American President Franklin D Roosevelt at the unveiling ceremony on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. President Roosevelt arrives in his car as crowd cheers. He waves his hat and takes a look at the monument. Gigantic head of Thomas Jefferson carved on the side of a mountain. A large American flag alongside. Sculptors continue their work of sculpting heads of George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
U.S. Federal provisions for the education of the North American Indians in the United States during the Great Depression era. Native American Indian students come out of Chemawa Indian School boarding school in Oregon. An elementary school in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Indian children on the grounds of Shiprock Reservation in New Mexico. Animated map depicts Indian schools in the United States. Cloth lines on the grounds of a school. A man walks out of a government school building.
View of the Navy Department building, also known as the Main Navy and Munition Buildings (now demolished and turned into Constitution Gardens. Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Sign says “Bureau of Ships”. Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane speaks about the United States Navy’s shipbuilding and maintenance program during World War 2 and great needs for steel. To underscore his point, he notes that, "A single salvo of the main battery guns of such a ship as the South Dakota, for example, will take 10 tons of finished steel." He goes on to say, “Our job in the Navy until the war is over is using steel to build and to fight. We must continue to rely on the Homefront efforts to collect the big tonnage of heavy industrial scrap which is needed to make a fine quality steel in huge quantities which we need in the Navy” concludes Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane.
Travelogue of West regions of United States. Map of North America highlights West regions. Shows landscape of American West region. Cowboys ride horses and chase bulls in a round up on a ranch. Shows Badlands and Black Hills areas of South Dakota. View of Mount Rushmore, and Great Plains areas. Bison on the plains. An old cabin from pioneer days when the west was settled. Men ride snowmobiles and do jumps on snowmobiles. Lower Yellowstone River Falls waterfall at Yellowstone National Park. Tourists visit as Old Faithful geyser erupts and people watch. Views of Grand Teton mountains and boats on lake with mountains behind.
Fitzgerald Hall, President of Southern States Industrial Council at his office at Nashville, Tennessee. He speaks to reporters as they take down notes. He speaks out against a report that he says is inadequate, exaggerated and misleading. He says that the south is not Nation's number one economic problem, but rather it is the Nation's economic hope. He is reacting to a 1938 "Report on the Economic Conditions of the South" by the National Economic Council (NEC), that had been echoed in statements by President Roosevelt.
Scene opens with music playing and a large sign displayed reading: "2:oo AM, Band, Forks of Salmon Fire Camp." (Forks of Salmon is an unincorporated community of Siskiyou County in northern California, USA.) A band (named 2:00 AM) is playing and several people are dancing. Announcer states that the band members lost their home in the (still uncontained) fire, last Monday (August 31, 1987). A firefighter member of a Rocky Mountain team from Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota, wearing yellow shirt and red cap, expresses appreciation for welcome by Californians.
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