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British film intended to acquaint British people with United States landscape, rail transportation, and farming history.

British World War 2 era film showing scenes in the United States from earlier in the 1900s. Film opens showing 19th Century animated map of the United States. It traces the development of the railroads in the U.S. It shows rail lines reaching the Missouri River by the year 1860. (Narrator states this took 250 years to happen.) But in another 10 years, the map shows the Union Pacific and other rail lines extending two the West Coast, and U.S. commerce shifting, from North-South movement, to East-West (with an animated steam locomotive moving across the map). Chicago is highlighted as the greatest railway junction in the world (the "Piccadilly Circus" as the British narrator describes it). View of a late 1800s model steam locomotive train pulling freight railroad cars on railroad tracks in a desert area of the Western United States. Point of view from camera on moving railroad train pointing straight down at railroad tracks moving by at high speed. Landscape and wide views of the arid Western parts of the U.S. Group of Native American Indians watching a railroad train pass. Construction supplies being offloaded from a train. A wind-driven water pump. Buffalo herds affected by the railroads. Wire fencing installed to control cattle on large Western ranches. Large team of horses pulling late 1800s wheat harvesting farm equipment as it harvests wheat in fields. Views of wheat grains being poured at high volume. Cattle roaming in the high country. Views of Chicago stock yards. A man marking in chalk on a Board of Trade chalk board, indicating the prices of farm commodities including wheat, corn, oats, and rye. Various views of steam locomotives pulling trains throughout the rail network, including some 20th century trains near the end of the film, and some close-up views of wheels turning fast on moving railroad trains.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053396
Film describing social character of United States in decade leading up to World War II

Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053398
Daily routine of German boys and girls in Bavarian camps.

German children leave Berlin and board train for Bavarian Camps early in World War 2. Children look out from the windows of the train and carry Nazi flags. A horse ridden carriage on road. A German officer with children sitting in his carriage arrives at a house and exchanges Nazi salutes with people there. A family sits in a dining room and a girl joins them enjoying food and drink. Life of Hitler Youth children in camps. Boys eat food in a mess. Boys go out for an outing. Boys sit on horses. Girls sleep on bunk beds. In the morning they get ready for the day. Girls wash their faces and take bath. Girls sit on benches and learn stitching. A view of a classroom. Girls eat food in mess and play table tennis. Children sleep on beds.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053412
Civilians and Military officers parade along Unter den Linden in Berlin, Germany to celebrate birthday of Adolf Hitler in 1944.

German civilian raises Nazi flag on a building in Germany during World War 2. German civilians on streets carry Nazi flags. Civilians and Military officers parade in Berlin along Unter den Linden in honor of Adolf Hitler's 55th birthday, on April 20, 1944. A band leads the marching parade, passing through the Brandenburg Gate and along the streets of Berlin. People place Nazi German flags on buildings and on rubble and buildings destroyed by allied aerial aircraft bombing campaigns. Nazi flags atop rubble. A woman stands near a sign. German men, women, and children sign a book with well wishes for Hitler on his birthday View of wrecked buildings. A sign reads in German "Our walls collapsed, but not our hearts."

Date: 1944, April 20
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053415
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering review a new Panzer Division in Germany.

Adolf Hitler arrives in his Mercedes Benz 770 Cabriolet to visit a new German armored (Panzer) Division. Marshal Hermann Goering, who is leading a cadre of top German Military commanders, steps forward to welcome Hitler. As they walk back together, a long line of saluting troops can be seen stretched along the side of the pavement into the distance. Hitler shakes hands with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, as Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz stands, saluting with his baton. He also greets Generaloberst (Colonel General) Kurt Zeitzler,Chief of the Army General Staff. He goes on to greet two junior Panzer officers, one of whom has his arm in a sling. View of Hitler mingling with Goering, and the other marshals and generals.Scene shifts back to Hitler shaking hands with a soldier, standing next to the wounded one. He then greets Generaloberst Heinz Guderian, Inspector General of Armoured Troops. Scenes of Hitler walking and conversing with his senior officers. They walk past a Hetzer light tank destroyer, Jagdpanzer 38 (Sd.Kfz. 138/2), where black uniformed Panzertruppen (Armored Troops) are standing at attention. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053416
German infantry troops advance along Russian Front.

A map of Russia. German infantry troops advance along Eastern Front in Soviet Union during World War 2. They are wearing winter coats (likely late 1941). Troops walk on roads. Horse driven carriages, locomotive, trucks and cars in view. German engineers blast factories and other installations to clear a way for advancing troops. Several soldiers carry bicycles. Tanks on unpaved roads. German tanks cross water. Men observe with binoculars. Firing and explosion as Gerrman forces attack Soviet positions.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053417