A World War II training film depicts the use of barrage balloon to damage enemy airplanes flying at low altitude during a war in the United States. Animation shows the function of upper link attached in the wire cable as an enemy airplane hits the cable. Animation shows the function of the lower link as the airplane hits the cable. The flying cable is cut. The parachute opens. The balloons attached with wire cables in sky. The results of the cable armament operation. An enemy airplane burns. Soldiers look at the airplane as it burns. The soldiers retrieve the balloon. A soldier folds the links of cable. Another soldier holds a link in his hand.
U.S. soldiers training in the United States during World War 1. Several soldiers run across a field, towards the camera. Two of them carry light machine guns. A bugler leads a group of soldiers towards a mess tent where they are served food,into their mess kits. They eat standing, at long tables. Army Post Brass band marches and plays. Horses and mules in a corral at Army post.
1917 Enfield Rifles (U. S. Rifle, Model of 1917) being manufactured in the United States at one of 3 arms plants (Winchester, Remington, or Eddystone) during World War 1 (between the Spring of 1917 and the Spring of 1919). Film shows assemblers hand fitting parts, a worker adjusting the front sight for proper "zero" in a machine vise, and "Proof" firing before final inspection and acceptance. (Note: At the peak of production, the 3 arms plants were turning out 10,000 rifles per day.)
Soong Mei-ling or Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Chongqing (Chungking), China from the United States. Madame Chiang with American Red Cross girls. She walks and speaks to the girls. Madame Chiang and the girls standing at the shore of a beach. Soong Mei-ling meets the U.S. officers and Generals. She is escorted by a Chinese official. Soong Mei-ling enters a car. She gets out of the car and climbs up a ladder. Soong Mei-ling boards C-54 Skymaster. The C-54 takes off for Chongqing. The aircraft in flight. A pilot and crew at controls. A crew member plotting a graph. The pilot at the controls talks. The crew members and the pilot talking.
A film depicts parts of Ford Model 40 Tudor Sedan car being assembled at Ford Motor Company in the United States. The workers grinding different parts. Several views of the men operating machine and working on the parts of car. A worker welding parts. The workers making body of the car. A worker painting body of a car. The workers doing glass grinding. The glass on conveyor. A worker placing glass in car. The workers putt upholstery in car. They attach body and fenders to frame. A worker placing tires. The Ford car moving off assembly line. A view in steel mill. A sign 'Production Schedule for To-day 5000, Completed 4996'.
(Animated cartoons for majority of clip; actual office and early computer scenes near end of clip.) Accompanying narration about the origins of the United States census and establishment of the permanent Census office in 1902. Animation and cartoons illustrate the manner in which the census was taken over its history. A cartoon illustration of census worker, Henry Hollerith, developer of the punch card method of data recording and manipulation. (The 88 column punch cards shown in use in 1950, bear his name.) Equipment illustrated include: punch card sorting machinery; and early digital computer. Actual Images of 1970 era early computer and tape machines and related electronic computer keyboards. A worker mounting a tape on a machine in an office.
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