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British film intended to acquaint British people with United States landscape, rail transportation, and farming history.

British World War 2 era film showing scenes in the United States from earlier in the 1900s. Film opens showing 19th Century animated map of the United States. It traces the development of the railroads in the U.S. It shows rail lines reaching the Missouri River by the year 1860. (Narrator states this took 250 years to happen.) But in another 10 years, the map shows the Union Pacific and other rail lines extending two the West Coast, and U.S. commerce shifting, from North-South movement, to East-West (with an animated steam locomotive moving across the map). Chicago is highlighted as the greatest railway junction in the world (the "Piccadilly Circus" as the British narrator describes it). View of a late 1800s model steam locomotive train pulling freight railroad cars on railroad tracks in a desert area of the Western United States. Point of view from camera on moving railroad train pointing straight down at railroad tracks moving by at high speed. Landscape and wide views of the arid Western parts of the U.S. Group of Native American Indians watching a railroad train pass. Construction supplies being offloaded from a train. A wind-driven water pump. Buffalo herds affected by the railroads. Wire fencing installed to control cattle on large Western ranches. Large team of horses pulling late 1800s wheat harvesting farm equipment as it harvests wheat in fields. Views of wheat grains being poured at high volume. Cattle roaming in the high country. Views of Chicago stock yards. A man marking in chalk on a Board of Trade chalk board, indicating the prices of farm commodities including wheat, corn, oats, and rye. Various views of steam locomotives pulling trains throughout the rail network, including some 20th century trains near the end of the film, and some close-up views of wheels turning fast on moving railroad trains.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053396
German troops invade Russia and Joseph Goebbels announces it on radio during World War 2.

German invasion of Russia, Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). Early morning in Berlin with quiet street scenes during World War II. Hands of a clock in view. A man unloads milk cans from a truck. German radio broadcasting studios. A man operates controls. View of radio tower and buildings. Men enter an office. A sign announces broadcast in progress and requests quiet and no entry. Propaganda Minister Dr Joseph Goebbels enters the room and sits on a sofa. He announces Germany has launched an offensive on the Eastern Front as Germany's actions represent declaration of war against the Soviet Union. Officers stand in the background. Several men seated in cars, listen to radio broadcast. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop makes the announcement to journalists at a crowded news conference. Newspapers carry the story. Cameramen take photographs. Animated map depicts the Eastern front extending more than 5 thousand kilometers from Finland in the North to Romania in the South. This is Operation Barbarossa. German troops invade Russia. A ship underway and a bridge in view. Heavy German guns bombard targets. Smoke rises up. Street signs such as "Eydtkau" are shown as evidence of advances. German troops dismantle border barriers. German tanks and artillery advancing Eastward, encountering resistance. They blow up a building.

Location: Russia
Date: 1941, June 22
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053448
Transport through tanks, trucks and jeeps slowed down in Okinawa, Pacific Theater.

Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance the island. Roads muddy due to water. Trucks, jeeps and tanks move along the water flooded roads with difficulty. Advancing troops and supplies slowed down. Tank and infantry units in fields. Phosphorous and small arms fired on camouflaged Japanese positions. Heavy smoke rises up. Fire and smoke. Tanks and soldiers advance. Army corps relieved by Marines in South Naha. (World War II period).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, April 1
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053469
Joe E Brown entertains troops; Red Ruffing and Joseph DiMaggio participate in a baseball game in WW2

A United States aircraft in flight. Comedian Joseph Evans Brown (Joe E Brown) arrives in South Pacific and is seen on stage putting on a show to entertain U.S. Army soldiers and sailors. Joe E Brown organizes a baseball game fundraiser in Hollywood, California, raising money for recreational equipment for the troops during the war. It features active duty military members who were recent former professional baseball players playing the game. Charlie Stevens of the Saint Louis Browns warming up at bat. Froilan "Nanny" Fernandez, formerly of the Boston Braves, warms up at bat. Walt Judnich, former outfielder for the St Louis Browns, warming up at bat. Next Joe DiMaggio, formerly of the New York Yankees, is seen batting. He is followed by Max West, formerly of the Boston Braves, at bat; next seen is former catcher from the New York Giants, Harry Danning. Next seen is Dario Lodigiani, formerly of the Chicago White Sox; and finally Charles Herbert 'Red' Ruffing of the New York Yankees. Joe E Brown and baseball player Joe DiMaggio participate in a baseball game along with servicemen and other dignitaries, during World War 2. Fans seated in the spectator area. Baseball game in progress. Spectators and fans in the stands cheer. Joe E. Brown talks to Joe DiMaggio and Red Ruffing on the sidelines.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053495
Lions, Zebras and springbok at Bronx Zoo in New York City and elephant house at a zoo in Philadelphia.

Visitors arrive at the Bronx Zoo (2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx Park, Bronx, New York 10460, U.S.) in New York City. The zookeeper opens the lions’ gate. Lions coming out of the gate. Lions laze around the enclosure of the zoo. A lion drinking from a puddle. A moat keeps them out of visitors' way. Zebras and springbok graze in the zoo. They have their own waterhole. Birds in the zoo. Inauguration of a new elephant house “Pachyderm House” of the Philadelphia Zoo (3400 W Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States). The Pachyderm House was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret. Officials cut the ribbon during its inauguration. An elephant walks with the United States flag. Elephants give a performance on stools. Monkeys come out from a barrel. Children watch elephants performing and a man touching the open mouth of a hippopotamus in the zoo.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1941, May 5
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053566
Coach Bernie Moore trains players of Louisiana State University football team, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Football players of Louisiana State University train under Coach Bernie H. Moore in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They work hard to win the Southern Conference Title. The LSU football players undergo a training work-out. They stand in a line and fall straight one by one, then do a rocking push-ups exercise. The players do passing practice with a dodger. They push a cage of their mascot, Mike, a tiger.

Location: Baton Rouge Louisiana USA
Date: 1938, September 5
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053666
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