Close up view of a cement and asphalt mill in Stansted Mountfitchet, England, 1954, ten years after WW2. British man stands on a platform overseeing the machinery. Second shot shows large bulldozer moving rock, dust in the air. Close up of man operating machinery. View of the operator and control sticks of the large tractor bulldozer. Scene changes to wide view of the mill, men on various elevated platforms. Crane moves material to the top of the mill, trucks drive off. The plant is run by SCARWAF personnel (Special Category Army Personnel With Air Force). Scene changes to Peckforton Castle in Chesire, England.
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.
A British man and a U.S. Air Force soldier tour an abandoned runway and airfield at RAF Molesworth in England, in 1954, ten years post WW2. Shot from an elevated position showing the two men walking across the overgrown airstrip. Grasses and shrubs grow from the deserted airfield. The men walk back and forth, pointing at things and exploring. They stop to chat, laughing. The Englishman smokes a pipe. Close up of the Englishman as he speaks with the American. The Englishman wears a flat cap and sports a mustache. The two men chat while the Englishman smokes. Close up of the American, who wears glasses.
Elevated view of landmarks in London, England, in 1954, ten years after WW2. Panning camera shot shows old derelict building. Across the River Thames are Big Ben and British Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster). Boats on the water. Second shot shows roadway with the Thames in the background. Motor cars, pedestrians, and a double-decker bus on the street. View of Big Ben and Westminster Bridge.
Opening scene shows German leader Adolf Hitler in a planning session looking at a map during World War II. Brief dramatization depicts a Nazi German official learning the role of women in war materiel production in the United States. Scenes of the United States Capitol building, factories, and shipyards in America. A tractor clearing a road. War production workers streaming through the gates of the Alabama Dry dock and Shipbuilding Company. American war factories being quickly built and staffed. Wide views of many war workers arriving for work. War ships being launched. A Nazi German official reading a report. A drinks menu from “Blue Moon Café”. Women at work in factories. Women reading sign “GIRLS WANTED”. The women war workers using various machines and tools for war production. African American women working in an armament factory. Women in a munitions factory. They use tiny equipment with skill that is needed for war purposes and sew the plane wings fabric and parachute fabric.
African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work in forges and machine shops making vital parts for the war effort in World War 2. They work on machines helping to meet war production worker manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.
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