A World War 2 training film in the United States about the means and importance of camouflage in a war. An observer studies an aerial photograph. Markings on a photograph. A drawing depicts the means of detecting an enemy installation as trucks leave marks on the road leading to the installation. It depicts how the traffic must be rooted past the installation. Soldiers at a map as they discuss and take down notes. A soldier puts up a sign on a tree that reads 'Keep on taped path', 'no smoking after sundown'. A soldier covers a truck with dry branches of a tree.
A film titled 'The Story of Transportation' dramatizes the primitive and ancient means of transportation in the United States. Dramatization depicts a man as Aladdin with a lamp. He rubs the lamp and Jinny appears. Aladdin seated in a palace. An old man roaming about in a forest. Mules and camels carry load on their backs. A group of primitive men push a sled. Dogs pull sled carts. Schooners and stage coaches are used as means of transport. A sketch of a steam locomotive.
A film about means of transportation from ancient times to modern times in the United States. The first railroad train De Witt Clinton at a museum. A steam locomotive emits steam as it pulls a railroad train. Portraits of Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, Nikola Tesla, Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse.
A film concerning railroad electrification in the United States. A westbound Boston and Maine Railroad steam train at East Portal, Hoosac Tunnel, where the railroad was electrified in 1911. An electric locomotive approaches the steam engine. ( Note the carbide headlamp on the electric locomotive--which were outlawed by the ICC circa 1918. ) The motor pulls the steam engine and its train West. Next: a 'cab ride' from North Adams, Massachusetts to West Portal and subsequently exits the East Portal of the 4.75 mile long Hoosac Tunnel.
A film about means of transportation from ancient times to the modern in the United States. Four tracked electrified Hell Gate Bridge that connects northeastern region to south and west.
A film about means of transportation from ancient times to the modern in the United States. An electric freight train moves along a track of the Norfolk and Western Railway. An electric engine pulls railroad cars loaded with industrial raw material.
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