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Atlas-F missile exhaust plume changes from orange to red in flight
An Atlas-F missile rocket launch in the United States. Missile launch site is stated as “02OP91-0” in the intertitle. Atlas-F missile produces a thick dark smoke upon launch. Bright orange exhaust plume can be seen on Atlas-F missile in-flight. Exhaust plume turns dark red as Atlas-F missile rocket flies farther. Atlas-F is seen as a bright red dot before it fades away.
Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (PIRA) employees review prison plans.
Prison planning at a Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (PIRA) office. PIRA officers inspect blueprints and sketches for prisons in the United States. A man views the “Sketch for a prison for the state of West Virginia” and its model sketches. Two PIRA employees view plans together. Employee wearing glasses smokes a cigar while conferring with colleague over blueprints. Man reviews a plan for a prison and answers the telephone. A female employee receive instructions, hands out a blueprint to her supervisor. Two female employees discuss blueprints together. View of a diagram chart “Vermont Turn-over in the Prison Population 1935”. View of a graph chart “District of Columbia Growth of Prison Population 1920-1937 Daily Average for Years Ending June 30th”.
Women voters in the U.S. participating with the League of Women Voters; scenes of American life
Women Voters' League meeting. Guest speaker from Brazil talks to league meeting attendees. Narrator comments on the work of the women's suffrage movement in the United States that led to this point. Women in classes sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Male instructor at world globe. Female instructor demonstrates how to mark a ballot to vote in election. Woman at store newsstand buys a newspaper. Children play in a street. A group of boys fight and wrestle in the street.. View of a slum area and of abandoned, blighted property. View of old empty derelict home with eroded land in front of it somewhere in America. Union labor picket line demonstration during a strike and men fight and beat another man during a picket line demonstration. Grain truck with sign 'UNRRA' and "Mercy Wheat" sign on it. Mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia with unidentified farmer during the mercy wheat campaign to aid Europe after World War 2. View of United Nations General assembly in meeting. Men and women meet at home in a citizen's living room. They vote by a show of hands. Woman sits at a desk and writes letter to elected representative and so does a man. Woman places letter in mail box. Woman hands letters to a Senator. Senator reads letters.
Charles Winninger narrates facts about the lend-lease to aid Allied nations fight against the Axis powers during World War II.
Documentary titled 'The two-way street, Quick facts about Lend-Lease'. Charles Winninger narrates facts on the fourth anniversary of lend-lease. He recalls that British stood between Axis Powers and United States. Animated map shows a house on fire aided by a garden hose from a neighbor. Flags of Allied nations unite for fight against Nazism.
Wartime nutrition public service film focuses on improving nutrition of American and British people. Also shows British war scenes.
Film on importance of good food and good eating habits during World War 2. Sweeping views of open farm land in the United States. Wheat harvesting by a harvester machine on a farm. Corn picked from stalks. Pigs in a pen. Cattle eat at a trough. Fish leaping on deck of a boat after being emptied from a net. Butcher weighs meat on a scale for a woman customer. Grocer puts meat, sugar, eggs, and other rationed items in a grocery bag. Scene changes to England, probably London, with smoking rubble on the ground from a blitz bombing run by German forces during World War 2. British firemen pour water on a blaze from fire hoses. A queue of British women and children citizens waits to receive food aid. Many of the British civilians look tired. A girl holds a large doll in her arms. A woman with a bandaged head holds a young girl child. Scene shows a British family at a table eating ration reduced portions of eggs, butter, and cheese. A British scientist holds a beaker and adds it to a large food preparation drum, adding vitamin enriched material to a food such as margarine, to aid with improving nutrition despite scarcity in the United Kingdom during World War 2. A box of butter is shown. Hand flips butter packet over to show label "Contains Vitamins A and D". British staples such as a wheat bread loaf and also beans, peas, and cereals are credited by the narrator as being "nerve conditioners, at a time when iron nerves are needed most." Footage of a British paratrooper in training jumping from a British aircraft. Next scene is in a steel mill as British men wearing protective glasses use shovels near a furnace. Scene of a British woman receiving cod liver oil and milk as a ration for a young child. Grocer at produce stand hangs sign saying "no tomatoes". But a victory garden sign behind shows someone pushing a shovel into the earth. People are shown working in victory gardens to grow fresh vegetables. All ages of older men and women and young children in England are shown working to tend victory gardens in plots large and small. Soldiers beneath a barrage balloon tend a garden with hoes. Scene in a community kitchen with a group of British citizens eating a meal. Next scene shows Americans in a restaurant and then in a diner ordering food at the diner counter. A woman orders and coffee is poured for her and two donuts are served. Narrator notes that the food nutrition choices made by many Americans are not good, and notes that malnutrition saps the strength of Americans. A woman secretary is seen typing and being frustrated and tired. A man welding lifts his helmet and rubs his head and face in exhaustion. A doctor and nurse examine and treat an eye of an American war worker. A U.S. Army recruitment or induction center is shown, with new recruits receiving medical examinations. Doctor uses a tongue depressor and examines a person's throat. A blood pressure machine takes a reading. An eye chart is shown. Doctor uses a stethoscope on a recruit's chest. Group of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. A group of new citizen recruits without uniforms marches.
Skilled African Americans involved in demanding occupations and businesses. The National Negro Business League.
African Americans contributing to community and nation in the United States. Unnamed African Americans seen at work include: Welder; Quality control inspector; Chemist; Accountant; Machinist; fabric testing technician; White collar workers and executives; A credit manager in a major department store; and a bank teller. James Temple, Jr., and engineer with a St. Louis Public Utility, is seen in his office. Ora Higgins, Human Resources Director of one of the world's largest mail order houses, seen at her desk, interviewing an applicant. View of Willard S. Townsend, Labor Leader, and President of the United Transport Service Employees of America. Scenes of Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League (NNLB), in Atlanta, Georgia, where its President, Horace Sutters, presents the Businessman of the year award to Samuel B. Fuller of Chicago, founder of the Fuller Products Company, who, himself, later became President of the League and owner of several newspapers, a department store and a theater.
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