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Women and children on floral floats participate in National Cherry Festival parade in Traverse City, Michigan.
The 1939 National Cherry festival in Traverse City, Michigan. Trees of cherries covered with cherry flowers and fruit. Girls stand on ladder and pluck cherries. Cherries being put into boxes. Parade goes down a road. Women seated on a float at the parade. A model of a cherry made up of flowers placed on a float. A girl seated on a floral float holding harness. A young child seated on a toy car placed atop a float in the National Cherry Festival parade.
Boy Scouts visit the Pentagon building and meet U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal during Boy Scout Week 1949.
Eagle Scouts from the 12 regions of the Boy Scouts of America visit the Pentagon building in Arlington Virginia during Boy Scout Week 1949 (celebrating the 39th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America). The group of Boy Scouts on the steps of the Pentagon building. The Boy Scouts look around at the building and surroundings. The scouts walk up the stairs and enter the Pentagon building. U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal seated in his office. The Defense Secretary meets with the scouts and talks to them. He shakes hands with various Boy Scouts. The 12 scouts in the group are: Alan Fritts of Troop 11 in Mankato, Minnesota; Andrew L. Clement, senior patrol leader of Troop 2 in Raleigh, North Carolina; George Barron of Troop 17 in Franklin, Virginia; Daniel Abbott of Senior Outfit 16, in Newtonville, Massachusetts; James Roswurm of Troop 31 in Huron, Ohio; Charles S. Wilson of Troop 3, in Bristol Tennessee; H. Cumings Johnson of Senior Outfit 230 in Traverse City, Michigan; Joseph L. Cox of Troop 98 in Trenton, Missouri; Howard M. Williams of Explorer Post 345 in Houston, Texas; James C. Vincent of Sea Scout Ship 232 in Brookings, Oregon; James E. Gill of Air Scout Squadron 234 in Berkeley, California; L. Drury Cathers of Troop 22 in Gouverneur, New York.
U.S. Army Brigadier General Prichard talking to Boy Scouts in his office at the Pentagon building in Arlington County, Virginia.
Eagle rank Boy Scouts representing the 12 regions of the Boy Scouts of America visit the Pentagon building in Arlington County, Virginia, during Boy Scout Week 1949. The interiors of the office of U.S. Army Brigadier General Vernon E Prichard. Boy Scouts arrive in the office and meet Brigadier General Prichard. A wall map in the background. Brigadier General Prichard speaks to the boys. The Vice Chief of Staff General Joseph Lawton Collins, talking to the boys in his office. The 12 Boy Scout representatives are: Alan Fritts of Troop 11 in Mankato, Minnesota; Andrew L. Clement, senior patrol leader of Troop 2 in Raleigh, North Carolina; George Barron of Troop 17 in Franklin, Virginia; Daniel Abbott of Senior Outfit 16, in Newtonville, Massachusetts; James Roswurm of Troop 31 in Huron, Ohio; Charles S. Wilson of Troop 3, in Bristol Tennessee; H. Cumings Johnson of Senior Outfit 230 in Traverse City, Michigan; Joseph L. Cox of Troop 98 in Trenton, Missouri; Howard M. Williams of Explorer Post 345 in Houston, Texas; James C. Vincent of Sea Scout Ship 232 in Brookings, Oregon; James E. Gill of Air Scout Squadron 234 in Berkeley, California; L. Drury Cathers of Troop 22 in Gouverneur, New York.
General Motors (GM) engages Detroit police to stop UAW-CIO picketing during strike. GM then obtains State Court injunction against picketing.
Film begins showing signs in business establishment window supporting General Motors strikers of Local 235 UAW-CIO. A siren in heard as the camera pans over a large group of uniformed Detroit City police officers, some on motorcycles. Across the street, several striking picketers carry signs, as another large group of police officers stand nearby. Closeup of a black maria police van parked next to a formation of mounted police officers. Closeup glimpse of an officers gun belt and cartridges. Camera pans over the congregation of police. Street filled with strikers carrying signs. Police allow only 4 picketers, who cross from the street in which they are gathered, to the city of Hamtramick at the Detroit border. Camera pans over Police gathered at the corner, as a line of striking women snakes around a telephone pold at the Detroit-Hamtramick border, to picket in the latter city. A group of 10 pickets is allowed by police to enter Hamtramick from the Detroit street. Next, a number of strikers' children challenges the police to cross the intercity boundary. Closeup of a father and small son. Men, women, and children are finally seen picketing in Hamtramick. Slate reads: "Steering Gear." (Narrator says: "Chevrolet Gear and Axle remains closed.") Next, a court proclamation is read in rapid fire declaration by a crier in front of a court building where some strikers stand on the steps reading the announcement. Closeup of the State of Michigan court order prohibiting picketing and union members discussing it. Scene shifts to a union meeting room where members ask about the injunction and discuss its impact.
Dr. Langmuir's Nobel Prize, industrial factories, 1939 World's Fair, and aerial views of cities.
Graphic: "This film is restricted". Group of industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke and pollution. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. Large power lines coming from Hoover Dam. View of George Washington Bridge in New York City with traffic. Aerial view of early highway interchange. Aerial view of Manhattan, New York City and New York City skyline. Aerial view of smoggy city with railroad switching yard in foreground. Early highway crowded with car traffic. People wading in water at the beach. People looking out from high vantage point. 1939 World's Fair Trylon and Perisphere. Interior view Grand Central Station or early Penn Station railroad train station. Porters and travelers walking in train station. View of Egyptian ruins and pyramids. Ruins from 300 BC. Moving timeline graphic depicts dates of modern advances in geometry, arabic numerals, physics, and industrial revolution with electricity, chemistry, railroads, telegraph, and automobiles. Factory with smoke stacks, pollution, and view of a large grain elevator. Foundry with sparks flying. Line of turbine generators. General Electric company building with GE logo on top. Dr. Irving Langmuir works in a lab at the plant demonstrating creation of thin films of oil in a pan. View of Noble Prize won by him for his research about the basic structure and behavior of molecules. View of non-reflective glass demonstrated on General Electric meter. Scientist with beakers and test tubes. Scientists in laboratory and looking through microscopes.
Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940
From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.
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