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People greet Wolfgang Von Gronau after his aircraft lands on Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois.
German aviator Wolfgang Von Gronau lands on Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois after his second transatlantic flight. Aerial view of skyscrapers of the city. Dornier Do J Wal flying boat aircraft approaches for landing. People gathered to welcome Wolfgang Von Gronau. The aircraft lands and taxis on Lake Michigan. People greet Wolfgang Von Gronau.
Supplies are being loaded onto ships in the United States and a U.S. convoy at sea; recruitment film for Merchant Marines
A World War II recruitment film bulletin 'Wanted: Men for Merchant Marine' asking men to join the United States Merchant Marines and go aboard Liberty Ships and other cargo ships supporting the United States war effort during World War 2. A World War II American ship convoy at sea. An official works in Ship Personnel Office aboard a ship. Merchant seamen board a ship. A group of engineers, seamen, radio telegraphers, cooks, bakers and mess men during a training. Supplies are loaded onto a ship. Tanks, bombs and locomotive are hoisted by a crane and loaded onto the ship. Seamen work aboard the ships. Narrator speaks of military materiel delivered by ships and a series of images of American military equipment in action in Europe during World War 2 is shown: Line of camouflage U.S. army tanks fire. U.S. Army Air Force bomber aircraft at an airfield including one with a damaged nose. U.S. Army tractor hauls a long artillery piece on war torn streets of a European city. U.S. Army tank moving by fast on a European paved roadway. A merchant ship at sea. A ship convoy at sea.
Coast Guard vessels, buoys, lighthouses, helicopters and life saving service stations in the United States.
Opening scene shows an animated map of the United States and its inland waterways. An extremely long barge assembly is seen moving along a waterway, with industrial plant on shore in background. Another view of barges being pushed, View from a ship passing a city skyline. A Coast Guard ship passing an inland passenger ship in icy waters. View from bow of the Coast Guard ship moving through the ice. he U.S. Coast Guard side paddlewheel river tender, "Willow" is seen docked on the Mississippi River. Black smoke is rising from one of her funnels. A team of men works at a river bank, installing an aid to navigation. View of another such aid. A Coast Guard riverboat for installing and maintaining navigation aids, moving on a river. Closeup of a Coastguardsman wearing flotation vest, on deck. A buoy being raised by a crane on the ship. Glimpse of a buoy floating in the water. A new buoy being lowered from the ship into the water. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching as the buoy is set in place. View from deck of ship as the buoy is lowered overboard. Aerial view of a lighthouse. View of lighthouse from ground nearby. Glimpse of a Coast Guard station on a sandy shore. A Coast Guard boathouse with three rescue dories visible inside. A pontoon equipped Coast Guard helicopter taking off from a moving ship.
American farmers increase production of agricultural products needed during World War II
Film opens with series of animated maps of the United States, showing the States that are the typical sources of agricultural products, including wheat, corn, dairy products, beef cattle, cotton, flax, lumber, and fruits and vegetables. A woman in overalls places fresh cut corn from a truck on to a conveyor. Farmers pitch hay from trucks. Momentary glimpse of a warehouse on a waterway, with a railroad train running to it, and a large cargo ship docked beside it. A federal official briefs a group of farm state officials and farm families, about the need for increased agricultural production, during World War 2. Closeups of persons in the audience. Scene shifts to window of a modest wooden home with anchor symbol two blue stars displayed for family members in military service. Closeup of the two blue stars in the window. With many men gone in military service, women and youth fill the labor gaps. A women at the wheel of a piece of farm equipment. A boy picking fruit from a tree. View of a large vacant lot in a city being used for numerous "Victory Gardens." A girl digging with a spade in one of the gardens. Other gardeners conversing in the background. A woman storing mason jars of preserved fruits and vegetables on a shelf in her home. Farmers performing maintenance and repairs on farm machinery. Momentary view of farmers loading crates of foods onto an open truck. Women placing vegetables into cans at a factory. Cattle moving into a pen. Men loading bales of cotton onto a river boat. A large freighter being loaded at a port. A farmer treating the soil with something dispensed from a spreader behind his tractor. A farmer harvesting corn by machinery. Three dead pigs, on the ground, (victims of disease.) Cattle foraging close to one another in a pasture. Insects attacking crops as there is a shortage of insecticides during the war. Severe weather causing crop losses is seen. A farmer harvesting with a combine. A document is shown labeled PL 147 77th Congress (the Steagall Bill). (Narrator states it guaranteed prices of 90 percent of parity for war needed crops.) Brochures for alternate crops that farmers might consider because foreign supplies were cut off. A farmer removes an envelope from his mail box. (Narrator alludes to government supplied crop loans and dairy feed payments.) Corn being piled up. Pigs at feeding troughs. Men loading crates of food onto a truck. fresh cut logs rolling into a river. Complete change of scene to Piazzale Loreto, in, Milan, Italy, 1945, where Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders are seen hung upside down. Adolph Hitler and Marshal Hermann Goering at Berteschgaden. Japanese Emperor Hirohito astride a white horse leading some of his senior military officers as they review assembled troops.
Unemployed men get jobs in industries and a cooperative farm plan to meet market demand in the United States.
Postwar (after World War II) agriculture activities in the United States. Farming equipment in operation on farms. Canned food in a store. Flashback scenes to the Great Depression during the 1930s: A man carries a banner which reads 'Unemployed Will Take Any Job'. Unemployed men lying on a bench. A sign on a gate : 'No Men Wanted'. Shabby housing tenements and shacks of poverty victims falling apart in a rural farm area. Forward again to the post war 1940s: Smoke comes out off chimneys of a factory. American workers busy at a auto assembly line finishing new cars (appears to be 1946 or 1947 Chevrolet cars). Factory workers line up at a pay window to receive pay checks. An industrialist works in his office. Crowds of American citizens on busy city streets with pedestrians and automobiles, and shoppers looking in store windows, including store windows showing elaborate Christmas displays. A cooperative farm plan to produce what the industrial and consumer markets demand. A man milks a cow with an automatic milking machine. A woman using electricity on a farm to power a new open top clothes washing machine. Farm machines are used.
Unemployed African American workers get work in offices and as musicians and painters thanks to the Works Progress Administration
Unemployed African American citizens in America during the Great Depression. Close up views of many idle, sad, and dejected African American men and women out of work, in lines, during the depression. A man looks at a bulletin board of an employment agency at 165 W 131st St in New York City. African American men and women stand in a breadline or relief or unemployment line in United States. They get jobs through Works Progress Administration. African Americans working at factories, in classroom teaching, in offices typing, as an accordion musician, as a painter in a studio, as a bricklayer, and in an industrial kitchen. Views of smiling, happy African American workers, both men and women.
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