Overview from a height of the sprawling Kaiser shipyard in Richmond, California, during World War 2. Cranes moving and workers in hard hats at work. Derricks at the waterfront and large hangar-like structures. Sections of ships' superstructures being assembled in open areas of the yard. Several large cylindrical fuel tanks. Several Victory ships tied up at a pier, being outfitted. One is the "Boulder Victory" which was built by the Permanente Metals Corporation, in Yard 1, and launched on August 31, 1944. It was commissioned October 12, 1944 as the USS Boulder Victory (AK-227).
Momentary image of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, Russian mystic and advisor to the Russian Imperial family. German troops fighting in no man's land on Western Front in World War 1. Ill prepared and equipped Russian troops clean themselves and clothing of fleas and lice, that cause heavy casualties from typhus. Explosions on front lines. Starving Russian civilians at aid camp. Demonstrations for increased bread rations, in St. Petersburg, Russia, March, 1917, getting out of hand. Tsarist troops sent in to quell the disturbance, instead, join in the revolutionary protests. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma, vice-chairman of the Petrograd Soviet,and first Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government, is seen tipping his hat, and later giving a speech. Czar (Tsar) Nicholas II, seen sitting on a tree stump, with soldiers behind him. Russians crowding a square, breaking down prison bars, and releasing prisoners. Dissidents haranguing Russian crowds. Kerensky speaking to crowd. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returning by railroad train from exile in Switzerland. Leon Trotsky arrives from Canada and is seen speaking to a crowd. Kerensky on a balcony as, head of the provisional government, in Summer, 1917, proclaiming Russia a Republic. Young women marching in parade. Lenin making remarks. Field filled with farm workers (worker army union, AKA Soviet) tilling soil with hand tools. Lenin, bareheaded (holding his cap behind his back) making a speech. An unidentified cathedral seen in background. Bolsheviks stir up unrest. Winged Victory column topples. Bolshevik mobs take over government buildings in Russian Revolution.
U.S. Training film 'The Modern Marine' shows United States Marine Corps undergoing training in the United States. Marine Corps stand in line with rifles in hand during World War I. The Marines used carrier pigeons as a means to transfer messages. A Marine walks with pigeon in cage behind his back. Group of Marines use the radio. Early aircraft parked on field. The Modern Marine fires rifle. Technicians work on aircraft engine. Group of Marines patrolling. Marines undergo training as a rifleman. They pass through various hurdles as part of their training program. Marines fire machine guns.
American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson during Peace Celebrations in the United States at the end of World War I. A huge crowd on the streets. People waving the American flag. Troops in uniform march led by a band. Vehicles on a road. A banner reads 'The Devil says he will resign if the Kaiser is admitted'. President Wilson waves at the crowd from his car.
U.S. severs diplomatic ties with Germany on February 3, 1917. View of American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson at the White House in Washington DC. President Wilson seated at a desk reads documents. He signs a document and hands it to an official. President Wilson addresses the Congress and declares war on Germany on April 2, 1917.
A curtis JN-4 "Jenny" airplane lands on a field in the United States, during World War 1. It taxis in after landing, and parks beside a hangar designated 11B. "The Air Service Needs You" is painted on the airplane fuselage . The pilot climbs out of the cockpit and walks towards the camera, taking off his flight gear.
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