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Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II

Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032614
Functioning of industries like iron ore, copper, umber situated in Toledo Ohio.

Various industries like iron ore, copper, lumber situated near Lake Superior in Toledo, Ohio. Signboard on building reads 'You will do better in Toledo'. Aerial view of bridges over Maumee River, and skyline of Toledo, Ohio. People walk on Madison Street in Toledo. Pedestrians walk past Hotel Madison. Big freight car lifted by crane. Loads of coal dumped onto a ship.

Date: 1916
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030541
Henry Ford drives a steam locomotive on the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton railway.

Henry Ford drives a steam locomotive. He looks out on to the railway track from the engine compartment. Locomotive has passenger cars attached behind the steam engine. This footage was shot on Ford's own railway, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton. Note the DTI logo on the locomotive. This railroad operated between Michigan and Ohio.

Date: 1924
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025382
A model of a congestion free and decentralized Toledo, Ohio.

The city of Toledo in Ohio. View of buildings in Toledo. Railroad trains at a station. Women near a clothesline outside a house. Women come down the stairs of a house. Cars on a street. Men work on a model of Toledo of tomorrow. A model of a congestion free express highway in Toledo.

Date: 1945, August 7
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050685
Post war use of military cars being demonstrated by Willys automobile company in Toledo, Ohio (WW2)

Willys automobile company makes post war use of military Jeeps as tractor, light truck and passenger car, in Toledo, Ohio. Men drive military Jeeps out of a building. Jeeps used as tractor for attachments of plower and harvest machine. Jeeps used as a sack making machine. conveyor belts attached to the jeeps. Jeep being used as shredder and independent power unit. (World War II period)

Date: 1944, April 9
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046772
Students of Antioch College learn practical lessons in child study and child care in the United States.

Students of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio take up various courses and on the job training to learn skills. A college student girl looks after a young child and helps him to put on a Native American Indian costume during play time. A day nursery in Cleveland Ohio where children play around a table and a young boy smiles while he finger paints. Students working at the Sigma Gamma Hospital in Detroit (also called Memorial Orthopedic Hospital, and later St. John North Shores Hospital) tend and treat children suffering from paralysis from polio. A young woman assists a boy in removing his leg braces. She then carries him to an indoor swimming pool and gently sets him down in the water, where the two of them play with a toy boat. Next scene shows a boys' club in Dayton, Ohio where young boys play table tennis (ping pong) and others look on. Students of Antioch College supervise athletics near Chicago, as a group of young women college students practice hand stands and . At the college the students gain first hand experience in child study. A woman at the Bells Research Institute of Antioch College works with a boy who is disabled (possibly polio). Girls look after children and do case work for children in need.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059211