As film opens, United Auto Worlers (UAW) and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) union workers are celebrating their unprecedented labor contract with the General Motors Company (GM) , covering union workers in all GM plants. Men and women of the union Auxiliary celebrate, including many gathered at the entrance to the GM headquarters building in Detroit, Michigan. Scene shifts to UAW leader, Walter Reuther, speaking in a broadcast microphone. Women ride atop a union loudspeaker equipped vehicle. Celebrants ride in a car displaying a sign reading: "AGREEMENT, UAWA & GM, 1. Fire all Scabs 2. Rehire strikers." Another car has a sign reading: "Victory Rally, Tonite, 7PM." Camera focuses on UAW President, R.J. Thomas shaking hands with CIO leader, Philip Murray. Walter Reuther of the UAW stands beside Philip Murray and places his hand on Murray's shoulder. Closeup of Philip Murray. Members of the women's union auxiliary march in victory. GM tool and die machinists are next, seen, looking over the contract. (Their strike initiated the broad based union response to GM, leading to the new contract.) Next scenes show the tool and die makers back to work. Some are seen using overhead crane and chain to maneuver a heavy machine part. Closeups of milling machine, power drill , and lathe in operation. A worker lowers protective gear over his head and begins welding. Two men use hand held grinders to finish parts. UAW President R.J. Thomas speaks into a microphone. Cheering women walk past a GM plant, outdoors, as viewed from behind. Cheerful closeup of a mother, father and infant.
Lithuanian singers perform during Independence Day celebrations in Washington DC, United States. The singers are seen assembled at the base of the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in President's Park. They have just completed a performance and begin to file out of the camera view. The American and Lithuanian flags are held by U.S. soldiers in uniform with campaign hats. They follow behind the singers as they leave.
An American soldier is shown, among buildings at a military base, kneeling beside a rifle set on a stand for test firing into an earthen berm nearby. He places a round into the chamber and closes the bolt. He then opens the bolt and retrieves the round (which slips from his hand and drops to the ground). Next, two different size rounds of ammunition are shown.
U.S. Army training for American Expeditionary forces (AEF) in France, during World War 1. A demonstration about how to load and fire a 6-inch mortar. A soldier screws a fuse into a mortar shell to arm it. He then fastens a firing lanyard at mortar base and moves away to fire it. Shell impacts with explosion. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Cars move on a highway in United States. A red 1967 Ford Country Squire station wagon car drifting. Automobile accident scene where a car hits a breakaway pole along Interstate Highway. Various safety features of modern highway illustrated including grooved pavement; breakaway light poles; Jersey bounce and bridge designs to keep car on the road; wide shoulders; emergency call boxes. An animation shows a car getting on the base of the side wall along the highway and back on the road. A man drives his car on the paved area along the highway and stops by a pole with a sign that reads ' Call Box' he makes a phone call. Image of cars on the highway in the side mirror of a car.
Aerial view of a large crowd on parade in Detroit Michigan, during a Liberty Bond drive. People move on the street carrying American flags. Close-up view of cheering crowd. Men with blackface (their faces painted black) carry a decorated casket on their shoulders through the crowd of cheering men, women, and children. Elevated view of American flags and a flag with 104 stars and a "104" stitched at the base, waving as they hang from a building. Cars, streetcars, and people move on a crowded street of Detroit below.
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