Marine M48 Patton tank parked atop a hill, with turret turned to the side, fires rounds toward a hill across a valley. In rapid succession, are seen an explosion; a Marine firing a recoiless anti tank weapon; an M67 flame thrower tank in action engulfing an armored target in flames; as Marine riflemen keep down in a protected position, two MGR-1 Honest John missiles are launched nearby; a Marine charges from trench toward the camera firing a flame thrower and flames fill the camera view; Marines charge from the trench, toward the camera. More flame thrower fire is seen.
Automobiles driving along a street in small U.S. city in the 1920s. People coming and going in and around shops along a sidewalk. Two women walking outside a shot while one of them eat an ice cream cone. A woman exits a shop with packages of things she bought. Men gathered out side a shop tip their hats to one another. Numerous 1920s cars are seen in a parking area at center of a street and parked along the sides as well. A motorcar enters the garage of a service station, where an attendant refuels it with gasoline. Several cars are parked at the station, awaiting repairs. A street of the city filled with automobiles driving and many parked along the curb sides.
Movie in which actors portray bootleggers receiving liquor from a schooner offshore. They load containers into a small boat and bring them ashore. 'Oil' written on the containers. They pour liquor from the containers into bottles, at their hideout during prohibition.
Men work at fabricating siege mortar shells. A shell blank is heated over a furnace and then transported to a machine where it is formed, while still glowing, into the desired shell shape. A number of finished shells is shown in a yard. Next, men are seen welding the shells. Finally, men are shown filling them with gunpowder. They pound the gunpowder into the shells using wooden rams and wooden mallets (to avoid creating sparks). A worker is seen topping off a shell with gunpowder, from a ladle, pounding it tight, and fastening a cap on the top. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Men and women work at belt-driven lathes on a crowded machine shop floor in an armaments factory during World War 1. A stack of machined shell cylinders sits on the floor. In another area of the munitions plant, workers are seen with large shells and caps for them. At another machine shop, workers turn large diameter shells in lathes. Camera pans across various work stations where different manufacturing processes are taking place. Closeup of a woman working on a standard size lathe, and of other women working in the machine shop. Men and women sealing hot shells and handling them large tongs. Women working on small caliber ammunition. Women stacking finished shell in trays. Women weighing out gunpowder into sacks, and others loading the sacks into boxes that they dump onto open shells, where women use them to fill shells. A group of women placing objects into shells (fuses?) and sealing them, as a superviser watches. A man taking the shells from a conveyer belt and packing them in boxes. Another area of the plant where items are packed into containers. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A World War II film titled 'Manuel Quezon' on the death of Filipino President Manuel Luis Quezon. Buildings along the side of a street. Men wave U.S. and other flags. US, British and other flags flying at half-mast on flag poles. Past events show President Manuel Quezon seated at a desk in his office and working. He talks to his son, Manuel L. “Nonong” Quezon Jr. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated in a chair. Officials standing nearby. President Roosevelt talks to Quezon. A document by President Roosevelt on the death of President Quezon.
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