The Cincinnati Reds baseball team disembarks from a Pan American Sikorsky S-40 flying boat in Miami, after a flight from Puerto Rico, March 1936. Players in Reds uniforms climb off boat. Sign on flying boat reads "Pan American Airways System." Players toss and lightly hit baseballs on a field near the shore. Close up of Reds pitcher Paul Derringer (#25). (NOTES: This was one of the first times a baseball team traveled by air. The Reds held part of their spring training in San Juan in 1936.)
The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Golden Gate in the United States. Workers put clamps over suspender ropes. Aerial view of suspenders clamped to the bridge. Ships sail past under the bridge. Scene changes to interior of an office building, with business men wearing suits and hat entering and exiting elevators. A pulley system in operation. Towers on a building under construction. A derrick lifting a railroad freight car. A coal loader at work. A hoist carries coal up a tower. Another hoist carries steel material. A wire rope on a spinning wheel. A massively large crane shovel loads giant boulders into a waiting railroad train car at a construction site. A steam shovel digs at a building foundation. A wire rope on rail tracks. A railroad on the tracks. A wire rope in a groove on the rail tracks. A worker operates a machine. Logs of wood being picked up by wire ropes. A machine in operation in water. A wire rope on a spinning wheel. A flat car on the tracks. A wire rope on pulleys. Men operate a hydraulic testing machine. A load carried on the wire rope. The rope on pulleys along the rail track. The wire rope subjected to a dead load and stretched. The wire ropes being finally measured and then cut on a large shear.
An airlift operation in Lod, Israel. Israelis load ordnance onto trailer trucks. Explosives kept in a truck. Soldiers stand and talk. A driver in the truck. A tug pulls a train of dollies loaded with ordnance. Forklifts load ordnance containers and projectiles onto the trucks.
A film about farmers producing food for war in the United States during World War II. Pigs feed on a field. U.S. aircraft parked in a line. A soldier works on an aircraft. A man loads pork into a cutting machine. Cutting machine slices bacon in large quantities that moves on a conveyor belt where women wrap it for delivery. Women arrange papers on a table. African American workers unload crates of food from a railroad train. A plow in operation on a field. A farmer drives a tractor pulling the plow.
A dramatization depicts a Japanese man's visit to a citizens' public hall in Sugata, Gifu Prefecture of Japan. A film team leader sitting in a train holds a map. Animation of the map depicts the path taken from Yanaizu to Sugata. Aerial view of the Hida Highway through a valley and the surrounding mountains. A man stands on a hill top and looks down into the valley. People walk on a mountain road. A woman rides a bicycle on the road. The woman stops in front of the citizens' public hall . She exchanges flour for bread. A man makes bread. He takes a bread plate out of an oven. A dentist treats patients. Women in a beauty parlor. They get their hair done in the parlor. Women work on sewing machines. Girls learn to stitch. A woman operates a leg operated sewing machine
A dramatization depicts a Japanese man's visit to a citizens' public hall in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan. A train moves past a field. Aerial view of houses in the city of Obihiro. The ground in front of the citizens' public hall is converted into a garden for children. Children watch a puppet show. They sit and laugh.
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