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New York Yankees defeat Chicago Cubs 8-3 to win 1938 World Series
New York Yankees win game four to clinch the 1938 World Series. 60,000 baseball fans cheer during the game. The Yankees' Frankie Crosetti hits triple to score two runs in 2nd inning. Cubs' Phil Cavaretta doubles. In 8th inning, Cubs' Ken O'dea hits two-run homer. Yankees' Myril Hoag hits double to score Lou Gehrig. Crosetti hits double to score two runs. Crowd walks on field after end of game.
U.S. Navy Dr. Walt Miner gives historical background of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) drug in the United States.
The film gives an introduction and briefs the history of illegal drug LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide). U.S. Navy Doctor Walt Miner speaks about revealing the facts about LSD which can be documented. He speaks about the historical background of LSD. He says that LSD is synthesized from lysergic acid derived from ergot, a grain fungus that typically grows on rye. He says that ergot is a fungus that grows on grains and other cereals. He speaks about Swiss chemists Albert Hofmann and Stahl who tried to make modifications in LSD molecule in 1938. He mentions the event of 1943 when Dr. Hofmann intentionally ingested 250 micrograms of LSD in his laboratory and how he felt uncomfortable. Dr. Walt Miner further explains how unique and powerful LSD drug is and says that the most unique thing about LSD is effective dose of the material. Miner states that effective dose for LSD can range from 0.5 micrcograms to 1.5 micrograms per kilogram of body weight.To explain the effective dosage of LSD, he displays a piece of wax paper where a mark is made with a pen. A penny is placed beside that mark to compare the two sizes. Dr. Miner informs that the ink mark weighs some micrograms. Dr. Miner takes one drop of human blood from a tube and says that this one drop contains 330 million cells and in comparison to that the weight of LSD to produce its effect is equal to the weight of two blood cells.
Joseph Louis Barrow before fight against boxer Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium in New York.
Narrator notes that in June 1938, American heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out German boxer Max Schmeling in a boxing match at Yankee Stadium (1 E 161 St, Bronx, NY 10451, United States) in New York, United States. Louis and Schmeling in the center of press event before the boxing match. Photographers take pictures. Boxer Joe Louis in his robe.
Dr. Ad Hoi Tailor works at a radar and an animation shows the operation and the use of the radar in the United States.
Operation and the uses of the radar. A radar with 'XAF installed 1938' written on it. Allied civilian scientist Dr. Ad Hoi Tailor, Chief of Electronic Science Development and his assistant Mr. Lio Se Young at work. A diagram shows the operation of the radar. A dot of voltage barrier at a florescent screen. An animation shows how a radar traces an enemy plane. Radar equipped planes detect enemy fleet. A light mover in the radar. (World War II period).
Life in Britain on eve of War. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini signing the Munich Agreement during World War II.
An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance shows British soldiers in Great Britain during World War 2. 1938: in the United States New York Yankees win the pennant in baseball; scene of Yankees team members shaking hands. View of aviator Douglas Corrigan nicknamed Wrong Way Corrigan after his accidental flight from New York to Ireland instead of California as planned. View of trains on the 6th Avenue Elevated (or Sixth Avenue El) before that service was halted in Manhattan New York City. British citizens go about their daily life. Derby horse race in a stadium. A British boy and his father shovel dirt for a backyard garden. Players play a football (soccer) game at Wembley Stadium in England as spectators cheer the 1938 FA Cup Final with Preston North End taking the Cup versus Huddersfield Town as George Mutch scores the winning goal. Scenes in Germany: People cheer for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Newspaper headlines about Czech occupation. Graves in a cemetery. British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini sign the Munich Agreement. Despite a peace agreement Hitler invades Czechoslovakia. People read 'Military Training Act, 1939'. British soldiers march along a road. View of Adolf Hitler smiling and laughing. Artillery is fired. A poster reads 'Britain Declares War on Germany'. Airplanes in flight and drop leaflets over Germany. German airplanes in flight. Parachutists jump from the airplanes. Hitler talks to officers and considers the war to be over. Radio news broadcast of the British declaration of war on Germany by Neville Chamberlain. Many different British citizens and families shown in living rooms and work places gathered around radios to hear the so called "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of Winston Churchill on June 4, 1940. Clip includes scenes from 1938 through 1940; from a film produced in 1943.
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.
General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.
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