Dawn and morning time in Paris. Sunrise in Paris. A bridge over the River Seine. Clouds over the city. A Statue of Liberty replica on the Ile aux Cygnes Island (Pont de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France). Men sleep on the riverbank. The Eiffel Tower (Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France) on the riverbanks. Two pillars flank a road. Smoke from a stack. The Rue Royale, the Obelisk and a fountain at the Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). Trucks spray water around the fountains. A man sweeps the street. Women push a cart full of baked goods. A busy market street. Men carry heavy load, push, and pull carts. A mail man at a window. Children walk to school with book bags. 1920s and 1930s cars moving on the roads, as seen from unusual point of view of a moving camera at low level, just a few feet above the road surface.
'Battle Stations' depicts life as a United States Coast Guard. Medals lie on citations for gallantry in action during the landing on Tulagi Island. Images of U.S. Coast Guard cutters at sea and soldiers in battle as the citations are read out. U.S. CG troops during a parade. Sailors with rifles. They march with the U.S. flag. CG cutters in heavy seas. Sailor watches through binoculars. A sailor at the deck gun, another sends a semaphore signal. The Congressional Medal of Honor lies on a citation for heroism and gallantry in action during the evacuation of a battalion on Guadalcanal. Bodies of U.S. Coast Guard sailors wrapped in U.S. flags. Sailors salute as bodies are loaded. Women take the oath as they join the U.S. Coast Guard as U.S. Coast Guard SPARS (US CG Women's Reserve). Training Station: New SPARS recruits arrive as graduates leave the station. Recruits on bunk beds, during training, getting uniforms, on bicycles, and attending classes. Class of SPARS graduates receiving diplomas. Narration by Ginger Rogers and James Cagney.
Film 'Homes For Defense' on the construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Houses constructed for soldiers and war production workers through the Federal Defense Housing Program. Houses for the people who construct planes, ships and guns for the protection of America. View of run down tenements and slum housing in a city or town. A car parked outside a house. Children stand near a fence outside the house. A map shows industrial centers. Men move to various industrial centers. Newport News: workers work on machinery for the Battle of Atlantic. Hartford: workers work on machine guns. Detroit: workers in an auto industry. Rock Island: workers in industry make coastal field artillery. Rolla Waynesville: army men at a training center. Corpus Christi: Army men at a new airfield to accommodate the expanding air force. Aircraft in flight. San Diego: workers construct planes in a factory. Signs of the various housing agencies that are doing a special job under the coordinated program.
The film 'Churchill's Island' about Germany's successive attacks over England during World War II. British soldiers near artillery at a coast. Views of the British Channel. The soldiers observe through binoculars. A gun barrel. British soldiers prepare for their air raid protection. Soldiers atop a building observe through binoculars. Pedestrian traffic on a road. People on bicycles. British people work in ordnance factories. View of aircraft wheel folding into airplane under construction. View of bomb bay with bombs loaded opening on a plane under construction. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, speaks. A German railroad gun driven on a ramp. Shells in the railroad gun. German soldiers close their ears as the railroad guns hurl shells over the English Channel. Views of the railroad guns and explosions over the English Channel. An officer stands leaning against a wall and speaks. The wing of a taxiing German aircraft. Other aircraft in the background. German aircraft in flight. A British soldier holding a gun runs across a field. A British soldier on a motorbike. Soldiers stand on a tank. Two soldiers with artillery. Policemen get ready. They move out of a building on a motorbike. Policemen help people to move underground as an alarm rings. Officials in front of a map inside a hall.
The life of Americans in the 1920s. Women dance the Charleston. A man dances the Charleston with a woman. Musicians play in the background. Patrons of Steeplechase Park, in Coney Island, on a spinning wheel. Clown steer a woman to where her dress gets blown up from a hidden air jet. Women on the boardwalk in batihing suits and being arrested by police. A man lifts up a woman during the dance performance. A sketch shows women applying make up. Several scenes showing the gap between the people who could accept the modern ideas and those who couldn't. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Views of Steelmaking at steel factory plants. A scene with the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK. People protesting the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, accused anarchists. Various banners during the protests.
The life of people during 1920s in the United States. Sketch of Warren Gamaliel Harding taking oath of office of the President of U.S. Sketches of the U.S. President Warren G. Harding. People in the factories. Sketches of the people in the various towns of America. The President addresses the people. Horse drawn wagons on the streets. Modern cars on the street. Women in houses as they perform various activities. Sketches depict the revolution brought about due to the invention of cars. People enjoy at various occasions in a car. Cars on streets. People listen to radio. Sketches depicts the motion pictures of the times. A family posing for a picture, each with one leg kicked out. Sketches of American writers like Fitzgerald and Hemingway who chose to live abroad. Footage of Moulin Rouge night club in Paris France and neon lights of other Paris night clubs seen at night. Women dance on a Paris night club stage. Sketches of famous writers and their view of modern America. Brief scene of people at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York sliding down a slide and riding on the "Human Pool Table" ride.
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