Snow covers launch pad area at German rocket development center in Peenemunde Germany. Engineers, crew, and guards in long winter coats seen near A4 missile (v-2 rocket). A4 missile lift off emitting a fiery flare. A gauge shows a reading. The missile in flight as it emits fire. A 2nd launch is shown of a different rocket (shown already in mid ascent). Gauge in lower right of image measures rocket progress. (World War II period).
World War II events leading up to the independence of the Philippines. Filipino guerrillas march and line up as they prepare to fight against Japanese soldiers. A Filipino guerrilla of European descent and Chinese Filipino guerrilla are seen. U.S. officers seated in a camp. A newspaper headline reads 'MacArthur invades Philippines'. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and other officers land at Leyte in the Philippines. Filipino guerrillas receive rifles. U.S. and Filipino soldiers fire artillery and tanks roll across a field. A tank named “Luzon Liberator”. U.S. forces march through a city in the Philippines. General MacArthur gets off a car. A sign reads 'Victory Festival'. Filipino civilians cheer for American soldiers. Decorated floats at a parade to mark the end of Japanese occupation. Signs read ‘Mabuhay America & Filipinas’, 'Long live Philippines', ‘Mabuhay President Truman’ and 'Thanks Uncle Sam'.
Native American Indian actor, playing role of a youth at a boarding school, reviews his chest X-ray with the physician who points out a spot on his long due to tuberculosis. The boy objects, stating that he feels well. The doctor tells him he should go to a sanitorium to recover. The next scene shows the boy sitting in a bed at the sanitorium, having his dinner tray brought by a nurse.
Aerial view of Ford River Rouge plant. Smoke stacks billow steam. Still images of other Ford facilities displayed, including buildings at Buffalo NY, Richmond CA, Somerville Mass, Kansas City MO, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Charlotte NC, Louisville KY, Jacksonville FL, Seattle Wash, Dallas TX, and Long Beach CA.
Film starts showing a man speaking through a megaphone. Next is an aerial view of the city of detroit, Michigan. This is followed by views of steam locomotives moving on railroads near the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. One locomotive is pulling a long passenger train. People crowd sidewalk in front of the Cadillac Hotel on Washington Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, where a bus has parked. View of people boarding the bus. Next, the bus is seen driving along the Boulevard. Then, two buses arrive and discharge passengers in front of the Ford Motor Company office building. Inside the building a Ford Company spokesman speaks to the visitors who are seated in a conference room. Folowing the briefing, they all stand and exit through the front door. View from inside one of the buses as of visitors re-board.
View inside a busload of persons touring the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants. A Ford tour guide is standing at the front of the bus describing things to the visitors. Cars and trucks driving back and forth in the factory yard, next to a building with freight cars parked on an adjacent railroad siding. Another view of guide and visitors inside the bus. They pass a large building with a long conveyor in front of it, and men on a scaffold working on upper windows. Views alternate between inside the bus and views of plant buildings. Four very tall smoke stacks are seen extending from the ground in front of one building. A traveling crane is seen in motion where raw materials are stored at the waterfront. A large bulk carrier ship is docked in a canal. A compact plant with 8 closely positioned smoke stacks is seen in the background. Another large ore carrier ship is being unloaded by a crane. Glimpse inside the bus. View from the bus of two more buses, ahead, as they drive near rail lines between buildings. Another glimpse inside the bus. View upward to cranes and conveyors overhead. View from bus as it follows two ahead of it. At end, visitors exit the bus in an open area
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