Famous tourist destinations and architecture in the Black Forest, Germany and Innsbruck, Austria, before World War 2. Views of the Black Forest, a wooded mountain range. Trees on either side of the Rhine valley. The Rhine River. Farm buildings seen. Skyline of Innsbruck, Austria. The Hofkirche is seen. Snow-capped mountains in the background. View of the Clock Tower building or Stadtturm (Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 21, Innsbruck, Österreich). Buildings on either side of a street. People and vehicles on the street.
A forest fire at Malibu,California. Swank Hollywood Film Colony is destructed as a result of a massive forest fire. Huge clouds of smoke rises. Civilians watch the destruction. Firemen douse fire with water hoses. Burnt cars and demolished buildings. Men remove the debris.
Aerial view of a lookout tower in a forest in United States . A Ford trimotor airplane takes off on a grass field. The airplane in flight and dropping supplies to firefighters, by parachute. Scenes of 1939 experimental tests with firefighters parachuting from a Ford trimotor, near Winthrop, Washington. They can be seen leaving the aircraft, chutes opening, and firefighters descending. Scenes from first operational use of parachuting firefighters, on July 12, 1940, when Smoke Jumpers, Rufus Johnson and Earl Cooley parachuted into the Nez Perce forest , in Idaho, where they successfully extinguished a small fire. Rufus Johnson was the first to jump from the airplane, followed immediately by Earl Cooley. Fire fighters being trained at a parachute training center in Missoula, Montana. Men learn to jump and run over wooden planks. An instructor gives directions to trainees on a loudspeaker. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers advance through the Monschau Forest in Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers advance across a snow covered field. The soldiers in snow capes walk through the thick forest. Trees in the area.
U.S. soldiers advance through the Monschau Forest in Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers advance across a snow covered field. They wear snow capes and advance through the forest. They dig out snow for constructing shelters for the night.
Forests being converted to lumber in Northern forest of the United States. Logs piled along the banks of a stream for transportation. The stream carries these logs down to the mill. Lumber jacks prevent the logs from jamming in the flowing stream. A group of workers break a log jam. The workers blast a dynamite to break the jam.