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Famous international personalities are shown visiting the U.S. in the 1920s. This is followed by message from the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
A 1959 production featuring footage of personalities visiting the United States circa 1920s. Douglas Edwards, an American television anchor speaks about the people who visited America. The French actress Sarah Bernhardt visits America. She is greeted by the people. In 1914 she is honored by the French government. Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink, famous contralto, on board ship with friends. Modern interpretive dancer Ruth St. Denis, with a troupe of women dancers. Russian composer, conductor, and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, onboard ship. Polish pianist and statesman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, arriving in America. Famous Irish tenor, John McCormack, arriving in America. Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, seen with friends, as he visits America. George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright visits America. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, creator of the Sherlock Holmes stands with his family. Maurice Maetterlinck, Belgian playwright and Nobel laureate on deck with companion. Michael Arlen, best-selling author,arrives in America. Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English novelist, is seen with ship's officers. British writer, H.G.Wells, doffs his hat as he arrives on a ship to America. Douglas Edwards then presents a public interest announcement about civil defense planning, for the U.S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, sponsor of the show. . This is followed by voice-over from unidentified speaker urging citizens to take part in civil defense. Shown is a cutaway view illustrating emergency supplies of canned foods, and other supplies stored in a home basement for emergencies. A sign describes it as part of a "Family Fallout Shelter."
Rise of Capitalism and the growing concern for worker's rights during 20th Century in United States
Industrialization and the rise of capitalism and organized labor in 20th Century United States. Stockyards, factories and farms in Chicago area. Elevated view over Chicago stockyards as cattle move through the stockyards. Mass production takes place in factories leading to rise of capitalism in United States. Views inside a rubber goods factory as rubber is shaped, heated, formed, nad then passed on to a sewing room. A room full of mostly young men is seen at belt-driven mechanical sewing machines working on the rubber goods which resemble rubber hats. A more advanced mechanized reaper or wheat processing machine in use on a farm. Scene changes to a man standing in front of giant tall chalk boards, perhaps at an commodity exchange or shipment scheduling and tracking company of some kind. Boards are marked "Liverpool" and "New Orleans Jobs" and "New Orleans" and "New York." Formation of American Federation of Labor by Samuel Gompers and efforts of Jack London to safeguard the rights of laborers in America. Two labor workers hold picket signs and protest.
Development of culture, arts, and education in America in the early 1900s.
Film opens with illustrations showing development of culture and the arts as America developed from earliest centuries. A crowded theatre scene and a lead woman opera singer on stage in a long dress during her performance, with sympony in the background. The audience applauds. Images of writers James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldoe Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Mark Twain are shown. Children in a school yard, some wearing straw hats, are seen returning to the school house. Boy and girl children entering a one room school house in a rural area of America in the early 1900s. Views of early school rooms, students, and teachers.
Activities dependent upon weather forecasting in United States.
Weather Bureau forecasting operations and the activities dependent upon weather forecasting in United States. A pilot seated in the cockpit of an aircraft, aircraft takes off and in flight. Aircraft navigates air. Naval vessels underway in sea as a Navy aircraft flies over them. United States airship Shenandoah in flight, Shenandoah moored to the United States ship Patoka. United States airship Los Angeles in flight as crew members look down, airship flies over a bridge. Airships fly over Washington Monument and Capitol building in Washington DC.
USPS mail plane being loaded, flying, and arriving, with information from weather bureau
Weather Bureau forecasting operations and activities dependent upon such operations in United States. A vehicle pulls up near a mail plane and men load mail onto the plane in United States. Plane takes off and in flight over a city. Plane lands and mail unloaded. Plane takes off and lands as men stand around it.
Aerial fire-fighting and crop dusting with assistance of Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau forecasting operations and activities dependent upon such operations in United States. An aircraft patrols forest fire as smoke rises from the forest. Plane in flight with pilot in the cockpit as it patrols the area affected by fire. An aircraft dusts the boll weevil on cotton fields. Aircraft releases a smoky trail as it flies across the cotton fields. A weather forecast by the weather bureau.
