People at a German train station examine railroad torn up and twisted, apparently by an explosion (possibly sabotage?), during World War 1. Damage is confined to the railroad, itself, and a train that has been blown over,on its side, nearby . (The station and buildings are undamaged.) Curious onlookers stand around the damaged tracks and many stand on an embankment overlooking the overturned train. Workmen examine the damage to the train. Several policemen appear busy at the road entrance to the train station. One has a bicycle.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his home, Springwood, in Hyde Park, New York. The President is seated at a desk in his study, as he examines postage stamps in his collection. He has several books of stamps and examines them with the aid of a magnifying glass.
An awareness film about Syphilis by United States Public Health Service, United States. Film titled 'Three countries against Syphilis'. Map of Georgia. Scenes of areas in coastal Georgia. Atlantic ocean waves breaking on shores south of Savannah, Georgia. View of the old slave hospital building on the grounds of Retreat Plantation in Glynn County, Georgia. Wide panning view of the Sidney Lanier Oak Tree in the marshes of Glynn (Lanier's Oak in Brunswick, Georgia). Fisherman waits on docks and watches fishing boat come in at Brunswick, Georgia. Line of fishing boats at docks. View inside fishery and cannery operations, with rows of women seated in front of conveyor holding shrimp or crab. Filling cans, women use mallets to pound open crab claws and add crab meat to canning operations. Wide view of a large wood pulp mill, with many logs waiting in exterior yard, and smoke coming from plant factory. An industrial plant in Brunswick Georgia is shown where workers distill pine oil and other wood by-products. A man is seen in a production factory pulling wood veneer off of a press for us in wooden boxes. At a syphilis control clinic, a medical technigican takes a blood sample from an African American man. Doctor takes sample at a modern clinic. Doctor puts Neoarsphenamine drug on shelf of dispensary. White doctor or medical technician draws blood from a white patient. African American doctor or medical technician draws blood from an African American man. A free health department clinic is seen where nurses work with multiple patients at one time. African American boys and girls are seen in a school yard. The children run and play outside. View inside health clinic at St. Simons Island Georgia, with nurses and doctors treating patients. A rural doctor treating a man at a home clinic. View deep in a pine forest of working men operating a sawmill to cut Pine logs. Workers at a turpentine still perform tasks to produce turpentine. Mobile health clinic seen traveling via bus on roads in woods. Map shows Georgia, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden, areas covered by mobile clinics. Women walk towards a mobile clinic for an examination. Men loaded on an ox cart. Old man walks towards the clinic. School bus brings patients. The medical vans consist of electric sterilizers, refrigerators, fans and lights. A nurse immunizes a African American boy against Typhoid fever. A nurse takes blood samples for laboratory tests. A doctor examines a male patient.
Protestant missionary brings Christianity, education and medical aid to illiterate Pagan tribes in Bakubaland, Belgian Congo. Tribesmen carry injured and sick fellows to a Mission hospital for medical aid. Patients lined up as a nurse enters their names in a register. A doctor examines the patients and takes blood samples. A man at a lab examines blood samples. A nurse makes a child drink syrup.
A wooden house amidst wooded area at Camp Meade in Maryland. U.S. Mark VIII tank crashes through the wooden house.The tank pauses in underbrush as a soldier stands between the treads examining its underside. Closeup of tank treads and sponson wedged behind a large tree. The tank backs away, into the building, and emerges through a different side, causing the entire building to collapse. Tank driver smiles as he looks out of front window. The tank backs up again, followed by soldiers, and is seen in background as soldiers examine building wreckage.
United States Post office employees sort mail sacks filled with letters. A locomotive train approaching camera position and passing by at high speed. Map of United States connecting destinations and a flying plane. A man examining models of various airplanes used for air mail service. Shows postmaster General James A. Farley emerging from a plane with other men to examine the latest technology and advances in airplanes for airmail service. View of exterior of Newark Air Mail Post Office building. Men emerging from plane. A plane takes off. Men load postal mail sacks on plane. View of a pilot reenacting the look of one of the original night mail pilots.
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