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Elements of ordinary life in America that are captured in statistics and reports of the U.S. Census Bureau.
View of houses in an American residential neighborhood area in the suburbs, from low-flying airplane. Crowded street scene in a major city with black and white pedestrians walking on sidewalk in typical 1970s fashions. A public school No. 2. Yellow school buses carrying children. African American family with small children boarding a bus. A group of white people walking appearing to be a grandmother, her son, and three grandchildren. People enjoying a day in a park. African American woman standing near a large upright computer tape tape machine. She presses something on the machine to operate it. House with a "for sale" sign in the suburbs. A man opening the door of a 1969 or 1970 Ford Pinto car at a car sales dealership. Various report documents of the U.S. Census Bureau are displayed. Cattle being unloaded from a farmer's truck. A farmer cultivating a field, using a tractor. Views of State and Municipal Government buildings, including a view of the Justice Department in Washington DC, and including people entering and leaving the Compton, California City Hall building. Highway sign reading: "Leaving West Georgia Soil & Water Conservation District." Others, reading: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Silver Spring Branch Office," and "Wakefield County Park, Fairfax County Park Authority," "District of Columbia, Storm Sewer Vicinity, 14th St. & Kentucky Ave. S.E," and "Harford County Metropolitan Commission, Water Transmission System." A late 1960s car approaching a toll booth on a highway. A policeman directing traffic. Several medical personnel in whites, walking on hospital grounds. A railroad worker. A teacher posting a notice on door, at a school, as school girls behind him try to read the posting. A steel mill with smoke rising from tall stacks. Cars parked outside of Lasalle College New Athletic Facilities construction sign. A Washington DC police car patrolling a city street. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper along a city street.
Meeting of Music sub committee of Joint Army and Navy Recreational Activities Committee in New York (WW2)
Bar association meeting at the office of War department special service division music section, at 42 west, 44th street, in New York. Dignitaries in meeting include the Music Sub Committee of Joint Army and Navy Recreational Activities Committee. Left to right Chief Petty Officer Richard Stabile, Chief Band Master In Charge of music, 3rd Naval District; Lieutenant Marie E Larson, Special Service Division, music section; Colonel David S Barry, Officer in charge, Special Service Division, U.S. marine corps; Harry Fox; Lieutenant Colonel Howard C Bronson, Officer in charge of music; Captain Harry Salters, Music Section, Special Services Division, War Department; Colonel J Burt Webster, Chief Chaplains Branch , 2nd Service Command, Colonel Bronson and Commander Sharpe. Dignitaries discuss, they see the pamphlet and exchange papers. They listen and look talk to each other. (World War II period)
British film from World War II intended to acquaint British people with aspects of the United States.
British World War 2 film (described as the equivalent of the U.S. wartime film "Know Your Ally, Britain"). 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 19th century steam locomotive pulling a freight railroad train in the desert Western U.S. Views of the arid Western parts of the U.S. Group of Native American Indians watching a 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 teams of horses pulling 19th century wheat harvesting machinery. Views of wheat grains being poured. Cattle in the high country. Views of Chicago stock yards. A man marking on a Board of Trade chalk board, the prices of farm commodities. Various views of steam locomotives pulling trains throughout the rail network, including some 20th century trains near the end of the film.
German troops attacking American troops and tanks on the Western Front.
Battle between American and German troops on the Western Front during World War II. German SS General Sepp Dietrich confers with officers at the front line. German troops on bicycles are given newspapers which point to Eisenhower campaign. Sign in German, "feindeinsicht wirble keinen staub auf sonst kriegst du eins aufs dach draue" warns of keeping dust down to avoid detection by enemy. Soldiers marching on the battlefield. German troops move through woods, fire rocket launchers, flame throwers and hand grenades during an attack on American tanks after signal from officer firing signal flare. German soldier camouflages helmet with a fern branch. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment on the battlefield. American tanks passing through an opening in a wooded sector. German troops engage in a battle and knock out several American Sherman tanks firing Panzerschreck and deploying a Goliath tracked mine, or beetle tank (or German robot tank). U.S. prisoners of war are taken by the Germans. View of captured U.S. prisoners. Some prisoners cover their faces.
Berlin Crisis: The Western Powers respond to threats from the Soviet Union
Opening scene shows the Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) where Mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt addresses a large crowd of West Berlin citizens, concerned about the building of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union. Many carry placards and signs, including some in English, reading: "We trust Kennedy, Pay any price, Bear any burden, for survival of Liberty" and "Millions behind the Iron Curtain ask for help." Scene shifts to a limousine driving into the center of a crowd. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson steps from the car, accompanied by General Lucius D. Clay, who is seen next, with arm raised, acknowledging the crowd, while standing with Johnson and Brandt, at a podium cluttered with microphones. (Narrator refers to him as "Father of the Airlift.") The next day, British and American soldiers are seen driving in jeeps and trucks and M59 Armored Personnel Carriers, through cheering crowds, as they arrive to reinforce their Berlin garrisons. Closeup of cheering Berliners, waving handkerchiefs. Change of scene shows animated map of Europe illustrating the Westward expansion and growth of Soviet Communist occupation through World War II and the postwar era, concluding with East Berlin, in 1962. The threat to other Nations and regions is also illustrated. Legislators are seen in session in the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag in Bonn. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is addressing the assembly. He states that Germany does not stand alone in the world. In France, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou addresses the National Assembly, regarding the Berlin Wall. In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan addresses Parliament. In the United States, on September 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, is addressing the UN General Assembly, in New York, about the dangerous crisis in Berlin. Scenes of the Berlin wall and Checkpoint Charlie. Memorials to persons killed attempting to escape East Berlin, are seen along the wall.
Nazi leader Dr. Joseph Goebbels visits General Model on Western front. He also addresses German workers in Cologne
Nazi German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels visits Field Marshal Walter Model on the Western Front during World War II. A staff car driving on a road, likely in Oosterbeek near Arnhem, Netherlands. Joseph Goebbels shakes hands with Marshal Model upon arrival at the latter’s headquarters. Marshal Model performs the Hitler Salute. Other visitors saluted back. A Nazi SS soldier stands guard, watching the arrival of Goebbels. Other officers perform the Nazi salute. Joseph Goebbels and Marshal Model greet each other with the Nazi salute. Goebbels returns to his staff car camouflaged with pine branches. Goebbels talks to Marshal Model before leaving Model’s headquarters. In another sequence, Nazi German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels visits an armaments factory in Germany. Sign on the wall reads ‘Front und Heimat keen nur ein Ziel: Kampf bis zum Sieg!’ (‘Front and home have only one goal: fight to victory!’ in English). More Nazi factory signs reads ‘Unerschütterlich Kampfentschlossen Siegesgewiss!’ (‘Unshakable, determined to fight, certain to win!’) and ‘Mit dem Führer zum Sieg!’ (‘With the Führer to victory!’). Armaments workers perform the Nazi salute inside the factory. A Nazi German standard with the German name of Cologne ‘Köln’. Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech in front of German factory workers. Crowds of German factory workers and Nazi officers, including young men and women, listen to Goebbel’s speech. Goebbels gives encouragement to the workers during his speech. Goebbels talks about the war’s progress and Nazi Germany’s allies, such as Romania. He thanks them for their efforts. Goebbels ended his speech to the enthusiastic applause from the audience. The crowds began to sing a patriotic Nazi song, likely the Horst Wessel song. A Nazi standard representing ‘Rhein’.
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