1950 newsreel clip on growth of the television industry in the United States. Announcer notes the popularity of athletic events on TV (especially baseball) . Shots of game between Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants at the Giants' stadium, the Polo Grounds. Vintage TV cameras marked 'WPIX' capture the action. #36 Don Newcombe of the Dodgers pitches to #12 Eddie Stanky of the Giants. Cameras transmit game to TV control center, which sends signal to home antennas. Woman and three boys seen watching television broadcast of the game at home on a small 1950s-era TV in a family living room. Scene shifts to horse racing, with camera marked NBC WNBT capturing an unknown horse race. Men at bar seen watching the race.
A film on the recruitment of women in the United States Army, Navy and Marines. Female personnel in the Marines are placed for the jobs after their training. Women Marines working in a completely women-run post office at Camp Lejeune. Some of the women serving as telephone operators. Others working as typists. Women and men military personnel at a bar enjoying drinks. A woman operating a mimeograph copy machine. Women seated at desks and typing documents. A woman sketching a map. Vehicles parked on the ground. Women's Reserve mechanics working on the maintenance of Marines aircraft. Pilot seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. A woman boards the airplane in the back seat, and is handed an aerial reconnaissance photography camera. The plane in flight. The woman takes photographs of the area. Lady Marines march in formation on a parade ground. Trees in the background. The marching women of the Marine Corps Womens Reserve pass by a column of marching men Marines.
A film version of the legendry 1940s stage show in the United States. American singer and dancer Jerry Jones arrange the show. Jones along with his other men standing inside a building and reading a paper about a show. They perform stage shows in several places. They perform the shows in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Washington DC. The Capitol building. The artists inside a building in Washington DC where they are to perform the show. A woman arrives in the building and talks to Jerry Jones. Jones talks to her about a soldier who was killed in the Pearl Harbor. He addresses the artists and talks about the show to be performed. People arrive at the theater to watch the show. Several dignitaries and officials also arrive. People applauding. (World War II period).
Views of construction underway on the Pentagon Building in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington DC, United States. Exterior views of the new military headquarters building, early during its construction period. Officers discussing construction plans. Excavator at work. Army guards patrol the site while civilian workers work building the Pentagon. Views of the Washington Monument in the distance, across the Potomac River. Guards march back and forth. Views of the constuction site from various angles. View of the U.S. Capitol building in the far distance in final shot.
A film titled: 'Substitution and Conversion' on provision of supplies to soldiers in the European Theater during World War II. A slowly revolving relief globe. The Philippines on a map. Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra are also located. Narrator notes that a large quantity of raw materials was lost at these places during the war. Exterior of the Pentagon building in Arlington Virginia, outside Washington DC. Clerks working at their desks inside the building. A coat and hat rack filled with items belonging to civilian and military workers in the Pentagon. A convoy of ships underway at sea. Elevated view of columns of many U.S. Army soldiers standing at attention during a review. Closeup views of an American Army soldier showing his uniform and his equipment including helmet, rifle, gasmask, leggings, bayonet, ammunition belt, first aid kit, canteen, blanket roll, haversack. Soldiers stand in formation. Cots with netting on them in a barracks area. Corps of engineers soldiers building a wooden bridge over a waterway. Bomber aircraft and fighter aircraft in lines at an airfield. Columns of tanks parked in a field. Heavy artillery being towed on a roadway. Half track armored vehicles rolling by. View of tanks rolling by, and an anti-aircraft gun being cranked into position. Soldiers loading artillery shells from a storage area into a truck. View of storage tanks for gasoline. Convoy of supply trucks moving on a road. Closup view of train locomotive and its cars moving at and past camera position. Aircraft overhead in formation. View of ships at sea in convoy below. Animated map shows that 7 tons of equipment is required for each American soldier. Giant railroad gun firing. A Navy ship releasing a depth charge and explosion in water. Bombs away view of bombs falling from open bomb doors of a bomber aircraft. American soldiers racing onto a beach head. Animated map shows supply of war equipment to other places all over the world, from the United States.
The production of war materiel and supplies for soldiers and sailors in the United States during World War II. Newspaper headlines read: '1942 income 117 billions'. Men working in war production factories. Manufacture of aluminum and steel for the war effort. Sheet of aluminum rolling down conveyor in factory. View of assembly floor in a production plant building bomber aircraft. Brass being processed in factories, and hands of a worker sifting through new bullet casings in an ammunition factory. Use of copper exemplified in engine wiring and telephone communications applications. Steel being forged in factory. War ship being launched and a new Liberty ship SS Richard Bassett being launched from ship building slips on May 22, 1942. Tanks being built in a factory. Elevated view of many wood army barracks being built at an army base or camp. Then a view of homes being built as housing for war production workers. Lumber operations underway and coal miner in coal mines. A chart depicts the last year's production goals and then animated chart showing the production goals for the coming year shooting sky high. A sign on a door reads: 'Lt. Gen Brehon Somervell, Commanding General, ASF'. Lt. General Somervell seated at a desk in his office. He talks about engineers and technicians working for the U.S. Army and making materials go further to do more jobs than ever before.
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