Preparations for launch of the USS Hancock (CV-19) at Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, on January 24, 1944. . Shipyard riggers removing supports from under the ship's hull. Platform at bow is decorated with bunting. Scene shifts to Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, and the launching of the USS Missouri (BB-63), on January 29, 1944. Crowd gathered around the bow as the Missouri goes down the ways. Another change of scene to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia. Here the ways are emptied following the launch of the Light Cruiser, USS Hancock (CL-81) on June 19, 1943. The Hancock can be seen in the water. Tugs attend to the newly launched Cruiser.
New Yorkers lean against a barrier across the street from the Times building on Times Square in New York City. They are looking up at the news reports about the D-Day invasion of France by the Allies, being displayed on the building during World War 2. Several women and men pause to look up and read the news dispatches. Camera focuses on a Man in Naval uniform standing near a soldier and girl looking up at the Times news. Scene shifts to view over the shoulder of a woman reading a Sun newspaper with headline reading: "Invasion Begins." American flag with 48 stars displayed from window in the Times building, as news display begins reading: "Allied armies invade Europe", and "American British and Canadian troops swarm..." Closeup of a man at news stand reading paper with headline: "Invasion Army 10 miles inland."Closeup of New York Post newspaper with headline: "INVASION We're in France." Two sailors at Times Square look up at the Times Building news display. Camera looks over shoulder of man reading about invasion forces 10 miles inland. Man reads paper while crossing a street. Occupants of automobile read Times news display as they pause in traffic near the building. Mixed group of people reading the Times new displays. Women read the Times displays from windows of their bus.
Cars driving and pedestrians in downtown Manhattan, New York City during World War II. “H” on roof of a building. Windows of a Neogothic-style building in Manhattan with the RCA Building seen behind. View of the RCA Building, presently known as the 30 Rockefeller Plaza or Comcast Building (30-32 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112, USA). Men and women walking in Manhattan. A man is seen pushing a cart. Skyline of Manhattan, New York City.
Views of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, June, 1940. The hall is filled with delegates holding signs and placards, many for Senator Robert Taft. Several denounce the New Deal. The Republican presidential nominee, Wendell Wilkie, is seen. (The narrator mentions his untimely death in 1944, at age 52.) Scene shifts to cheering crowds in Times Square, New York and to Hyde Park, New York, where the Roosevelt family and associates stand as well-wishers cheer FDR's unprecedented election to a third term as President of the United States. Seen are Colonel House; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; son, John Roosevelt and his wife, Anne Clark Roosevelt; Ethel Du Pont Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; Sara Roosevelt, the President's mother; and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Army News Service in the United States. The New York City branch of the Army News Service news agency. A man enters the newroom office. Enlisted men seated at desks working on editing of news. Newspapers kept on a table. Men and women journalists, reporters, and editors work on the news as they receive news. They edit news with the help of typewriters. News articles being pasted on boards. Soldiers aboard trains. They buy newspapers to read. News articles on the boards. Soldiers reading the news. Men in a radio room. They receive news. Radio towers in a field. (World War II period).
A British film entitled, "People to People." Four British working men, visiting America, are seen in overcoats on the deck of a ship passing the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor during World War II. They are accompanied by four American workers who were returning on the same ship, from a similar visit to England. Closeup of the eight men, named by the narrator, who calls them trade unionists on an exchange visit. Brief view of Chiang Kai-Shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference in 1943.Camera pans closeup over Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-Shek. Brief views of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943. Closeup of Roosevelt and Churchill, with Anthony Eden standing immediately behind them. Closeup of Stalin and Roosevelt, with U.S. Army Air Force Chief, General Henry H.(Hap) Arnold and British General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, conversing behind them. Scene shifts back to the men aboard the ship in New York harbor, with the New York City Manhattan skyline of buildings in the background. Next, the eight men are seen climbing steps to New York City Hall. Inside they are welcomed by New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The group is then seen entering a building in Washington, DC, where they sit down at a table with Donald Nelson, Head of the U.S. War Production Board. In the Department of Labor building they meet William Hammatt Davis, Head of the War Labor Board, and also the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins. After that they are seen heading into the White House, where they are met by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who comes out of the White House to greet them on the porch. (Narrator says she later invited them inside for tea.) The men are next seen climbing the Capitol steps. Vice President Henry A. Wallace comes out to greet them and comments about industrial production not only during the war, but in the time of peace to follow.
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