Rolf Engel led a 1933 study group on special problems of liquid fueled rocket engines. Engel and members of the study group are seen at work. Beginning of a standardization and classification for the rocket problems. A diagram showing characteristics of rocket engines with standard nomenclature. A man with standardized rocket engine testing equipment. View of the standardized 6-copy multiple professional device for recording rocket engine performance. The work of Rudolf Nebel on the Rocket field of Berlin-Reinickendorf was continued under the leadership of Fritz Beck of the testing department of the German air guard (LSS) in 1933. But it was canceled in the spring of 1934 when the LSS took over direction of the German Air Sports Association. Letters to the Association noting that lessons of World War One point out the value of the Associations technical capabilities to National defense. They also mention matters of particular interest to the German Air Guard, such as rockets and Rocket torpedoes. An organizational chart showing various components under the Experimental Department of the German Air Guard.
Teachers in Chicago protest pay injustice during the Great Depression, as they had not been paid for 11 months. 5,000 instructors joined by students and parents in a march and protest as they also complained about cuts in school services. Scenes from other labor strikes across United States in 1934 including shipyard and auto industry strikes. Striking workers marching. President Roosevelt intervenes in an automobile strike. President Roosevelt on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. Men in a factory or manufacturing facility punching timecards in time clocks. New automobile cars seen in production and rolling off assembly lines. Working men eat lunch beside their posts in an assembly line factory, during a break.
A farmer stands by his new 1934 Chevrolet automobile, watching.as several African American men plow his field using horse-drawn plows. The farmer talks with one of the workers, while others continue plowing.
Brief view of people crowded at Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, near the Owl Drug store, during a general labor strike. The San Francisco City Hall is seen across the street. Crowds mill about in various areas of the city (This strike, in July 1934, grew out of a Seamen and Longshoreman strike and was soon joined by other labor organizations.) Vehicular traffic making its way with difficulty through the crowds on the street. Vigilantes with clubs keeping people away from side street where business owners cars are parked. Silhouette of California National Guard troops manning machine guns. Rioters gather on a road. Police or vigilante officers with rifles and gas canisters disperse crowd. Men run on the streets as policemen scatter the crowd. A sign for "H.A. Hopkins & Co" in background. Lamp lights and buildings on the street.
Bavarians celebrating in the city of Nuremberg, during the Nazi 6th Party Congress held there, September 5th through 10th, 1934. A man, playing an accordian, leads a group of local residents, dressed in traditional costumes (Bayerische Volkstrachten) as they parade quietly along a street in Nuremberg, Germany. Most are in farmers' garb and the festival has a harvest theme (possibly relating to the annual Reichserntedankfest or Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival, though that annual festival was not in Nuremberg). Some men carry sheaves of wheat on wooden implements, and some women hold ribbons tied to a pole (small Maypole, not seen). A man wearing a tricorn hat and a woman in equivalent costume, walk under an outsize umbrella. Scene shifts to others marching, including small children escorted by women; men and boys in Lederhosen; and young women in white dresses. Camera focuses on a baby and on small children watching from the sidewalks. A marching band of men in lederhosen plays music. Closeup of children spectators. Marchers escorting a flower-filled float. Closeup of a little girl in costume with hair in braids, eating an apple. Boy climbing on building ledge to get a better view. Adolf Hitler, in uniform, bareheaded (carrying his cap) walks from sidewalk to the street where he greets women in costume. Another view of the boy on the building ledge. Hitler continues to meet and greet costumed parade participants, who are standing in the street. (The parade has stopped at this point.) Camera catches glimpses of spectators absorbed with the scene. As he continues to meet and greet participants, Hitler is accompanied by a man in costume with armband (likely a parade official). More closeups of spectators. Scene shifts to a large square, where various units of Hitler youth are assembled. Hitler walks past them and past his Mercedes Benz 770K parade car. Closeups of a cadre of bareheaded young uniformed men and of Hitler rendering a half Nazi salute and then smiling as he personally greets and converses with them. Closeups of: a boy watching; Hitler getting into his car and crowd cheering him. Closeups of motorcade cars driving away. Rudolf Hess (or Heß) is seen rendering Nazi salute from one. Baldur von Schirach, Hitler Youth Leader (Reichsjugendführer)is seen in another. Joseph Goebbels rides in the front of another car accompanied by four SS officers, in black uniforms, as it drives past the Hotel Deutscher Hof. Closeups of civilian spectators rendering Nazi salutes as the motorcade passes them.
As martial fanfare music plays in the background, Camera pans down from clouds, to Huge eagle adorning top of grandstand at Zeppelinfeld (Zeppelin field) in the Nazi Party grounds, Nuremberg, during the 6th Party Congress of 1934. Huge numbers of flag bearers move en masse across the field. View of them descending a slope and marching toward the field. It is late in the day and cloudy. The camera focuses on the flags more than the flag-bearers. A glimpse of Adolf Hitler spot-lighted as he stands on a podium near microphones. More flags. Then Hitler, again, from behind him, on the podium, as he has his hand raised in Nazi salute. Masses of flags parading across the field in fading light. Closeup of Hitler saluting. The Horst-Wessel anthem is played as a dirge in the meantime. Hitler speaks, about some 200 thousand persons assembled here. Camera begins to pan in a circle around the base of the podium, focusing on Hitler as he speaks, about all being together and the strength of their unity. Closeup views of Hitler from various angles with dramatic lighting, as he speaks. Evoking patrotism, Hitler talks about thinking every minute of every hour about Germany, the Reich, and the nation, and concludes with a rousing "Sieg Heil." Views from distance of the spotlighted eagle and flags at the stadium grandstand, in smoky haze of burning torches. Sounds of crowd repeating "Sieg Heil." flags dimly seen in light of torches. Silhouetted marching feet and then men carrying torches, banners, and flags, as martial music plays. Hitler seen holding a straight extended Nazi salute and then closing it, as he turns toward the camera. Formation of torches into the distance and views of uniformed men carrying them. Closeup of Hitler, standing regally, followed by more marchers who fade along with the music, to finish the film.
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