A training film titled: 'The basic principles of skiing' on how to ski for the military troops. Animated map of the United States shows the snow covered area. Soldiers skiing on the snow. A proper training of skiing should be given to the soldiers. Exterior of a house. Soldiers arrive near the house and take out their skis. (World War II period).
A film on the history of U.S. soldiers. Various American landscape wide views, some with roads, some with natural features. Plains, deserts, mountains in the United States. A mountainous area in the western United States. A snowcapped mountain in the background. Three elderly United States Civil War veteran soldiers, both Union and Confederate, walking together in a American military cemetery. United States Army soldiers wearing helmets and marching at an Army base or encampment. U.S. soldiers marching on Constitution Avenue in Washington DC during a parade. They hold rifles and a soldier holds the U.S. flag. U.S. Army cavalry unit riding on horses in formation. Elevated view of an American city square with snow capped mountains rising in the background. Other American cities in the west with city center areas, pedestrians, and 1930s and 1940s automobiles on the roads. Cars parked at a large industrial factory with a water tower rising up. Aerial view of an urban, western United States city with a bridge over water in background. Aerial views of various American cities. United States Army infantry soldiers march along a road and then cavalry are seen galloping by on horses. A railroad train approaching the camera and then passing by at high speed, with views of the locomotive, cars, wheels, and railroad tracks. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Point of view shot from front of moving railroad train in Colorado on the edge of gorge near the Rocky Mountains. A river steamboat or paddle steamer with a bridge in the background. Men harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Lock gates on the Panama Canal opening, as seen from a ship waiting to enter. A World War I memorial sculpture honoring American soldiers.
Foreigners flee from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The last Italian Consul and other officials leave the city. Men seated on horsebacks moving across the area. Men constructing bomb proof shelters. They dig out mud and are engaged in construction work. Officials at a railroad station. They board a train and the train leaves the area.
A railroad train carrying a U.S. Navy 14-inch railway gun, on a Mk I gun car, along with other cars containing associated personnel,supplies and equipment, arriving at a depot in France, during World 1. Most of the cars are marked "USN." In next scene, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, stands in a field with two U.S. Navy Captains and U.S. Army Major General Henry T. Allen, along with two other Army officers. General Allen escorts Roosevelt to the railway gun train, where he climbs aboard the rear access door of the Mk I car. An American flag flies over the car. Camera pans along the car to where Roosevelt is seen standing beneath the 14-inch gun barrel. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A film on problems of military supply. Animation shows a shell being fired at a target board. Production of shells and guns in a factory in the United States. They are loaded in a train and the train moving on a railway track. Then they are carried by ships. They are loaded in an airplane and the airplane in flight overhead. They are then carried by trucks and finally by mules to a battlefield. The soldiers then are able to use the ammunition. (World War II period).
Training methodology for U.S. soldiers in the United States. An instructor instructs soldiers seated in a class room. He speaks about the correct methodology of teaching. A chart on a board reads 'Mechanism of instruction'. There are six steps in the mechanism of instruction. They are 'Preparation, Explanation, Demonstration, Application, Examination and Discussion'. The methods of instructions are also explained. These things should be considered while instructing 'The Lecture, the Conference, the Demonstration, the Group Performance Method and the Coach and Pupil method'. The lecture should be brief and interesting. Training films, slides, maps, models and other devices should be used. An instructor instructing a class. He takes a long lecture. The soldiers sleep in the class. (World War II period).
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