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British worker and his American counterpart in labor exchange program visit the Lockheed aircraft plant in Los Angeles, Calfornia
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.
Documentary titled "The Secret Land" on the U.S. polar expedition,Operation High Jump.
Documentary titled "The Secret Land" on the U.S. polar expedition,Operation High Jump. Clip opens with aerial and elevated views of landmark buildings and sites in Washington DC, including U.S. Capitol, White House,and the National Mall area. Elevated view looking back toward Virginia, with Potomac River and Key Bridge in the distance. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal makes a speech explaining the purpose of the polar expedition. Chief of U.S. Naval operations Chester W. Nimitz talks to U.S. Navy officers in his office. The Norfolk Naval base in Virginia. U.S. Navy officers and personnel aboard a vessel. Sailors prepare huskies (sledge dogs) in New Hampshire, for the polar expedition. Convoy of U.S. ships and several other vessels leave the naval base and head for the expedition. Animated map shows designated landing zone in Antarctica. Helicopters and planes will serve as scouts and transportation medium for the expedition.
Undercarriage and related systems of a Ford truck are shown and described in promotional film.
Views underneath the chassis of a Ford truck, showing torque tube and radius rods, showing attachment to front axle, and how rear springs are devoted entirely to absorbing road shocks. Cutaway animated view of the Ford 3/4 type floating rear axle, with various gears in motion. Cutaway internal views of Double roller-type rear wheel bearings are shown and external view with double wheels.Front tranverse springs are shown. New semi-elliptic rear springs are shown. Brake cables and drum-type brakes are demonstrated.
Variety of Ford trucks and buses are displayed and demonstrated.
New Ford trucks moving on assembly line in factory. Several drive out of the factory without final rear bodies. A truck equipped with stake bed sitting at a farm. views of the truck bed, and removable stake sides and back. Various configurations shown. Views of small dump truck with dual rear wheels sitting outside a factory. Demonstration of dumping with truck bed elevated by hydraulic cylinder.Another truck shown with open sides, covered roof, and bench seats along both sides of the truck body. A similar truck covered with tarpaulin cover. A pickup truck with tailgate. A bus built on a Ford truck chassis. Views of the bus, including demonstration of driver opening its door, and views of interior and seats. Examples of several different Ford bus body styles and several different truck body styles, including a wrecker-tow truck.
The National Women's Conference held at Houston, Texas.
The National Women's Conference held at Houston, Texas, promoting equal rights for women. Thousands of American women and women of other countries gather, cheer and clap during the event. Women hold American flags and banners. Some signs are in favor of ERA and others are against the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment). A news reporter at the venue summarizes the events of the conference. Empty conference hall in her background. Several proposals for women's rights put forward.
Proposal for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.
Commissioner of New York, Claire Randall makes her speech at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas. She proposes the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Several women delegates present at the meeting oppose ERA and state their reasons. Some anti-ERA banners are seen that say "Stop ERA" and some speakers speak in favor of the ERA amendment, while others speak against the ERA amendment. Ratification of the Amendment is put to a vote and an overwhelming number of attendees rise in support of it, cheering loudly.
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