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Men operate telegraph keys and an automatic perforator and transmitter in the United States.
A film on technological advancements in the United States. Messages from London, England to New York, United States are received on siphon recorders and are transmitted by a Morse sounder and are forwarded to all points in America. A man operates a telegraph key. A recorder in operation. Students are trained at a training school at a cable station. Manual sending and receiving of a duplex to and from England. A man with earphones receives messages. A man places a record on a machine. An automatic perforator and transmitter sends 100 words per minute. Operators at keyboards. A tape is fed through a machine.
A telephone, radiophone, phonograph, and Aldis lamp demonstrated in the United States.
A film on technological advancements, innovations, and inventions in the United States during the industrial age and industrial revolution. An actor portraying Benjamin Franklin talks to other men. A man explains to him how a wireless is operated. Benjamin Franklin actor at a telephone switchboard. An operator hands him earphones. Franklin listens. A radiophone in operation. A recording being played on a phonograph. Closeup view of the needle on the phonograph while the record is playing. Franklin listens to radio. Two men, standing near a biplane aircraft, operate a battery-powered Aldis lamp. (Slate incorrectly refers to Heliograph, which uses the sun as light source.) One man uses a sight to aim the lamp at the intended recipient of the message. The other man, holding the battery, sends coded message by operating a key on the battery box. Biplane in flight overhead signals back. Franklin seated at a desk writes in candlelight.
Men and women work on electronic computers for bank book keeping in the United States.
A film titled ' The second revolution in banking' on bookkeeping services and computer improved banking services in the United States. A Titan rocket is launched from a launching pad. Heavy columns of smoke rise as the rocket is launched. Narrator indicates the launching of the rocket implies electronic and technological advancements. The Titan rocket ascends in the sky. The first revolution in banking is book keeping machines during World War I. A man seated at a desk works. Several men and women seated at desks in an office. They work on book keeping machines. The machines are clumsy and use lots of papers. A man empties a sack of bundles of paper on a table. The second revolution is electronic computers. These computers can read, sort, print, process check numbers, record and store customer account information which can be retrieved in record time. The Merchandise National Bank of Chicago installs electronic computers. Men work on the computers in a computer room. Several symbols printed in magnetic ink on a check. The symbols enable the computer system to read information faster and accurately. A man works on a typewriter. He types customer information. Other men work on a machine. The machine reads the information. A reader sorter in operation. A woman at work. The information is read, sorted and interpreted.
Computer room with tape units of computer systems in operation for book keeping in the United States.
A film on bookkeeping services and computer improved banking services in the United States. Computer system reads and records vital details and information. It records bank checking accounts. A tape unit in operation. The tape unit saves space in addition to operating with a high speed. A woman works on a machine. Several accounts and a detailed information can be stored on a tape. A printing machine in operation.
African American Pastor refers to Hitler's "Mein Kampf" as he tells his church congregation about the critical stakes in World War II."
Camera pans down from the top of St. Thomas Church (1 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, United States) on W 53rd Street and 5th Avenue in New York City. Cars and double-decker bus are seen on the street. Views of other churches in the South. African American children entering a Sunday School. An African American Army Lieutenant in uniform and a woman sit in the balcony of a church with a predominately African American congregation. Camera focuses on the choir singing in a loft on the first floor. An African American soldier in uniform sings a solo with the choir. The African American pastor of the church steps to the pulpit and looks up at the Church's Service flag where numerous stars represent members of the congregation serving in the Armed Services. The Pastor notes that some are present that morning, pointing out Private Roberts, Sergeant Jackson, and Lieutenant Carter, all of them in Army uniforms. He also acknowledges a Woman's Army Corps member, who identifies herself as Private Parks, First Class. As the Pastor speaks, scene shifts American Joe Louis beating German Max Schmeling in their second boxing match in 1938 at Yankee Stadium. Scene shifts to Max Schmeling training with German paratroopers and Joe Louis running an obstacle course during U.S. Army basic training in World War 2. The American flag and constitution are seen in contrast to the German Nazi flag and Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, now seen being held by the Pastor of the church, as he reads excerpts from it to the congregation. Several views of church attendees listening to the Pastor, as he reads despicable remarks about African Americans from Hitler's book.
Film illustrating participation of African Americans in U.S. history from Colonial times to after the Civil War
Opening scene shows African American congregation in church, during World War 2, listening to their preacher speak about liberty. Closeup of the Minister speaking. As he refers to the seed of Liberty taking root in Boston, a plaque on the gate of the Granary Burial Ground of 1660 is shown reading: "Within this ground are buried the victims of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770." The gate swings open revealing the cemetery. Next, an illustration of British Redcoats shooting into a crowd on that occasion is shown. Closeup of the illustration shows an African American, named Crispus Attucks, falling as the first victim of the gunfire. A monument to him on Boston Common, is then shown. Closeup of the monument. Excerpt from a film about the Revolutionary War shows reenactment of the battle off Concord. The 221-foot granite obelisk at Bunker Hill, Boston, is seen, marking the site of the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. A musket is seen with a sign attached reading: "Gun belonged to Peter Salem, a colored man who carried it at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, and with it shot Maj. Pitcairn." (Refers to Major John Pitcairn, a Scottish Marine officer, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.) Illustration and painting of Peter Salem with his musket in the company of other patriots, is shown, as well as a glimpse of a mass reenactment of the battle of Bunker Hill. Next is seen the famous 1851 oil-on-canvas painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, by the German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Closeup of one oarsman, identified as African American, Prince Whipple. Film Reenactment of the ragtag American army at Valley Forge in the snow, shows their suffering. Among them is an actor in the role of African American, Salem Poor, who had purchased his freedom from slavery and fought with Washington's army. A bell ringing and the American flag of 13 stars signifying the 1776 Victory. Film reenactments of pioneers including whites and African Americans working together, felling trees and building forts and barns, and the like. Scene shifts to a man of war ship under sail firing a salvo from its cannons. This is followed by illustrations of Commodore Perry in the battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812. In a dory with Perry is a black man named Tyler Thompson. War ships exchange gunfire. Narrator cites Perry's famous words of victory: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Scene shifts to a painting of American general Andrew Jackson and his troops, at the Battle of New Orleans, in 1815. A battle reenactment shows a black American soldier participating. Postwar view of American ship building activity. View of a large sailing vessel. Cannon fire ushers in the Civil War in 1861 as Confederates fire on Fort Sumter. Images of combat are overlaid by the statue of Abraham Lincoln in his memorial at Washington, DC. Next, settlers are seen heading West in a wagon train. Camera focuses on a black couple who are part of the wagon train. White and African American men work side-by-side building a railroad. An early steam locomotive races along the tracks. .
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