British F.E.2 pusher biplanes take off on reconnaissance mission during Battle of Arras in World War I. A gunner checks his weapon in the front cockpit of an F.E.2. Ground crewman pulls prop through while another assists pilot. The engine starts. Another F.E.2 also starts and they both take off from the airfield. View from F.E.2 , at ten thousand feet, of French city on a river. Steam locomotive train seen crossing a railroad bridge over the river. View of German trenches and fortifications from altitude of thirteen thousand feet.
Men enter a ship at Tangier harbor in Morocco. French Paquet liner Djanne docking. Men coming out of the ship and moving on docks. Rice bags brought down in a net. Men helps in unloading the net filled with rice bags. Boats towed to piers. People moving on piers. A passport bureau office. Tourists passing through it. Bags of tourists checked. Cargo loaded on boats. Rice bags lifted in a net and brought to pier. Workers carry rice bags. A rail track. People crossing the rail tracks and get into a train.
Body of V-2 rocket lifted and transferred to Miller wagon during 'Operation Sandy' in New Mexico. 'Naval Unit, White Sands, Proving Grounds' written on a sign board. The Miller wagon on top of flat car. 'No Smoking' sign appears on a part of rocket. Men near trucks. Railroad train cars loaded with V-2 equipment.
Victory in Europe day as huge crowds gather to celebrate end of World War II in Europe, in Paris and London. Crowd swarms around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Crowds celebrating at Piccadilly Circus in London. Flashback to scenes of World War II. U.S. troops training for D-Day invasion. B-17 bombers at high altitude over Germany leaving streams of contrails. A B-17 hit and falling. B-24 bombers of the 706th Squadron, 446th Bomb Group, on bombing mission. (One: tail number 41-29177, was shot down on August 26, 1944.) U.S. war materiel pouring into the UK. New P-38s and new P-47s. A German Me-109 aircraft hit and falling. The German pilot bails out and parachutes downward. Invasion fleet elements assembling in England.
Dress rehearsal for XI Olympiad. Spectators gather at the Reich Sports Field, to watch dress rehearsal of ceremonies for the 1936 Summer Olympic games to be held in Berlin, Germany. German Nazi flags at the stadium. People arrive from railway stations to the Olympic stadium by crossing over a bridge. A large crowd at the stadium. German soldiers march and the military band performs. The advance preparations by the Olympic committee include the manufacture of various Olympic souvenirs including bells and booklets. Illustrating the means of public transport available are views of: an ocean liner ship, several views of approaching locomotive trains coming toward camera view, an airship or dirigible, and a German airplane. A succession of faces representing athletes of various countries are shown along with foreign flags and Olympic medals.
Workers gather sugarcane and cut it to ground level from a sugar cane field in Egypt. They pick up sugarcanes and tied sugarcane transported to a factory through the train. A machine led by a series of rotating knives, shreds the sugarcane into pieces. After grinding process the shredded pieces of the sugarcane travel on the conveyor belt through a series of heavy-duty rollers, which extracts juice from the pulp. The pulp that remains dried. After evaporation, crystallization takes place and it is transported to a sugarcane refinery.
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