Travelogue of West regions of United States. Map of North America highlights West regions. Shows landscape of American West region. Cowboys ride horses and chase bulls in a round up on a ranch. Shows Badlands and Black Hills areas of South Dakota. View of Mount Rushmore, and Great Plains areas. Bison on the plains. An old cabin from pioneer days when the west was settled. Men ride snowmobiles and do jumps on snowmobiles. Lower Yellowstone River Falls waterfall at Yellowstone National Park. Tourists visit as Old Faithful geyser erupts and people watch. Views of Grand Teton mountains and boats on lake with mountains behind.
Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.
British writer Herbert George Wells (H G Wells) poses aboard ship on visit to United States, in 1921, where he will attend Washington Disarmament Conference. He removes his hat. German composer Richard Strauss, on second visit to America, in 1921. (His first visit was in 1904.)
1940's vintage educational film on raising healthy and happy children in the United States. Teenage girl and boy, in bathing suits, paddling a canoe in canal. The boy paddles the towards the bank of canal and they both climb out and watch another couple in canoe pass. Young children play with a dog in the garden. A young boy holds a ball. A woman breast feeds her child. Baby lies on his stomach. Baby in the mother's lap. Baby jumps on a bed. Toddler of four years old in garden, plays and stand by walker. Babies by the chair and table. More children in the garden. Babies smile. Children of seven, eight, and nine years old play. Healthy young children. A young girl climbs up a pole. A boy in shorts hoists himself on a pullup bar.
Women and children collect vegetables. A man with eggs walks out of a barn with a young girl. Examples of recommended food servings and healthy diet for growing children, per Department of Foods and Nutrition of the New York State College of Home Economics. Milk poured in a glass. Orange squeezed for juice. Woman cuts cabbage, potatoes, vegetables in a vintage 1940's kitchen. Dry beans in glass bottles. Woman cuts meat into pieces, spreads butter on bread. Fruits in a plate. Woman prepares food and fries bacon. Teenage boys and girls in bathing suits walk along a dirt path. A young man throws a discus. Teenage boys and girls on tennis court play tennis. The girls wear tennis skirt outfits and the boys wear only shirts and are shirtless. Two teenage youth wrestle. Men shovel hay. U.S. Army Air Corps pilots confer and then board Curtiss P-36 Hawk military airplanes at airfield. They take off and fly the P-36 aircraft.
Fashion show presented in the guise of newly weds embarking on the liner SS United States for a honeymoon. The husband helps his bride remove her coat. They kiss each other and drink. They host a cocktail party. A model (ostensibly a Bridesmaid) and other "bridesmaids" join the couple and model fashions from the Bride's trousseau. The fashions are by designer Carol King and were first seen when worn by actress Janet Leigh in the motion picture, "Walking my Baby back Home."
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