Film opens showing the unsual sight of two United Airlines commercial DC-3 aircraft flying in formation as they approach Charleston Naval Base, South Carolina. View inside one of the airplanes shows high-ranking naval officers in mufti (civilian clothes) from various South American countries seated inside. Flags of their respective nations are displayed above their seats. Seen are flags of Venezuela; Chile; Mexico; Cuba; and others. Closeup of the the representative of Venezuela as he is joined by another officer and they converse. Closeup of others conversing. View out a passenger compartment window in the aircraft, showing the second DC-3 flying nearby. Scene shifts to the cockpit, where the copilot is seen at his position. View from the ground of one DC-3 landing and taxiing in, followed by the second plane. The passengers seen leaving one of the aircraft. They line up on the ramp, and are greeted individually by U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William H. Allen, Commander of the Sixth Naval District. A U.S. Navy Captain also greets them and is seen saluting one of them. The entire group poses in front of one of the airplanes. Next, sailors at the Naval Base are seen marching on the parade grounds. Standing to the side, in uniform, are the visiting Naval officers from the Americas. Closeup of them shows Admiral Allen in the front row with an admiral from Brazil to his left.
Governor of South Carolina Richard Irvine Manning and his wife expect their 6 sons in Army back home in Columbia, South Carolina during World War I. The statues in front of a building. The wife of Richard Irvine Manning stitches a Service Flag. The Service Flag hanged on a wall. The Governor, his wife and a woman look at the flag. The Governor and his wife talk.
African American life in rural South Carolina, in the southern United States in the mid 1930s, during the Great Depression. Houses at a distance and a car in front. Cars move on the road. People move in front of simple frame and shack houses, in relative poverty. African American man leans down from balcony of a house. Bicycle parked in front of a house. African American man and woman talk at the entrance of a house. Black children in front of a house. Young African American boy helps cleans the exteriors of a house with a broom. Two boys wrestle at the edge of a street, on the ground. Woman carries a sack on her head. Two women run inside the house, seemingly after becoming frightened of the cameraman. Woman snatches the child back into the house. A Black child carries a bucket in his hand and another child follows. African American people gathered outside a building with cars in front. Two African American men walk in front of houses. African American life in South Carolina, United States. Houses at a distance and a car in front. Cars move on the road. People move in front of the houses. African American man leans down from balcony of a house. Bicycle parked in front of a house. African American man and woman talk at the entrance of a house. African American children in front of a house. African American child cleans the exteriors of a house with a broom. African American man lay on the ground. Woman carries a bag on her head. Woman and child run inside the house after becoming frightened of the cameraman. African American child carry bucket in his hand and another child follows. African American people gathered outside a building with cars in front. Two African American men walk in front of houses.
African American life and education in rural South Carolina, United States in the 1930s. Group of young African American women, possibly students, stand under a tree posing for the camera, and then they turn and head into a building. Two African American children clean the exteriors of a house with brooms. Disabled African American man sits on a wheel chair. Man greets the disabled man. View of a grave yard or cemetery. Child climbs into school bus. African American boy stands by the side of a car. View of building (possibly school building) and farm land in southern U.S state of South Carolina.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Men gather in Masters Hall in the State House of Representatives in South Carolina. Majority of African Americans sit in the hall. An African American speaker speaks in the hall in front of everyone. Another African American man eats on the table. They talk amongst themselves. A man drinks. One of them puts his shoes on the table. A man puts his legs on the table. They misbehave. Speaker asks everyone to wear shoes. White visitors seen in the gallery. An intermarriage bill passed in the meeting. People talk. African American people cheer.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A man sits on a chair in front of a house in South Carolina. A lady stands nearby him. Other men stand near him. They all discuss on a paper. Little Colonel joins and discusses with them. African Americans and Whites meet in a hall. An African American speaker speaks in front of them. People stand in a field in front of a house. African American soldiers in a field. African Americans and Whites arrive for voting. African American soldiers take a man with them on gun point for not voting for them from a house. A man stands outside a house. The hands of the abducted man tied with ropes. The man is punished. Little Colonel discusses with all other men in this respect. The punished man talks to them.
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