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First attempt at round trip trans-Atlantic flight, originating in the United States
First attempt of round trip trans-Atlantic flight from the United States. Men work on a Vulte V1A aircraft named 'Lady Peace' in a hangar at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. People look at the plane in which the first round trip TransAtlantic flight will be attempted from the United States.The aircraft is towed out of the hangar.
President Franklin Roosevelt's motorcade in Buffalo, New York, during 1940 Presidential Campaign
During the 1940 Presidential election campaign, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rides the streets of Buffalo, New York, in his limousine, a 1939 Lincoln V12 model 1708, special parade car, built for the President's use. Escorted by several motorcycle policemen, and followed by a car of Secret Service agents, it stops in front of the City Hall, at 65 Niagara Square, where a large welcoming crowd is gathered. The McKinley Monument is seen behind them in the square. Police and uniformed guards control the flag-waving crowd. The President, bundled against the wind in a cloak, makes some remarks recorded on a microphone of radio station WBNY. Several enthusiastic women supporters wave American flags at the front of the crowd. The next scenes show the Presidential limousine and escorts traveling along streets of the commercial district of Buffalo. Spectators line the sidewalks and cheer the President. A final sequence is taken from a car moving in the motorcade. It shows members of the Presidents party, and a police official waving spectators away from the motorcade.
American 8th Air Force fighter bombing enemy installation in Germany.
American 8th Air Force fighter operations in Germany during World War II. Lieutenant V E Chandler of the 336thh Squadron in action. View of the fighter aircraft, bombing enemy installations on ground. View of damage to the ground installations.
Aspects of U.S. industry including public information, agriculture, transportation, and water power.
Excerpt from film entitled "Power Behind the Nation." It opens showing glimpse of two men on a park bench, discussing a newspaper article, followed by views of men at work in a radio broadcasting studio. Next is shown a Western theme film set being constructed for a motion picture, at a Hollywood film studio back lot. Closeup of Director and crew filming a western movie with an actor on horseback as he rides up to a wooden building on the film set displaying a Dance Hall sign. Next, a director and film crew are seen working on an elaborate set with a chorus of women in white gowns. Scene shifts to film makers watching a finished movie production dealing with colonial era America (ostensibly an educational film). Another film is seen being made at a set resembling a European town. Next, views of American farms are shown with various crops under cultivation, including fruit orchards. Farm machinery is seen in use, including tractors, harvesters, and combines. Grain is shown being harvested and processed in the field, and cotton being picked. Closeup of cotton bolls on the plants. Men are shown collecting sap from sugar maple trees in the northeast U.S. for making maple syrup. In the U.S. Northwest, a flock of sheep is seen grazing in a field. A herd of cattle are shown in the Southwest, U.S. A field of grain is shown and then a section of crops irrigated by small ditches. Then a large man-made irrigation canal is seen. View of a ramshackle building and yard in a desert. Women harvesting vegetables from irrigated plants. Apples being sorted by machine. A pair of steam locomotives pulling a railroad train and a diesel locomotive pulling freight cars, all ostensibly carrying fresh produce to market. Several shots of railroad freight trains in different settings. A truck moving along a country road. A tugboat working beside a large ocean-going cargo ship on a river in the U.S. More shots of ships and inland canals. A ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in California. An aircraft under construction. Passengers deplaning from a Continental Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane parked on a ramp. A prototype U.S. Navy Lockheed XR6O-1 Constitution aircraft taking off. (Only two R6V aircraft were made, Bureau Numbers 85163 and 85164.) A Sikorsky helicopter in flight. Closeup of Captain in cockpit of a TWA Boeing Stratoliner airplane as it taxis out of parking place. Industrial buildings close to a river with water flowing below a dam. The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.
Jews reading from Torah in Jerusalem; Islamic principles of design from mosques in Jerusalem, India, and Tunisia.
Slate notes Muhammad's respect for ideas of Christians and Jews. Jews are seen reading from the Torah and in prayer. A Jewish Rabbi leads a prayer. View of Dome of the Rock at Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Other Muslim mosques: the Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque, M64V+P7J, Lal Qila, Old Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110006, India), seen from the Diwan-e-Khas or Red Fort of Delhi, India. in the Lahore Fort or Shahi Qila (H8Q7+56P, Fort Rd, Walled City of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan), Punjab, British India. View of the courtyard of the Grand Mosque of Kairouan (M4J3+GMR, Rue de La Kasbah, Kairouan, Tunisia) in Tunis, Tunisia. Slate states that Islamic decoration is confined to Arabic script and geometric or floral designs. Architecture of a mosque shows columns, pillars, and arches at the side of a courtyard. As previously noted, the columns and the roof of the mosque are decorated only with Arabic script, floral and geometric designs. A decorative grill in a mosque.
U.S. ships get damaged due to a gale storm on the coast of Normandy following D-Day.
Storm in Normandy, France following D-Day. German prisoners are marched under guard. Sunken U.S. merchant marine ships form a protective breakwater on the coast of Normandy. Gale force winds hit the area. High waves break over the ships and cause damage during the storm. Wreckage of ships. Soldiers near the wreckage. The United States Coast Guard ship 'Flying Angel' is seen among the wreckage. Dead and wounded men are loaded on landing craft. A military officer types 'V-Mail' on a typewriter while smoking a pipe in the United States. The man puts his signature on the typed paper and then folds the paper. He puts on his cap, gets up from the table and walks away with the help of crutches. Camera zooms in for close-up of a Purple Heart award in a case on the desk. (World War II period).
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