A film titled 'Colorado: land of long look' about places of interest in Colorado, United States. Telephone poles and farmland on the side of the highway in Colorado as seen from a moving car. Highway view of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. People ride horses. People enjoy their vacations. Close-up view of a man filming a scene using a Kodak Instamatic M30 movie camera or camcorder. A group of youngsters on a vacation. Teenage boys and girls walking, and they drive away in a car.
German forces are seen jamming a road towards a Soviet city as they invade during Operation Barbarossa in World War 2. Some trucks carry infantry. Others carry motorcycles and their drivers along with their equipment. Several German soldiers ride their motorcycles on the road. The German troops are in camouflage clothing. Some carry M42 light machine guns. A long line of horse-drawn wagons, with camouflaged loads, takes up the right side of the road, allowing mechanized vehicles to pass to the left. Huge black clouds from fires obscure the background. A truck carrying troops passes the camera. German troops ride in a personnel carrier towing a 3.7cm PAK 40 antitank gun. With heavy black smoke obscuring much of the area, German gunners fire a 37mm PAK 40 gun. Smoke rising from artillery fire. One shell strikes a tall smoke stack, knocking its upper half down. View from breech as German soldiers load and fire the 37mm PAK 40 gun. Explosions and fire are seen in Soviet town across a river. German infantry hunkered down with white smoke rising from fire burning in the field behind them. Some are partway up a slope. Next, German troops are seen firing artillery pieces from a bunker on a railroad track. Infantry walk along a railroad track past some boxcars. Contents of an open rail car are burning in the background. They pass destroyed buildings and contents burning in an open rail car. A Panzer III tank rolls into a village followed by two tractors pulling artillery field pieces. German Army infantry set up a 37mm PAK 40 gun in the backyard of a house and fire at Russian forces from there. Troops walk single-file close to buildings as they enter deeper into the city. More PAK guns being brought in and fired. Soldiers moving through the burning city. Flames leaping from windows and doors of a shop. Everything obscured by black smoke. Infantry moving toward the center of the city, taking cover as they go. More fires burning. The German soldiers work to clear a building of snipers, who are seen leaving the building with hands over their heads as they are taken under armed guard.
Many Polish refugees are seen in the final phase of their monumental trek of three years and three thousand miles from Poland, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Poland in 1939, where polish refugees crowd roads carrying their belongings in wooden carts and other conveyances. They are seen at a rest stop where they obtain food. Animated map shows path of refugees fleeing East into the Soviet Union, following the German invasion in August, 1939. The path continues Southeast in 1941, as they flee from the German campaign, Operation Barbarossa, into the Soviet Union. Their journey continues along the west coast of the Caspian Sea, through the Caucasus, to Persia (Iran). Views of refugees arriving at the Persian border, where they are seen near many tents, and being provided with articles of clothing from British and American Red Cross Stations. Refugees donning new shoes and other items. Young girls having their hair styled. Refugees sit at long tables where they receive hot meals. A teacher conducts an outdoor class for Polish refugee children. Closeup of children at their desks. Refugee women are seen tilling soil to plant crops, while fathers and grown sons and daughters leave to join the new armies of the Polish Government in Exile. Views of Polish women, in uniforms marching and of uniformed armed Polish soldiers, as well becoming part of the Allied war against the Axis powers. Polish refugees at an outdoor shrine, offering prayers for the safety of their members in the military. New polish refugee arrivals at the Persian border being greeted by others, many of whom are family members.
Scenes in Buna, New Guinea, during the battle of Buna-Gona,fought by American and Australian forces in World War 2. An American General and Australian General, Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander of the Allied Land Forces in the Southwest Pacific, conducting an inspection in the jungle. General Blamey and U.S. Army Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger with another Australian commander. General blamey beside a jeep in a marshy area of the jungle. Trees in the marshy area in the background. The men are talking. Other officers in the background. The Generals driving in a jeep on a jungle trail. American soldiers throwing grenades and concealing themselves among the trees. Several dead Japanese in a trench. A catholic chaplain conducting services in the jungle. The soldiers and officers gathered in front of the chaplain. General Blamey and General Eichelberger walking on a trail in the jungle. Other men following the Generals. Inside captured Japanese fortifications, General Blamey inspects a Japanese Taisho heavy machine gun. General Eichelberger joins him. They also inspect a long barreled Japanese artillery piece.
Well diggers in Tze-Kung, China. Men shape large well drill bit using sledge hammers. Workers using their feet to raise and lower the drill, while one man rotates it by hand. Brine surges forth when they succeed in drilling.Harnessed cattle provide power to raise brine to top of tower in conveyers, from where it is distributed to reservoirs by gravity. Bamboo pipes used in place of metal pipes to transport brine. The workers covering the bamboo pipes with clay-like mud. The pipes laid along long distances.
The last wire splice made in the New York-Chicago telephone line in the United States. This completed the storm proof long distance cable connection from New York to Chicago. Men exit cars on a grassy area. A number of people on a raised platform in the grassy area. Officials standing in a group. The officials watching a telephone official making the last of the wire splices for the New York-Chicago telephone line. Other officials standing beside him. A few telephone technicians fixing the splice in the heavy duty cable on the line. The officials raising their hats. A biplane aircraft in flight. View of the officials on the platform.
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