The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Visitors climbing up and down the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) stairs. Fluted Doric columns made of Yule marble in the Lincoln Memorial. View of the Lincoln Memorial landmark from Lincoln Memorial Circle roadway, facing the Reflecting Pool. Cars driving on Lincoln Memorial Circle roadway. The Lincoln Memorial at daytime. Cars taking the Arlington Memorial Bridge with the Arts of War Sculptures (620 Ohio Dr SW, Washington, DC 20037, United States). Cars pass by the Lincoln Memorial. The Washington Monument is seen in the background.
Election campaign advertisement for President John F Kennedy. Hand holds a banner that reads 'Kennedy'. Picture of John F Kennedy with signs that read 'Greatness', 'Leader for the 60's'. Collage with pictures of President Kennedy and other well known American leaders, and also with state and city names: 'Indiana', 'NewYork', 'Oregon', 'Illinois', 'Ohio', 'Michigan', 'Texas' and 'California'. Hands with banners that read, 'Kennedy for President'. Picture of President John F Kennedy with wife Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and daughter Caroline Kennedy. Ad features background chorus singing a two stanza jingle with "Kennedy" chorus including stanza lines, "Do you want a man for President who's seasoned through and through, but not so doggone seasoned that he won't try something new? A man who's old enough to know and young enough to do? Well it's up to you it's up to you, it's strictly up to you. Do you like a man who answers straight, a man who's always fair? Well measure him against the others and when you compare, you'll cast your vote for Kennedy and the change that's overdue, so it's up to you, it's up to you, it's strictly up to you." Campaign advertisement features vintage 1960's television advertising style.
Lt. Russell Maughan in the United States. Lt. Maughan gets into a cockpit and another man helps him. A man cranks a fuel pump by hand and others stand near it. A Curtiss PW-8 plane takes stop in Dayton, Ohio. A man notes on a paper and others stand near him. The plane taxis on a field. People stand at the back. The plane takes off for St. Joseph. Bystanders obscure the view of the take off.
Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.
Animated map shows Houses of Refuge on Florida Atlantic coast, and Coast Guard Stations along the Gulf coast. View of a hurricane on the Gulf coast. Coast Guard Station personnel distributing food to hurricane victims. A victim receiving medical care. Scene shifts to California coast where Coast Guard Stations are found at San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and on the Northwest coast leading up to Puget Sound and Seattle in Washington state. Scene shifts again, to the Great Lakes where many Coast Guard Stations are shown on map, most of them along Lake Michigan. A station is indicated at the Great Falls of the Ohio River in Kentucky.
Some restrospective scenes with William Jennings Bryan, assembled after his sudden death in Dayton, Ohio, shortly after the celebtrated "Scopes" trial in 1925. Bryan speaking in front of a residence. (Slate notes he ran for Presidency three times, and was Secretary of State in cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson.) Bryan wearing a cloak and hat, walking on a rainy day, in a city. Automobiles parked at the curb in the background. He smiles, stops and removes his hat to pose for the camera. Next, a closeup of Bryan, bareheaded. Scene shifts to New York City, in 1924, where Bryan stands with his brother, Charles W. Bryan, former Governor of Nebraska, who was nominated as Vice-Presidential candidate during the Democratic Party Convention. William Jennings Bryan conducting one of his weekly Bible classes and Sunday Sermon, to a large outdoor audience, from a stage, in Royal Palm Park, Miami, Florida. Closeup of him gesticulating as he speaks. Bryan and members of his family standing on the bayfront balcony of his residence,“Villa Serena," on the occasion of a visit by former U.S. President Warren G. Harding, who stands behind several Bryan grandchildren
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