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Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi watch aircraft being catapult aboard USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean.

Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi aboard USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean. Shah's flag fly from the mast. Radar screen in the background. Shah and party comes up to flight deck of number two elevator. Helicopter lands on the flight deck. Shah receives an album of still pictures made of his visit. Shah and party watch a plane being catapulted. Plane makes a flat-hatting pass over the Valley Forge as Shah and party go down an elevator.

Date: 1949, December
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047036
Shah inspects U.S. marines on the hangar deck of USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean.

Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi aboard USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean. Shah and party leave Valley Forge. Shah of Iran salutes. Shah inspects U.S. marines on the hangar deck.

Date: 1949, December
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047038
Shah and party talks to a pilot on flight deck of USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean.

Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi aboard USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean. Shah and party come up on the elevator. Shah talks to a jet pilot in flight suit. He receives still picture album as a gift. Sailors stand. USS Valley Forge written on gangway.

Date: 1949, December
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047039
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi shakes hands with officers and disembark USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean.

Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi aboard USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean. Band plays across the hangar deck of the ship. Civilians and officers embark. Shah of "Iran shakes hands with the Admiral. Shah comes and salutes. Officers shake hands with and salute the Shah. He walks past the side boys and descends along the brow. Valley Forge painted on the brow.

Date: 1949, December
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047040
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi visits the USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) tied up at pier in San Diego, California.

USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) tied up at pier in San Diego, California. Brow of ship. Passengers loading up to side of ship. Cars stop before brow. Shah and dignitaries exit. They climb up to the ship. Valley Forge tied up at pier. Saluting battery fire.

Date: 1949, December
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047043
American industry focuses on defense and war materiel production during World War II

Film opens showing smoke pouring from industrial smoke stacks in American manufacturing plants, during World War 2. Sparks fly from crucible of molten steel. Steel workers silhouetted against fog as they leave on a shift change. Men tapping an open hearth furnace in a steel mill. Hot steel being poured in Crucibles and then into steel containers on rails. Huge overhead cranes moving in a mill. A Bessemer converter furnace tilted and blowing with flames extended from its mouth. ( A smoke ring leaves the converter.) Various views of activities in steel mills with flaming steel involved and processing such as extrusion and forging taking place. Closeups of hardworking steel workers handling white hot steel ingots. Sheets of aluminum being processed in rolling mills and then inspected. Scene shifts to an oil field with numerous derricks and then to a refinery, with 10 tall smoke stacks, where crude oil is made into gasoline. Views of Grand Coulee Dam, Bonneville, Boulder, and the Tennessee Valley, where hydroelectric power is produced. Churning waters being discharged through dam spillways. Huge number of men and women war factory workers seen in a shift change at a war production plant. Closeup of machines producing small arms and ammunition. A woman assembling an M1 Garand rifle. Others working on Browning 30 caliber M1919 machine guns and Browining Model 1917A1 water-cooled machine guns. Belts of machine gun ammunition being boxed for shipment. Shops where torpedoes, shells and bombs are machined. A worker checking out movement of a 40-mm Automatic Gun M1. Field artillery pieces covered outside a war plant. A 14 inch barrel, for a coastal gun or Navy ship, seen suspended from an overhead crane in a factory. Views of various such barrels including a view through one. Elements of mobile weapons being assembled. Jeeps being assembled and driven out of a factory at the rate of one per minute and temporarily stored in a yard. Special machinery grinding gears and other parts. Arc welders at work on weapons. M4A1 Sherman medium tanks being manufactured. View in factory of M3 Lee medium tanks being assembled. Rear view of one being fitted with its treads. Others are seen suspended from overhead crane.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051747