A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A long line of cars in an assembly line. A die maker checks blue prints and instruments. He walks over to another worker. He points something out to him and walks to his position. He picks up a tool and works on a machinery. A man hands him papers. A girl opens a file drawer. She walks to a man at a desk and gives him cards. A man takes a fender of a stamping machine and hangs it on a moving overhead hook. Workers lined up at a cashier window to receive pay check. Men punch time cards at time clock.
Refugees in Belgium near end of World War 1. Belgian people rebuild and repair houses. Two men on roof of the house. Women climb a ladder and assist in handing supplies back and forth. Men lay roof of a house. American soldier supervises as German soldiers (prisoners) carry sewing machine tables and other equipment and supplies out of a building. Civilian men and women carry supplies out of a different building. Two women assist girls and boys in sitting down to a meal at a long table in a school or orphanage. Belgian children eating food in the dining area. A United States Army soldier holding a dog and a mug. He smiles as he lets the dog drink from his cup. Two American soldiers talk to Roman Catholic Cardinal Mercier (Desire-Joseph Mercier) in a garden area. Close up view of Cardinal Mercier. (WWI; WW1)
A poster on a wall, in Berlin Germany, announces Mobilization. German soldiers in uniforms,including Pickelhaube (spiked helmets), assemble in a courtyard. Others are assembled in a city square. where they examine and sight their rifles, while being watched by several officers, dressed in long coats and caps. Members of an Army band walk rapidly past the camera, carrying their drums and other instruments, but not playing them. Soldiers assembled in a small square, with their arms stacked. A German army officer walks rapidly past civilian recruits gathered in a large square to join the army. Soldiers stand at large tables where the recruits sign up. Berlin citizens crowd a square as war is declared in 1914. Views from a vehicle driving past a crowd gathered in front of the Berliner Dom, on Museum Island in the Mitte borough. German soldiers are keeping civilians away from a large rectangular space set aside in front of the Berliner Dom. Crowd gathered in front of the Imperial Palace on the Museum Island at Schlossplatz. Glimpse of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial. Glimpse of troops parading in formation. Glimpse of a bemedaled German Hussar officer with unidentified domed building in background. Kaiser Wilhelm II , speaks from a porch on the Imperial Palace, announces the declaration of World War 1, to an assembled crowd of citizens. Monument of Otto von Bismarck in Berlin, with the Reichstag building in the background. Troops parading through crowds of spectators in front of the Reichstag.
Japanese troops in Bataan, Philippines during the Battle of Corregidor of World War II. Japanese troops rotate propellers of an aircraft. Japanese pilots lined up on an airfield as they sing. Japanese machine guns fire. Tanks and infantry advance in the jungle of Bataan. A long line of infantry with pack mules moves up. Japanese aircraft in flight. Troops on truck in front of a damaged building. Explosions occur on ground.
A USAF AC-119K Stinger gunship making long straight in final approach and landing on runway at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio. Aircraft displays IH tail code and 3-digit number.
Nazi spies involved in Operation Pastorius are tried in the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington DC. The exteriors of the Supreme Court of the United States. The captured would-be saboteurs are taken to the Court in armored paddy wagons to be tried for espionage, attempted sabotage, and treason. View of the accused riding in the vans, and the vans entering near court building. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent digs with a shovel on sand beaches in Long Island, New York, to find explosives stored there by the spies. FBI agent shows the incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic shore from a submarine. An FBI agent shows captured uniforms, belt containing money, wooden blocks loaded with hidden detonator caps, pens and pencils that contain incendiaries to start fires. An indendiary pencil is demonstrated. Seven U.S. Army Generals, appointed by President Roosevelt to hear the case, are seen outside the court building. The Generals enter the court. Two high ranking U.S. officers appointed to defend the accused are seen as they enter the court. Prisoners enter the court, escorted by guards. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, John Edgar Hoover, enters the courtroom. The officers sit. Attorney General of the United States Francis Beverley Biddle present and seen during court proceedings. Prisoners sit during the trial. (World War II period).
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