Prewar and early World War 2 conditions of the British in Great Britain. War ammunition for Britain transported from the United States to Britain as part of lend lease plan. Also war materiel sent the other way around from the United Kingdom to the United States, as the war progressed. A map showing the path between the United States and Great Britain through the Atlantic Ocean. Tanks for Russia from Britain. Aircraft and guns for the United States by Lend Lease. Tons of food and clothing in large containers for troops in Britain. Clusters of houses and buildings. Two men on a bridge. A lane in Britain. People in the lane. Tanks prepare for war. British soldiers in uniform. A woman seated at a vanity putting on lipstick makeup. Men and women in the streets in England. A man turns to notice the legs of a woman as she walks by. View of legs of many women walking by, not wearing stockings due to rationing. Brief shot of driver in a car in the United States as he hands his gas ration ticket to the gas station attendant. Back in England, scene as a man goes to a pub for whiskey. The pub keeper laughs at him as there is none. Men in a field harvesting grains for making industrial alcohol. Soldier painting word "Hitler" onto a bomb shell. Cartons of whiskey being transported to the United States as pay for the material that comes in to Britain. A man opens cartons from the U.S. with 'Made in U.S.A.' painted on it. Images of American made industrial machine goods purchased by the British, including machinery signs for "Cincinnati Bickford", "The Ohio Machine Tool Company", "Niles Tool Works, Hamilton Ohio", "The Cincinnati Planer Co.", "American Hole Wizard", and "Barnes Drill Company, Rockford, Illinois" A woman worker moves a large planer or drill press into position. Crane at a ship dock is seen moving a large wooden crate with "Ford" label on it. A man goes to buy cigarettes. A 'No cigarettes today' board. If there were cigarettes he would have paid the cost of the cigarettes and the tax to the shopkeeper. Close up view of coins on a table and large portion going to British taxes to pay for war. A newspaper headline which says "Britain spends 49,000,000 per day on war." Several industrial plants in Britain, with smoke and pollution rising from chimneys and stacks during high output war effort. Laborers working at a construction site, including brick layers, who pay 29% tax. Rich men who pay 97½ % tax: A man in a nice car parked in front of a church. He leads a bride in a wedding gown and possibly the Bride's father toward the doors of the church. Various views of British workers and workmen walking in and out of factories. British citizens in ration lines. Sheep being herded on pasture land in Australia. Vessels in ocean used by the British for supplies to Russia. Aircraft from the U.S. on board a ship, and British troops arriving on a ship dock.
Formation of YAK-18 trainers forming the words "SLAVA KPSS" which stand for 'Glory to the CPSU' during Russian Tushino air show. MiG-17 fighters performing loop and roll, leaving smoke trails. Civilians and officers watching air show from top of building. Views of nine MiG-17 fighters in flight. TU-95 "Bear A" long-range bomber flanked by two MiG-17 fighter jets
Adolf Hitler shakes hand with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, at the forest Headquarters ( Wolf's Lair) in East Prussia, near Rastenburg. Trees in the background. Hitler greets other German officers. Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler also greet other officers. Adolf Hitler greets Romanian leader, Ion Antonescu. Admiral Erich Raeder converses with Hitler as they walk, followed by other high ranking military officers and officials. A group of school children sing for the dignitaries. One girl plays an accordian. Cameramen take photographs. Several children meet Adolf Hitler. He accepts bouquets of flowers from them, and chats with them.
Hundreds of union workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin revolt during a labor dispute in recognition of their union's demands. Workers for the city's Street Car or trolley system walk out of the job crippling the transportation in the city. View of idle street cars in depots. Streetcar operators on picket lines to make their demands to labor bosses. Elevated view of buildings in downtown Milwaukee and traffic on streets below. Three women wait on a corner trying to hail a ride. A car pulls over to pick up the 3 women and give them a ride.
Views of an industrial area in United States. Interior of a textile manufacturing or textile mill operation. Machinery, men at work on machines spinning, weaving, knitting. Men working on the machines. Women workers can be seen working on clothes and machines. A woman wears a magnifying glass attachment around her head to perform close detail work. A gathering of textile workers at a meeting of Textile Workers Union of America CIO. Workers at a Union election place ballots into ballot box during a vote.
A film titled ' Broadway & Union Square'. Two horse-drawn street cars in 1903. Passengers can be seen boarding and getting off the crowded cars, operating along Broadway, at Union Square (14th Street), in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
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