Exterior of an industrial plant shows a lake. Glimpse of skyscrapers. Women work at typewriters. in an office building. Aerial view of a Northeast University. The Low Library at Columbia University, New York City (designed by McKim,Mead & White). A modern building labeled "Research." Women at work in a publishing house, where machines print and assemble books. Rockefeller Center in New York City. Statue of Prometheus, reclining, is visible in sunken plaza. Camera pans up the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in background.
Dramatization of methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces in World War II. Method of attack shows different kinds of clothing worn by swimmer. Swimmers swim in water. Method of attacking a ship shows swimmer with camouflaged face comes close to a ship and removes his mask and puts on a nose clip. Swimmer then goes underwater.
Animated film titled 'Hall of Ill Fame' shows the Emperor of Japan and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler during World War II. Animation shows Emperor of Japan Hirohito shoving German Chancellor Adolf Hitler aside and proclaiming himself the greatest conqueror.
"A Few Quick Facts -Japan" . An animated World War 2 anti-Japanese propaganda film with 'Sato San' shows citizens of Japan during World War 2. Animation depicts the operation thought control in Japan. Japanese men under umbrellas. A Japanese man drinks tea. Another Japanese man commits suicide. Animation shows how mind control operation affects the minds of Japanese people. Japanese policemen arrest Japanese people for thinking wrong.
Players on St. Louis Browns charge onto the field at baseball spring training, March 1950. Close up of manager Zack Taylor. Shots of pitchers warming up: #28 Dick Starr, #30 Bill Kennedy, #23 Cliff Fannin. Shot of catchers Les Moss (L) and Sherm Lollar putting on face masks. Pitcher Ed Albrecht throws. Hank Arft swings at pitch. Unknown player takes swing. Long shot of field from behind home plate. (Note: There is no indication where this footage was shot but the Browns trained in Burbank California that year.)
Official films of the flight of Bell YP-59A Airacomet jet-powered airplane, October 1, 1942. Workers at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts, producing versions of increasingly more powerful jet engines: the I-16 with 1600 pounds of thrust and the J-33, with 4000 pounds of thrust. First flight, January 8, 1944, of a Lockheed P-80 shooting star fighter jet powered by the J-33 engine. Formation of P-80 fighter planes in flight. (World War 2 period.)
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