German boys or possibly Hitler Youth work at a railroad machine workshop in Germany during World War 2. A factory foreman or supervisor checks the work done by a teenage child labor group in the production plant. Boys close a locomotive door and examine their work. A train engine starts and the locomotive is ready to move from the station. An engineer and a teenage youth inside the train. A signal tower gives departure signal. Teenage girl assists with train dispatching, signaling, and switching. German civilians get aboard the train. A woman dispatcher with a baby in her arms. She hands over the baby to the mother through a train window. She waves her hand on departure.
The Washington Monument in Washington DC, United States. A frame scaffold structure around the Washington Monument to give access for workers cleaning the historical building. Trained professional workers clean the monument and regrout between stones. Workers examine and measure the aluminum cap at the top of the Washington Monument. Views of the surrounding National Mall area from the scaffold around the Washington Monument, including views toward the Capitol, the White House, and the Navy Buildings, munitions buildings, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. View from a moving elevator descending the scaffolding.
Civilians and the government officials work towards strengthening economy after Great Depression. Scenes from the Great Depression: Idle factories and signs "No men wanted." Homeless and unemployed men sleep on benches and holes are shown in the shoes. Unemployed workers in a soup line receiving food aid from a soup kitchen. Wooden shanties and shacks for housing of people in the Depression. Poor African American woman seated outside a simple tent for her house. A young girl holds her baby sibling while seated on a rusty bunk bed as the infant child cries. Tired looking children during the depression. Sad looking woman seated on a bed rocks a baby. Scene change to 30 years later in mid 1960's. Aerial view of modern highway interchange with traffic on roads. Surveyors at work. Scientists work in laboratory. Doctors examine patients. Arm of person wearing a "Polio Vaccine Volunteer" armband. Children in line to receive polio vaccine. A girl gets a polio shot. Ferris wheel at a fair goes around. American citizens at a picnic enjoy foods assembled on tables. Communist troops march on street in East Germany parade and East German people wave small flags in review stand. Traffic on the main roads of a small American town, with a police officer directing traffic. Shops seen along roadside. Views of American farmers and scientists at work. Farmer on tractor and on harvester machines. Women work in a factory assembling machines. 1950s and 1960's cars in parking lot and woman shopper with cart. Women work in clerical jobs in an office. Women in typing pool working in a large office room. Nurses in classroom. Early computer technology; large electronic devices and many wires; lights and mechanical switches on electronic computing equipment. Reel to reel tape recorder or data recorder. Factory shipment floor with goods on belt. President John F Kennedy signs Manpower Development and Training Act in 1962. Golden Gate bridge from shore and from moving vehicle. Bridge construction workers handle tossed hot rivet. Boy watches dam construction workers. Boys running outside school. Cars in main street area of a small town in America. Boy and farmer in cornfield.
Chemical warfare activities of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) in France during World War I. A member of the American Expeditionary Force dismantles a German shell and examines it carefully. He tests the chemical in the shell.
Chemical warfare activities of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) during World War I. Troops of the 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, American Expeditionary Force in France. An American soldier stands holding a gas grenade and examines it. Clip shows U.S. Army forces practicing with various gas delivery weapons. 318th Infantry soldiers throw gas grenades. Scenes of various hand and rifle grenades exploding, including smoke, thermite, and phosphorus. Smoke rises from the explosions on the ground.
Manufacture of artillery at Bethlehem Steel company plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, during World War I. Two large steel castings removed from floor molds by crane and quenched in water. A very large rail gun type of barrel on plant floor is examined by an Army officer. A worker crawls through a fabricated steel cylinder, brushing debris from its interior. Water being sprayed over hot machinery and parts. A woman worker in the war effort, wearing hard hat and overalls, is seen operating an overhead crane to move heavy gun barrels . Men hand finish gun barrels. A crew of men use extremely long wrenches to bolt a gun barrel to a turret. Workers install gun barrels into artillery pieces.
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