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Dramatization depicts production, black marketing of gas coupons and citizens' responsibilities in supporting World War 2 gas rationing.

'No Alternative' dramatizes citizens' responsibilities in supporting gas rationing in the United States. Dramatization: Group of men seated playing card game. Tom interrupts a poker game to lecture on rationing, after Bob offers an illegal gas coupon to Frank. He talks about the production of automotive gasoline, increasing price and limited production of crude oil. Uses of crude oil: U.S. airmen and soldiers use crude oil to fuel aircraft and tanks. A U.S. aircraft drops bombs made with the use of crude oil. Workers produce synthetic rubber from crude oil at a plant. U.S. Navy ships, merchant fleets, railroads and war industries use crude oil. Tom explains how "black market" coupons cause shortages that affect war industries and military activities. Dramatization depicts safe breakers breaking into a ration board and stealing gas coupons worth 11 million gallons. Gasoline used by farmers in tractors, to take produce to the markets, finished ammunition, guns and tanks to the railroad stations so that they can be sent to the front. Tom points out ways to make rationing work and save gasoline including: formation of car pools, scorning illegal coupons, identifying coupons with the user's license number.

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021885
Speaking from the NY State Capitol, Governor Thomas Dewey hails the Liberation of Paris by the Allied forces in World War II.

New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey hails the Liberation of Paris by the Allied forces. The New York State Capitol building (State St. and, Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12224, United States) in Albany, New York. Governor Dewey addresses the nation regarding the Liberation of Paris in World War II. He states that the incident is an inspiration to others still under the Nazi German occupation. He talks about the contribution of Allied forces to the cause, America's war efforts and the goal to defeat Germany and Japan.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021887
FFI soldiers and French civilians cheer and greet Allied forces as they advance in France during World War II.

The Allies advance after amphibious landings in France during World War II. Allied tanks blast a German pillbox. Nazi gun crews surrender. A nazi soldier with a white flag. The prisoners marched by the Allied soldiers. Allied soldiers search German prisoners and confiscate their belongings. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) soldiers greet and talk to Allied soldiers. The men with the FFI sleeve patches. Allies advance further inland. Citizens of the town of Frejus come out to welcome the Allied troops. They greet and cheer the soldiers. Soldiers on tanks greet the civilians.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021889
All Saints Day procession at Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb Croatia; and at a cemetery in Budapest

Croatia during World War II. Priests and choir boys parade in an All Saints' Day procession. Civilians participate in the celebration. The procession heads towards a graveyard. People bring flowers to the graves of relatives. Women and soldiers lay flowers on graves. War memorials and sculptures in the graveyard. Budapest: The graves of Croatian members of the Ustascha movement against Bolshevism are decorated. A priest addresses a crowd during the ceremony. Hungarian soldiers march in honor of the deceased. Officers and priests attend the ceremony. War memorials and statues in the graveyard. People pay tribute to the deceased. They lay flowers on relatives' graves. People light candles and pray.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675021916
A French delegation visits young Frenchmen working in a German ammunition factory.

France under Nazi rule during World War II. A French delegation visits young Frenchmen working in a German ammunition factory. The delegation arrives. They discuss a document and then enter the ammunition factory.

Date: 1944
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675021917
Young French workers in occupied France learn German, manufacture aircraft and visit a city in France during World War II.

France under Nazi rule during World War II. Young French workers at a German ammunition factory. The workmen attend classes to learn German. A woman instructor teaches them German. The workmen take notes. The instructor uses a black board to give instructions. She calls a student to write in German. Workers in an aircraft manufacturing plant. The men in protective gear work at various machines and use various equipment. They work on a semi-assembled aircraft. The workers tests the landing gear of aircraft. Men read a poster in French regarding a visit to the city on Sunday. Buildings on a street. Soldiers walk along as a tram passes on the road. From captured German newsreels.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675021918