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Monuments, buildings and traffic on streets in various cities of Illinois, United States

Film 'This is our Land' focuses on the state of Illinois in the United States. A bridge over a river. A view of the river through the bridge. The highway running alongside the river. A man sits on a bench under a tree overlooking beach and Lake Michigan, with downtown buildings and skyscrapers of Chicago in the background. The skyscrapers of the city. Automobile and streetcar traffic on the downtown building-lined city streets of Chicago. People walk on pedestrian sidewalks. Pedestrians and automobile traffic in the capital city Springfield. The Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. A view of the Capitol dome. The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. A child rubs nose of the sculpted face of Abraham Lincoln.

Location: Illinois United States USA
Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067573
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
Life of the students of Antioch College as they pursue work-study jobs in New York City.

Various courses at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch College building. A farm in a countryside and a busy street in a town. Arthur Morgan who introduced the work-study program which aims at making education meaningful. Students and their personal faculty advisers discuss job opportunities. The students circulate between work and job four times a year. Two students hold a job alternately. The students of the college work as typists, accountants to ensure inter penetration of business in their lives. Low angle camera view of college student at busy roadside waiting for bus, as 1940's cars and other vehicles race by. Various accounting and clerical jobs and mechanical machines including typewriters, paper, and money counting devices. A sign on a board reads ' Dollar Day'. A student works in a clothing store in New York. Girls seated around a table on a New York City high rise or skyscraper building rooftop after their work shift, smoking and relaxing. Feet of a girl as she rests them. View of sculpture and fountain at Rockefeller Center. A student of Antioch College works in a NBC broadcast studio as a guide, and he is shown giving a tour to visitors who want to learn about radio broadcasting. The students work in consumer co-operatives, publishing company. A student works as an executive in a stationery concern in Massachusetts. The students work in a newspaper establishment, where reporters and journalists are shown working on stories in a newsroom. A student looking after a police beat interviews a police officer. Students also take up jobs in the field of social sciences as they study change of thought in the society and the circumstances and events that lead to poverty and crime.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059210
Training of United States Army Soldiers for anti aircraft guns, amphibious war and tank warfare training at military bases (WW2)

Organization of the United States Army. Soldiers given training about firing and operating anti-aircraft guns at Camp Edwards in western Cape Cod, Massachusetts, during World War II. Trainee soldiers fire on target balloons. Amphibious troops trained. Tanks ride rough mountainous terrain, cross small rivers. Tank destroyer training, a dummy tank destroyed.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036439
A meeting of various members of Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth in Harlan, Kentucky, United States.

A meeting of Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth is shown. The meeting is attended by Clarke Bailey, M.D., Chairman, Harlan County Planning Council; Dr. Latham Hatcher, President, Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth; Arthur W Dodd, Acting Director, Pine Mountain School; James A Cawood, Superintendent, County Public Schools; E M Norsworthy, County Director of Guidance; Dr. Joseph Van Vleck, Professor of Sociology, Harford Theological Seminary and Dr. Paul Cressey, Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College Massachusetts. Dr Latham addresses the meeting. All members express their views also.

Location: Harlan Kentucky USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023727
Meeting of Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth in Harlan, Kentucky, United States.

A meeting of Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth is shown. The meeting is attended by Clarke Bailey, MD, Chairman, Harlan County Planning Council; Dr. Latham Hatcher, President, Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth; Arthur W Dodd, Acting Director, Pine Mountain School; James A Cawood, Superintendent, County Public Schools; E.M. Norsworthy, County Director of Guidance; Dr. Joseph Van Vleck, Professor of Sociology, Harford Theological Seminary; Dr. Paul Cressey, Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College Massachusetts and Wilfred Bradshaw, Juvenile Court Judge, Indianapolis,Indiana . Dr Latham addresses the gathered members of the meeting. All members also express their views .

Location: Harlan Kentucky USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023730
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