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Wheat, corn, rye and sugar beet are harvested and transported to storing areas in the Northwestern United States.
Farms in the Northwestern United States. Animated map shows wheat producing areas in the United States. A tractor plow in operation. Wheat is cut using a harvester. A thresher in operation on a field. Wheat is loaded in a truck. The truck hauls wheat to grain elevators. A box car used to transport wheat to a flour mill. Animation depicts the transportation of wheat to flour mills and then the transportation of flour to the rest of the United States. Animated map shows corn belts in the United States. Corn is harvested on a field. Corn loaded in a tractor is transported. Corn being stocked in silos. Fields of rye in Nebraska. Harvesting of flax and hay. Animated map shows annual rainfall in cultivated areas. A piece of land is plowed. Animated map shows various irrigation projects. Farmers work in a sugar beet field.
Machine guns are fired from helicopters and military trucks are driven past the stands in Maryland, United States
Demonstration of new weapons and equipment for members of the American Ordnance Association at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, United States. A United States Army OH-23 Raven helicopter and a United States Army UH-1 Iroquois helicopter fly over a range. Machine guns are fired from the helicopters. Explosions on the ground. Four trucks including a five ton XM-453 vehicle drive past the stands. Sky divers land near a target. A United States Army CV-2 Caribou aircraft flies by. Members of the American Ordnance Association in the stands.
Dropping of an Azon bomb from a B-14 Liberator aircraft in the United States.
A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. A GB-7 missile crashes in a scrubby wooded area. A GB-7 missile is assembled in a work laboratory. Men remove the protective cover from the nose section of the radar unit. A technician starts operating the radar unit in the nose section of the missile. The radar unit in operation. A radio control unit is mounted on the tail assembly of the bomb. Demonstration of the small stick control radio unit and control sections of the Azon bomb. A B -24 Liberator in flight drops a single Azon bomb. The bomb hits a bridge across a river. Multi drop of Azon bombs shows many smoke trails left by flares attached to the tail section of the bomb. The bombs drop on parallel course with a road leading through a wooden area. Razon bomb suspended from a chain hoist. Inserting a flare unit into the tail section of the Razon bomb. Two bombs are dropped at the same time. A technician works on the heat seeker section of a GB-6 free falling missile. A British Tall Boy bomb. The Tall Boy is the VB-13 bomb. (World War II period).
LSD tests conducted on unwitting victims including prostitutes and drug addicts by the CIA in the United States.
A documentary depicts research and administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the late 1950s and into the 1960s (part of project MKUltra). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. View of a part time chemist for the CIA, Dr. James Moore, who narrator says duped amateur mycologist and mushroom science enthusiast R. Gordon Wasson into providing information that led to the development of LSD. Mr. R. Gordon Wasson is asked about a magic mushroom leading to the drug psilocybin. He talks about how they found the mushroom in Mexico and ingested it as administered by a local shaman or magical priestess, Maria Sabina, in a Mazatec mushroom ritual. Wasson describes his own experience of what it was like to be under the influence of psilocybin. He describes visions and his sensory experience. Narrator relates how Dr. Moore was instructed by the CIA to get close to Mr. Wasson and obtain the magic mushrooms on a trip to Mexico, and that internal memos revealed plans to derive a drug from the mushrooms that would remain an agency secret. Dr. Moore discusses his work in helping the CIA to produce a new drug. Anonymous speaker relates information from CIA operative of plans by the CIA to test the drug on unwitting American citizens. People drinking and sitting at a bar. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, tells about discussions with Mr. George White. Scenes with swirling colors and lights meant to simulate the experience of someone taking LSD drug. CIA operative says that George White helped the CIA locate unwitting persons on which to test the drugs, including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. Traffic on city streets. Narrator states that Mr. White set up safe houses for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and night clubs. Exterior neon sign of Plantation Inn Motel in San Francisco, another safe house. View of an apartment building atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, with a view of San Francisco Bay from the safe house apartment. Former CIA official relates how they used the safe houses to administer drugs to prostitutes and determine if the drug could be useful in getting people such as prostitution customers to reveal secrets. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Views of a college campus green. Narrator states that millions of dollars were spent on LSD research at universities throughout the United States. Narrator states that word spread on college campuses about the drug, and ushered in the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. Dr. Timothy Leary is interviewed and states that he gives the CIA credit for launching the consciousness movement and counter-culture events of the 1960s. Scenes of Dr. Leary in 1967, depicting him while using the drug. Dr. Leary states that the CIA funded and encouraged use of the drug by hundreds of psychologists to advance research and understanding of it, and that psychologists found it to be an intelligence enhancing and consciousness raising experience.
Film tracing the growth of the United States from 1607 to World War II
Waves crashing on a rocky shore. View of Plymouth Rock, with "1620" engraved on it. Coastline with hills and sea. A forest and primitive house of sticks. A church with watch tower. Reenactment of early immigrants felling trees and busy in a 17th Century settlement in Massachusetts. View upward of tall tree. Column on a building in Virginia; portico and clock on a building in Rhode Island;and a church in Carolina.The minuteman statue in Battle Green, Lexington,Massachusetts. Image of colonist James Otis. Statue of Thomas Jefferson. Image of Thomas Paine. Statue of Patrick Henry. Reenactment of British Red Coats charging up a hill during the American revolution. John Trumbull's painting, the "Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776" in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington,DC. A copy of the document. Reenactment of General Washington's troops and snowy encampment at Valley Forge, in 1777. The colonial troops marching in the snow.Painting of George Washington praying in a glen. Painting by John Trumbull of Lord Cornwallis surrendering to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, October 17, 1781. The Constitution of the United States in the National Archives, Washington, DC. Liberty bell swinging. Early American flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes. Animated map showing the original 13 States. Reenactment of early settlers, in wagon trains, pushing Westward from the original colonies. New States being added to the animated map, until all 48 continental American States are filled in. An American flag displaying 48 States.
Members of Roosevelt cabinet address the nation and make predictions for the new year in the United States.
Members of the Roosevelt cabinet address the nation in the United States. They make predictions for the new year. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull seated at his desk. He talks about trade among nations. He states that the present program is to secure trade agreement. U.S. Secretary of War George H. Dern states that everybody will serve for the best of the country. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson talks about the role of the navy. Postmaster General James A. Farley talks about the leadership of U.S. President Franklin D.Roosevelt and the fighting spirit of the American people. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace speaks about the conditions of farmers. U.S. Secretary of the Interiors Harold Ickes states that more jobs will be created by construction of public works. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper wishes all a new year.
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