A review of remote controlled weapons of the U.S. Army Air Force. A worker replaces cap of a bomb by a tail section. Smoke flares attached with this tail section. Bomb is placed on a cart and dragged towards a B-25 bomber aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Force. Operators work on instruments to observe the glide of the bomb through a lower gun turret well. Bomb dropped traverses towards its target on ground (World War II period).
A VC-137 Stratoliner residential aircraft of Air Force One during its flight. VC-137 during its flight as seen from another plane flying behind. The mountains and river on ground below the plane. United States National flag on the tail. Seal of President of United States on its fuselage. 'Spirit of 76' written on nose.
Organization of the United States Army. Organization of Army Ground Forces. Soldiers under training of ground combat missions. Animated map shows the organization. Commanding General followed by Chief of Staff and ground staff. Various subdivisions of ground forces. Soldiers firing rifle at target. Map of United States showing training camps and graph showing the number of trained soldiers increasing year after year. (World War II period).
The Selective Service System (SSS) in United States, its functioning and effects. Officials of selection boards and assembly of people selected for various services. Women workers busy working in an office. Map of United States shows distribution of SSS offices in various states, in New York and in Washington DC. A man discusses with his father various streams of work under different departments of Selective Service System. His mother arrives and talks to them.
Point of view shot out the front of a steam locomotive railroad train as it speeds along a track in western United States. Men stacking wood lumber for boat shipment beside a canal in the early 1900s. The mill and stacks of lumber seen across the canal. Miners at a coal mine ride an open car full of coal as it emerges from a mine in West Virginia, as seen from camera riding on same coal car. Glimpse, from a passing train, of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Immigrants to the United States, from various European countries, at work in industrial production jobs. Men in factories; working at a power forge in a steel mill; Lumber operations: Men cutting down large trees with hand axes and sawing logs for timber in a forest, using large 2-man saws; Butchers moving sides of beef in a meat packing company. Women working in a metal parts factory (appears to be a sink faucet manufacturing company); women working in a textile spinning mill operation and stacking moving machine shelves with spools. A hose set up from a fire hydrant spraying water in a city street and children in bathing suits running underneath to play and cool off in hot summer weather. Montage of various still and moving images: Immigrant children in classrooms and in school yards. A woman instructing new adult immigrants in an English language instruction class. Immigrant workers engaged in skyscraper construction, high in the air without safety equipment. An iron worker perched atop a vertical steel beam with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A woman posing on a horizontal bar. Men and women posing in the surf at a beach. People at beach watching as a group of men create a human pyramid on the sand. A little girl with her feet in the surf. Boys in a classroom, with two of them dirty from work and another boy sleeping with his head on his desk. Mothers and fathers at home asking about what the children learned in school. A young girl leading a group of school children in reciting the pledge of allegiance (pre-1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance is heard recited by a group of children, without the "Under God" wording that was added in 1954). Still image of a young girl employed in a fabric mill (child labor).
From a U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast.' Depicts soil problems in farming and solutions via terracing. Trees near farm land. Withered, irregular plants on poor soil. Healthy crops ready for harvest in a large terraced farmland. Trees and barns at the end of field. A farmer plows field with a tractor. Crops in the farm land. Two men walk on the field. Farmers care for growing plants. A man checks the black soil suitable for the growth of crops. Water flows through a channel to irrigate the crops. Two farmers operate a hand plow. A man plows hardened soil of field standing on a horse-drawn plow. From an H.W. Wilson Company listing in 1940 of its Educational Film holdings: This is a Soil conservation service film. As beautiful scenes of the countryside unfold the commentator tells us that much of America's oldest farming land is in the Northeast. The serious soil erosion situation is frequently taken care of by terracing. We learn how terracing is done, its advantages and see land so cultivated. Terracing is used successfully for growing potatoes, tobacco, truck farming and for fruit culture. Cover crops are planted and when turned under add fertility to the soil. It is necessary to inspect the terraces regularly and to keep the channels of the outlets clear. An informative picture showing construction and uses of terraces and other erosion control measures as applied to northeastern part of United States. New Hampshire.
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