Primary flight training base near Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, United States. Men at base. Instructor teaches the trainee. Trainee gets training in T-34 Mentor training Aircrafts. Trainees get training in class about working of aircraft. Instructor teaches on board and gives exercise on model aircraft. A trainee and instructor in flight. Instructor guides trainee for aerobatics. The aircraft lands. Trainee takes off for solo flight. Aircraft in flight and then lands. Sign outside apartment reads "Q-2 Captain W.C. Adams, U.S. Navy." Two couples in a red Ford Mustang convertible. A woman catches a beach ball. A couple running in the surf at the beach. A couple sailing together in small sail boat. A couple playing tennis. A man and two women golfing. A man water skiing while a woman observes from a motor boat. A couple having a picnic barbecue grill hamburgers.
Various activities of tourists during winter vacations in Miami, Florida, United States. Child stands amidst pigeons. Men stand near and watch. People move in front of the Alamac Hotel (1300 Collins Ave # 100, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United States) in Miami Beach. Automobile traffic on Flagler Street. The famous Halcyon Hotel (169 East Flagler Street Miami, FL 33131) at Flagler and 2nd Ave is seen. People move on the street.
Point of view shot out the front of a steam locomotive railroad train as it speeds along a track in western United States. Men stacking wood lumber for boat shipment beside a canal in the early 1900s. The mill and stacks of lumber seen across the canal. Miners at a coal mine ride an open car full of coal as it emerges from a mine in West Virginia, as seen from camera riding on same coal car. Glimpse, from a passing train, of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Immigrants to the United States, from various European countries, at work in industrial production jobs. Men in factories; working at a power forge in a steel mill; Lumber operations: Men cutting down large trees with hand axes and sawing logs for timber in a forest, using large 2-man saws; Butchers moving sides of beef in a meat packing company. Women working in a metal parts factory (appears to be a sink faucet manufacturing company); women working in a textile spinning mill operation and stacking moving machine shelves with spools. A hose set up from a fire hydrant spraying water in a city street and children in bathing suits running underneath to play and cool off in hot summer weather. Montage of various still and moving images: Immigrant children in classrooms and in school yards. A woman instructing new adult immigrants in an English language instruction class. Immigrant workers engaged in skyscraper construction, high in the air without safety equipment. An iron worker perched atop a vertical steel beam with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A woman posing on a horizontal bar. Men and women posing in the surf at a beach. People at beach watching as a group of men create a human pyramid on the sand. A little girl with her feet in the surf. Boys in a classroom, with two of them dirty from work and another boy sleeping with his head on his desk. Mothers and fathers at home asking about what the children learned in school. A young girl leading a group of school children in reciting the pledge of allegiance (pre-1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance is heard recited by a group of children, without the "Under God" wording that was added in 1954). Still image of a young girl employed in a fabric mill (child labor).
Good times depicted in America during the so-called "Roaring Twenties." Automobile workers on a production line or assembly line. Double-decker buses and taxi cabs fill street in New York City. President Calvin Coolidge, accompanied by his dog, quietly fishing from a canoe. Girls in swim suits dancing around a Tuba player at a beach. Young women dancing happily at a cabaret, nightclub, or club. Behind them on stage is Texas Guinan (actress and speakeasy club manager). President Coolidge casting his fishing line, with another person seen in the rear of the canoe. View of couple's feet as they dance the Charleston in a cabaret. Girls,in bathing suits at a beach, run, like a chorus line, at the camera. Next are shown more mundane aspects of the period and some scenes of poor life, poverty, and unemployment shortly before the onset of the Great Depression. A city back street early in the morning. A man washes his face with water from a horse trough. A Milkman steps from his horse-drawn wagon or carriage to deliver two bottles of milk. People buying slabs of ice from an ice house (for their ice boxes at home). Boy and girl stand on slum or tenement fire escape. Laundry drying on clothes lines stretched across tenement alley. Two children in a family lying in a single bed. Other beds in the same crowded tenement apartment. Union-sponsored housing (founded in 1927) in the lower east side of Manhattan with sign affixed reading: "Amalgamated Cooperative Dwellings, 504-520 Grand Street. 83-91 Broome Street." Views of the Cooperative low rent apartment buildings.
Sailors drinking beer at a bar. A woman tends the bar. Liquor bottles in the rack behind her. U.S. fighter planes in formation. Large number of U.S. B-18, Bolo bombers parked on an airfield. Pedestrians walk on sidewalks. Two sailors walk on talking to each other. High tide in sea surf rolls over the beach on the coastline of Oahu. A burned Japanese fighter plane on the beach area, surf rolls over the parts of the wreckage. 'Rising Sun' insignia on part of the aircraft and its tail section.
Presents travelogue of regions of United States. Pictures show sites located in New York, New England and Mid Atlantic States. In Manhattan, views of Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, aerial views of New York City skyscrapers, plane flying in sky over Manhattan skyline, including view of Twin Towers of World Trade Center. Monuments, shopping areas, Carnegie Hall, pedestrians in New York City. A door man closing a door on a taxi cab. A trainer teaches aerobics dance class to students in typical 1980s exercise fashions. Times Square and clubs and theaters of Broadway at night with lighted neon signs. Elevated view of Lincoln Center main plaza at night. A man and woman at a restaurant toast and clink glasses of wine. Night time aerials of skyscrapers in New York City including Empire State Building with colored lights at top. View of Niagara Falls. Yacht at river in Boston. Buildings in the background. People in boats and outside cafe. Downtown Boston landmarks and buildings. Fishing boats providing Lobster. Horse-drawn carriage, beaches, casinos and State House in Pennsylvania. Amish carriage pulled by a horse on roads in Pennsylvania. View of Atlantic City beach and casinos and hotels. Monuments in Washington DC including White House, Washington Monument, Statue of LIncoln in Lincoln Memorial, U.S. Capitol building viewed from grounds of Washington Monument. View of fossils inside Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Spirit of '76 and space vehicles seen in Air and Space Museum. Planes on tarmac at Washington National Airport with Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument in background. Travelers at airport rental car counters for Hertz and National. Small hotel or Inn in Virginia. Virginia countryside and view of Monticello. People in historic costume on horses, with carriages, and on foot in Colonial Williamsburg.
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