A man and a boy ride together on a tandem bicycle along a road with a beach in the background. A woman riding a motorcycle on a city street. A man riding an antique Penyy Farthing bicycle with a large front wheel and small back wheel. Two boys riding a bicycle. One of the boys sits atop a silver food delivery box in front of the bike, with writing, "Arturo's 106 W. Houston Street, CH-25315" (from Arturo's Pizzeria in Greenwich Village, New York City). Two people biking through a lot of recreational vehicle homes with a expansive desert landscape in the backround. Boys play baseball and children on swings with their parents watching them. Two of they kids are twin boys, dressed identically, and swinging on the swings in the same rhythm. A boy on a tire swing that hangs from a large tree. Boys huddled on a sidewalk playing a game. Camera angle widens and reveals they are in a ridge-top neighborhood with a large industrial factory belching smoke and pollution into the sky in the background. People entering a church on an Autumn day with blue sky and trees with golden leaves changing color for fall. Male teacher in classroom lecturing at a blackboard. Students appear to be older high school or early college age. Various people seated at desks in an office working, and separately a view of equipment and people working in a laboratory. A man seated at a microscope. 1965.
Industrial development in America in various sectors. Labors in field, cloth, shoe and log factory. A woman seated a desk while workers build a structure visible in window behind. Man at construction site along city street. Group of men pass pieces of sod from a truck to workers below to lay sod grass on a hill. Men moving large tarps. A man in a textile mill moves large pieces of cloth to machines. A shoe factory line. View inside a saw mill as a large tree trunk is cut into lumber by a giant saw. A sculptor at work on a tall wooden sculpture. A man welds a pipe. Men at work on platform of oil rig.
Buildings, bridges and monuments of historical importance in Chicago, Illinois. View of bridges over the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois. In the Wacker historic district, close-up view of the Heald Square Monument (34 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601, United States) featuring George Washington, Robert Morris, and Haym Salomon. Lion sculpture and entrance area of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tourists view displays and artwork inside the Art Institute. Exterior view of the Museum of Science and Industry. People entering the museum. A woman with her woman in a stroller or pram, drags the stroller backwards up the steps of the museum.
Strategic Air Command B-52 parked on ramp at airfield in the United States. A B-47 bomber in flight. A B-52 on takeoff with landing gear still extended. A B-58 Hustler bomber in flight. A KC-97 aerial tanker aircraft in flight. A B-52 refueling from a KC-135 tanker. AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missile being air-launched by a B-52. Ballistic missiles being launched from Strategic Air Command sites. Radar site. Control tower. A KC-135 taxiing for takeoff. Pilots moving controls in a cockpit. A B-52 taking off. Pilots in cockpit of a B-52. Tail of B-52 number 56-0581 "Spokane, City of Lilac." Airmen engaged in various duties, including avionics, weather, and air traffic control. B-52s taking off sequentially. Logo of the United States Air Force Strategic Air command.
Film opens with view of Movie marquee showing film:"Echenme al vampiro * Evangelina Elizondo* en Rapto al Sol." Latin American music is heard in background. Various business signs are seen, for Gilroy & McLoughlin Bar & Grill,cabaret; Hair straightened; Various other shop windows showing womens clothing; Bric- a -brac including large photo of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline; Religious items; Restaurant serving "CuchiFritos, y, Pasteles;"clothing on sale; Musicians and entertainers advertised; and numerous other similar storefront views. Views of busy sidewalk merchants selling variety of goods. What appears to be a section of the Cross Bronx Expressway, under construction above the street, in the background. Grocer operating outdoor fruit and vegetable outlet on the sidewalk. Many customers gathered around him. Pedestrians on crowded sidewalk. A little girl dressed in white (perhaps for a first communion). A man dispensing shaved ice or "sno-cone" drinks from a sidewalk cart. Furniture for sale displayed on sidewalk in front of a store. A man and woman looking it over. A couple with a small baby. Scene shifts fo a quiet street and sidewalk where a couple walks and a boy rides a bicycle. The street and sidewalk look wet. View of roof tops and back yards with clothes on lines to dry. Camera pans over roof tops. More clothes lines and families seen seated on fire escapes. A boy picking up items near a large heap of trash in a vacant lot. Children playing various games on an empty street. Two old women walking slowly on the walkway. Women with small children conversing on a building stoop. Young men gathering together and "rough housing." They are copied by small boys who fight with one another. Young man and woman with a baby stroll on the sidewalk.
Chronicles recovery in America after the Great Depression in the United States, from roughly 1933-1967, but with emphasis on the earlier years of that period. Pre-war work programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) help with employment. Farmers work in their fields with tractors. Officials in an office discuss and prepare graphs. Workers drill and work at a construction site. The 1933 Homeowners Loan Corporation sparks new home building. View of new homes being built and new suburban neighborhoods. Brief scene of bombing at Pearl Harbor. American warships launching from shipyards during World War II. Women war production workers work in factories in the United States. Post-war Marshall Plan aid being sent to European countries. Crates of supplies marked for European countries. Industrial output booming again, and scenes of industrial factories and plants with smoke pouring from chimneys and pollution from stacks. Large pool typists room filled with female typists and clerical workers busy at work in government agency. Close up views of hands of women operating typewriters. Reforms for housing projects, African American Civil Rights and measures taken to stabilize unemployment, with scenes of successive Presidents signing reform bills, including Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. A ship departs from a harbor with goods. A convoy of vehicles on a road. Various Federal buildings in Washington DC. The White House building. An aerial view of an American town and of a factory with pollution smoke emitting from stacks. Letters being delivered to elderly women. People enter a medical clinic and wait in the clinic waiting room. Racially integrated classroom of older high school students or university students, with white and African American students, and both young men and women. A young white woman worker and a young African American working in a machine shop or possibly an academic shop class. A white and a African American man share a sandwich and views of white and black people together in integrated classrooms and factories as segregation begins to wane. Elementary school children in a classroom drawing pictures.