U.S. Navy sailors in training near a seaplane during World War I. They look in the cockpit of the seaplane which is a Curtiss F-Boat. Two men in aviator garb. A sailor helps an aviator into a life preserver. The sailors work on the seaplane and turn a crank to start the engine. Some of the sailors lay wooden planks on water. They ease the flying boat with aviators aboard and propellers turning down the planks into water of Lake Michigan. Some buildings of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station visible in the background. The flying boat takes off and in flight. Change of scene and aerial view of a Kearsarge class battleship. Tugs off the starboard side. Scene change again to the Curtiss flying boat. The seaplane comes in for a landing.
U.S. sailors in training for World War 1. The U.S. Navy sailors on a parade ground of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in the United States. The sailors march. Buildings of the Station in the background. The sailors tow a howitzer. They aim the howitzer and kneel behind it. Riflemen kneel in the background. The riflemen and ammunition carriers move up and kneel in a line beside the howitzer. Smoke rises as a gun is fired. Men move back to their original positions.
A training film on training of Seabees in the United States. Use of slings to handle case cargo. The Seabees load a ship. A case is tied with a sling. Gasoline and oil drums are taken aboard the ship. Wire rope slings are used to carry steel landing nets. Men aboard ships. The wire rope slings are used to carry heavy crates. Jumbo booms are used to load even more heavier things. Four winches are used to control the boom. Lumber being loaded. Mock up of a 25 foot landing craft being loaded. A truck loaded on the ship. Hatch covers are replaced. Everything is adjusted in position by the Seabees. The loaded ships underway at sea.
Open rail hopper cars of coal at a mine in Kentucky. (Ford coal was mined at the Banner Fork Coal Corporation at Wallins Creek, Kentucky and the Pond Creek Coal Company at Stone, Kentucky.) View inside the mine, where a miner is riding a bucket as it slides down a slope. Next, a miner is seen at a coal cutting machine in operation. Miners riding atop rail cars full of coal as they arrive at the surface. Mining cars being emptied at a tipple, where the coal is moved on a conveyor and loaded into open hopper cars. A steam locomotive pulling a long train of coal hopper cars, each displaying the Ford Company Logo. A train of coal cars arriving at the River Rouge Plant.
Rear view of railroad train from Washington carrying former Ambassador to the United States for Germany, Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff. Count von Bernstorff waving from the train. Unidentified man talking to an officer, possibly Captain Thomsen of the Frederik VIII . View of the Frederik VIII as it pulls away from pier. Ship Frederik VIII in harbor. Unidentified man in bowler hat. Count von Bernstorff was allowed to depart for Germany amidst diplomatic tensions as the United States USA was preparing to enter WWI.
View of Harvard University. View of statue of Harvard university founder, John Harvard. View of pages of newspapers College Daily and the Harvard Crimson, newspapers Franklin Roosevelt served as editor for during his college years. Franklin Roosevelt’s name in paperwork associated with the Harvard Crimson. View of Charles river in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Railroad train running beside the Charles river, full of students from Harvard and Yale. Students from Harvard and Yale Universities watch the annual boating duels on the Charles River between their universities. View of locomotive train full of Harvard and Yale students running. Regatta in the Charles River. View of a busy street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A stadium with many football game spectators. Male cheerleader uses Yale Megaphone before football game. Football between Harvard and Yale. Crowd in stadium forms an “H”. Exhausted football players in field after match. Image of the Senior Year Group Graduation photo from Franklin Roosevelt’s class.
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