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Unemployed African American workers get work in offices and as musicians and painters thanks to the Works Progress Administration
Unemployed African American citizens in America during the Great Depression. Close up views of many idle, sad, and dejected African American men and women out of work, in lines, during the depression. A man looks at a bulletin board of an employment agency at 165 W 131st St in New York City. African American men and women stand in a bread line or food relief or unemployment line in United States. They get jobs through Works Progress Administration. African Americans working at factories, in classroom teaching, in offices typing, as an accordion musician, as a painter in a studio, as a bricklayer, and in an industrial kitchen. Views of smiling, happy African American workers, both men and women.
African American children at a nursery school in United States during Great Depression
African American children at a nursery school in the United States during the Great Depression. They play, eat, sleep and undergo medical check ups. Adult African American citizens learn to read and write. African American men and women in Harlem New York attend a Spanish language class. Many African American citizens get employed through Works Progress Administration (WPA) and are seen performing land record indexing jobs, filing, and typing with typewriters.
The United States demobilizes following World War II
Opening illustrated slate shows reduction of Amercan Armed forces personnel from more than 12 million in 1945 to only a little over 1 and a half million in 1947. U.S. Navy submarines are seen docked in storage. Men work spraying protective coatings over guns on Navy ships as they are placed in storage in the "Mothball Fleet." A lone sailor is seen on the deck of a ship with vast number of mothballed Navy destroyers in the background. A B-24 Liberator bomber being dismantled and a B-17 parked with engines removed, seen through stack of propellers in foreground. Airman sets a demolition charge. Views of several bomber aircraft being blown up as junk. Stacks of junked and scrapped American war materiel rusting. View inside a mill where molten metal is being processed (ostensibly recycled from junked war materiel). Narrator speaks of beating guns into plow shares. Several views of molten metal being poured into and from ladles. Views inside post-war factories returning to peace-time production, where industrial heavy equipment, railroad wheels, kitchen appliances, home appliances, rubber tires, and new 1946 Ford automobiles are assembled (looking exactly like the 1942 models).
Japan exploits human and material resources in occupied Asian countries of its Empire, to support its war effort against the Allies (WW2)
A solitary Japanese Army sentry walks his post along a seawall in a coastal area under Japanese military control in World War II. Local people go about their daily activities in a city under Japanese administration. A Japanese military policeman, wearing a white armband, directs traffic. A Japanese Army officer converses with another Japanese military policeman. A passenger speeds past them in a rickshaw. A Japanese military officer waves a loaded truck onward. Japanese replace old buildings and install new communication lines in a city. Japanese military engineers survey and Japanese troops build lines of communication, including a railroad bridge. Japanese officials scrutinize credentials of people at a checkpoint. A Japanese soldier searches a man. People are waved through a checkpoint after their credentials are reviewed. Workers in a textile plant. Laborers at construction sites use carrying poles to transport materials. Other laborers carrying sacks of material on their backs, as they unload a barge at a waterfront. Glimpse of a Japanese controlled harbor.
Steam locomotive of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad being serviced in a roundhouse
Steam locomotive of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad is rotated slightly on turntable to align it with track entering a Roundhouse.The locomotive engine is then raised on jacks. Mechanics remove a pair of wheels and dismantle them. View of machines in maintenance shop. Mechanics roll several new steel wheels into the maintenance shop. View of mechanics working on connecting rods.
Yugoslavian embassies bombed in United States and Canada
Six Yugoslavian embassies bombed through out United States and Canada. Damaged embassy building in Washington after the blast. Broken window glasses of consulate off Fifth Avenue in New York.
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