Dramatization. View of The Virginia Lodge motel at 6027 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA 22303-2101 from roof of building across the highway. An FBI agent observes motel while crouched on roof top. Close up man looking through binoculars. POV through binoculars at motel with parked cars. FBI agent removes binoculars and uses wireless telephone to communicate with another agent in an office, saying, "Eyeball 1 to dugout." FBI agent in office calls to “Eyeball 2”, another agent. View through car windshield of FBI agent talking on remote telephone while observing motel. FBI agent in office on phone. Chief of police answers the telephone from his office. A white panel truck drives in parking lot. FBI agent and chief of police talks to each other on the phone. Mugshots of criminals. Hand pointing to map drawn in chalk on blackboard. Virginia state troopers in meeting before sting operation. A senior police officer says to the gathering, "I want each of you to come up to the board and show me just what you will do from start to finish." Black and white photos of a car parked in front of a motel. A Virginia State Police car, a 4-door 1964 Plymouth Fury, rush into motel parking lot. Policemen hide behind police car. Police car rush to the scene in the motel. Policemen aim their guns hiding behind police cars in the motel parking lot. A man drinks a bottle of wine from his bed. Another man answers telephone call from the police. Man pulls out a handgun to confront surrounding police. View through motel window curtains at police with guns drawn. “They’re all over, it’s finished!” the man shouts at his companion in bed. Policeman pointing gun from behind building. Two men emerge out of motel room, backing out of doorway their hands in the air with their backs turned from the police. Policeman uses megaphone while holding a pistol, saying, "spread your feet apart." Suspects put hands against wall and FBI agents frisk the two arrested men thoroughly. FBI agents handcuff the two men and lead them away. State police enter the motel. Closing credits "The Federal Bureau of Investigation."
United States President Woodrow Wilson at his office in the White House after the entrance of the United States into World War 1. President Wilson holding a telephone on top of his filing cabinet. President Wilson signing documents from his desk. A little girl waves the flag of the United States as US troops (American Expeditionary Forces or AEF) mobilize to leave for Europe. Men holding baskets during a parade as flowers are thrown before them. Crowds watch as American Expeditionary Forces march in a parade. Men and women wave good-bye at soldiers leaving for Europe. A government official with a senior military official watch the deployment of soldiers to Europe.
State Department Foreign Service officer Boris Hansen Klosson narrates anti-communist film during the Cold War. Klosson speaks about the divisiveness and infiltration by communists change the people’s psyche. “The ties that once bound people to each other is systematically severed. In a society pockmarked by unknown informers, suspicion came to replace friendliness” Klosson said. The communist system ensures the individual would feel isolated and helpless without the state. the individual is made to believe that their only choice is carrying the will of the communist state. “Submit or be crushed- This is the ultimate aim of the communist seizure of power” Klosson concludes. Closing slide reads “In our unrelenting fight against the poison of Communism, our greatest weapon is knowledge. The more we know about our enemy, the greater is our strength”. (Film is example of Anti-communist or so called Red menace propaganda)
Italian prisoners of war (POWs) volunteer for the Italian Service Units, as part of the Engineers Corps. in the United States during World War II. Italian POWs take an outdoor basic English class at a camp in North Carolina. A United States soldier serves as their teacher. Blackboard is written with “English Ciao”. A prisoner of war writes on the portable blackboard. Italian Service Units part of the U.S. Engineers Corps raise their hands. A prisoner of war volunteer salutes and shake hands with a United States Engineers Corps officer. ISUs are wearing American uniforms with the Italian Service Unit insignia (“Italy”) on brassard worn on the left sleeve and stitched onto the standard garrison cap. An Italian Service Unit volunteer uses a jackhammer to crush a block of stone. Two volunteers sawing a log. Other volunteers learn carpentry. Italian Service Units marching and stand at attention on the field inside a camp.
Construction yard for a United States "Victory Ship" during World War 2. View of hammer head cranes. Workers in the ship yard. Workers weld parts of victory ship. Cranes and machines. Cranes pull up a Part of ship. Different parts of the ship like giant fan of ship, nuts and bolts, copper wires, chains, ventilators, winches, large and small valves, ten ton anchor. A worker of ship talks about different ship parts built in different parts of the country and mining of minerals used to build a ship, in progress in various parts of the country. He tells about parts of the ship like engine and boiler brought to the shipyard. Launch of the ship SS Fred Morris from the shipyard. It slides down the ways into into the water. Recruitment of James Hacket of Colorado and other boys to States Maritime office of Commander Richmond, the superintendent. Emblem of United States Maritime. James Hacket goes to a queue outside medical examination room, talks to new recruits standing there and joins the queue. United States Maritime Service training station of the U.S. Coast Guard, where merchant marine seamen are trained, in Port Hueneme, California. United State Maritime training Station Band. Sailors march and officers salute to the flag at the training station.
Port bow view of the S.S. United States comes up the river. S.S. United States underway, two large red stacks, sides of ships are painted black. American flag flies forward of the no. one stack. Several life boats are in the Davits along the port side. Stern view of a civilian tug underway up the Port bow of the S.S. United States. Port bow of the ship shows letters 'UNITED STATES' on the ship, buildings seen along the water line. Steam emitted from both the stacks. Bow view of ship underway in the river, merchant ship on the way in right and shoreline is seen to the left and right. Port bow of the United States underway in the Elizabeth River.
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