Film titled ‘Brooklyn USA’ based on Brooklyn borough of New York City. Brooklyn Bridge spanning East River in New York City. Traffic along road. Various buildings in Brooklyn. View of Manhattan skyline of skyscrapers, as seen from Brooklyn. Commercial establishments with signs in various languages, including: Spanish, Italian, and Arabic. Alamphon Arabic Records shop. Brooklynites dresses as native American Indians play music. People sitting on benches, in the sun. Street signs for Myrtle Avenue and Herkimer Street. Building with sign reading: "Greepoint. Post No. 24, American Legion." Sign reads ‘T.S.F.T.P.O.D.R.A.B Sidney H. Ascher’. Official walks down the steps of a brownstone apartment building. He speaks to the camera. Milestone with directions and distances inscribed on it, including "10 1/2 miles to N. York ferry." Street signs at intersection of Lady Moody Square and Avenue U. Historic homes and building. Brownstone homes in fashionable district near Garden Place. Sign at corner of Fulton Street and Pineapple Street. Sign for Orange Street. Signs at Vine Street and Columbia Heights,at Cranberry and Henry Streets,and at Poplar, Willow, and Middagh Streets.
Brooklyn borough of the New York City. Railroad yards at waterfront, with ships in background. Tugboat pulling a loaded barge along a canal. Exteriors of Brooklyn Borough Hall. Main gates of Brooklyn College. Exteriors of Plymouth Church of Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights. Henry Ward Beecher statue at the church, including images of two slave girls crouching at its base. Steeples and domes of various houses of worship. View of cemetery with bust of Horace Greely among the stones and statuary.
Film titled ‘D-Day Convoy’ based on invasion of Normandy (D-Day) by Allied Forces during World War II. Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Prime Minister of UK Winston Churchill seated at Tehran Conference in December 1943. Other officials stand behind the big three. U.S. General George Marshall, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe Dwight Eisenhower and other officials seated at a conference table. Map of France details cross channel assault of France by Allied Forces. Map shows coastal locations to be attacked by Allies. Weapons and equipment from America pouring into England. U.S. soldiers arrive in England and train, for the invasion, on southern coast of England. U.S. B-26 bombers hitting German targets and smoke billowing up from exploding bombs. B-17 bomber in flight and bombs falling on German industrial targets. Gunners on B-17s defend against German fighter aircraft. American bomber explodes in flight after attack by German fighter airplane. German Messerschmitt fighter is destroyed. From edited film produced in 1947.
A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. An animated map highlights Calcutta in India, Santahar and Parbatipur in Bangladesh. A train loaded with U.S. jeeps and trucks. The trucks and a jeep driven onto flat railroad cars. A train moves on a track. U.S. troops board boats on the banks of the Brahamputra River and are ferried to Pandu. A barge loaded with railroad cars moves towards the ferry point of Pandu. An animated map connects Parbatipur with Dhubri, Pandu and Chabua. Chabua is ultimately connected to Kunming in China. U.S. troops sort and unload supplies at Chabua satellite field.
A film titled 'The San Jose Project' gives an introduction of chemical warfare tests carried out by U.S. Army on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Film opens with scenes of U.S. troops battling Japanese on Pacific islands during World War II. Tank mounted flamethrower being used to burn Japanese from caves. Backpack style handheld flamethrower being used by U.S. Marine at mouth of a cave. A Japanese soldier emerges from a cave and is shot by American soldiers. Scene changes to China, where Chinese troops march near fields during the Sino-Japanese War before World War II. A wounded soldier carried by Chinese troops. Scene changes again to Mariana Islands during World War 2. Piles of bodies of Japanese civilians and soldiers at base of a cliff from which they jumped to commit suicide rather than be captured or killed by American forces. A Japanese civilian jumping off of a cliff. Japanese civilians at waters edge jumping into water.
A training film based on flight operations of U.S. Navy F8U-1 Crusader fighter aircraft in the United States. An F8U-1 taxis and takes off from a runway. A pilot at the instrument panel of the F8U-1 in the cockpit. The F8U-1 taxis and takes off to show working of rudder, retracting of landing gear, lowering of wings at various levels of speed. The pilot moves the wing incidence handle to down position and brings lock handle to lock handle. Switches are turned on the instrument panel. The F8U-1 at high altitude. The exhaust temperature meter and the oil pressure meter of the F8U-1.
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