General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.
Cotton Carnival in Memphis. A series of parties staged at Carnival. Current year's selected King, Queen and Royal Court of carnival. Presentations and parade by all cotton producing states. Decorated floats go by in a night time parade as crowd cheers. Floats have elaborate artwork and kings and queens. Flags of cotton producing states seen on many floats, including Georgia 1956 flag incorporating the Confederate battle flag on the Georgia float.
College football game between Georgia Tech Yellowjackets and Tulane, held in Atlanta. A parade of cars through the streets, in Atlanta. Views of football game between Georgia Tech and Tulane which Georgia Tech won by 10 to 0.
Homecoming Day at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. A parade of Georgia Tech's 'Ramblin' Wrecks'. A huge college crowd gathers to watch the parade. Automobiles from junkyards are used in the parade. The large vehicles move along a road. Smoke rises up from the junk automobiles. 'Power steering' and 'Dragon Wagon' written on an automobile.
An organized effort for development of a better community in rural Georgia, United States. A family sits around a table and plans about food supply for better nutrition. Community meetings are held in rural Georgia for better development. A girl demonstrates cooking in a meeting as a group of women, a boy, and a man watch. Other members of the community are seated. Improvement of home gardens in Georgia. A man waters the plants and crops in a garden. Filled canning jars arranged on the shelves of a kitchen. A man keeps vegetables and meats in a home freezer. A teenage boy gets a jar from a kitchen cupboard or pantry. A community meeting being held. A man demonstrates latest developments. A woman works in a kitchen. Children enjoy on swings. A boy picks letters from the mail box at his home. Families stand in a group. A family sits on a sofa.
Governor of Georgia speaks about prison reform program in Georgia. He says that Georgia has modern prisons where prisoners are segregated according to their crime. Newsmen take notes. He speaks that rehabilitation program is underway and chain gang has taken its place in history.
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