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Celebrities help promote American Red Cross blood donor programs and War bond drives during World War II.
Film opens showing a huge crowd gathered in New York’s Madison Square Garden for a rally in support of the American Red Cross, during World War 2. Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady welcomes and introduces Princess Martha of Norway. The audience applauds. Scene then shifts for Red Cross activities on the home front. Two Red Cross women remove items from a station wagon in preparation for a local Blood drive. A panel truck parked next to them is marked: “American Red Cross Blood Donor Service.” More Red Cross volunteer women remove items from the panel truck to set up the blood donor activity. View of many persons in beds at a blood donor center. Nurses and Red Cross volunteers working at the center with donors. One of the donors is an active duty sailor in uniform. Complete change of scene to California, where Hollywood stars are seen involved in a war bond drive. Closeup of several, including Irene Dunn, Ronald Coleman, Hedy Lamarr, and Greer Garson. Glimpse of crowd at the bond drive.
U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command activities during World War II.
U.S. Air Forces Air Traffic Controllers on duty at a control Tower in an airfield during World War 2.. Several multi-engine aircraft are parked on the ramp, outside, including two Douglas C-54 transport aircraft. One controller looks through binoculars. Next, airmen are seen loading cargo into an aircraft from a truck backed up to its side. Air Forces ground crewmen are silhouetted against a light sky as they watch aircraft take off while being ferried overseas. Parked behind them is a USAAF Consolidated B-24 bomber. A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taking off. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft landing. A North American B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off. Next, numerous Douglas C-47 transport airplanes are seen taxiing on an airfield. View from directly in front of a C-47 aircraft as it takes off, and passes over the camera. View from ground of a low flying C-47, and then of several in loose formation flying overhead.
Hollywood actor Dick Powell composes and sings "The Road is Open Again" for the National Recovery Administration
Framed photographs of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson on a wall. A song writer writes a song on behalf of the National Recovery Administration (NRA). He falls asleep while writing the song. As he "dreams" actors portraying Washington, Lincoln and Wilson appear in his room asking him why he wants to write such a song and they're reassuring him that Franklin D Roosevelt is the right way. When he starts singing his new song, he finds himself alone, but he knows that Franklin Delano Roosevelt will lead the USA back on the road to prosperity. He sings "The Road is Open Again". Film is a National Recovery Administration and New Deal propaganda piece during the Great Depression.
C-130 Tactical Airlift aircraft demonstrate Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System.
Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System shows airlift delivery method where aircraft deposits parachute supplies when landing is not possible. Parachute supplies deposited by an aircraft flying low. Parachute low delivery system shows a plane releasing parachute with supplies at a certain height from drop point at ground. Interior views of C-130 aircraft including pilot and controls. The cargo hatch is opened and the extraction parachute is deployed. Once the parachute catches the wind outside the craft, it pulls the connected supplies out of the plane and on to the ground. View of supply drop using many parachutes of different colors, with parachutes opening and supplies falling to ground. Supplies offloaded from aircraft at landing field.
Flight test of a rotary-wing aircraft designed by Canadian designers.
A group of Canadian designers come up with rotary-wing aircraft that combines a conventional engine with free-spinning rotors. Technicians examine the plane while pilot boards for take off. Aircraft taxies, hangar in the background. Aircraft takes off from runway. Aircraft flies on airfield.
Building construction at a U.S. Military base in cold climate. Large established base.
Construction activity at a U.S. military base in arctic. Surveyor at work. Bulldozer in operation. Crane lifting buckets of concrete for foundations. Crane bucket is heated over a fire. Many established buildings seen in background. Workers fill bucket with concrete from large trailer. Ships in harbor, with snow covered hills behind. in water. Snow capped mountains. Clouds settled over mountains. Dock area. Buildings on base of mountains. (World War II period).
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