A documentary about Project Breakthrough by the office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program to teach preschool children language skills in Chicago region (Cook County, Illinois.) Film begins showing various parts of a "Talking typewriter." A very young African American girl is seen talking near the device. A young African American boy is seen pounding the keys of the device. Pamela Jung, one of the project officials, is seen talking into a telephone. She is next seen explaining the talking typewriter to an interviewer, and noting that the children involved perceive it as a game. Another woman official tells the interviewer that the devise is a computerized typewriter, containing a keyboard, voice audio, and screens. A small African American girl is seen entering the booth housing the Talking typewriter. Inside the booth, she tentatively touches some of the keys. As she does so, a voice identifies the keys she actuated (in this case the numbers: 7, 4, ...). Another girl, in the booth, looks all around to see what it contains. One woman, involved in the project, holds a phone as she views a subject in the booth. Camera shows the boy, seen earlier, looking all around the booth and another girl, each trying to find the source of the person talking. A woman in the project explains that the children chosen to participate in the project are from three housing projects in one low income housing area, where poor families are receiving public assistance.
United States Army Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight in European Theater during World War II. United States 8th Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight. Bomb bay doors of the aircraft open. Five B-17 aircraft fly in a formation over water. A B-17G aircraft in flight and number 4 engine being feathered and restarted. A formation of seven B-17 aircraft in flight.
Invasion of Germany by Allied forces during World War and unconditional surrender by Germany during World War 2. At TC: 00:19 thru 00: 21, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Commander of Axis forces in Italy, is seen outside a building in the mountains. Rear view of the war-damaged Reichtag building and View of the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops occupy during Battle of Berlin. General Dwight D. Eisenhower conferring with an unidentified General. Lieutenant Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley are with him. Soviet soldiers waving to Americans on opposite sides of the Elbe River. American soldiers paddling an inflated boat across the river. U.S. 69th Infantry division and Russian 58th Guard Division troops under Major General Rusakov embracing meet at the Elbe River in Torgau Germany on April 26, 1945. Several succeeding views of American and Soviet soldiers celebrating together, shaking hands, hugging, and offering toasts and drinking together to celebrate their alliance in defeating the Germans. A group of American and Soviet soldiers posing for pictures atop a concrete foundation with a banner across it reading: "Our Greeting to the Heroes Army of United States of America." A battery of tanks firing their guns. Two British soldiers confer in a town during battle; one has a cigarette in his mouth and the other is pointing in a direction. A Soviet IS-2 tank moving past a burning building. Destroyed street sign pointing at Hamburg. Local citizens waving white flags. Allied armor crossing a bridge over the Rhine River. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery and German General Eberhard Kinzel sign a document of surrender at Lüneburg Heath on 4 May 1945. Civilians moving about on streets of Berlin after Germany surrenders in World War 2. A British soldier posts an announcement from Allied occupying forces declaring the dissolution of the Nazi Party. Closeup of German citizens looking at the announcement. Local people standing amidst rubble near damaged buildings. A British Cromwell tank moving past the camera. Glimpse of a German family. Sherman tanks moving along a roadway. American Lieutenant Generals Leonard T. Gerow and William Simpson in Berlin. Trucks and tanks driving past fires. A long line of German prisoners of war marching beside a field under guard. German General Alfred Jodl and others leaving a car and entering General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945, where General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs a document of unconditional surrender. Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff sit beside him.
Animated description of the U.S. Air Transport Command (ATC) network of routes covering 110 thousand miles connecting U.S. Air Forces bases across the globe in World War 2. Formation of C-47 transport planes flying overhead. Air Force dispatcher annotating blackboard with flight schedules. A C-47 taking off. A crew arrives in a jeep and goes to their C-87, 4-engine transport plane, parked outside the operations building of the Aloha Transport Command, Honolulu, Hawaii. C-47s in flight. A C-45 landing at a remote Pacific island. Cargo, including a jeep and a live pack animal.being loaded into a C-46 Commando airplane. C-47s delivering an operating field hospital to Alaska and delivering shipments of grenades to troops on Guadalcanal, who are seen using them in combat. A Consolidated C-87 cargo aircraft in flight.(its landing gear not fully retracted).
Animated map shows direction of Allied forces converging on Germany, Western Powers from the West, and Soviets from the East during final phase of World War 2, in Europe. Newspaper headline reads: "Russians strike for Berlin."The New York World-Telegram newspaper headline reads: "Yanks Cross the Rhine!."U.S. Army troops seen in house-to-house fighting in Germany.American troops standing at Rhine River viewing Cologne, Germany. The cathedral at Cologne. Film of Hitler's troops crossing the Rhine in 1936 contrasted with views of many German prisoners of war being marched under Allied guard, in 1945. USAAF P-38 lightning aircraft taking off on mission against German targets. View from Allied aircraft strafing German target which explodes. A P-38 landing on a snowy airfield. USAAF P-47 of the 388th Fighter Squadron (C4), 365th Fighter Group, landing and skidding sideways off the runway. It slides in the snow and strikes another P-47 aircraft with engine running, on the ramp. B-24 Liberator bombers taxing for takeoff. Formation of USAAF B-17 bombers dropping bombs all over Germany. Formation of B-17s at very high altitude, leaving contrails behind them. U.S. infantry and armor fighting in snow-covered streets of German city. Allied troops, including Polish soldiers, fighting in the snow. Allied wounded being carried while under fire from German forces. U.S. Sergeant Peter Di Guiseppi and Private Pat Brady being interviewed. De Guiseppi remarks that the war seems like it will never end. Brady recounts being in a tank that hit a mine or something that exploded and abandoning the tank faster than he could ever imagine. He hunkered down in a ditch while bullets flew all around him, including the ammunition from the destroyed tank.
Fueling of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft parked on a dirt field in North Africa during World War II. A semi-tractor hauls two F-1A, 4,000 gallon fuel servicing semi-trailers past a B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft parked on a dusty field. Crew members walk from nose of B-26 to back to the semi-trailers. Crew chief scales propeller of the B-26 to reach the top of wing. Another crew member hands him the nozzle and he begins refueling one of the wing tanks. F-1A units passes and parks in front of B-26. Large grader and steam roller seen preparing landing field. USAAF A-20 Havoc bombers parked in the background.
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