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Recap of slavery, the Civil War, and job integration in the United States, in the context of the civil rights movement.
African American and white children swim and play in an integrated swimming pool in the United States in the 1960's. A black man beside a white man working on an integrated engine car assembly line. A black shoe shine man. A black street sweeper. Narrator indicates that African American workers are in increasingly skilled jobs and supervisory positions. A black draftsman in an officer environment. A black bank manager gives an application to a black woman. Huey Newton leads the Black Panthers in a protest. Stills portray trade and transport of African American slaves. Stills show the Civil War in the United States, and aftermath of war showing blacks voting and as politicians during reconstruction. Footage of African American people working on farms in cotton fields picking cotton, including boy and girl child laborers picking cotton. Footage of a Rust Cotton Picker machine in operation as African American workers watch. American troops, including African American soldiers of the U.S. Army 369th Infantry "Harlem Hellfighters", marching in victory parade in the United States after returning from World War 1. View of segregated African American soldiers in the parade in New York City cheered by parade attendees. Brief scene with Henry Johnson on the side of the parade route being congratulated by civilians. (Johnson and Needham Roberts received the Croix de Guerre for exceptional heroism). Black and white workers entering or exiting a factory during World War 2. Black American troops and Tuskegee Airmen pilots in segregated units during World War 2. The Tuskegee pilots in uniform gathered together during a briefing on an airfield. View of U.S. military forces comprised of white and black personnel, integrated beginning in 1947. A white officer gives binoculars to a black soldiers.
Cold War safety protocols in the United States; missile silos, nuclear submarines
American symbol of Bald Eagle with arrows in one claw and an olive branch in the other claw. Scenes depicting arms control safety protocols in various circumstances. Two U.S. military personnel in an underground bunker open a massively fortified door, like a vault door, to access a missile silo control room during the Cold War. Two military personnel at controls in a missile silo or bunker. Narrator discusses how launching key must be used in tandem, while the men appear to conduct a drill. Next scene is an aerial view from above a B-52 Stratofortress in flight. View of pilot wearing helmet in cockpit of B-52 bomber. Narrator notes that the bomber cannot proceed to its target until it is given the order by the President of the United States. Another crew member looking through a site. Next scene is a U.S. Navy Polaris submarine cruising at surface, followed by scenes inside the submarine control room. U.S. Navy sailors and officers at work on the submarine. Narrator discusses the verification steps necessary on the submarine before it can go to battle stations missiles. Next scene is a scene looking upward from the ground of three P-38 aircraft in flight and scores of parachutes descending toward the ground. U.S. Army paratroopers gathering their parachutes on the ground after landing. A supply box tied to three parachutes is seen descending.
Vice Admiral William F. Bringle and Lieutenant General Nguyan Van VY present awards to United States Servicemen on USS America.
Vietnamese awards to United States Servicemen on the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Deck edge elevator lowered to the hanger. On the elevator some U.S. Navy commanders and officers salute. Vice Admiral William F. Bringle and Lieutenant General Nguyan Van VY proceed to hanger over red carpet. Marines and ship band plays. Vice Admiral Bringle addresses from the speaker's stand. Other division officers on stage. Medals and awards to be presented. Lieutenant General Van VY addresses. Commodore Tran Van Chon seated between two U.S. Navy Admirals. Vietnamese officer reads names from a list as a U.S. Navy officer watches.
A German who tries to steal away a pig from an American farm is attacked by the U.S. Navy.
U.S. National Food Administration animated save food campaign in the United States during World War I. A man at a farm. Pigs and chicken at the farm. The man leans against a wooden fence with a wind mill in the background. A donkey symbolizing U.S. Army and a goat symbolizing U.S. Navy at the farm. A German man tries to steal away a pig from the farm but the United States Navy symbolized by the goat attacks the man. The American man empties out a bag brought by the German with the donkey, the goat, pigs and chickens in the background.
Liberty Bond printing workers exit building; Liberty Bond drives in the United States during World War I.
From a film on "Where and Why Liberty Bonds are made." created during Liberty Bond drives in the United states during World War 1. American flag superimposed as U.S. Army soldiers march in background. Liberty Bond printing workers exit the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington DC during a lunch break. A streetcar passes by on 14th Street SW in Washington DC, in front of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. A large crowd gathers during a Liberty Bond drive as they carry banners that read "Damn the torpedoes, Go ahead -Farragut ". White coated waiters in a U.S. Navy sailor mess hall carry large trays of food from kitchen to mess hall, where sailors are seen eating the meal, seated at long tables. A line of new U.S. Navy recruits pass by a high counter and receive their sailor uniforms. U.S. Army soldiers march on a crowded street as they prepare to go to war in Europe during World War 1.
Scenes contrast between life in United States and that in totalitarian states
Statue of Liberty. Picnic for union workers. Sign reads, "Amalgamated Shirts and Pajama Workers of America, Local 343 Picnic" College graduation ceremony. Americans voting. Signs read, "Polling Place. Stalls open 6 A.M. - Close P.M." and "No Loitering or Electioneering Between This Point and The Poll." A woman enters a curtained voting stall to vote. Aerial view of early U.S. interstate highway exchange. Suburban neighborhood development in California, with elevated view of houses in suburbs. A pastor performs a wedding ceremony in a church. An American family picnics on bank of a stream. Students at a U.S. college campus. Parishioners coming out of a church. U.S. Congress in session. U.S. Capitol building exterior with tree branches. In contrast: Military parade in Communist East Germany, with tanks. A sign reads: "Peace, Prosperity, good fortune" (in German). Civil unrest in various countries, possibly Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian revolution in Hungary in 1956: People during a riot or demonstration and a city bus is seen crashing through trees and into a building on a busy downtown city street; Street riots; protest gatherings. Contrasting scenes: Peaceful U.S. metropolitan street scene; Farmer plowing field with tractor; Cowboys herding steers; driver in tanker truck with "Cyclone Rocket" logo on the door, welders at a shipyard.
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