Group of United Auto Workers visits Camp Atterbury during World War 2 to get a first hand perspective on what life is like for the soldiers who are receiving the military vehicles and weaponry they build as factory workers in Detroit. The auto workers exit a train car at the camp and run through steps similar to new recruits, including a basic medical check and receiving uniforms from a quartermaster. The auto workers try some of the same training drills as regular soldiers, including an obstacle course, bayonet drills, and crossing a ravine over water on a rope bridge while mock bombing takes place near them. The men clean dishes in a mess hall kitchen and make beds in a barracks. Scene changes to a Detroit factory where officers and soldiers from the Camp tour with the auto workers. They view B-24 liberator aircraft being built, tanks being built as treads are assembled onto vehicles, other vehicles being built. War production workers building and assembling war materiel. Welding and assembly line operations seen. Wide view of factory floor with many newly assembled military tanks and vehicles completed. Newly completed tanks are demonstrated on an open field as officials observe. A war production worker speaks and encourages fellow workers to work hard to support the soldiers.
Sixteen inch gun turret of USS Missouri. Number three Gun Turret (16 Inch) fired starboard aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). Number two gun turret fired. Number one turret trained forward. USS Missouri underway. Bow area of the ship. Sixteen inch projectile comes up on projectile hoist. Gun chamber rammer man depresses hydraulic lever. High capacity projectile turns on projectile ring. Projectile being pulled into projectile hoist by par buckle operator. Turrets one and two training and elevate.
Views of various sources of electric power generation in America, with emphasis on nuclear being cleaner and more efficient than other methods such as coal. Opening shot is a dam generating hydroelectric power, and its associated electric power substations. Coal fired power plant, with mountain of coal, railroad, and associated electrical switch yard. Spherical gas tanks holding fuel for power generation. Natural gas storage tanks and electric generator cables. Smoke, steam, and a mountain of coal, associated with electric power generation. Cranes off-loading coal from train cars onto conveyors feeding a power plant with smoke stacks emitting fumes. Cranes with clamshell buckets leaking coal as they offload it from barges in a river. Coal being transported on conveyor belts at a plant. Fire burning in the furnace of coal-fired power plant. Clean Control room of a power plant, with technician monitoring instruments and adjusting control settings.View of pristine turbine deck in a power plant, with several steam turbines visible. Contrasting view of coal-fired power plant exterior, with smoke seen near transmission lines and incredibly long trains filled with coal move on railroad. Nuclear fuel fabricators seen placing nuclear fuel rods into assemblies bearing Westinghouse name, covering them with plastic and preparing them for shipment in large steel containers. The containers of fuel rod assemblies are loaded into a truck.
Scenes in Vienna, Austria, during the Anschluss (annexation by Nazi Germany). German Luftwaffe aircraft fly overhead. View of St. Stephen's cathedral. Several agitators climb scaffolding at construction site and throw down signs identifying the project. (Narrator says Jews flee the city.) Two men seen hurrying into train station. Signs displayed announce trains to "Wien Nordbhf -- Breclav, Zebrzydowice; and Katowice- Warszawa." Exuberant crowds fill the streets. Local police work to maintain order. Local official gives Nazi salute from balcony. Hitler youth leader, Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, strolls down center of street with entourage. Large formation of youth jump up and down in unison, led by a director. Citizens parade in the streets. Some carry placards and banners. A poster with Hitler's image is carried. German soldiers in a Torchlight parade of army vehicles are cheered by mass of spectators. The gathering becomes highly emotional and singing of the German National Anthem begins. The German troops are besieged by well-wishers shouting Zieg Heil.
View from camera position on railway tracks underneath a moving railroad train as it passes over top at speed. Interior of the Potsdamer Bahnhof railway station in Berlin, Germany in early 1930s. Commuters empty out of railroad train and climb steps to street. Sign reads: "Untergrundbahn". Scene changes to a huge reciprocating machines with large drive wheels, and various pistons and industrial equipment running in an industrial plant or factory. In the opening scene, two men operating the machinery are positioned on either side, and the machiner towers above them. Last scene of clip shows men and women equestrians riding horses in a park.
A uniformed Berlin Policeman helps a young girl cross the busy street. A woman takes direction from the policeman. Pedestrians stand on sides of the roads. Men, work at a construction site in the roadway. An electric trolley car (tram) passes in the background and a horse-drawn cart passes in foreground. Two construction workers perch precariously as they work on steel framework of a tall building high above the street. Elevated train passes through a building as truck passes underneath on the street. View of elevated train from a building, high above. Crowded open air market with vendors, wagons, trucks, horse-drawn wagons. A woman vendor wraps fresh fish in newspaper for woman customer. Pair of horses in traces eat together from feed trough. Two men on horse-drawn wagon carrying cargo of beer barrels. Production line in beer factory. Workers seal barrels of beer. Machine fills beer bottles.
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