Shot of aircraft flying ahead, high above fields, taken from mounted camera of 359th Fighter Group, on August 16, 1944, in Europe, during WW2. Scene changes to gun camera footage from a different plane, as it approaches an aircraft, August 16, 1944. The aircraft in pursuit peels off. New scene from August 18, 1944, taken from aircraft of 4th Fighter Group as it makes multiple low passes to attack ground targets. The aircraft strafes enemy German vehicles and other roadway targets.
German women, wearing skirts modeled after male German lederhosen, perform acrobatic stunts on roller skates in cabaret style performance. Germany, 1940, during WW2. One woman holds another aloft, swinging them through the air, while spinning in circles. A new pair of women take the stage, performing a more daring stunt where the woman swinging through the air is only connected to the one spinning on the ground by a single leg, wrapped around the neck. A third stunt is performed by two women, followed by a spinning stunt involving all four acrobats. From a Spanish newsreel.
Elevated view of British industrial region of Birmingham, England, in 1954, ten years after WW2. Structural frame of building in the foreground, large cooling towers and smokestacks in the distance. Cars and buses drive on a roadway lined by trees. The view pans left, showing more of the skeletal building in the foreground. New elevated position shows residential housing in the foreground and industrial zones stretching into the distance. Smokestacks and mega-scale construction project in the background. Closer views of the skeletal frame of a many story building.
Film begins with views from a camera in an overhead conveyor at the Ford Rouge River steel mill in Dearborn, Michigan. It focuses on a hot ingot of steel moving through a succession of nine consecutive rollers. Each roller reduces the size of the ingot, until it becomes a long rod of hot steel, many yards long. It is then transferred horizontally, across an array of rails. Change of scene shows another ingot, in a different part of the plant, moving through a set of rollers along the side of factory shop. Next, a hot ingot is seen discharged from a chute. Camera follows as it passes through a series of water-cooled rollers. Long rods of hot steel are then seen being channeled to a converging point on a conveyor, where they flip sideways and reverse course. A new view shows men using poles to guide ribbons of hot steel in and out of rollers. Change of scene shows long ribbons of hot steel being automatically moved along conveyors into large saws that cut them into desired lengths. The ribbons of steel are then moved sideways to an extremely long and wide sort of table, where they are transferred, by devices that keep them aligned and prevent them from breaking or damage during movement.
The 1966 Miss World pageant, held at the Lyceum Theatre Ballroom (Lyceum Theatre, 21 Wellington St, London WC2E 7RQ, United Kingdom) in London, United Kingdom. Women beauty pageant contestants seen on the stage include contestants from Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Syria, Venezuela, USA, France, Yugoslavia, and India. Miss India, Reita Faria, sits on the throne while Miss World 1965, Lesley Langley of United Kingdom, crowns her as Miss World 1966. Italian artist and director Beni Montresor is seen as one of the judges. Reita Faria walks the stage carrying scepter and wearing crown.
Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential Candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) arrives to a huge crowd of supporters in Springfield, Illinois. Franklin Roosevelt waves at the crowd from train caboose. Train carrying Franklin Roosevelt journeys towards Atlanta, Georgia. Crowds outside the Atlanta, Georgia State Capitol (Georgia State Capitol Building, 206 Washington St SW, Atlanta, GA 30334) showing support for Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt laughs and smiles with supporters as he sits in a convertible car. Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech under a floral arch to his Atlanta, Georgia supporters. With such a warm welcome, Roosevelt notes to those gathered that “insofar as carrying on a campaign in Georgia to get votes, my visit to this state has not been exactly necessary!”
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