Using a beaker labeled crude oil, a man demonstrates that it yields petroleum products of 30% gasoline, 20% kerosene, and 42% lubrication oil and wax, and 5% coke. Animated diagram shows layers of rock and wells being drilled to various depths to tap oil reservoirs, avoiding water pockets. Another chart shows successive layers of natural gas, oil and salt water that may be encountered. On the surface, the boiler, mud pond, derrick, engine and pump are identified at drilling site. Well casing, drill and movement of drilling products are illustrated.
A training film titled 'Camouflage principles' about the means and importance of camouflage in World War II. Aerial view of an area. A soldier at map. Soldiers come out of a haystack and reveal a concealed artillery piece. A camouflaged tank on a field. A jeep amidst bushes to makes its detection impossible.
A troop ship at a pier in a harbor in the Pacific Ocean. The bow of the ship. Sailors and Marines gathered at railings of the ship. The ship moves away and leaves the harbor. Other ships underway in the background. A U.S. flag on a flag pole. An aircraft in flight overhead. People walk near a railroad track.
A flight around the world. A globe rotates. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge bids goodbye to army airmen. The President and Major General Mason Patrick and the fliers on a lawn of the White House, Washington DC. The journey starts from Seattle, Washington. Douglas World Cruisers ( DWC ) in flight. The DWCs parked in a bay. A forest in the background. They arrive at Chignik Bay, Alaska. The aircraft in flight. An iceberg. Lieutenant Lowell Smith stands on one of the pontoons and works with propellers on his DWC. The DWCs in flight from America to Asia. The aviators are welcomed by Japanese officials in Yetorufu, Japan. Japanese children playing in a school yard. A child has a Japanese and a U.S. flag, one in each hand. They reach Hong Kong, China. A fleet of native junks to welcome them. In Calcutta, India , a DWC taxis on water. A large number of people gather around a DWC. A crane lifts a DWC out of water. The aviators land in Constantinople. People around the aircraft. They reach Paris, France.. Aerial views of the city. Mrs. Maclaren congratulates the airmen in London, England. The crew of USS Richmond cheers the aviators. The aviators board their aircraft from a small boat. People watch as the aircraft land in Labrador, Canada. The DWCs are anchored in a bay and the aviators are brought to the shore in a boat. Naval officers greet them. The aircraft in flight over the Boston skyline. A motor launch in Boston Harbor. The DWCs land on water. The aviators arrive at the dock in the motor launch and are greeted by officials. They fly over New York. A large crowd greets the aviators at Mitchel Field, Long Island. They arrive at Bolling Field in Washington and are congratulated by President Coolidge and U.S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks. The three DWCs are followed by an XNBL-1 Barling bomber in flight in Dayton. Lt. Jack Harding is welcomed home. The world flight ends in Seattle, Washington. Photographers click pictures as a DWC lands. Major Martin greets aviators standing beside a DWC.
Meeting of National Recovery Act officials. Men put a lock on a Brooklyn poultry farm. Close up of the lock on the door. President of the American Federation of Labor William Green is seen as narrator explains that the shuttering of the poultry farm by the NRA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
A Curtiss NC-4 flying boat along side a ship with boats in the foreground after its successful flight across the Atlantic. Commander A.C. Read who commanded the flight. Captain J.W. Alcock and Lieutenant A.W. Brown after a successful flight across the Atlantic in a Vickers Vimy on June 15, 1919 being given a warm welcome aboard a ship. Men carry them on their shoulders.
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