Slate reads, "Hero Battle Ship X revealed to be USS South Dakota" Aerial view of USS South Dakota at sea with airplane wing tip in foreground. Sailors assembled on the deck of the USS South Dakota. Overhead view of ship's guns. The ship had been dubbed "Battleship X' for reporting to the press around January 1943 when it was undergoing repairs. Guns firing on the USS South Dakota. An officer speaks.
The Pan American Congress of Journalists visit Kodak in Rochester, New York to see cotton used in the production of nitrocellulose camera film. Views of women picking cotton. Cotton is baled and the bales are sent on conveyor to railroad yard. Bales are loaded onto a Southern railroad box car. Steam locomotive pulls train out of terminal yard. Map shows flow of cotton from the South to New York. At Eastman Kodak, view of cotton being processed into nitrocellulose film, also known as nitrate film for use in motion picture film cameras. View of perforation machine cutting perfs into motion picture film. Film is wound into rolls. Woman worker wraps each film roll in black paper for shipment. Pan American Congress members board a Mack 'Shock Insulated' bus for further travel.
Uptown - A Portrait of the South Bronx. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Buildings in the area. A train approaches a station. People wait at the station. A busy market in the Bronx. Shops, displays and sign boards. Men and women on the streets and shopping in city stores and markets. A policeman in the crowd. Migrants from various countries in the commercial area with shops and stores. People read the newspaper. Many sells a newspaper with headline, "America Falling." Elderly citizens on the streets. A young African American man works as a shoe shine. The Hub area, intersection of Melrose, East 149th Street and Third Avenue. Third Avenue El before it's removal in 1973.
Sign reads 'Welcome to Ellsworth AFB South Dakota. Formation of clouds. A B-47 aircraft parked along taxiway. A transport jet plane, with 4 tail-mounted engines, taxis in after landing, and comes to stop. Mrs Richard M Nixon disembarks from jet. Mrs Nixon talks with waiting officials and gets into sedan. Convoy of cars leaves airbase.
Construction of Mount Rushmore National Memorial outside Keystone, South Dakota, designed by Gutzon Borglum. Face of George Washington emerging on mountain. Workers hang down to carve out fine facial features. Blasts are carried out in the mountain. Smoke and dust erupt as the mountain is blasted. Rock and particulate matter falls from the blasted part.
Russian farmers visit farms in South Dakota to know about the high speed wheat harvesting system. They also visit the Corn Palace in Mitchell where they examine the art and structures made from corn, and they look at trinkets and other local wares in a gift shop.
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