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Roosevelt Bridge over Potomac River and flowers in large pots in median strip along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over Potomac River in Washington D.C., United States. Flower bed of red and yellow blooms alongside a street. Traffic moves on streets in the background. Auto approaches along Ohio Drive street. View of Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over Potomac River. Traffic moves on the bridge. Yellow flowers in large stone pots in median strip along Pennsylvania Avenue. Many large white flower pots and small trees seen on median strip. Autos approach from overpass. Orange flowers pots seen. Traffic en route from Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast towards area of Independence Avenue.
China builds Burma Road to carry war materiel and supplies and creates flood of Yellow River to thwart Westward expansion of Japanese occupied territory
Japanese officials meeting in strategy session. Japanese infantry on mission to cut Chinese supply lines during 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Black smoke rises as they move along a river bank. Chinese prisoner-workers are forced to rebuild railroads destroyed by the Chinese people during their great Westward trek. Japanese soldier closely guards workers. A Japanese army armored train underway on the rebuilt railroad, as Japanese soldiers cheer. Animated map shows China's supply lines by sea, to Tsingtao, Hangchow, and Amoy, cut off by Japanese naval blockade. Japanese Navy launch with officers and crew moving near commercial ships as they take over Chinese river ports. War materiel and other supplies destined for China, including trucks, sit idle, unable to be transported to their destinations. Large oil tanks and drums of gasoline are shown, as well as gun barrels and a flightline filled with parked Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Asakaze (DD-3) and another, next to it, in a Chinese river port. A Japanese freighter with anchored weighed, secured by long lines to a wharf. Small boats flying Japanese Naval ensigns are next to it. View of map showing china, Burma, Indo-China, and Chungking, with Japanese blockading fleet stationed in the South China Sea. It traces path of narrow gauge rail line from Indo-china to Kumming,China, where it connected to an overland road to Chungking. Next it traced the old Camel Caravan route, across China, from Russia. Narrator notes these were to small to be useful and too close to Japanese-occupied territory. Next, the map traces a railroad that from the port of Rangoon to Lashio, Burma. It is separated from the road to Chungking, by mountains and gorges. Views of the actual mountainous terrain. Animal pack trains moving through the area. Construction engineers in a large drafting room designing a road to transit the area. View of modern road-building caterpillar tractor equipment of the type needed to accomplish this. View of Chinese laborers using manpower instead. They push large rollers and employ pickaxes and other hand-held tools to carve away and dig road beds. Masses of Chinese laborers at work, carving a road along the edge of a mountain. Two-men teams using manual tampers to pound down the roadbed. Children are employed along with adults. A woman with a baby on her back, pounding large rocks into gravel, surrounded by other children doing the same. View from above of the "Burma Road," the product of their labors, winding its way through the mountains and gorges. Many scenes of trucks moving along portions of the Burma Road. P-40 airplanes flying past white cumulus clouds, overhead. Animated map shows continued expansion of Japanese occupied areas to encompass two thirds of the rail lines in China with goal of controlling the remainder, starting at Chengchow, in Summer, 1938. View of Chengchow region, on banks of the Yellow River. Map illustrates flow pattern of the Yellow River. View from past of the Yellow River's Spring floods toward the Sea, with Chinese people throwing rocks onto dikes that keep the river flowing in a more Northerly direction than its former course. Illustration shows how with Japanese encrouching on Chengchow, the Chinese decided to destroy those dikes and allow the river to flood over its former more Southerly course. Japanese soldiers being inundated by the flooding river. Japanese infantry and tanks regrouping on their occupied side of the new (old) path of the Yellow River. Local Chinese residents of Chengchow, wade with belongings as they leave their flooded homes.
Dramatization of North American Air Defense (NORAD) operations involving U.S. and Canadian military.
Air Defense displays in NORAD (North American Air Defense) Command Post, Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Airmen updating the displays. NORAD commander, General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy, are in the Control Room. General Kuter uses telephone. Technicians in radar warning site detect two target missile returns on their scope. U.S. ship at sea detects target returns on its radar. EC-121 aircraft aloft detects radar returns. All this information is reported and consolidated at NORAD command post. Views of hands closeup on typewriter and teletype machines. View of vintage punch tape or ticker tape moving through a machine to be read. Close-up views of hand reaching for phones with choice of yellow phone, black phone, or red phone. Canadian and American officers report. General Kuter and Canadian deputy consult.
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.
Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II
Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.
CCC workers restore Georgia's Santo Domingo State Park, renovate house of Alexander Stevens, and restore Schoenbrunn in Ohio.
Conservation Work in the United States during the Great Depression. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) renovate the house of Alexander Stevens, Vice President of the Confederacy, in Crawfordville, Georgia. View of the house with a statue of Alexander Stevens in front. The slave quarters near the house. View shifts to the oyster shell walls at Georgia's Santo Domingo State Park. The Government CCC program restores the park. Young men workers of the CCC march in front of restored cabins at Schoenbrunn springs area near New Philadelphia, Ohio.
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