The switchboard control room at a rail station in Chicago, Illinois. A telephone switchboard operator wearing headphones at the controls in a control room at a rail station. The girl speaks on the phone. An engine driver in an underground tunnel of the train system talks on an early telephone to the switchboard operator. The train passes through a tunnel. The switchboard operator in the control room handling several telephone calls at a time. An open rail car emerges out of the tunnel.
Staff train two 400-pound lions trained to tow a cart at a zoo of the California Zoological Society in Los Angeles, California. Lions seen towing the cart, carrying a driver and some boxes of food. They stop in front of the cage of black bear while a staff member throws food to a bear in the cage. Lions roar while towing. The lions run away, wrecking the cart. Three men wielding sticks try to get control of the running lions. View of the lions laying down relaxing beside the crashed cart. From UN newsreel 25-year retrospective, dated October 27, 1960.
Dead prisoners at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany. A train stands on a railway track. Ashes of burnt bodies near the train. Heaps of clothing taken from the prisoners bodies. (World War II period).
General James A Van Fleet and Premier Syngman Rhee inspect the 9th Army of South Korea in Seoul. Soldiers trained in a military practice range under guidance of American forces. Soldiers learn advancing in a battle field. A soldier displays his combat skills. Premier Rhee and other officers of the South Korean Army watch the soldiers firing machine guns and training. South Korean soldiers injured in the Korean War treated at a hospital.
Leon Trotsky speaking from platform of a railroad train. Paper information notices are thrown to the crowd around the train. People in the crowd reach for the notices.
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese soldiers display combat and wartime training. The American officers of the mission and Chinese military officers watch the soldiers doing various drills. Soldiers do gymnastics and take aim with machine guns. The American officers train the soldiers about using machine guns. Soldiers fire guns and mortar launchers.
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