Sports in United States. Men's final 220 yard ice skate race and Women's 230 yard final race in Minnesota, United States. Men's final 880 yard race. Girls race in snow shoes at Lewiston, Maine. Women with ice shoes, a girl falls at the beginning of the race. Men's race and pole vault at Madison Square Garden in New York.
British monarchs King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit tje United States. King George lays a wreath at the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon. King and Queen go to Arlington Cemetery and pay tribute to the unknown soldier. People stand besides street and at roof top to cheer the Royal couple. Royal couple at the state luncheon, enjoy sightseeing and review troops . U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife along with the Royal couple at Hyde Park in New York.
Latter part of a documentary, Mission Mind Control, about administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) on persons in the United States to advance its research (Project MKUltra). Dr. Sidney Cohen, an LSD expert, talks about the studies done by the CIA on LSD, and other hallucinogens, and how persons serving as drug test subjects for the CIA became some of the main advocates for the use of LSD in the 1960s. Ex Chief Psychologist CIA, John Gittinger, speaks about people doing the research. The role of the CIA in unwillingly contributing to the illegal drug and drug abuse counter culture of the 1960s. View of hippies on streets under the influence of drugs. Hippies at a protest demonstration and police dragging a man away by force. Hippies holding hands dancing near a group of densely packed camping tents. Hippie family in an encampment and hippie families swimming in a lake, unclothed. Narrator states that an argument can be made that the CIA helped usher in the Age of Aquarius.
Industrialization and the rise of capitalism and organized labor in 20th Century United States. Stockyards, factories and farms in Chicago area. Elevated view over Chicago stockyards as cattle move through the stockyards. Mass production takes place in factories leading to rise of capitalism in United States. Views inside a rubber goods factory as rubber is shaped, heated, formed, nad then passed on to a sewing room. A room full of mostly young men is seen at belt-driven mechanical sewing machines working on the rubber goods which resemble rubber hats. A more advanced mechanized reaper or wheat processing machine in use on a farm. Scene changes to a man standing in front of giant tall chalk boards, perhaps at an commodity exchange or shipment scheduling and tracking company of some kind. Boards are marked "Liverpool" and "New Orleans Jobs" and "New Orleans" and "New York." Formation of American Federation of Labor by Samuel Gompers and efforts of Jack London to safeguard the rights of laborers in America. Two labor workers hold picket signs and protest.
Manufacturing of aircraft in United States World War I. The United States engineer troops on board flat railroad cars as a locomotive pulls them away.
A truck tows a volkswagen beetle car with a bicycle tied to its back as the truck moves on an interstate highway in United States. A man wipes the windscreen of a truck at a gas station, truck being refueled. POV views of trucks, tankers and trailers on Interstate highway in the United States in the mid 1970s. Logs of wood loaded onto a truck as it moves along an Interstate highway.
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