A beer drinking offer for Schepps Beer at the Texan Hotel in Dallas, Texas, 1935. Sign out front of the building says "Look! All the Schepps beer you can drink. 60 cents per hour." . A man drinks beer at the bar where for 60 cents he may have as much beer as he can consume in 60 minutes. Several men use straws to drink beer from a pitcher at the same time. Men and women drink beer from huge mugs and salt their beer before drinking it. A group of men and women raise their mugs in toast as they congregate around a woman playing a piano. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960. (Note: Schepps Brewing Co. was founded in Dallas in 1934, and sold in 1935. In 1939, it became Time Brewing, Inc. and subsequently Dallas-Fort Worth Brewing Co. 1940-51.)
A documentary about the dangers posed by avalanches in the mountainous regions of the United States. A figure about the avalanche angles depicting the anger of avalanche to be high at slopes above 40 degrees. Avalanche terrain at Mount Superior in Alta, Utah. Snow covered Halgate cliff. A figure depicts the avalanche fracture points on straight, convex and concave slopes. An avalanche comes down a slope. Snow water falls down a cliff and gives boost to its velocity. A snow covered house. A man walks on a snow covered surface. Snow waves blow from a mountain peak. A snow storm blows above a canyon. A figure depicts various weather factors that cause avalanche like rate of fall, wind force, temperature and wind direction.
Theodore Cuyler Streibert , Director of the U.S. Information Agency, speaks on the purposes of the Agency (USIS). The Director seated at a table. He states that there is much misunderstanding about the United States, throughout the world, and Communist entities wish to take advantage of this to spread misinformation about the U.S. As the leading world power for peace, he says the U.S. must tell the world the truth about America. This is the mission of the USIA. A map portrays Soviet dominated areas within the so-called "iron curtain,"encompassing 800 million people. Another map illustrates targets of Communist propaganda employed to facilitate North Korea's aggression against South Korea. A graph illustrates propaganda spending by the Soviet Union and Communist China, primarily to spread misinformation about America. Segments of a Soviet propaganda film about the U.S. are shown. It begins with a map of the U.S. and then shows the Statue of Liberty. Camera pans over Manhattan, showing skyscrapers. A narrator disparages American commercialism, materialism and sensationalism. A lion is seen sitting in a convertible car, looking over a young woman's head. Next are scenes of an American beauty contest, and of women performing precision water skiing. Then an airplane is seen crashing on landing and a car is seen burning. View from trolley car moving along Broadway, from Times Square, in Manhattan, New York City, at night. A follies-style Broadway show. Show girls in bathing suits, walking past the camera. Show girls performing on stage. Another nighttime view of Times Square. Dogs being manicured by groomers. Outdoor soup kitchen scene from the Great Depression in the 1930s with unemployed men receiving food. Hobos or homeless men at a railroad siding. Milk and grain being spilled from containers during a labor and pricing dispute. Scenes of slum area tenement houses with wash drying on lines strung between the buildings. Men playing bocce ball in the yard of an apartment house. Camera pans up the Empire State Building from street level view. African American drummer with other band musicians performing in a civilian band, and scenes of African American musicians in a U.S. Army band. Poor African Americans in the South, at home and doing wash outdoors. Mounted police maintaining order in scenes of a fire and public protest or labor strife (circa 1935) interposed with views of the Statue of Liberty. A Soviet propaganda poster about the Korean War, shows an American soldier walking away from a dead Korean woman whose small child clings to her. Fires burn and a burning airplane falls from the sky in the background. A propaganda cartoon shows "warmongers of the west" being counterbalanced by a Soviet fist on a pair of scales.
A film covers chemical warfare defense training received by U.S. soldiers at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, United States. A soldier wearing special clothing enters a portable decontamination chamber and removes gloves, jacket and gas masks in separate chambers. The soldier removes his shirt and gas mask and puts it into a machine marked with a sign which reads 'contaminated apparel outlet'. He pushes 'shower push' button on the machine. The soldier in the decontamination chamber uses a towel and puts on a shirt. He walks away.
AEC Monticello Plant in Utah, United States. A truck drives back and unloads ore. A mine worker directs the truck. Piles of ore at the mine.
Excavation in Monument Valley in Utah, United States. A station wagon driven over sandy terrain. It stops. Workers digging the earth. The workers find bones of a Pueblo Native American Indian woman with pottery and bones of a medicine man.
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