Sea plane loaded with mails in the United States. The government removes the transportation of postal matter from the hands of private companies. Men load mails in the plane. Pilot in the cockpit. Sea plane takes off.
People suffer due to various disasters in the year 1949. Destruction in Ecuador due to the 1949 Ambato earthquake. A house falling apart during an earthquake. Rubble of houses, buildings, and churches in the Tungurahua Province. People clear the rubble and take out the dead bodies. Damage caused to livestock due to blizzard in the western plains of the United States. Dead cattle lie in the snow. A calf staggers in heavy snow. Airplanes drop fodder down to cattle for food. People gather at airplane crash site for Eastern Airlines flight 537 on November 1, 1949, after the passenger airplane, bound for a landing at Washington National Airport, had a mid-air collision with a military Lockheed P-38, and crashed beside the west bank of the Potomac River. Crash site of the Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 (N88727) at Alexandria, Virginia. People moving dead bodies of passengers on stretchers. The steamer SS Noronic destroyed due to fire in Toronto harbor. View of the wrecked, smoking passenger ship. Dead bodies of the passengers being moved. People cry and mourn.
United States Navy sailors gather around torpedo tube aboard American ship. Derelict ship in distance. At close range to derelict, a torpedo is launched, striking amidship, causing ship to capsize and sink. Sailors wear caps with tassels.
African American workers picking cotton on a cotton farm in the American south, circa 1930. An African American young girl sits on the back of a cotton bag as it is pulled through the field by a worker. Workers loading cotton bales onto river steamboat. Steam whistle on steamship blows. Paddle wheel of stern wheeler river boat turning. The boat navigating the river in southern United States and view of wake at stern. Views of several different American rivers in various surroundings. Background audio is a choir singing songs "Deep River" and then "Shenandoah."
During war ration period in the United States, women crowd around to buy silk stockings from stores in the U.S., during World War II. Women look at silk stockings in windows. Interiors of store. Crowd of women shoppers gathered at a store counter waiting to purchase silk stockings. Women buying stockings.
French actor Charles Boyer and British actress Merle Oberon at a post office. A sign reads 'United States Post Office'. Charles Boyer meets Merle Oberon at the steps of the building. They both have alien registration forms in their hands. Boyer and Oberon talk together.
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