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Segment of World War 2 film promoting sales of War Bonds and stamps to aid the war effort and stimulate postwar recovery
Film opens with singer on stage singing that he is a "double-duty dollar." He is backed by showgirls costumed as silver dollars. He explains that American dollars are now purchasing guns ammunition, planes, and tanks, to win the war. He alludes to how dollars will be used to fund the peace, after the war. An illustration shows schools, homes, and similar postwar investments in the country's infrastructure. Another shows futuristic cars, helicopter, and television sets. Scenes of pre-war highways filled with moving automobiles. Men playing golf. Gun club members in an outdoor shooting competition. A factory parking lot filled with automobiles and workers leaving the building at end of shift. (Message is that dollars no longer spent on war will revive private sector industry, again.) Film ends with appeal to "Buy an EXTRA War Bond TODAY!"
Strike breaks out at the Allis Chalmers factory and the CIO workers protest during strikes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Strike at the Allis Chalmers factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union-Congress of industrial Organizations(CIO) workers carry flags of America and of CIO as they move in huge crowd. Views of the Allis Chalmers plant and smoke comes out of the smoke stack. The crowd advances and a car being driven amidst the crowd. Horse driven carriage carry people. Governor of Wisconsin Julius Peter Heil walks from the crowd. He calls for help and closes the plant. Rear of a car having a spoiled glass from paint being thrown on it. Police force controls the crowd. Police sprays water on the protesting workers from fire hoses . Crowd runs all around the area. Tear gas is used to break up the crowd. A damaged police vehicle. Worker throw stones at the vehicles. (World War II period).
Operation Hardtack II Atomic testing in New Mexico
A low yield atomic explosion is conducted for experimental purpose. Smoke rises due to explosion. Sign reads "Headquarters Special Weapons Command." U.S. Air Force Major General John S. Mills steps from the headquarters building accompanied by another officer. View shifts to B-29 aircraft parked on the tarmac. A tug is pulling a B-47 aircraft. Mechanics on maintenance stands working on aircraft. Aerial view of an Air Force F-86 fighter airplane speeding past a B-29 in flight. View from directly overhead of a B-29 in flight over desert terrain. Scene transitions to view from directly underneath a B-29 in flight. Change of scene shows two women in the Weather Central of the Atomic Energy Control point, where teletype machines are printing out weather data. Meterologists plot wind data on maps. View of an atomic explosion. Closeup of the "atomic cloud." Technicians standing in a group, outdoors, observing the movement of the cloud. Next a technicial with a radiation counter walks to a helicopter, waiting with pilot already in the cockpit. He boards and the helicopter takes off. Closeup from the ground of the helicopter flying low directly toward the camera. Occupants can be seen as it fies past. Another post-explosion atomic cloud is seen. A B-29 in flight overhead. View of a pilot wearing helmet and oxygen mask, inside the cockpit. View of cloud through which they are flying. More views of pilot inside. A B-36 aircraft in flight with blue sky in background. Closeup of a C-47 aircraft in flight, with a sampler attached to the top of its fuselage. Crewman inside an aircraft attending to camera equipment. Other cremen at complex recording devices. View of a B-29 directly overhead. Crew members inside a cloud tracking aircraft. Men in a military control center receiving and plotting the cloud movement data. More views of B-29 and crew members inside. Men with hoses decontaminating a B-29 after it completed cloud tracking mission.
Scenes of commercial activity in markets of Jerusalem, Palestine.
Film opens showing the flying buttresses on Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, Palestine. Scene shifts to merchants moving large bales of goods from a street into a building. Another merchant place a cargo of rugs on the back of his camel. He then feeds his kneeling camel from a bag while he adjusts and ties down his cargo. A donkey carrying large metal storage chests passes him. He completes tying down his load of rugs while his camel happily continues eating. People gather outside where merchants are offering fresh oranges from Jaffa. Customers select oranges from a large barrel and place them in small box. Men carry large woven bags, filled with oranges, on their backs. Fruit merchants tending to their wares. A man cleans cookware, using his feet, as well as his hands. Closeup of his feet scrubbing a pan in circular motion. Closeup of him with a shiny pan in his hands, that he then burnishes over a fire. Views of a young man cleaning cookware with scouring powder.
African American soldiers seated as they laugh and clap during a recording at the NBC studio in Hollywood, California
African American soldiers during a studio recording in Hollywood, California. Interior of the NBC Broadcasting Studio. An announcer introduces the radio program named "Jubilee." U.S. military personnel seated in the control booth laugh. African American soldiers seated in the studio. They laugh and clap during the recording. American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, and American comic actor Eddie Anderson, who plays Rochester, on the Jack Benny show, are at microphone. recording on stage. Soldiers laugh and clap. (World War II period).
The 372nd Infantry Glee club sings the Invictus, a British poem in New York City, at 46th birthday party of Paul Robeson.
The U.S. 372nd Infantry Glee club, comprised of African American soldiers, performs in New York City during a Celebration of Paul Robeson’s 46th birthday and on the anniversary of the Council on African Affairs. The 372nd Infantry Glee club sings the Invictus, a British poem, during the event at the 17th Regiment Armory at 34th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan. Candles lit up in front of stage. After they sing, banner above stage is visible that says '17th Regiment'. Audience seated. (World War II period).
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