A film about state parks during the Great Depression in California, United States. A man walks on the banks of Lake Tahoe in Rubicon state park. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) volunteers work with shovels to remove undergrowth. They clear debris from the road. A volunteer climbs down a tree. The volunteers set up a new camp site. An eroded rock in the park. CCC volunteers near a tree. The volunteers are taught about insect control and tree life.
X-15 rocket-powered aircraft piloted by Joseph Albert Walker setting a new altitude record of 169,600 feet in California, United States. The X-15 rocket-powered aircraft lands on a dry lake bed. The aircraft taxis. Smoke trails out of the aircraft.
Animated map shows U.S. forces extending control in the Pacific the the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. An American soldier sentry near a destroyed Japanese reinforced concrete bunker. Another looks at a destroyed Japanese coastal gun. More American soldiers looking over destroyed Japanese coastal defenses. A destroyed Japanese type 95 HA-GO tank. A U.S. troops look at a destroyed Japanese Mitsubishi G4M (Betty) bombers on a captured airfield. Animated map of New Guinea.showing Allied advance to Hollandia. U.S. aircraft carriers with their aircraft flying overhead. Closeup from behind of a Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft taking off from a carrier. Formations of U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft in flight overhead. Escort aircraft carriers (called "Jeep" carriers by the narrator) are seen with decks full of airplanes. Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taxiing on a carrier deck. An F6F fighter plane taking off. A formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless airplanes viewed from above, flying over the sea. Gun camera films from U.S. aircraft strafing parked airplanes on Japanese airfields.
A swimming competition during the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. Girls swim in 100 meter breast stroke competition. Catie Ball of Jacksonville sets a new record and wins the race. The girls stand at a victory stand. They are awarded medals. They pose.
People worship and various customs of India. A man cuts hair of a child. A woman sits on his side. Hindu men and women perform worship in a Havanam. A barber shaves head of a child. People gathered watch. A man puts garland on the father and child. People worship in a temple. A statue of a God inside the temple. A man stands in front of the statue of God and prays. A shop of flowers outside the temple. Muslims perform namaz at a mosque. People gathered outside Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi. The Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru with other parliament members enter the Parliament house.
Cars fill the large, open surface parking lot at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, a new suburban shopping mall. People in front of the I. Magnin store at the shopping mall. Family in a convertible car arrives and stops in front of the mall. A man with two children looks at department store window where a mannequin displays clothes. Women in front of a suburban shopping center. Shoes and purses displayed in a shop window. Shop signs for smaller stores in an outdoor pedestrian mall layout. A woman sits on a bench at the mall. Another woman walks up to her. People walk in front of stores at the postwar, modern suburban shopping mall. Store signs seen in the clip include I. Magnin, Blum's, Haffner's Clothes, The Emporium, Donnelley’s Hardware Store, Fowler's Barber Shop, Irving Lundborg Company, Joseph Magnin (JM).
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