Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. The U.S. Air Mail Service makes use of commercial aviation. Workmen place mail sacks in the front cockpit of a U.S. mail service modified Airco DH-4 aircraft. A pilot in the back cockpit. The aircraft takes off. Animation shows a small aircraft going over a line on a map from New York across the United States. An early model U.S. mail service aircraft in flight. Animation of a small airplane traveling along a line on a map from New York to San Francisco. Chicago, Omaha and Cheyenne highlighted on the map.
Aerial view of Christ Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado, Brazil. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), John Edgar Hoover, narrates this 1944 clip and talks about enemy agents in the United States during World War II, before America's entrance into the war. German and Japanese suspects seen in South America. A German fleet carries German agents aboard merchant and cargo ships. German agents in formation on deck of ship, shown debarking the ship after receiving instructions. Japanese and Nazi German colonies being established in South America in large cities and in remote areas of Patagonia. Automobile industries, hotels, shops, and other industries established by Nazi German agents. German signs and Nazi Swastikas and Nazi flags shown on some buildings in South American countries including Brazil. A Nazi flag. A view of German factories in South America. Photographs of Adolf Hitler in a school building where young boys and girls are being instructed by their teacher. German pilot shown operating a passenger airliner; aerial view of from aircraft of Rio de Janeiro Brazil, including port and city areas. A dramatization depicts well planned accidents in the factories and sabotage attempts to slow production of goods bound for the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) receives reports about planning of German attack on the Panama Canal. A woman watching a teletype machine as a report arrives. A man in a radio room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation receives information and turns to type out a report on his typewriter. Men and women convicted as spies are seen together in a room with U.S. federal agents. The spies are taken in a police van. Man serving as projectionist seen running a film projector. A film of Fritz Duquesne case in the FBI office shows FBI Agents' successful secret filming of members of the Duquesne spy ring. The film is shown being loaded onto a projector and then played. FBI agent William Sebold (posing as spy Harry Sawyer) is seen with Fritz Duquesne and other spy ring members: Pedestrians and vehicular traffic on a New York street corner as Sawyer and Duquesne prepare to meet. German spies sit together in a hotel room in New York City, recorded by hidden camera. Heinrich Clausing, a spy ring member and former cook on the cruise ship SS Argentine is seen. Also seen is Hartwig Richard Kleiss putting on his hat and smoking a cigar. He's shown giving money to Sawyer for purchase of a spy camera, according to narration. J Edgar Hoover notes that German agents communicated through a Long Island radio station that was secretly controlled by the FBI. Hartwig Kleiss is seen showing the blueprint plans of the steamship SS America, including plans for its secret gun emplacements. Fritz Duquesne is shown in the film, removing diagrams of various American arms that he had concealed in his sock Japanese agent Takeo Ezima, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, is also seen meeting in the hotel with Harry Sawyer.
Department of Labor women clerical employees seen typing letters and forms. Men in the department meet at a table. Women working inside a textile factory in the United States. Close up of man's face as he works at a factory job. Scene of early trading activity at the New York Stock Exchange. A biplane airplane at an air show event crashes through a wall (seemingly intentionally) while landing, as onlookers watch. The plane is heavily damaged but lands on two wheels. Bread lines and soup lines for the hungry and unemployed men during the Great Depression. Lines at the bank during bank panic or run on a bank during the Great Depression. Vacant lot, stopped idle factory, and stopped railway switch yard during the Great Depression. Busy city street (possibly New York City lower east side) with push carts of street market vendors selling to shoppers and pedestrians. A horse cart is also seen on the street. More scenes of soup kitchens and bread lines for needy. Children jump rope, gathered on a wooden porch. Two men arriving at factory job carrying lunch boxes. Children playing jump rope. Exterior of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. as Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes his first oath for the President of the United States on March 4, 1933, and excerpt from his inaugural address focusing on jobs and putting people back to work.
A demonstration for United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower in New Hampshire. Supporters holding signs read “NEW HAMPSHIRE” and “LIKES IKE”. Other demonstrators holding signs reading, "Garden City Long Island We're Behind Ike!" and "Adelphi College Likes Ike." Men rolling out a poster that reads, “WE LIKE IKE”. Newspaper headline reads, "We Need Eisenhower." A woman covered in “I LIKE IKE” badges waves beside a sign that reads “AMERICA NEEDS EISENHOWER”. Eisenhower supporters holding signs that read “The Subway Circuit for Eisenhower” and “Hitch-IKERS.” Newspaper headlines read “Big Minn. Vote Spurs Ike Drive” and “IKE VOTE STUNS FOES”. General Eisenhower with Senator Cabot Lodge. Ike and Mamie Eisenhower shake hands with dignitaries in Europe. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie descend from an airplane. General Eisenhower walks past crowds. General Eisenhower saluting. General Eisenhower delivers his farewell to the armed forces as returns to civilian life, saying, "Comrades in arms and my friends. The Uniformed services of the United States are far too deeply embedded in my heart for me ever to say a final goodbye, I hope you will allow me to say "Until we meet again"”
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the office of Presidency in United States. A huge crowd gathered at Democratic National Convention. Hubert Humphrey is seen.Civil unrest. Fallen soldier in Vietnam. Ammunition dump in the jungle. People stand with the U.S. flags. A sign reads 'Illinois'. A sign in the background reads 'NBC News'. A fire in a building. People protest on streets. Hubert Humphrey gives a speech. Dead bodies of United States soldiers. Sandbags in the background. Damaged material lay on the ground. Unemployed citizens and poor people in United States. A man stands in a building. A woman with her child sits on chairs. The campaign stresses on choosing the right leader in United States. (Vietnam War period).
Construction yard for a United States "Victory Ship" during World War 2. View of hammer head cranes. Workers in the ship yard. Workers weld parts of victory ship. Cranes and machines. Cranes pull up a Part of ship. Different parts of the ship like giant fan of ship, nuts and bolts, copper wires, chains, ventilators, winches, large and small valves, ten ton anchor. A worker of ship talks about different ship parts built in different parts of the country and mining of minerals used to build a ship, in progress in various parts of the country. He tells about parts of the ship like engine and boiler brought to the shipyard. Launch of the ship SS Fred Morris from the shipyard. It slides down the ways into into the water. Recruitment of James Hacket of Colorado and other boys to States Maritime office of Commander Richmond, the superintendent. Emblem of United States Maritime. James Hacket goes to a queue outside medical examination room, talks to new recruits standing there and joins the queue. United States Maritime Service training station of the U.S. Coast Guard, where merchant marine seamen are trained, in Port Hueneme, California. United State Maritime training Station Band. Sailors march and officers salute to the flag at the training station.
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