A film titled 'Army railroad' about the training of 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. Soldiers march past a sign that reads '725th Rail Road Operating Battalion' RR battalion personnel work on locomotives. Personnel build a rail road train. A man puts a railroad wheel on fire. Activities of the 725th RR Battalion in Africa during World War II as men work on locomotives and rolling stock. A personnel writes on a board. Personnel board the train and it gets underway. 725th RR Operating Battalion personnel being imparted training in various skills including telegraph. Personnel being imparted practical training near a rail road engine. Orders to prepare a train being given and dispatched. Yard master delivers the order to a Yard Foreman. Caboose being picked up to prepare a trail. Yard engine being detached and train rolls out. Engine being attached to the train. Conductor checks his watch with the master clock and signs the outgoing train register. Engineer receives the order. A rear lamp being hanged aboard the train. Men get aboard the railroad train and it leaves.
The Orient Express luxury railroad train stopping over at Nazi German-occupied Vienna (Anschluss). View of Vienna as seen from inside a moving railroad train. Train slowing down near its arrival at the train station. The Colonnade Gloriette of Schoenbrunn Palace (Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47 1130 Vienna) is seen far in the distance. Passengers disembark and embark on the Orient Express train in Vienna. Conductor checks tickets of passengers before allowing them to board. The Orient Express train begins to move, departing from the station. An elevated view of a train at a station platform. Train number reads "01-089", identified as DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn [D] locomotive "01 089". Conductors complete final preparations for departure and the Deutsche Reichbahn train pulls away from the station platform.
(A one-legged man with crutch on dirt road suddenly shows he has both legs, and runs away.) Two little girls carry food to a dog sitting on a railroad track. The move the dog off the track and sit beside the track to feed it. The parents, looking for the girls, see them and call out to them. The go to fetch the girls. The girls walk along the tracks with the dog. A steam locomotive pulling a train at high speed on the railroad. Passengers, seated on the rear platform of the train, converse. Views of the engineer in the locomotive cab. He sees the girls and blows his horn. The girls see the train. Smoke emitted from the engine. The girls look at the approaching train. They pull against each other trying to move with the dog, off the track. The train engineer applies the brakes and the train stops. He runs forward to the front of the train. Passengers climb down from the train to see what is wrong and run to the front of the train. They crowd around the girls and dog who are unhurt.
After opening film credits, the title slate reads: (in Russian) "Armored Trains."Opening scene shows a Soviet officer brandishing a revolver as he ride in a motorcycle side car along a muddy road on the Eastern front in World War 2. Soldiers and a horse-drawn cart are seen in the background. Closeup of several Soviet soldiers. One holds a hand grenade. Officers and soldiers gather around a courier just arrived by motorcycle. The courier stands as an officer examines message documents. Closeups of the courier, as he breaks into a smile. Closeup of him seated on his motorcycle discussing a document with the officer who is examining it. Closeup of several Soviet soldiers. Again, one holds a hand grenade. Closeup of the courier standing, surrounded by soldiers and an officer. Two junior officers, surrounded by soldiers, peruse maps and other documents. Two soldiers in a camouflaged position communicate by field telephone and radio.Change of scene shows a heavily armored train displaying numerous heavy guns. Closeup shows various guns contained throughout the train, as it moves along a railway past the camera. View from atop the moving armored train as it proceeds along the railroad. View from land beside the track as the train passes. View from atop the train, again, showing an officer looking through binoculars. A long gun barrel is in the foreground. View from beside the parked train as begins to bombard German positions near a body of water. Numerous sights and sounds of the train guns firing. Views of burning and destroyed German structures, and military equipment. Holes blown in armor plate. A packet of captured mortar rounds, leaning against a broken wheel. A line of captured German artllery pieces. Destroyed equipment. Dead German soldiers lying beside a destroyed motorcycle. A severely damaged German vehicle. A cluster of captured German artillery shells. Interior of a destroyed German vehicle. A relatively undamaged captured German KFZ. 70 Personnel Carrier.
Automobiles at Place Beauvau, Paris. Pedestrians pass in front of the decorative iron gates of the Ministry of Interior and Hotel de Beauvau. Several men enter the building. Several uniformed policemen stand guard and direct traffic. Cars and a bicycle pass by. View of a train station from afar, and then view from inside the train station. Steam locomotive positioned at platform in train station. Crowd at the railway platform. Passengers move about in the train station. A train arrives and stops in the station. Passengers get out and others get into the train. Arriving passengers enter the train station hall. A train arrives. Some travelers await it on platform outside the station proper.
A film titled 'Navy men' about the training of U.S. Navy recruits at various naval training centers in the United States. The training of United States Navy recruits at U.S. Navy training center in Bainbridge, Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and Naval Base San Diego in California. Dramatization shows a sailor carrying a rifle and reporting to an officer. A Navy officer climbs up the stairs and walks through a corridor at the U.S. Navy Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. The officer orders the sailors to keep their rooms clean and keep their clothes and other belongings in a proper manner. A group of sailors as the officer comes down the stairs. A sailor's parents ask the officer about their son. The officer speaks about the training of U.S. Navy recruits with a sign in the background that reads 'US Navy Training Center'. The sailors carrying rifles perform a drill. Buses arrive at the naval training center and recruits get off the bus. A sign on a building reads 'Welcome into Navy'. The recruits enter the building and line up. An officer instructs the recruits. The officer takes away a magazine from a recruit. The recruits undergo medical examination. A dentist examines the teeth of a recruit. A sign reads 'Clothing issue'. The recruits being issued the Navy uniform. The sailors in their uniforms lined up and an officer briefs the sailors. The officer introduces the sailors to their Company officer. Sailors holding their caps lined up. An officer inspects the sailors. The officer scolds a few sailors for their dirty uniforms. The sailors eat in a mess, study together, march, row a boat. The sailors undergo an obstacle course.
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