The famous Indianapolis Five Hundred Race in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. A race track. People at the side of the track. Cars on the track. Floats and girls. A float reads "500 Festival'. A car numbered 16 on the track. The driver, Len Sutton sits in the car. 'Bryant Sweet Sixteen' written on the back of the jersey of a man standing near the car. Racing cars on the track.
Scene is football field, set up in the in field of the city racecourse at Tsingtao (Qingdao) China, in 1946. The unusual thing is there are no goal posts. U.S. Marine and Navy spectators stand around the field, and some occupy a small viewing stand. Various multistory buildings are seen in the far background, as the camera pans about,following the play on the field. Players wear football uniforms, and leather helmets. One team (probably Marines) wears Khaki jerseys and the other (probably Navy) wears white. As the film begins, one Khaki team player is being helped as he walks off the field, while others attend to a player lying on the ground. Play resumes with a play in the Khaki end zone, followed by a Khaki kickoff to white, who return the ball. Camera stops there and switches to another Khaki kickoff. White seems unable to overcome Khaki defense on the ground and resorts to a long pass that is intercepted by Khaki. The rest of the film shows glimpses of plays on the field. A White team player is seen on the ground attended by sailors. Play resumes again, with Navy punting. As the game ends, players of both teams walk off the field and are greeted by Marine and Navy spectators respectively. Camera shows view of the much larger racecourse area that encompassed the playing field. U.S. military trucks begin driving over the field. Scene shifts to view from a grandstand at far end of the racecourse, near buildings in downtown Tsingtao. Marines and sailors are leaving the field. Camera pans over the large racecourse infield where marines and sailors are cleaning up the playing field. Change of scene shows U.S. Army Lieutenant General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Navy Admiral Charles M. Cooke, and a Rear Admiral, sitting with Madame Chiang Kai-shek. She is examining an American football, as the Rear Admiral explains it to her. Scene shifts to more shots of the football game including several fumbles. It ends with Khaki team huddle.
British women working in agriculture, in the "Land Army" on the home front, during World War II. They wear the uniform consisting o breeches, jersey, and slouch hat. Women are seen gathering harvested crop, pitching hay onto horse -drawn wagon and driving tractor in field. Women riding on wagon pulled by draught horse. A woman leads the horse, pulling empty wagon, out the gate of the farm.
British women of the "Land Army" at work in agricultural activities in the United Kingdom, during World War II. They wear uniforms consisting of Jersey, breeches, and slouch hat. They handle produce on a conveyor belt in a farm shed, and pack produce in boxes. They tend vegetables growing in raised beds, watering and harvesting. The women pass through an archway and enter a classroom, where an instructor explains the fundamentals of an internal combustion cycle. Women line up on dirt field and pick up potatoes as they are uprooted by a tractor driven by one of the women.
U.S. customs officer checks vehicles along the United States-Mexico Border. A United States customs officer stands behind a counter and talks to a man in the customs office. A clock on the wall and a bulletin board with several notices in the office. A sign reading: 'US Customs - Aduana Americana'. A customs officer checks the trunk of a car. A man wearing a football jersey with number 32 on it. Another officer stands behind. The officer checks the back seat of the car. The trunk of the car open with a few things in it. Peugeot car with registration number NAE 670. The officer with a man near the vehicle. The officer tears a paper from a notepad . Several other cars parked. The officer talks to a man and two girls near a vehicle. The officer beside a white vehicle.
German Stug IV tank moving in the Battle of Saint-Lo during World War II. SS Division Gotz von Berlichingen troops move alongside tanks on the road. A tank covered in camouflage rolls along the road. German soldier wearing camouflage leaves hide behind a bush. German soldiers duck for cover after firing a 8 cm Granatwerfer 34 mortar. German soldier puts another shell into mortar. Explosion in the forest. A tank covered with camouflage leaves rolls along the road with its hatch open. German infantry trails behind a German Stug III tank. German troops hide behind hedgerows. German forces advance through hedgerows. Explosion from artillery. A camouflaged German soldier observes using a binocular. United States M4 Sherman tanks on fire in the middle of a field. Debris inside empty American tanks after being captured by Germans. The road to Saint-Lo is littered with Allied materiel. German forces capture more American tanks on the road to Saint-Lo. German officer points to hole in tank turret. German soldiers inspect a wrecked gun, with a dead body of an Allied soldier crushed underneath. A camouflaged car passes by a burning truck on the road to Saint-Lo. More devastated and destroyed materiel and tanks are found near Saint-Lo. German soldier marches behind captured British prisoners as a passing tank swats on with camouflage branches. British and American prisoners are taken to a prisoners’ collection point. Signs read “Löfel” and “Div. Gefangenen Sammelstelle” (“Division prisoners collection point” in English). Allied soldier’s back jacket reads “Patchie P.A. Jersey”. American prisoners of war sitting while under German guard. Some U.S. Army prisoners are seen wearing the shoulder patch of the 29th Division. German guard is seen wearing a SS Division Gotz von Berlichingen and Nazi Eagle Insignia patches on his arm. Defiant American soldier sitting. An Asian-American prisoner chewing straw turns his head away from the camera.
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