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Montage of U.S. scenes covering various parts of the nation
Opening scene shows a wheat field in the United States. White hot molten metal collected in ladles as a furnace is tapped. Sandstone buttes the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley Park. Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, looking North from the Art Institute. A white church in a suburban setting. The Japanese cherry trees in bloom along the Tidal Basin in Washington,DC. A major river and an old fashioned stern wheeler River Boat cruising on it. A street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana. A roadway in Florida. A fishing village scene in New England. A formation of oil well pumps operating out West. Cowboys herding cattle. View of the Statue of Liberty with dramatic sunset behind it. Two U.S. Marines conversing as they look at the Manhattan skyline in New York City. Aerial view of the skyscrapers on Manhattan Island. View of Times Square in Manhattan, with the Astor Hotel visible (It was razed in 1967). Police officer directing traffic at an intersection. Two Marines walking past the United Nations Building in Manhattan, New York City. View of the General Assembly Building and construction site of the The Dag Hammarskjöld Library Building being added in front of it. Camera pans upward showing Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Camera pans the U.S. Capitol building, followed by the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument (viewed from steps of the Lincoln Memorial across the reflecting pool, in Washington, DC. A Marine color guard marches across the lawn in front of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park Virginia, as the Marine Band marches and plays. Closeup of the Memorial with American flag flying above it.
Baseball game between Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox, likely Memorial Day 1916
A baseball game being played at Navin Field, in Detroit, Michigan. Based on the uniforms, the size of the crowd, and the action seen in the clip, this is very likely the second game of a doubleheader played by the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox May 30, 1916, on the holiday then known as Decoration Day (now Memorial Day). Clip opens with shots of one White Sox player, two Tigers players hitting. Camera pans across packed stands. Tigers outfielder and Hall of Famer Ty Cobb (with split grip on bat) reaches out to get a hit. White Sox catcher Ray Schalk removes mask, gets ready for throw. Detroit player tries to score; Schalk receives the ball, applies the tag. Umpire's call is difficult to discern. Action shifts to an overhead view. Three White Sox players score on a hit, the last one sliding past an attempted tag by Detroit catcher Oscar Stanage. Detroit pitcher Harry Coveleski gets final out of the inning. Detroit player reaches first base on infield error. The next batter pokes a ball over first baseman for a single. Other Tigers players hit. The Tigers would win this game 9-8.
Dramatization depicts: members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington during civil war.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro Southern dramatization on the effect of the Civil War and the reconstruction. Prewar conditions on the Cameron estate in Piedmont, South Carolina. The members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington are introduced. Men and women reading a newspaper outside a house. The newspaper headlined read: 'If the North carries the election, the South will secede'. An abolitionists meeting. They discuss about the news. The Stoneman library in Washington. Women cleaning the library. One of the woman leaves. A man enters and talks to the woman. They argue and the man leaves the room. The woman cry. Man portrayed as Leader of the Senate Charles Sumner in the library. He looks at the books kept on a table. He arrives near the woman and talks to her. A woman and a man talking amongst themselves in a room. Other man enters and talks to them.
Scenes of West Side neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois.
Elevated views of large buildings of Chicago and ground nearby. Buses and 1960s cars on busy roads, streets, and highways in West Chicago area. A streetcar or trolley goes by on the road. Its connecting electric rod can be seen above it. Pedestrians walk on roads and sidewalks in the Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago. Shops in the area. Three women walk on sidewalk in front of a pizzeria. Old men on streets. A residential housing area, and the Notre Dame de Chicago Roman Catholic Church (1335 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607, United States) nearby. High rise apartment buildings and housing projects. City of Chicago workers, of the Department of Urban Renewal, work to clean debris from an area and load it on a truck. A huge building under construction.
Alexander Graham Bell at 1916 ceremony; Telephone manufacturing at Western Electric Company plant in Chicago
A film titled "The world's telephone workshop". Opening scene shows ceremony on March 10, 1916, with Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, unveiling a plaque at the invention site of the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The plaque, at 109 Court Street, states "Here the Telephone was Born, June 2, 1875" and it notes that it was placed by The Bostonian Society and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alexander Graham Bell tips his hat to the crowd as they celebrate the unveiling. View of Western Electric Company plant in Chicago as smoke emerges from chimneys. Turbines in coal power plant. Massive group of thousands of American workers gathered together, from all walks of life, who are employed in the telephone industry.
Hungarian refugees working in factories, attending school in Chicago.
Sign reads “State of Illinois Department of Labor Division of Unemployment Compensation Illinois State Employment Service Affiliated with United States Employment Service”. An Illinois State Employment Agency officer picks up a rotary dial phone to make calls. Employee making calls and inspecting files. A Hungarian refugee who has immigrated to the United States talking on phone and smiling. State Employment Agency Officer reads a file on his desk while talking on the phone. A worker lifts a cogwheel and puts it on a bench. Worker grinding teeth on a cogwheel. Hungarian immigrant cleaning a lathe at the Jones-Dabney Co. factory in Chicago. Hungarian refugee wears a white “Jones-Dabney Co.” cap while working. A Hungarian woman works as a draftsman. Draftsmen drawing at drafting tables. External view of a Chicago area Catholic school. Elementary students attend class at a Catholic school in Chicago. Views of children seated at their desks in the classroom, facing the teacher during class. Hungarian refugees attend Catholic school. A priest teaches students reading. “My Captain Boy Savior” is written above the blackboard. Hungarian refugee girls listening in class. Hungarian girl reading a Catholic children’s book, “This is our Town: Faith and Freedom” (by M.A. Sister M. Marguerite, S.N.D.). “Boy Savior Our Guiding Star” written on the wall of the classroom. First grade students learn to write using crayons.
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