U.S. Coast Guard SPARS (US CG Women's Reserve) march at the Training Station. CG men and women recruits take their places at various Battle Stations across the U.S. U.S. CG men and women personnel report for duty on shore and at sea. SPARS arrive in Washington and New York. A sailor watches through binoculars, a SPARS with documents, sailor on cutter, SPARS drives a car, sailor by a plane. A radioman and woman operate the radio. Men and women gunner mates on cutters. A U.S. CG pilot in the cockpit, SPARS parachute riggers at work. A deck gun on a cutter. A crew of 8 sailors observe the gun. SPARS take their places at a shore station. The captain and his crew come aboard a cutter. U.S. CG cutters at sea. Includes narration by Ginger Rogers and James Cagney.
'Better Housing' contrasts modern and obsolete bath facilities, and depicts the progress in bath equipment. A young boy sits and bathes in a round wooden tub. He soaps and washes himself in the small tub. The inventor of the shower tries out the new shower system. He smokes a pipe while he pulls a string to pour water from two buckets on himself. A newer zinc plated bath tub. A man sits and bathes in the tub. A woman bathes in a tub. A boy in a modern tub with a built in overhead shower. Progress in bath furnishing: A woman puts on a shower cap at a black marble basin with a mirror. She walks into a glass enclosed shower stall and takes a shower.
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt in a car in a motorcade in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A huge gathering around the motorcade. President leads the country wide observance of Memorial Day. In Washington, Codos and Rossi, the French fliers, lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in an impressive ceremony. A huge parade along Riverside Drive in New York City.
HMS (Her/His Majesty Ship) Nelson, a British Battleship on its way to harbor at New York. Views of the ship and ship superstructure. British Admiral Sir Michael Hodges and other crew on board HMS Nelson.
A man and a boy ride together on a tandem bicycle along a road with a beach in the background. A woman riding a motorcycle on a city street. A man riding an antique Penyy Farthing bicycle with a large front wheel and small back wheel. Two boys riding a bicycle. One of the boys sits atop a silver food delivery box in front of the bike, with writing, "Arturo's 106 W. Houston Street, CH-25315" (from Arturo's Pizzeria in Greenwich Village, New York City). Two people biking through a lot of recreational vehicle homes with a expansive desert landscape in the backround. Boys play baseball and children on swings with their parents watching them. Two of they kids are twin boys, dressed identically, and swinging on the swings in the same rhythm. A boy on a tire swing that hangs from a large tree. Boys huddled on a sidewalk playing a game. Camera angle widens and reveals they are in a ridge-top neighborhood with a large industrial factory belching smoke and pollution into the sky in the background. People entering a church on an Autumn day with blue sky and trees with golden leaves changing color for fall. Male teacher in classroom lecturing at a blackboard. Students appear to be older high school or early college age. Various people seated at desks in an office working, and separately a view of equipment and people working in a laboratory. A man seated at a microscope. 1965.
Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop
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