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New York City scenes around 1950 and views of the Burlington Mills operations in North Carolina, USA.
Documentary titled 'Woven into the life of America', on manufacture of various types of garments by the Burlington Mills in North Carolina, United States. View of the Statue of Liberty and of New York City Manhattan Island skyline from the New York Harbor. A boat underway at harbor. Aerial view of tall buildings and skyscrapers of New York City. Streets of busy New York City, with pedestrians in 1950s fashions walking on sidewalks of New York City, and some shopping. Trendy clothes are displayed in a shop's window. A model wearing a night gown. A bride being dressed. A receptionist at the reception counter of the Burlington Mills. Employees at work on loom machines.
American people honor sailors of the U.S. Navy; views of towns, cities, people in the United States right after World War 2.
A film intended for U.S. Navy personnel about the return to civilian life after World War 2 and the better life of Americans in the United States as a result of their service. Film created immediately after the end of World War 2. A boy practices baseball, hitting the ball and running. View of the baseball diamond with a New York City bridge in the background. Women with children walk around in a park. A man greets a sailor of the U.S. Navy, shakes his hand and thanks him for his service. A mother talks to a child that is sitting on her lap as they read a book. Fishermen raise up fishing nets at a dock and process a catch of crabs. A man works in a laboratory. Dignitaries salute as soldiers march carrying the American flag. Two boys walk directly behind two U.S. Navy sailors and try to copy exactly how the sailors are walking. An elderly woman prays, kneeling in a church. People stand in a baseball stadium as the U.S. National Anthem begins to play. A sailor raises the American flag as other sailors stand at attention. Aerial view of a field in the U.S. Cattle graze on field. A man rides a bicycle in a small town, and tips his hat to a woman leaving a house. A boy with a manual push lawn mower cuts grass in the background. Automobile traffic in a small American town of the 1940s. Aerial view of the skyscrapers of a city. View of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Houses or businesses and small boats and docks along a waterfront in Essex Connecticut. A board reads 'Here was built the Oliver Cromwell Connecticut warship in the Revolution 1776."
16 million men register themselves in United States for the WWII draft, and President Roosevelt addresses from White House.
As World War II heats up, 16,500,000 men between ages 21 to 36 register themselves throughout the United States, signing up during the first peacetime conscription in U.S. history. (This was triggered by passage of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, the genesis of "Selective Service.") Opening scene shows men lining up to register for the draft before the United States entered World War 2. Views of men filing out their registration forms. At TC:00:22 famous prize fighter, Barney Ross, is being registered. .(He jokes that the registrar shaking his hand has too strong a grip.) At TC: 00:34 Hollywood cowboy Gene Autry is seen registering. Close up view of street signs at Chinatown intersection of Bayard Street and Mott Street in New York City. Sign below it notes "School Street. Drive Slowly. Make no unnecessary noise." Line of many registrants of Chinese-American descent waiting in line, and processing paperwork. Scene changes to another area of the city, where a line of mostly African American men wait outside a registration building. Some cheer and wave for the camera. A police officer at the entrance hustles them inside, pulling some of them along. View of the exterior of the White House in Washington DC. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the nation's men of draft age, telling them that the call up of 800,000 men for training in year one, and less than one million men in each subsequent year, is a program of defensive preparation only. Roosevelt says to the registrants that "Democracy is your cause. The cause of youth." ( Note: silent except for President Roosevelt speaking at the end.)
Chicago 'Bears' beat New York 'Giants' with a score of 37-21 in New York City.
Chicago 'Bears' win over New York 'Giants' by a score of 37-21 in New York City. The game in progress. A crowd cheers in the stands. Chicago 'Bears' beat New York 'Giants'.
New York Giants defeat Washington RedSkins by 21-7 during a Pro football match between them as crowd watches in New York City.
New York Giants defeat Washington RedSkins during a Pro football in New York City. A large crowd gathers to witness the match. The players during the match. The New York Giants defeat the Redskins by 21-7.
Electricity produced by turbine generators in a power plant in the US, and uses for that electricity in cities and homes.
Commuters climbing stairs from subway to street and seen inside the lobby of a New York City office building. An electric utility switch yard. Heavy construction equipment in operation and interior of private home, where electricity is always available. Boy playing with toy electric trains on floor of living room. A woman housewife using an electric mixer in a vintage 1940s kitchen. A man turns on a wall light switch. View of turbine generator deck in a power plant. Use of fuel to produce electricity is explained by animation. Burning of fuel to transform water to steam. The steam is directed towards a windmill which converts heat energy into mechanical energy. This mechanical energy is converted into electric energy by a turbine generator. The working of turbine generator is explained.
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