African American women study dressmaking in course offered by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York. The woman writes about the advantages of the programs offered by the YWCA. An African American woman teaches girls how to cut a pattern inside a YWCA workshop. Woman cuts a fabric from a pattern. A woman stitches a cut pattern. Two women sewing clothes while chatting. Other women use Singer sewing machines to make clothes. Hand with sewing machine.
African American women take up nursing courses at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in New York. A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the nursing course offered by the YWCA. A patient lies down on a hospital bed. An African American nurse checks her temperature using a thermometer. Nurse checks patient’s pulse. The nurse tucks the patient’s arm back into bed. The nurse talks to patient.
A promotional documentary film on the training, sports, and recreation available to African American women in New York. A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the domestic science courses of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). African American girls cleans a model apartment as part of their lessons. A black woman uses a vacuum to clean an apartment. Young black women prepare and cook food in the kitchen. A girl carefully flips over a meat on a pan. A young black woman serves dishes to women. Women seated at a table in the room. Black woman pours water in the glasses.
Kickoff of U.S. 8th Air Force War Bond Drive at Wycombe Abbey, High Wycombe in England on July 29th 1944. Lieutenant General James Doolittle and several staff officers walk to a bandstand set up on a flatbed tractor trailer, where Major Glenn Miller and his Army Air Forces Band is seated. All come to attention as the General and staff ascend the platform. General Doolittle speaks about the good progress of the war and the need for supporting it with war bonds. He steps to a sales booth where he purchases a war bond from a Women's Army Corps (WAC) Corporal, in uniform .She asks him to sign their book of subscribers, which he does.General Doolittle then "sells" a bond to a Sergeant. Doolittle and his staff depart as the military band plays the Army Air Corps anthem.
The first Polar expedition, led by United States Navy Lieutenant Commander, Richard Evelyn Byrd (an attempt to fly an airplane over the North Pole). The first image seen is a Still photograph of U.S. Navy commodore Robert E. Peary, credited with reaching the North Pole, in 1909. He is seen in fur arctic gear. Next, Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, USN, is seen standing beside his expedition's Fokker F-VII Tri-motor monoplane, the "Josephine Ford." Byrd is dressed in a fur arctic parka similar to the one Peary was wearing. Next, the expedition's Pilot, Floyd Bennett, also poses beside the airplane, wearing his parka. They are preparing to attempt a flight over the North Pole, in 1926.
As U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd, and pilot Floyd Bennett step from their Fokker airplane upon their return from overflight of the North Pole, they are greeted and congratulated by Norwegian explorer, Ronald Amundsen and American Lincoln Ellsworth (who, themselves, are preparing to fly, from Spitsbergen, to the North Pole, and beyond, in the airship Norge). Members of the Byrd expedition team rush to greet the returning aviators and huddle about them expressing congratulations. They lift Byrd and Bennett up on their shoulders. Crewmen are gather and celebrate, aboard the SS Chantier, as a sailor who wouldn't shave until the mission was complete, gets his 34-day beard shaved off, as one of the sailors plays a ukulele.
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