Demonstration against war in the United States before World War II. Pacifist college age young men lampooning and portraying themselves as leaders engaged in war, which include German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Japanese General Hideki Tojo, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The men give a Nazi salute, and place a wreath at mock tomb of an Unknown Soldier.
A research film based on U.S. arson demonstration in the United States during World War II. A man covers a wooden crate. Small amount of gunpowder and magnesium power is placed inside the wooden crate. A group of men and officers talk to each other. The wooden crate is detonated. Smoke rises up from the box. Larger amount of powder is detonated inside plain wooden building which then bursts into flames.
U.S. Naval Oil Reserve in the United States. Derricks at oil reserve. Oil running from one sump to another at oil reserve. Various views of derricks and sump.
Reenactment shows American folk blues musician Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly) singing in a prison in United States. Lead Belly and other two African American men wearing striped prison uniform in a cell. Lead Belly sings and plays a guitar. Muisicologist John Lomax appreciates folk song sung by Lead Belly and says that he has recorded the songs on recorder. lead Belly refers to sending the recording to Governor Allen (Oscar K. Allen) of Louisiana, in hopes of influencing him to commute his sentence.
Reenactment shows American folk blues musician Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly) in a prison cell in the United States. Lead Belly and others wearing striped uniforms in a cell. Lead Belly holds his guitar and speaks to other African American prisoners in cell. View of other prisoners seated.
Reenactment shows American folk blues musician Lead Belly in a prison cell in the United States. Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter) wearing striped uniform in a cell. Other African American prisoners seated. Lead Belly plays his guitar and sings verses from his song,"Good Night Irene." John Lomax praises Lead Belly and his song and says that he has recorded it on a machine. Lead Belly says he hopes they can send it to Louisiana Governor Allen.
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