French army recruitment and marshalling for World War 1. French Infantry marching casually before the camera in their field gear (sans steel helmets). They move on a path or road, proceeding under a broad arch overpass. The first two soldiers walk holding bicycles. Some soldiers wear no caps. Others wear soft caps. None wear steel helmets. They are then seen from a high place (possibly the overpass) as they proceed in a long irregular column. The sequence shifts to a unit of mounted French cavalry, passing a tent as they proceed along a path in a camp ground.They are next seen from the rear as they continue and cross a bridge over a small canal. Next seen is a very long column of French infantry, all wearing steel helmets, proceeding along a dirt road. The next sequence shows pack animals and wagons carrying supplies for the troops. In the final scene, several soldiers open and read their mail in the midst of a group of relaxing troops. One soldier clowns around with another. (Note: this film was shot by the famous war photographer Donald C. Thompson.)
Korean refugees standing in two open boats ready to be ferried across the Pyongyang River, in Korea during the Korean War. Snow is on the river bank.Ferrymen on port and starboard push one boat away from the shore, using a long poles. Large group of refugees queued up on riverbank awaiting next ferry. A Korean Army Military Policeman is in charge of the queue. Several refugees are permitted to run off to catch a ferry about to leave. Along the embankment, refugees are gathered on a dock, next to a building, and the line of refugees extends a long way up the embankment to an open shelter above. Family groups are evident including men, women, and children. Some women carry large bundles on their heads.
At start of film, Allied forces are digging in after retreating from counterattacks by German forces in Tunis, during World War 2.. Rains create mud everywhere. A Lockheed P-38 fighter plane parked in foreground. Ground crews use shovels to free nose wheel of a B-24 Liberator bomber with engines running. A truck tows a C-47 transport plane from mud. Army trucks travel over road inundated by running streams. Soldiers standing in a jeep submerged in water. M2 tanks stuck in mud. Airmen huddled around an outdoor fire. P-38 fighter aircraft parked in the background. Soldiers eating around an outdoor fire. Animated map shows Allied battle lines stabilized in Algerian mountains, while German forces occupy the plains in Tunisia. German artillery batteries firing. British troops sheltering in damaged building. Allied wounded being transported atop, as well as inside a field ambulance. Interior of a transport plane configured for evacuation of wounded on litters. U.S. airmen including a woman in leather flying jacket, presumably an Army flight nurse, tend to the wounded aboard the medical evacuation flight. Wounded being transferred from an airplane to an ambulance. British patrols moving through the night. Heavy artillery firing. British soldiers silhouetted at dawn. They return carrying a wounded comrade on a litter. The British soldiers ("Tommies.") trying to clean mud from themselves and their weapons before heading out on patrols again at dusk. Allied soldiers moving on mules in a long line to obtain needed food and supplies. More views of the interminable mud. A British Hawker Hunter fighter plane taking off. A formation of Hawker Hurricanes peeling off to engage German aircraft. Closeup of one rolling over. A German Heinkel 111 bomber being attacked and trailing smoke. Pilot pressing gun firing button in cockpit and a German Dornier Do 17 bomber hit as British fighter plane passes it in cloud of black smoke. The German plane diving to crash in a fireball on the ground. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers taking off and flying in formation. Formation of American B-17 bombers in flight. The American planes dropping bombs on Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily. Gunners in the bombers firing machine guns at attacking German fighter planes as their bombs keep dropping. Back on land in Algeria, mud still halted any Allied advance. Animated map showing both Allied and German forces building up on their respective sides of the front. Supply lines illustrated all the way back to factories in the United States and Britain. Allied war plants making bombers and munitions. Allied Soldiers assembling Army vehicles at a port. Lockheed lightning fighters being rolled out of a factory. Sign reading "Railroad Equipment Assembly Plant No. 1." Complete trains from locomotives to freight cars being completely assembled, loaded with freight and sent on their way. A formation of P-38 aircraft equipped with long range fuel tanks being ferried in flight from Brazil. It is led by a B-17 flying fortress bomber providing navigation. British Spitfire and Hawker Hunter airplanes heading to the front are seen taking off from an airfield in Gibraltar. A caterpillar tractor moving earth for a new road at the front. Trucks dropping materials for the road bed as soldiers with shovels smooth them on the surface. Soldiers installing Mardsen Matting pierced steel planking for an airfield surface as C-47 transport planes operate on the field. Crates of food supplies being unloaded at a port. War materiel stored in a large yard at a port.
Phonograph music records, in long play and 45rpm form, being produced, manufactured, inspected, verified, packaged, and shipped at a RCA Corporation production facility in the United States. Engineer works to create first pressing a long play record album. Shows granular vinyl used, creation of liquid vinyl ready for molding, and pressing of vinyl to create phonograph record pressing on pressing machine. Engineer delivers the first pressing to other employees in charge of quality inspections, including visual inspections and audio playback. After approval, mass production pressing begins for the record. View of factory and processes for pressing records. Packaging process underway. Shows large punch card machines being used for managing shipment information and shipment quantities. Staff in shipping area involved in final packaging, boxing, and shipment of vinyl phonograph records. Also scenes of reel-to-reel tape duplication machines operating in mass production of tape recordings. Montage of scenes showing many vinyl records of the 1950s under the RCA label. View of Maestro Charles Munch, conductor, directing orchestra. View of a phonograph record player turntable turning, and playing a RCA vinyl record.
Viewed from roadside near railroad track, a steam locomotive is seen in distance as it slowly pulls a long train of empty short hopper ore carrier rail cars. Caboose can be seen as the end of the train passes. Another steam locomotive approaches on a parallel track pulling a long train of cars loaded with ore.
Evening - couples of the community of the community at a church hall for dinner and dancing, in evening dress. Diners seated at long tables. Band plays, couples dance. Scenes of band players including saxophones. Hands of piano player playing piano. Hands of drummer playing drums. Seemingly wealthy couples with women in long gowns and men in suits dancing. Priest in the middle of dancers. Newcomers to the community introduced to priest in lounge. Following Sunday church services, people gather in reception hall. People leave church.
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