Nighttime scenes in Harlem, New York. Count Basie's bar at 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. in New York's Harlem. Neon sign at Big Wilt's, an African American nightclub (2294 7th Avenue New York City). Apex Beauty School stands above Big Wilt's. Neon lighted signs and marquees read "Moondog with Ace and the Kings.", The Harlem Moon bar and grill. Signs read "Barbecue" , "Chop Suey" , and "Chow Mein" Jim Moon Chinese restaurant. A sign reads "Join now NAACP Applications available here". Facades of Bermuda Bar and Silver Rail bar. Rates of fish, shrimp and chicken are displayed at the Gilmar Self Service Food Center in Harlem.
Chinatown Chinese colony in San Francisco. Chinese woman with her child. Golden Gate Park with Japanese architecture and temples. Japanese women in traditional Japanese dresses. Mothers and their children in a garden during spring season with trees in full blossom. Beautiful natural scenes of valleys and mountains in northern California.
Battles fought by Soviet Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Home of great artists like Tchaikovsky and Leo Tolstoy burnt and destroyed by Nazi Army. Dead bodies of Russian soldiers killed during battle and civilians brutally murdered by Nazis. Civilians view the atrocity victim corpses in piles with hands tied behind and gunshot in head. People weep at the site. Children murdered. Girls rescued from Nazis. Victims of mass hangings and an infant cries near his dead mother. Russians pledge, of revenge. Fierce battle to force them out of Russia. A map shows German retreat. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) walk under guard of Red soldiers. Red Army marches in Leningrad. A wrecked ship in harbor and the beautiful city before German raid. Workers including women and children with shovels dig trenches, transport food supplies to aid their armies fighting on the front.
Hawaiian girls perform the Hula as the guests watch in Honolulu, Hawaii. Three girls dance in beautiful formation and do the hula. A large crowd of spectators in the background watches. A single Hawaiian girl does the hula. Band and the musicians play. A Hawaiian man does the hula as the crowd watches. An American girl does the hula.
Relocation to internment camps of people of Japanese ancestrty, in the United States, due to security reasons, during World War II. School bell of relocation center at Heart Mountain, in Wyoming. Students of Japanese origin change classes. Children in a class study mathematics. A teacher teaches drawing. Students study scientific farming at a high school. Business, workers, mechanics studies by students. Evacuee doctors and nurse operate at an operation theater. Doctors and dentists check people's health. A candidate for community council chief during an election for councilmen. Voters vote during election. Trial of a criminal of relocation houses at a court. Softball Match on the beaches at weekend. An artist draws pictures of relocation homes. Sunday church and men carry benches inside for prayers. Boy scouts raise American Flag. Girl scouts, Red Cross volunteers perform various duties. Boy scouts march with U.S. national flag during a parade. Beauty queen and floats follow the parade. Smokestacks of factories at relocations centers, and evacuees walk by them. Military Police guard with a rifle watches them.
From a U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast.' Depicts soil problems in farming and solutions via terracing. Trees near farm land. Withered, irregular plants on poor soil. Healthy crops ready for harvest in a large terraced farmland. Trees and barns at the end of field. A farmer plows field with a tractor. Crops in the farm land. Two men walk on the field. Farmers care for growing plants. A man checks the black soil suitable for the growth of crops. Water flows through a channel to irrigate the crops. Two farmers operate a hand plow. A man plows hardened soil of field standing on a horse-drawn plow. From an H.W. Wilson Company listing in 1940 of its Educational Film holdings: This is a Soil conservation service film. As beautiful scenes of the countryside unfold the commentator tells us that much of America's oldest farming land is in the Northeast. The serious soil erosion situation is frequently taken care of by terracing. We learn how terracing is done, its advantages and see land so cultivated. Terracing is used successfully for growing potatoes, tobacco, truck farming and for fruit culture. Cover crops are planted and when turned under add fertility to the soil. It is necessary to inspect the terraces regularly and to keep the channels of the outlets clear. An informative picture showing construction and uses of terraces and other erosion control measures as applied to northeastern part of United States. New Hampshire.