Old Soviet Embassy building in Washington D.C., United States. Soviet Flag flutters in wind from flagpole on top of Old Soviet Embassy building,Washington D.C. Trees in foreground. Other unidentified buildings in the foreground. Traffic moves along Massachusetts Avenue. Main entrance of the Soviet Embassy. Autos parked in foreground.
Steam locomotive, number 79, of the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railway on a slightly elevated track, next to a coal car.in a train yard. Worker is examining and possibly oiling parts of engine drive. Scene shifts to interior of locomotive maintenance shop where men work on a train car parked next to a locomotive. Scene shifts, again, to view from rear of moving train as it traverses route along the valley floor, from vicinity of Spargursville (AKA Spargurs) to Bainbridge, including bridges over Sulphur Creek , Alexander Hollow Rd, and both bridges over Paint Creek between the two towns. The train passes a tender connected to some sort steam driven machine (probably a pile driver as they are working on trestles). Also shown are box cars converted into bunk houses used by the work crew, which appear to be parked at Storms, only 6.9 miles from Summit, where the work is likely being undertaken. . The film ends at the Bainbridge train station. (Note: regarding the reference to work going on at Summit. Although not seen in this sequence, the track there was so steep that trains had to be broken down and moved up a few cars, at a time, to the top, where the train was then reassembled before proceeding.)
Twenty millionth Ford car in Lebanon, Tennessee. The twenty millionth Ford, a black Town Sedan, on a ferry. The driver is seen inside the car. View of the shore as the ferry approaches dock at Cumberland River. The twenty millionth Ford in the business district of Nashville. A crowd gathers around the car. Views of the crowd surrounding the twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford.
Panorama of business district Tacoma in Washington, United States. Aerial view of buildings. A drawbridge. Ships at anchor. Pacific Avenue, the main business artery of Tacoma. Horse-drawn vans and pedestrian traffic. Several parks and open spaces in the city. Residential areas in the city. Point Defiance Park. Exterior of several buildings. Men walking in parks and towards the buildings. Complete change of scene, from Tacoma, to views of the first Thurston County Courthouse, in Olympia, Washington, where the State Legislature met in a new East Wing, from 1905 to 1927. (Aka the old Capitol).
Coverage of kidnapping of 10 year old boy Charles Mattson, kidnapped from his house in Tacoma, Washington. Policemen and social security guards place the body of Charles Mattson in an ambulance. Snow covered field of bushes and stumps where the body was found, in Snohomish County, approximately four-and-a-half miles south of Everett. A house nearby the site. Gordon Morrow, the 19 year old who discovered the body of Mattson. The place where the body was found in the snow, about 150 feet west of the Edmonds-Beverly Park Road. Camera men taking pictures. Anxious crowd and investigators surround the area. Cars along the snowy road. Foot prints of the murderer.
Shows an old fashioned parade on the eve of Easter in Chicago,Illinois. Participants dressed in old-time clothes and riding in buggies march through the streets of the city. People gather in large numbers and cheer. Women participants pose for the camera.
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