Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission on the Hanford Project in Richland, Washington. The Atomic Energy Commission at the Richland Headquarters for the Hanford work. A General Electric company worker works at machines and equipment. An aerial view of the Hanford plant shows nuclear reactors and separation plants. Workers work at the separation machinery to separate plutonium from uranium. Uranium rods in a wooden box are carried. An animation of a uranium rod shows fissionable uranium content and the process of conversion of non fissionable uranium to plutonium. Workers in an elevator are lowered. Workers at the reactor load the reactor with fuel. Water being used as a coolant in the reactor. A water purification plant. Other workers remove the used up uranium from the rear end of the reactor. The used up fuel is disposed in water tanks. More radioactive materials are carried in a railroad. Materials are taken to another plant. A worker operates a crane. The aluminum cladding is removed. The crane lowers the fuel. The fuel is changed to three useful products inside the plant. Workers at the plant process uranium for further use. Solid uranium is placed in a cylindrical containers. A machine lifts the containers and places it on a flat car. A chart shows injury free days in various plants.
Events during World War I. Sketches : workers in a German arms factory. German soldiers advance towards France. Animation of a map shows the German invasion of France through Belgium. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Emperor. Buildings damaged by invading Germans. U.S. president Thomas Woodrow Wilson advises Americans to stay calm. American people read papers. Cartoon depicts the President about his domestic reforms. The German atrocities in Belgium. Man holds a dead person. Sketch depicts Germany crushing everything on its way. The apprehensive people of America. Sketches of American man against a German leader. Trucks and taxi cabs on the Orne river. A gun barrel. Bombs being dropped on the German ships. Worker at a factory in America. Sketch of a man standing beside a flag having the dollar sign shows the prosperous America. Sketch shows the various resources required by the American industries. An American ship carrying war materiel. Sailors in German submarines. German submarines target allied ships. Sketches of U.S. president Wilson warning Germany. On 1st May 1915 RMS Lusitania a British luxury ship at sea as it starts from New York. Paper shows a warning by the German government. A German sailor on board a submarine as it targets a ship. The RMS Lusitania ship sinks killing many, including Americans. The U.S. secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and Thomas Woodrow Wilson with other officials. The former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt addresses people opposing President Wilson's policy. The President prepares a note for Germany. Sketch of U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan during his resignation. Sketch of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
'Tunisian Victory' shows preparations during World War 2. Film opens showing a sailor in the crow's nest of a ship in a convoy of American warships. Aerial glimpse of the convoy. Sailors working on teletype machines in s communications center aboard an American warship. Ships exchanging light signals at night. Scene shifts to a British naval convoy moving across the sea. View from bridge of forward guns on British King George V-class battleship. A single stack Navy destroyer ship. HMS Rodney with 3 over 3 forward gun turrets leads another warship protecting the convoy. The aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious in camouflage paint. An American Navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber seen from a ship. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft over the convoy. Brief view of a four-engine bomber flying over the convoy. Scene shifts to sailors on ship's deck in the American convoy. The British flag on one of its convoy ships. Scene shifts to the White House on June 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a car. Lights burning at night in the White House. Closeup of hats of the British and American staff officers on a rack. World Globe showing German army thrusts to the North by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock into Ukraine and the Caucasus, and another by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel South toward Egypt. In Asia, the conquests of Japan are shown. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are seated at a desk. Behind them are Roosevelt's assistant, Harry Hopkins and two uniformed officers. View of relief map showing planned joint offensive. British and American staff officers seated at a planning table. Pertinent maps being printed for the offensive. Closeup views of woman's hands typing on typewriter. Tight closeup view of a teletype tape coming across a machine that reads "ANFO GAZE ACROBAT RE NO K" A typist at a teletype machine with tape being made. A busy military communications center. A plan marked "secret" moving across a sliding document mechanism or slide. American and British war production workers arriving at military equipment production factories for work; large groups of war production workers. Workers at military equipment plants and factories in the the U.S. and the U.K., including many women workers involved in war production. A document labeled "SECRET OCSigO" Staff officers in planning session. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, seated with British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. More views of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at work viewing wall maps and table maps and plans. Steel mills in operation. American army troops training and preparing in battle drills, firing machine guns, battlefield advance training, swimming under water below flamethrower flames and below oil slicks on fire, leaping into water, practicing paratrooper jumps into water. New ships including Liberty Ships and warships being launched at American shipyards. War production workers inside a plant building B-17 bomber aircraft. An early version of Sherman tank (external bolts showing) and Sherman tanks being built in factory. Shipboard twin anti aircraft guns being test fired. Giant yards filled with newly manufactured weapons, armor, trucks, tanks jeeps, searchlights. U.S. Army generals walk in a group inspecting equipment. War materiel and troops and tanks being transported on railroad trains in America and Britain. Covered Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft being towed by trucks past a watching British police (Bobby) at night. Ships being loaded at docks. Troops and war materiel being loaded aboard ships in the U.S. and Britain. Crowd on dock (mostly women) waving goodbye to soldiers on a ship. Soldiers look out portholes and from deck as troop transport ships get underway. Hand sets ship engine control to slow. Soldiers entertain themselves. Soldier playing piano on deck of ship as fellow soldiers listen and tap feet on top of console piano. Closeup view of hands on piano and a soldiers boot nearby on the piano case. Soldiers smile and enjoy the music.
'The Big Picture' depicts the life of General Douglas MacArthur. Sergeant Stuart Queen introduces the program about General Douglas MacArthur. General MacArthur delivers a speech at a Joint meeting of Congress as he closes his 52 years of service. General MacArthur with his father Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur. A childhood picture of General Douglas. Picture of General Douglas with American Olympic team. The Philippine Campaign under Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur. View of Mount Fuji, in Japan, and sketch of Japan neighborhood. World War I footage with with rows of tents. View of World War 1 soldiers digging trenches. The soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army commonly known as the Rainbow Division exercise in front of Major Douglas MacArthur before departing for France. The soldiers march. A troop ship carrying the 42nd Division underway across the Atlantic and disembarking in France. Colonel Macarthur comes down a flight of stairs and studies a map with two persons. Brief scene of railway guns being fired by U.S. 73rd Artillery Regiment, Haussimont, France. U.S. troops in combat in trenches at the front in World War I. U.S. Artillerymen firing 155mm howitzer during battle. General Pershing, Commander American Expeditionary Forces, decorates Colonel MacArthur. The exterior of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where General Douglas was a superintendent. The cadets in the academy. The cadets stand up to honor General Douglas MacArthur.
Highlights covering General Douglas MacArthur, from 1945 through 1950. The Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Several Japanese bowing towards the Palace. General Douglas MacArthur exits a car in Tokyo and walks up steps to enter his headquarters in Japan. Emperor Hirohito walks between two U.S. sentries, as he leaves a building and enters his limousine. Japanese citizens form lines on streets to cast ballots in election.Several Japanese women voting. Exterior of the Japanese National Diet building. Interior with representatives seated. A farmer behind a cultivator, pulled by an ox, in a rice paddy. Japanese school children waving American and Japanese flags together, as MacArthur leaves his Tokyo headquarters, walks down steps, and enters car. MacArthur saluting at a military ceremony, where his wife, Jean MacArthur, and son Arthur are spectators. Explosions in hills, from American Patton tank shelling North Korean positions in Korean War. American soldiers firing a mortar; infantry advancing along sides of road; and American tank commander rendering first aid to wounded comrade. United States Air Force (USAF) C-47 transport aircraft ferrying American troops into Korea, from Japan. American infantry marching across a bridge; firing mortars and rifles; and advancing on foot across fields. American troops on trucks followed by a Patton medium tank. MacArthur meeting troops on river boat; riding in a jeep; being briefed by U.S. officer in the field; examining a knocked out tank; and decorating U.S. troops in winter. Closeup of MacArthur in winter gear with his circle of five stars pined into a fur cap. Views of U.S. amphibious landing at Inchon (or Incheon) in Korean War. MacArthur watching from a ship offshore. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, reading message of appreciation to General MacArthur and shaking hands with him at the podium. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, pinning a medal on General MacArthur,on Wake Island in October, 1950.
The Malta Conference in Malta, January - February 1945. The Malta fortification, building and towers. A plane taxis on the Luqa Airport on the island. General Woods, Smith, Marshall and Brehon B. Somervell deplane in Malta. Major General C.P. Woods shakes hands. Lt. General Walter B. Smith met by British Air Commander Whitney Strait. Ambassador W. Abel Hellemen with Major General F. M. Andersen. Arrival of Admiral Ernest J.King at the airport. Field Marshall Sir Harold Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean Theater. Admiral Andrew and B. Cunningham greet each other. General George C. Marshall steps off a plane. General Brehon B. Somervell greets England's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. On February 2, 1945 an American warship arrives with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is saluted by the British Prime Minister Churchill. Sailors on deck. View of the Montgomery House. Combined meeting of U.S. and British Chiefs of Staff at the Montgomery House. The chiefs are seated around a table, military plans agreed upon. A wall map in the background. Delegates leave for another conference. Policemen control the crowds on either sides of a street. A Russian airport near Yalta in the Crimea. A transport plane lands at the airport. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov greets Allied leaders outside a tent. Edward Stettinius U.S. Secretary of State gets off the plane. UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The flags of three countries fly over the field: US, UK and Soviet Union. Secretary of State outside the tent. Harry Hopkins arrives. Prime Minister Churchill gets off a UK plane. Kremlin Guards form the guard of honor. Franklin D Roosevelt greeted by Russian reception committee. Daughters of Roosevelt and Churchill talk All the delegates around the transport plane. Delegates salute during the national anthem. British Prime Minister and U.S. President inspect the guard of honor after the national anthem. Kremlin Guards march past in review. (World War II period).
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