Activities at Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan during World War II. Freighter being loaded by a huge crane. Locomotive wheels turning. Smoke stacks of the Ford River Rouge Complex. Foundry and sparks flying in the factory. Metal poured into smaller ladle. Molten metal being moved by crane in a large ladle. Machine in operation. Crankshaft on conveyor. View of crane hooks and machine. Worker punching time card. Feet of workers walking in the plant yard. Automobiles in traffic that narrator states are nowadays equipped with safety glass.
Strike at the Allis Chalmers factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union-Congress of industrial Organizations(CIO) workers carry flags of America and of CIO as they move in huge crowd. Views of the Allis Chalmers plant and smoke comes out of the smoke stack. The crowd advances and a car being driven amidst the crowd. Horse driven carriage carry people. Governor of Wisconsin Julius Peter Heil walks from the crowd. He calls for help and closes the plant. Rear of a car having a spoiled glass from paint being thrown on it. Police force controls the crowd. Police sprays water on the protesting workers from fire hoses . Crowd runs all around the area. Tear gas is used to break up the crowd. A damaged police vehicle. Worker throw stones at the vehicles. (World War II period).
U.S. Army first armored Division for cross country maneuvers at the Fort Knox military base in Kentucky, United States, shortly before America's entry into World War 2. Aerial view of tanks on ground. U.S. fighter aircraft in formation flight. Tanks move on ground. Army soldiers on motor bikes or motorcycles. Soldiers of the U.S. first armored division in boats crossing a water way. Water splashes as bombs are being dropped in practice battle drills. Soldiers climb a hill. Tank moves on an uneven ground. Tank smashes a trees. M2 Light Tanks and M2A1 Medium tanks smashing into trees, small houses, and shed buildings.
The National Broadcasting Company in Hollywood, California. Sign on a building reads 'NBC'. Traffic in front of the National Broadcasting Company(NBC). Pedestrian traffic in front of the building, including some military personnel in uniform (it is during World War 2).
African American soldiers during a studio recording in Hollywood, California. Interior of the NBC Broadcasting Studio. An announcer introduces the radio program named "Jubilee." U.S. military personnel seated in the control booth laugh. African American soldiers seated in the studio. They laugh and clap during the recording. American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, and American comic actor Eddie Anderson, who plays Rochester, on the Jack Benny show, are at microphone. recording on stage. Soldiers laugh and clap. (World War II period).
The U.S. 372nd Infantry Glee club, comprised of African American soldiers, performs in New York City during a Celebration of Paul Robeson’s 46th birthday and on the anniversary of the Council on African Affairs. The 372nd Infantry Glee club sings the Invictus, a British poem, during the event at the 17th Regiment Armory at 34th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan. Candles lit up in front of stage. After they sing, banner above stage is visible that says '17th Regiment'. Audience seated. (World War II period).
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