Scenes of Americans celebrating the end of World War 1, in several cities. Revelers in New York City, wave flags and cheer. Several hold up newspapers announcing German surrender. Some men ride atop a car and pummel an effigy of the Kaiser. Scene shifts to other locations where joyful crowds are celebrating. Cheering crowds in front of the Old Executive Office Building, in Washington, DC, wave flags. One group holds up an effigy of the Kaiser, holding a white flag of surrender.
From a film about the use and importance of weapons since ancient times. A flag flutters in a breeze. A reenactment about the American Civil War depicts soldiers firing cannons. Infantrymen and soldiers from Union and Confederate forces advance across a field and cannons being fired during the Battle of Bull Run (reenacted).
A film dramatizes the life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. Dead bodies of German civilians who joined the army during World War II. Graves of German soldiers. Two men seated on a bench talk. One of them says to the other that they do have freedom no matter even if they are a minority group. He talks about dignity of the individual.
A northbound Detroit,Toledo,and Ironton train is taking on coal in Bainbridge,Ohio. The train continues north across the twin-span Paint Creek Bridge,then through the single span over Buckskin Creek. The railroad crosses route 41 and Buckskin creek again, below Fruitdale,and then on to Thrifton. Here the railroad crosses under the Baltimore and Ohio, this underpass is known as "Hole-in-the Wall". The two story depot that once served both railroads can be seen.The train again crosses Paint Creek at Greenfield,then continues past Island Grove,north of town.
Various views of farmers at work in America during World War 2. A worker gathering cotton in a field. A woman, man, and child in a field.The woman loads newly picked cotton into the back of a truck, as the man tallies it. Scene shifts to a yard filled with bales of cotton in Texas and then to numerous sheep in a large enclosure. They had been shorn recently.A worker holds a gate to control the exit of sheep from the pen. Next farmers are seen holding buckets of milk from which calves are feeding. Cattle moving along a trail. A farmer operates a a horse drawn dump rake to gather forage for animals. Beef cattle being herded by cowboys. Farmers harvesting and processing wheat in the field. A yard filled with pigs.
Cars fill the large, open surface parking lot at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, a new suburban shopping mall. People in front of the I. Magnin store at the shopping mall. Family in a convertible car arrives and stops in front of the mall. A man with two children looks at department store window where a mannequin displays clothes. Women in front of a suburban shopping center. Shoes and purses displayed in a shop window. Shop signs for smaller stores in an outdoor pedestrian mall layout. A woman sits on a bench at the mall. Another woman walks up to her. People walk in front of stores at the postwar, modern suburban shopping mall. Store signs seen in the clip include I. Magnin, Blum's, Haffner's Clothes, The Emporium, Donnelley’s Hardware Store, Fowler's Barber Shop, Irving Lundborg Company, Joseph Magnin (JM).
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