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Montage of scenes from political life of American President Ronald Reagan
United States Presidential election campaign in the United States. The Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, accepts the Presidential nomination in his speech. His supporters cheer holding banners. Childhood pictures of Ronald Reagan with his family. He played football for the Eureka Team. He was also part of a baseball team and went to a training camp. (This clip shows the Chicago Cubs, but he did not play for them). Ronald Reagan became a Hollywood actor. He also joined the army for a few years. He sits on the 'Theater Ronald Reagan' chair. He was a strong supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (This shows FDR, but Reagan later left the Democrats and became a Republican.) Ronald Reagan is elected California governor. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan stands with George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican candidate for the Vice President. President Reagan at his inauguration at the United States Capitol in Washington DC. President Reagan is shot and is rushed to a hospital. The President resumes work after his recovery. He concentrates on the economic growth of the United States. Construction workers on both commercial and residential buildings. Scenes from the Williamsburg economic summit with world leaders including Margaret Thatcher. He also is seen speaking in Bonn Germany. President Reagan attends an outdoor church service with American troops. President Reagan visits a cemetery with wife Nancy Davis. (This is the American cemetery at Normandy on the 40th anniversary of the Invasion of Europe). The President and the First Lady visit Japan, China and South Korea. We see them walking on the Great Wall of China. He speaks at the Republican Convention in Dallas in August of 1984.
Franklin D. Roosevelt helps Americans to recover from the Great Depression in the United States.
Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Jobless American men wait in unemployment relief lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the United States, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps and tenement dwellings during migration (usually migration west). Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol Building framed by tree limbs. Men in an office empty heavy mailbags filled with letters (presumably to congress and senate). Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting trees with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker as they are put to work in a variety of projects. Women and men, including white and African American men are seen getting assigned to work projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a suspension bridge work project of the Works Progress Administration in Los Angeles, California. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Four steam railroad locomotives preparing to run on parallel tracks. Close up views of railroad train locomotive wheels as they start moving and the train on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks, groups of workers entering factory for work shift and two different closeup views of a steam whistle blowing to mark the start or end of a work shift. A coal mining operation. Automated tools dig coal in shaft. Two coal miners take a break and eat. Crane hoists material at mine. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.
A film sketch about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and tracing his personal history and career leading to the Presidency in the 1980 election.
Opening scene shows U.S. President Ronald Reagan holding a little girl, and then standing with officials and Secret Service agents, as he prepares to enter a car. Closeup of him smiling. Closeup of President Reagan signing his autograph for spectators in a crowd. Next, Reagan and his wife Nancy are seen on November 4, 1980 waving to supporters at the Century Plaza Hotel, celebrating his election victory as the 40th U.S. President. The President elect says a few words of thanks to them. Views of the crowd cheering. Adopted son, Michael Reagan holds his son Cameron as he and his wife, Colleen Reagan, join Ronald and Nancy Reagan on the stage, followed by daughter Patricia Reagan and son Ron Reagan. The crowd cheers the President elect and his family. At this point the film begins showing images about Ronald Regan's life, starting with baby pictures; his parents; Tampico, Illinois, where he was born; Dixon, where he is seen in a school picture and with boyhood friends. A photograph of "Dutch" Reagan President of his High School Class. Reagan in photo with other members of the Eureka College football team, in Eureka, Illinois. The seal of the college. Pictures of Reagan with college classmates and teammates. Reagan posing in bathing suit when he was swimming team coach. Young Reagan, after graduation, as a sports announcer, sitting at a microphone labeled: "WHO" in Davenport, Iowa. The broadcasting tower of that radio station. A Track and field event taking place. Reagan posing with a pipe in his mouth, at the WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. A baseball game in progress before a full stadium of spectators. In 1937, a Chicago baseball team is seen boarding a ship to a Spring training camp in California. (Narrator states Reagan accompanied them.) Aerial view of buildings at the First National Studios (home of Warner Brothers) in Hollywood. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, circa 1952, being applauded at a gathering when he was President of the Screen Actors Guild. Views of Reagan in U.S. Army uniform. A U.S. Army C-47 aircraft taking off from a field under attack, with fires burning and smoke rising (possibly during Japanese December 7, 1941 attack on installations in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii). U.S. Airmen standing on a ramp next to a Douglas C-47B-1-DL transport aircraft (tail number: 43-16145). What appears to be a ViP version of a B-50 aircraft parked on a ramp with an honor guard at the stairway. Ronald Reagan, in uniform, signing up for active duty. Later, Captain Reagan, U.S. Army Air Forces, is seen with other uniformed men at a gathering in Warner Brothers studios. The entrance of Paramount Pictures studios in Hollywood. A large group of studio employees walking between buildings. Reagan speaking, as President, of the Screen Actors Guild, at an outdoor gathering. Actor Robert Young and film industry executives stand nearby. Reagan, as Chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council, addresses a dinner gathering of that organization. He is also seen testifying before he House Committee on Un-American activities Committee (HUAC) on October 23, 1947.
The story of U.S. Navy Seabees on Guadalcanal during World War II.
Activities of the Seabees on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War II. Seabees seen salvaging ships damaged and sunk during the Japanese December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.Seabees seen on the deck of the USS California (BB-44). U.S. warship fires guns at Guadalcanal. U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal and advance in long line across the island. Marines firing heavy field artillery. Seabees begin rebuilding Henderson Field, surrounded by fire and smoke of battle. Ground and aerial views of Henderson field, with destroyed U.S. fighter bombers seen. From the air, many small airplanes and several B-17s can be seen. Seabees filling shell and bomb craters on the field. U.S. Marines firing firing antiaircraft weapons against attacking Japanese airplanes. Two Japanese airplanes plunging in flames. An empty life vest floating in the water. The Seabees continue rebuilding and expanding Henderson Field using Marston matting (pierced steel planking). A Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber lands at the newly repaired field. U.S. Air Force B-17s take off from Henderson Field. and
Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, on a visit to Hawaii, presents a baby elephant as a gift to children of Honolulu.
Goodwill trip to America by Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Animated map portrays long flight from Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Hawaiian hula dancers performing on grass at the Honolulu zoo. View from beach of colorful sail boats, swimmers, sun bathing, and surfers enjoying the beach and beautiful weather in Hawaii. A traditional long canoe is seen being paddling past the beachfront. As hula dancers finish, elephant handler (mahout), Kirpa Swami, brings forward a baby elephant, named Mari, that Mrs. Gandhi is presenting as a gift to the children of Honolulu. Spokesperson Eileen Anderson, acknowledges the gift, before a large crowd of spectators. Prime Minister Gandhi, at the microphone, explains that the elephant is a symbol of strength, of hard work, and in India, of good fortune, or good luck. Kirpa Swami brings Mari across the grass, accompanied by elephant handlers, Gwen Yoshimura and Larry Zolton. As Mari swings her trunk, Mrs. Gandhi says, "she is saluting you all." Scene shifts to the airport, where the Prime Minister's Air India passenger airplane is parked on the runway tarmac, displaying an American flag in the pilot's window. Prime Minister Gandhi speaks at the steps to the aircraft, extending the good wishes of the people of India to the people of the United States. She turns and waves from the top of the steps.
Milo Burcham in flight in his aircraft and B-10s in flight over a mountainous terrain during an air show in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bird men risk lives to provide thrills at a big air show and give sensational exhibition of flying at Cleveland, Ohio. A formation of nine P-12 aircraft in flight low over the ground. A formation of U.S. Navy F4B-4s (P-12s) in six sets of threes in flight. The flight of English RAF Lt. Ackerly, wearing a top hat and a frock coat, flying his plane while sitting in a saddle on the fuselage. Milo Burcham in flight upside down in his aircraft 'The Blue Flash' P-12. Parachutists jump from two C-3As. United States Army Air Corps Martin B-10s in flight. A B-10 in flight over a desert terrain and another B-10 in flight in the background. A propeller hub on a B-l0. Three B-10s in flight. Martin B-10b aircraft in flight over a mountainous terrain on a training exercise between Marchfield California and Tucson Arizona. Two B-10s in flight. Clouds in the background. A formation of nine B-10s in flight.