Boys enjoy during a flood in Long Beach, California. Water on streets due to heavy rains. A jeep drives through the flooded street. Boys use oars and row boats on the street. They enjoy themselves. Building submerged in water in the background. A boy with a dog on a wooden platform in water. A pair of footwear floats in water. Boys in a boat in the background.
Fliers land at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California after setting a new world record of 30 days and 6 hours in flight. Their Piper Cub dubbed "Spirit of Kay" takes off. Spectators look towards the sky. A sea plane taxis on water for departing. Clyde Schlieper and Wes Carroll return to Marine Stadium after setting the world record for the longest sustained flight -thirty days in the air. Men assist them in getting off from the sea plane. W.E.S. Carroll, Clyde Schlieper and other personnel pose for a camera.
Orphans enjoy a day out on a beach in Long Beach, New York. School buses with 3000 Brooklyn orphans aboard head for the beach in Long Beach, New York. Children enjoy surf bathing on the beach. Children play with sand. They eat ice cream and burgers.
A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center( PIADC ) off Long Island, New York. Commuters employed with the U.S. State Department of Agriculture board a ferry in Long Island. Animated map highlights the PIADC established for study of foreign animal diseases. The map shows locations of laboratory, dock area, administrative area, animal holding area and research buildings. Research units in the research building. Security fences around the building. The coast of Plum Island showing installations.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of animal diseases. Visitors and employees of the United States Department of Agriculture board a ferry in Long Island and head for Plum Island. View of dock as ferry approaches. A sign reads 'U.S.D.A. Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory'. Personnel pass the ferry dock area to enter the guarded gates on Plum Island. Regular employees show passes to enter. The personnel leave the bus used for transportation from the gates to the working area. The employees after entering the building divide into three groups and head for three different locker rooms. Doors of the locker rooms painted red. The employees get rid of their belongings and clothes and proceed through a turnstile to the next locker room to put on a complete set of laboratory clothing. They enter a laboratory to carry out tests.
U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.
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