corner of Water and Market. Road is filled with smashed boxes. Crowd watches the activities from the end of Market Street. A truck arrives to pick up the smashed boxes. Boats and ships at the port by the street are shown. Smashed boxes are loaded on the truck. One nearby building is named the "Union Cafe". A book shop is in the same building. (Today, that building at 14 South Water Street is site of the Riverboat Landing Restaurant). The JW Brooks Wholesale Grocer building is also seen in the footage, with its sign painted on the Market Street side of its brick face.
American soldiers in northern Minnesota. Soldiers walk past the Round Tower of Fort Snelling. Soldiers read foundation stone at the tower. View of the foundation stone
Cotton fiber being converted into yarn at the Burlington Mills in North Carolina, USA. Yarn is dyed before further operations. Skilled beamer sets colored threads into a pattern and they are rolled onto a loom beam. Beams go into a drawing machine. Prepared beams are made ready for the loom. Cotton fabric being prepared. View of cotton fabric blended with aluminum thread.
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