Shows Geneva, Switzerland after World War I, street scenes. League of Nations Assembly and Council in session.
Documentary on League of Nations titled ' The League at Work '. Cemeteries and war graves. Grave reads ' Private Harmon Cheshire Regiment '. Versailles Treaty. Explains covenant of League and shows League's founder Woodrow Wilson. Exterior of League of Nations building. League President Joseph Avenol speaks on the functions of each branch. League Post Office. Man with post trolley, women typists in typing pool use typewriters, women operating roneo copying machines (also called mimeograph machines). Man in office with secretary translating. Post room where incoming and outgoing mail are stamped. In a reference library, man walks amid racks holding books. Seymour Jacklin Treasurer tells of League finances. Writing on blackboard shows how budget is worked out. Various buildings for which the League is financially responsible.
A British guest on labor exchange program visit to the U.S. during World War 2. He leaves the home of his counterpart American host in Los Angeles, California. They leave in the American's car and drive a considerable distance to the Lockheed Aircraft Company facility. View of Honor Roll listing 15, 174 Lockheed affiliated members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The British-American pair walk past a Lockheed Ventura airplane under construction. View of a room filled with P-38 Lightning fighter planes completing final construction, outside the plant. A film clip of the maiden flight of the Lockheed Constellation aircraft (Later designated C-121 by the Army Air Corps) is inserted at this point. It shows the Constellation taking off from the factory airstrip in 1943, and climbing without raising its landing gear. View of aircraft fuselage under construction, where the British worker is inquiring about the manner of its assembly. Next he is seen observing a turntable press operation being run by men and women workers. View of workers using pneumatic hand tools to remove wrinkles from edges of pressed products. A woman punch operator is seen with safety straps on her hands that pull them away each time the punch comes down. Another woman worker demonstrates an electric spot welder. (The observing visitors are required to wear safety goggles in case sparks are created by the process.) Closeup of the aircraft part being spot welded. More workers operating similar machines in the plant, including an African American man and woman. Workers placing a large sheet of aluminum into a machine that fabricates wings for the P-38 fighter plane. Closeup of the British worker and his American counterpart on a balcony overlooking the production line for the Lightning aircraft. View across the production line floor. The two look into the factory first aid station available to workers and also see the transportation section where worker carpools can be formed. Employees are seen obtaining ration books and driver licenses from government clerks working in the plant itself. Employees are seen eating outdoors under foliage camouflage and others gather at an indoor eating site. Next, a section of a B-17 flying fortress wing, is seen moving out of a manufacturing jig. New components are immediately placed into the empty jig for construction. View of final installation area for B-17s, An overhead crane moves a finished wing, including engines, to be mated with its fuselage. Glimpse of numerous B-17s being assembled. A finished B-17 bomber being towed out of the factory.
During World War I, shows the shelling of Thiaucourt, France by the Germans on September 26th ,1918. View of the town's buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a shelled building.
Three man team of U.S. Army 128th Field Artillery troops fire French 75-mm guns at the Germans at Le Cotes de Forimont (France) during World War I. Close-up views of the team loading, firing, measuring with an instrument on the gun barrel, and firing again.
Closeup views of U.S. 128th Field Artillery troops firing French 75-mm guns at Le Cotes de Forimont (France) on September 27, 1918, during World War 1. Views of the gun breech, as shells are inserted, fired, and casings discharged.
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