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Examining effect of radiation on cancerous cells. New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Doctors operate on a cancer patient at the New England Deaconess Hospital, in Boston. Cancerous tissue excised from patient's body during surgery is saved to test behavior of the cells when exposed to radiation. The tissues are cultivated and then.examined under microscopes fitted with a movie camera. Cells divide. Radioactive material in a pack with warning, 'Hazard' written on it. A doctor exposes cancerous tissue to the radioactive material. Cancer cells die after exposure. Exterior view of the White Plains Hospital building in White Plains New York. A child runs to a woman in front of the hospital building. She picks up the child and both smile.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in many meetings before and after America's entry into World War II
Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.
President Franklin Roosevelt and his sons on a vacation off the New England Coast, United states.
Franklin D Roosevelt, along with his sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John, aboard the 40 foot yawl, "Myth II," sails off on a vacation along the New England Coast. People at the coast look on. A power boat tows the yacht out of the harbor as his sons start raising sails on the boat.
Various power plants and different uses of isotopes in United States,1957.
Men discussing design of Model of 275000KW Indian Point Nuclear power plant to be built in New York. Nuclear power plants in Detroit,Chicago and New England planned in next 10 years. Animation of a map of U.S. shows new nuclear power plants to be built. Narrator indicates that by 1975 atomic plants (nuclear power) may provide a substantial portion of the U.S. electricity. Views of electric power supply lines and towers. Cans of isotopes in a factory. A reaction studied by scientist. Exterior of White Plains Hospital building; inside doctors at a radio lab. Iodine isotopes are mixed in water and a patient drinks it. Doctor analyzes the isotopes by a tracer placed near the Thyroid gland of the patient. The doctor looks at the scale. Doctor examines another patient. The patient is given radiation therapy to control malignant tumors of cancer, via a cobalt therapy machine, at New York Memorial Center.
Wartime nutrition public service film focuses on improving nutrition of American and British people. Also shows British war scenes.
Film on importance of good food and good eating habits during World War 2. Sweeping views of open farm land in the United States. Wheat harvesting by a harvester machine on a farm. Corn picked from stalks. Pigs in a pen. Cattle eat at a trough. Fish leaping on deck of a boat after being emptied from a net. Butcher weighs meat on a scale for a woman customer. Grocer puts meat, sugar, eggs, and other rationed items in a grocery bag. Scene changes to England, probably London, with smoking rubble on the ground from a blitz bombing run by German forces during World War 2. British firemen pour water on a blaze from fire hoses. A queue of British women and children citizens waits to receive food aid. Many of the British civilians look tired. A girl holds a large doll in her arms. A woman with a bandaged head holds a young girl child. Scene shows a British family at a table eating ration reduced portions of eggs, butter, and cheese. A British scientist holds a beaker and adds it to a large food preparation drum, adding vitamin enriched material to a food such as margarine, to aid with improving nutrition despite scarcity in the United Kingdom during World War 2. A box of butter is shown. Hand flips butter packet over to show label "Contains Vitamins A and D". British staples such as a wheat bread loaf and also beans, peas, and cereals are credited by the narrator as being "nerve conditioners, at a time when iron nerves are needed most." Footage of a British paratrooper in training jumping from a British aircraft. Next scene is in a steel mill as British men wearing protective glasses use shovels near a furnace. Scene of a British woman receiving cod liver oil and milk as a ration for a young child. Grocer at produce stand hangs sign saying "no tomatoes". But a victory garden sign behind shows someone pushing a shovel into the earth. People are shown working in victory gardens to grow fresh vegetables. All ages of older men and women and young children in England are shown working to tend victory gardens in plots large and small. Soldiers beneath a barrage balloon tend a garden with hoes. Scene in a community kitchen with a group of British citizens eating a meal. Next scene shows Americans in a restaurant and then in a diner ordering food at the diner counter. A woman orders and coffee is poured for her and two donuts are served. Narrator notes that the food nutrition choices made by many Americans are not good, and notes that malnutrition saps the strength of Americans. A woman secretary is seen typing and being frustrated and tired. A man welding lifts his helmet and rubs his head and face in exhaustion. A doctor and nurse examine and treat an eye of an American war worker. A U.S. Army recruitment or induction center is shown, with new recruits receiving medical examinations. Doctor uses a tongue depressor and examines a person's throat. A blood pressure machine takes a reading. An eye chart is shown. Doctor uses a stethoscope on a recruit's chest. Group of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. A group of new citizen recruits without uniforms marches.
An elderly man shares the memories of his grandfather who immigrated to United States in early times.
Describes immigration to America. Faces of persons superimposed on flowing water. Statue of Liberty. Announcement and scenes of U.S. Customs processing at Kennedy Airport in New York City. Immigrants from Sicily, Italy at the airport. Two men going through immigration at the airport. People greet each other. Man fixes photographs on Alien Registration Cards. Narrator states, "Aliens today, Citizens in 5 years time. The process is almost automatic." Car driven on road in suburban neighborhood stops at a house. Map of United States. Paintings of different cities of United States in early times. Old man is interviewed and he speaks about his grandfather who migrated to the United States in the 19th century from England. Walking stick of his grandfather and letters written by grandfather.
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