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Westland Mine coal miners return to work after end of walkout of 400,000 miners called by United Mine Workers.
At start, the film shows coal miners riding on electric-powered open railway cars at the Westland Mine in Pennsylvania, owned by the Pittsburgh Coal Company. The miners wear hats with lights on them. A train of open hopper cars filled with coal is being pulled by the last railway car carrying miners. Scene changes to above ground where a string of minecarts filled with coal are emerging from the mine into a railroad yard. Closeup of large chunks of coal in the hopper cars. Another view of filled mine carts being pulled out of the mine. View of full-size open rail cars lined up underneath an overhanging wooden tipple discharging coal into them. Closeup from underneath the tipple showing coal dropping into full size open hopper cars. Next, a long train of full hopper cars are seen moving along a railroad track, being pushed by several electric-powered locomotives. They pass on tracks near other cars being loaded with coal. A miner writes: "Mon Dec 9," with chalk on a brick structure. (This is the day the miners returned to work, following announcement by United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis, on December 7, 1946, calling an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20). Two 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotives owned by the Montour Railroad pull a long train of coal cars. View in background of duplex homes of the coal town in Westland, Pennsylvania. Next scene shows elevated view of city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from approximately Duquesne Heights area, with distant view of downtown buildings, and steel bridges over the three rivers area (Monongahela River, Ohio River, and Allegheny River). Next scene shows many industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke. Final scene shows a train of empty hopper cars returning to the coal mines.
Madrid fortifies and civilians evacuate during the Spanish Civil War
Scene opens showing the fly leaf of the book Don Quixote, De La Mancha. A hand flips to another illustrated page. Then camera focuses on statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the memorial to author, Cervantes, by sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, on the Plaza Espana, in Madrid. Next is shown a building partially destroyed by bomb shelling. Citizens of Madrid are seen working to place protective walls around important monuments and buildings in the city. Masons work on the reinforcing walls, while citizens are seen busily going about their affairs in background. Several soldiers march into a guarded fortified area. A truck drives on a street, past a woman and small children sitting on some rubble. A streetcar moves along a street along with a horse-drawn covered wagon, and pedestrians, making their way past a long masonry protective wall. Two armed Republican soldiers ride on the roof of a bus. A Red Cross flag hangs beneath a Metro sign, above steps leading down into the subway. A long line of people waiting to buy vegetables at a small store. Masking tape crisscrossing the window of a shop to help proctect it. Pedestrians filling the sidewalks of a street walled by tall apartment buildings and shops. Some rubble in the street from rebel Nationalist shelling. A policeman armed with a rifle, directing pedestrians to move along. The covered body of a civilian lying amidst rubble from shelling, on a sidewalk. A Municipal Services truck pulling up to the spot. The city workers place the body in a wooden coffin and put it into their truck. A large poster urges all civlians to evacuate Madrid. View from moving vehicle of huge crowds of civilians on the sidewalks. A horse-drawn wagon, loaded down with household goods, moves along the street. Women carry bedsprings past stone bunkers. People standing about, with bundles of personal belongings, apparently waiting for transport of some sort. Women and children, with their belongings, being helped aboard a truck. The truck driving away.
Mexicans take a last look at Russian revolutionist Leon Trotsky during his funeral in Mexico City, Mexico.
Russian revolution leader Leon Trotsky's funeral in Mexico. The casket with the body of Trotsky is placed in a car. Leon Trotsky's funeral procession on the streets of Mexico City. A group of men carries his casket. At a public viewing of the open casket, Mexican citizens take a last look at the body of Leon Trotsky in the casket. Members of the Mexican section of the Fourth International stand in honor near the casket. Mexican people stand in a long line to take a last look and pay their last respects to Trotsky. Views of the long queue for the viewing, stretching down a main street of Mexico City.
American troops on patrol in a jungle fire M-79 grenade launchers on A Shau Valley in Vietnam during Vietnam War.
Opening slate attributes film to SEAPC and Jensen (Southeast Asia Pictorial Center/221st Signal Company based in Long Binh and Chris Jensen). U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division troops pass through jungles of A Shau Valley in Vietnam. U.S. 327th Infantry Airborne regiment, 101st Airborne Division troops climb a mountain in a dense jungle. African American soldier carrying rifle brings up the rear. At one point the soldiers have dumped their ruck sacks and left them with the remainder of the company while they went on a short patrol. The troops on patrol in the jungle. The troops walk through high bushes. The troops fire M-79 grenade launchers as part of a recon patrol. Film taken by the Southeast Asia Pictorial Center/221st Signal Company based in Long Binh. Chris Jensen.
Monitor Flame Boats enter the well deck of USS Catamount and fire streams of flame in the South China Sea
Monitor Flame Boats underway in the South China Sea. Flooded well deck of USS Catamount (LSD-17). Monitor Flame Boats enter the well deck. Bow view of the Monitors entering USS Catamount's well deck. Two Monitors in the well deck. Two crewman in a catwalk in the foreground working with lines. USS Whetstone (LSD-27) behind USS Catamount. The tail gate on USS Catamount is closing. One Monitor Flame Boat at sea fires a long stream of flame. A Monitor fires a long spout of flame. Smoke and fire on water. The Monitor in the background fires a stream of flame.
Captured German prisoners move in a line escorted by Russian soldiers in Ukraine Cherkassy Pocket during World War II.
Frozen battle field scene as Russian forces advance through bombed out German positions in the Battle of the Cherkassy pocket of the Ukraine region. Destroyed German tanks, artillery equipment, and German horses and dead soldiers lie on the frozen battlefield following battle. A captured German soldier is huddled on a cart. Piles of abandoned and wrecked German equipment. Soviet forces approach and identify the body of dead German Commander, General Wilhelm Stemmermann, who died with many of his forces after being encircled by the Russians. A long line of German prisoners, four deep, moving over snow under Russian guard in snowy and windy conditions. The Russian soldiers escort the prisoners. The prisoners cross a bridge. View of a snowy field covered with frozen bodies of dead German soldiers, some still holding rifles. A Russian officer addresses troops near Potchemky. The dead Germans are strewed over the snow. Various views of the wrecked German equipment and dead bodies of the soldiers frozen on the snowy battlefield. Low aerial view of the destroyed German front as seen from a Russian aircraft. Long line of destroyed German vehicles and dead Wehrmacht soldiers defeated in Battle of the Korsun - Cherkassy Pocket.
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