Advances in education due to developments from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Visitors at the Blount County Fair see a school exhibit with a sign "15 Years of Progress in Rural Education." It displays a small one room school house in 1920, and then the new expanded school in 1935. It shows a "how we did it" area depicting cooperative efforts of the school board and citizens. A school boy standing near the display at the fair. A stack of canned produce in jars.
Drawings depicting efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to unify rural churches of all denominations in common efforts to improve the lives of citizens. Exterior views of rural church buildings. A man riding inside an open elevator, entering a construction site. Men building new buildings at a construction site. A building with sign "Community Building." Men seated in front of the community building with a banner behind them advertising an upcoming 'Dog Show'.
Depicts the work of Kenneth G. Killinger as a mountain missionary of the Lutheran Church in Smyth County and other towns of rural southern appalachia. Man with a primitive moonshine operation at his liquor still in the rural southern appalachian mountains. Shack of logs with barrel lying on ground next to him. Killinger meeting the man. The man being baptized and then reading from a book in a mission church. Portrays travels of Killinger recruiting new Christians. Killinger with lumbermen beside a stand of felled timber. Killinger baptizing a young girl, then driving on mountain dirt roads in a black car. Views of two churches from the exterior, and Killinger preaching in one of them.
Deals with the appalachian mission ministry of Lutheran Pastor Kenneth Killinger. View of downtown Marion, Virginia, located in Smyth County. The Hotel Marion visible on a corner. A black Ford drives up and parks. A fellow Pastor, Brother Ciero Plummer, emerges from the car, enters Killinger's office. The two men chat across Killinger's desk about the need to expand their missionary operations and bring on new seminarians. They view a nearly empty offering plate showing limited funds.
New Gun carrier meets army test. Gun carrier tanks on field test fire in United States. Tank descends from hillside. (World War II period).
United States Marines seen marching on docks at port near Quantico Virginia, boarding ships for secret war games in the Caribbean. The Marines are seen boarding the battleships USS New York (BB-34) and USS Wyoming (BB-32). Ships head for the open sea and secret war maneuvers.
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