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Korean girls play on a see-saw outside a hut in a village.
Three Korean girls play on a see-saw outside a hut in a village in Korea. One teenage girl sits in the middle of the see-saw while the other two stand on their respective sides for the stunt. Each girl takes turns leaping into the air and landing on the see saw from a height, so that the girl on the other side is propelled up into the air by a few feet. Korean girl poses for the camera, smiling.
Historical events of 1935 including Stresa Front, U.S. anti-war demonstrations, FDR in Jacksonville, Easter Parade, Female flyers
Scenes showing various historical events that took place in April 1935, during the Great Depression. In Stresa, Italy, on the banks of Lake Maggiore, leaders of Britain, France and Italy confer on German rearmament, in violation and defiance of the Versailles Treaty. (There they sign the "Stresa Front"). Images show the French and British delegations arriving by boat and walking near the port at Stresa, including British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, French Prime Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and French Foreign Minister (President of the Council of Ministers) Pierre Laval. U.S. College students across the country join in anti-war, pacifist demonstrations a few years before World War 2. They are seen marching with banners and anti-war signs and cartoons. One banner reads, "It is the task of the 20th century to make this world a brotherhood." Also "War is Hell....Who want to go to hell?" and "War is Stupid". President Franklin Roosevelt returns from a two week cruise. He arrives in Jacksonville Florida. Local officials and crowds in Jacksonville greet him and cheer. Boy Scouts in a line greet the President. Views of Franklin Roosevelt in an open car and on ships and docks. Al Smith and Herbert Hoover share the speaker's stage in New York lending their support in fundraising for the Salvation Army during the Depression. Scenes from the Easter Parade in New York City. Crowds gather, filling double-decker open air buses. Al Smith seen with his wife. Postmaster General James Farley and Irish tenor singer John McCormack are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York. Amelia Earhart completes a 1700-mile flight from Burbank, California to Mexico City. Scenes of her in Mexico City in a car laden down with celebrating Mexican officials. Aviatrix Bernadine King sets a new record for upside down endurance flying. She is seen getting into her plane, and her plane is seen upside down in the air.
Four British labor exchange visitors return home after several weeks visiting war plants and labor organizations in America (WW2)
A British guest on labor exchange program visit spends his last day as a house guest of his counterpart American's family, in Los Angeles, California. He is seen with the father in their living room with two children, while the mother prepares dinner in the kitchen. The children are sent to bed and the men and the wife, named Ellen sits down to dinner with the two men. The British guest waves goodbye to the family at their doorstep. Scene shifts to another of the British labor exchange visitors leaving the family where he had been hosted in a different city. Next, the four British labor exchange visitors are seen seated opposite representatives of American labor organizations including the American federation of Labor (AFL), the Congress of industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Railroad Brotherhood. They had met them a few weeks ago when they first arrived in the U.S. One of the labor representatives asks them about their impressions of America. They uniformly praise the effectiveness of the U.S war effort, extolling the efficiency and productivity of her war plants. One of the commenters calls for more international unity in the labor union movement. A spokesman for the American labor representatives expresses need to support the United Nations movement. Film closes showing the four British exchange visitors boarding a U.S. Army Air Corps C-54 transport plane to fly them home to England. They are checked in by an airman who wears a leather jacket with the Air Transport Command logo on it. The aircraft is seen taking off and climbing out over hangars at the airfield. (World War II period)
Recruitment of American women during World War II labor shortage in Dayton,Ohio.
A road to Dayton Ohio, crowded with cars of the 1930s. Men hitch-hiking near a sign reading: "Dayton 47." A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train,speeds past the camera. Arrows on map of Ohio, show areas around Dayton, from which defense workers are being drawn. Closeup of car wheel and tire. Another hitch-hiker at 48 miles from Dayton. Cars converging on the city of Dayton. A line of patrons extending out onto the sidewalk outside the Virginia Cafeteria at 28 East 3rd Street. Another queue of patrons with bags of clothes outside a laundry and dry cleaners establishment. A long line of patrons on the sidewalk outside of a motion picture theater, showing a Western movie starring Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter. A woman places a "No Vacancies" notice over Plaza Apartments sign. Other "No Vacancies" signs posted elsewhere. Men and women war plant workers queue up to board buses to factories. Some men step over a rope line to get ahead of others. Closeup of workers crowding into the entrance of a commuter train. View from inside as workers (mostly women) try to board. A long line of men and women on the sidewalk outside a corner cafeteria in a large building. Woman removing "rooms to let" sign from her apartment wiindow. A man posting a "No Vacancy" sign. The office of the War Manpower Commission Area Director. Seated around a table are are seen members of The Dayton Local Labor Management Committee (Dayton War Manpower Committee). Inquiries being received by manufacturers hiring 8 persons or more, as well as personnel officers of the local Army Air Forces Air Fields, seen in uniform. Other employers answering the inquiries. Employers signing letters to the War Manpower Commission, pledging to stop hiring full-time workers, except those approved as war essential, with the understanding that part-time workers would be referred to them as substitutes. A woman in the War Manpower Commission office types a report to the Washington office. Draftsmen at work in an office. Two women going from house-to-house soliciting women war workers to work in the war effort. Views of various women being interviewed. One watching her young son climb on her porch railing, has to rescue him during the interview, and declined to participate. Next, a woman is seen taking small children to a building labeled "Day Nursery." View inside as women leave their small children in the care of other women providing care for them. Many children seated at tables having a meal. Closeups of some of the children. Street scene in busy downtown Dayton, Ohio with with many women pedestrians walking on sidewalks. A publication called "The War Worker," showing an illustration of a man and a woman side-by-side going to war jobs. It lists war jobs open to women (and men). A team of motion picture workers filming a woman operating a machine, in a publicity shot encouraging such war work. View of a finished film called "Dayton Women are Marching to War !." Men and women in a movie theater watching the film. Views of the faces and expressions of the audience watching the movie, and views of the movie screen. Reporters for radio stations WHIO and WING, interviewing women in defense plants. View inside a local home where women playing bridge are listening to the interviews on a large console radio during card game. Views of the City of Dayton with large outdoor advertising billboards encouraging people to get jobs to help the war effort. Newspaper headlines related to the status of the ongoing World War 2. Closeup view of newspaper headlines and of advertisements inside the newspaper encouraging women to get wartime jobs. Glimpse of the city. Brief view of many women inside a war plant seating at a table filled with cylinder shaped instruments. A man moves a finished cylinder to a table. (These are possibly parts of aircraft bomb sights). Aerial view of the city of Dayton Ohio.
German officer discusses the German ME-262 jet aircraft with a pilot in training
ME-262 aircraft training in Germany. A German Air Force officer is seen in his office, discussing the ME-262 jet airplane with a Technical Sergeant. The officer wears an iron cross decoration. A picture of German Air Force Commanding Marshal, Hermann Goering, is displayed on the office wall. The two of them walk to a blackboard, where the officer begins to sketch the outline of an ME-262 in chalk. The Sergeant interrupts him and draws a cartoon of a pilot in the cockpit. They both laugh. The officer erases the cartoon and proceeds to illustrate with chalk, schematics linking various functioning parts of the plane. They walk to another section of the office, where a picture of Adolf Hitler is seen on the wall. The Sergeant lights the Officer's cigarette, and as they both sit down, the Sergeant lights a pipe. The Sergeant also wears the iron cross decoration on his uniform. They continue talking about flying the jet airplane. Then they move to a table, where the Officer uses a set of desk pens to illustrate use of engine controls in the jet plane. He then makes a brief phone call and the officer welcomes a flight mechanic who arrives as the Technical Sergeant is leaving the office. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
German Waserfal C-2 rocket being prepared for test launch during World War II
German Wasserfall C-2 ground to air rocket hoisted on the dolly(trailer) is brought out from the hangar for testing during World War 2. Views of the Wasserfall C-2 ground to air rocket. Wasserfall C-2 erect on test stand IX at Peenemünde, in launching position. Technicians work on the erect rocket. They take the rocket back again into the shelter.
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