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American people working, enjoying recreational activities, and voting in the United States after World War 2

A film about contribution of the U.S. Navy personnel for better life of Americans in the United States after World War II. Scenes of former soldiers, sailors, and military personnel returning to civilian life after the end of World War 2. Men drill on metal structure erecting a new building. Men load sacks in a cart. A man works on a typewriter. People worship in churches. A couple sits on a swing. A man plays chess. People read newspaper sitting outdoors. A man fishing in a river. Men play golf. People on a sailing yacht. Paintings displayed on a wall. A statute in a garden. A man sits on his front porch, plays guitar and sings. A jazz band of African American musicians plays music including piano, drums, clarinet, bass, trumpet (playing part of song "Pop goes the Weasel."). Piano player is smoking a cigarette while playing. Audience watching an orchestra play on stage. A man speaks and presents his view to a gathering. Exteriors of a church. People walk out of the building. Children play on swings in a school playground. Children inside a house run down stairs to the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. A woman drops her completed ballot in a ballot box on voting day, as a man waits to receive his ballot. He enters a voting booth and a uniformed police officer closes the curtain behind him. View shows him marking a check box on the ballot document.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068538
An autodin ASC-2 simulator is operated by a U.S. 1st Signal Brigade soldier at the Regional Communications Center in Vietnam

A U.S. Army 1st Signal Brigade soldier operates a machine at the Regional Communications Center in Phu Lam, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A soldier walks in the center. He operates an autodin ASC-2 simulator and pushes different buttons. A light flashes. The words on the screen of the simulator read 'Welcome to Phu Lam'.

Date: 1969, July
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068652
A U.S. 1st Signal Brigade soldier operates an autodin ASC-2 simulator at the Regional Communications Center in Vietnam.

A U.S. Army 1st Signal Brigade soldier operates a machine at the Regional Communications Center in Phu Lam, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An autodin ASC-2 simulator. The words on the screen of the simulator read 'Welcome to Phu Lam'. Switches and lights. He presses some buttons of the simulator.

Date: 1969, July
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068653
Retired General Pershing supports destroyers for bases deal; Charles Lindbergh supports U.S.neutrality in World War 2.

Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.

Date: 1940, August
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068720
Some U.S. Army soldiers focusing on leisure after World War 2, and some attend Army extension classes in the United States.

A post-war U.S. Army film (after World War 2) in 1945-1946 contrasts dice and pool playing soldiers with the soldiers who take Army extension classes to prepare for jobs in civilian life following demobilization and discharge from the Army. Group of U.S. Army soldiers in a room as they play pool at a billiards table. Soldiers in a barracks room seated on a bed and on the floor throwing dice in a game of craps. The soldiers play cards and smoke. Contrast is shown with U.S. Army students seated in a class. An officer takes lessons. A soldier takes notes. A young teacher or professor explains a concept with the help of a blackboard. View of the HĂ´tel Miramar in Biarritz, France (built in 1927 and demolished in 1978). Aerial view of a building with interconnected corridors. Street level view of the University of Calcutta Senate Hall in Calcutta (Kolkata), India (hall designed by Walter Granville; one time home to the Asutosh Museum of Indian Art; demolished in 1960). People walking in front of the Senate Hall as a car and a pulled rickshaw go by. In next scene, a sign reads 'Fox-Hole Campus'. An officer holds a mechanical model and explains a concept to students. A soldier works with equipment and an African American soldier stitches clothes at a sewing machine. A sign "Learn today; Earn tomorrow" as soldiers learn skills to help them in the civilian sector after separation from the armed forces. A solder works on a model. Pamphlets on a desk with the names of different subjects written on them that U.S. Army students can study to learn skills and jobs, including Automobile Repair Shop, Retail Bakery, Service Station, Grocery Store, Metal Working Shop, Shoe Repair Business, Small Sawmill Business, Beauty Shop.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068736
The Konzerthaus and French and German Cathedrals at the destroyed Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Germany, at end of WW2 in Europe.

Workers installing pilings to re-enforce wrecked buildings at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, at the end of World War II, in Europe. Wide shot of The Konzerthaus Berlin (Konzerthaus Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany) with wrecked military and civilian vehicles in the square. Close up of detonated mortar shell. Steps of The Konzerthaus showing heavy bomb damage. Statue of Apollo, in a chariot drawn by two griffins, atop the building. The statue of a cherub, perched on a lion, playing pipes, and one on a panther, playing a harp. Camera pans from The Konzerthaus to The French Cathedral (Französischer Dom, Gendarmenmarkt 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany) and then to the German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom) at the Gendarmenmarkt. All buildings in Gendarmenmarkt sustained damage from the war.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069000