A horse and a woman eat near a road. Civilians eat and dine at various fast food restaurants, lunch counters, diners, and road side stands in the United States. A woman waitress prepares coffee for people at a public diner. People drink coffee at lunch counter or diner. Examples of early fast food automation, including kitchen worker pushing bread loaves through automatic bread slicing machine. Toast pops up from high capacity restaurant toaster. Cheese or meat drops from automated slicer onto counter. Hands seen preparing sandwich at high speed. Automated system dispenses batter onto hot griddle or pan to make pancakes. Man dispenses coffee from large silver coffee urn. Close view of diners eating sandwiches and drinking coffee. Automated pancake flipping spatula on machine turns pancakes. Rapid fire scenes of food preparation. Hand with cloth wipes counter clean from crumbs. Two women wipe their mouths at same time and rise from seats at lunch counter to leave.
From a U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast.' Depicts soil problems in farming and solutions via terracing. Trees near farm land. Withered, irregular plants on poor soil. Healthy crops ready for harvest in a large terraced farmland. Trees and barns at the end of field. A farmer plows field with a tractor. Crops in the farm land. Two men walk on the field. Farmers care for growing plants. A man checks the black soil suitable for the growth of crops. Water flows through a channel to irrigate the crops. Two farmers operate a hand plow. A man plows hardened soil of field standing on a horse-drawn plow. From an H.W. Wilson Company listing in 1940 of its Educational Film holdings: This is a Soil conservation service film. As beautiful scenes of the countryside unfold the commentator tells us that much of America's oldest farming land is in the Northeast. The serious soil erosion situation is frequently taken care of by terracing. We learn how terracing is done, its advantages and see land so cultivated. Terracing is used successfully for growing potatoes, tobacco, truck farming and for fruit culture. Cover crops are planted and when turned under add fertility to the soil. It is necessary to inspect the terraces regularly and to keep the channels of the outlets clear. An informative picture showing construction and uses of terraces and other erosion control measures as applied to northeastern part of United States. New Hampshire.
On terraced farming in the northeastern United States. Various farming equipment and techniques for improving soil and crop output. Various plows and tractors with disc for improving soil. Preparing a field for new planting. Tractor pulling plow with tines. A plowed field ready for sowing seeds with even furrows. Different tractor on a field. A tractor starting work on an unimproved field. Improved, terraced fields. Men walk on the fields. Road to a farmhouse lined by trees.
Japanese American children at school in a relocation center (internment camp) during World War 2. The U.S. flag on a relocation center. Young children in Kindergarten class. Teachers teach small students in a primary class. Girl student in the class solves problems. Students learn to play basketball at a court. Slate notes, "How do they react to the rising tide of racial prejudice? Well, here's one answer -- a growing feeling among the older Japanese that they will be permanently segregated and become wards of the United States, like the American Indian. Thus willing hands erect more permanent school buidlings." View of Japanese-American worker-residents in the camp building school buildings. Nisei students and American teacher at a high school. A girl solves trigonometry problems, standing at the black board in a class room. A student arranges drawers in a rack. Older Japanese-born men and women (Issei) learning in a school classroom. A student writes answers on the blackboard.
On Target ' a documentary on 8th Airforce of the United States. A B-52 air-launches an AGM-28 Hound Dog supersonic jet-powered cruise missile which is seen soaring under its own power. A formation of World War II B-24 Liberator bombers flying above clouds. A formation of B-17 bombers in flight.
American evacuees leave their house with their belongings in the United States during World War 2. A woman, boy, and a girl (the three possibly of German or Italian descent) stand by as their belongings are packed up. Their belongings being loaded onto a truck with assistance from U.S. military personnel, and the truck moves away. Two policemen and a dog, patrol in front of an internment center. Military guard stops the cars passing by at the entrance. A Japanese relocation center under construction. Men load bags of sand building a sandbag wall beside a building and painting windows with black paint. Views again of the same American family from earlier in the clip, possibly of German or Italian heritage, begin relocated to an alien internment center.
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