Aviator Charles Lindbergh arrives for a Pan-American Conference in Havana, Cuba. Lindbergh's plane approaches and lands. Cuban throngs cheer and welcome him. An officer directs his plane. Civilians, officers, and officials watch as Lindbergh gets off his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. People gathered on either side of the streets for his reception. Lindbergh's motorcade on the way to the Presidential Palace (Avenida Bélgica, La Habana 10600, Cuba). Cuban President Gerardo Machado greets and congratulates Lindbergh. Policemen and soldiers control the crowd. Lindbergh and the President with other officials in the Palace balcony.
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt warns of an increasing danger of armed conflict (increasing danger of war leading up to World War 2). Roosevelt's motorcade on the streets of Chicago. A large crowd gathered to get a glimpse of the President. Confetti rained on the motorcade. Soldiers salute as the motorcade passes by. Policemen on motorbikes lead the motorcade. People gathered at the venue to hear the President's speech. A board advertises candy bars 'Baby Ruth, Butterfinger" in the background. President Roosevelt with officials on stage. He addresses the crowd. Excerpts from his speech are interspersed with scenes of war and conflict elsewhere in the world during the late 1930's. Roosevelt speaks of recent events of "international lawlessness" including in the last few years "unjustified interference in the internal affairs of other nations." Scenes that follow include aerial bombings, naval attacks, and war: Scenes of war carnage during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936: Ethiopian soldiers on horseback cross a bridge, Italian forces fire artillery from a hill, aerial view as aircraft drop bombs. Italian soldiers pass a burning, smoldering building and overtake an Ethiopian position, with many Ethiopian soldiers lying dead. Ethiopian citizens in area of a war torn village. Bomb damage and war casualties on the street. Italian soldiers collect dead bodies and load them onto a truck. A ship quickly sinking after attack by a submarine. Scenes from battle during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 or 1937. Spanish nationalist and rebel soldiers engage in a battle in a village. Spanish prisoners are marched. Nationalist soldier fires machine gun from a balcony emplacement. Dead body on a road. Soldiers behind a barricade fire at opposition and carry wounded on stretchers. President Roosevelt concludes his speech with, "America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace." People applaud.
A 1920's film on advances in transportation depicts men walking to work in the early 1900s. Footage is 1920s, but actors are wearing very early 1900's fashions and depicting that earlier period. A man and a woman stand at their urban house house doorstep as the man prepares to leave for work. Women on their doorsteps of their houses after men leave. Men walking to work. Camera slowly pans from street level upward showing the Fendall Building, a law office building, at the corner of Indiana Avenue and 4 1/2 Street NW, Washington, DC (which is now 300 Indiana Avenue NW, Washington DC. That address was later the site of the "Municipal Center Building" and today is the site of the Henry J. Daly Building that houses the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters. The Fendall Building was torn down in 1931-1932). Dramatized view of workers and officials entering and leaving the Fendall Building via a stair into a door with sign "Fendall Building" above the door.
View of a Roman Catholic Cathedral and a procession therefrom along a street lined with spectators in Germany, during the Weimar Republic era. Leading the procession are Roman Catholic clergy and Altar boys. They are followed by Nuns, and groups of women carrying religious books. Uniformed city policemen accompany the procession and a contingent of them marches in the procession. Statesmen participate in the procession along with senior uniformed military officers. Scene shifts to a city square where people are assembled. Here and there, individuals render Nazi salutes. In an open square, several Military leaders of World War 1, meet and greet one another. Among those seen are Field Marshal August von Mackensen in full formal regalia (back to the camera) greeting another officer. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, in mufti, is seen greeting another officer. The old World War 1 military leaders exchange salutes and greetings. A formation of uniformed soldiers stands in the background. Camera follows one German officer as the festivities end and he walks, alone, across the vast cobblestone square. Several automobiles transit the square. A fountain is seen in the far background.
Film which contrasts typical German lifestyle in Germany in 1930s, with rise of NSDAP or Nazi movement, pre World War 2. German Civilians on an escalator. 1930's German Police officer lead kids across city streets. Traffic in a German city. A workman on a barge and gets off the barge in Hamburg. Laborers unload sacks of flour. Lumbermen at work on trees and men working in a steel mill. Workers blowing glass to make glass itmes. Workers paint theatrical masks. People in an outdoor café or restaurant. A couple dances. People move on a snow covered ground. A man takes snapshot of a German family. An old man wearing a striped bathing suit walks out of water. Burgomeisters or (burgermeisters) in a town ceremony. German Army soldiers or Freikorps (before third reich) marching in a parade on city streets. People get off a suburban train at a railroad station. A puddler works in the steel mill. A girl and a boy on bicycles riding close together as the boy has his arm around the girl. A carnival ride called "Ausgang". A merry-go-round at a carnival or fair, and people playing games at a carnival. Children crowd around a clown wearing a high hat. Middle aged men play cards. Middle aged couples at an outdoor cafe. Sudden contrast to Nazi SA or Sturmabteilung stormtroopers in training. Paramilitary training of brownshirts and of boys in a group (future Hitler youth). German citizens at a Nazi rally giving a Nazi salute in unison. A view of vineyards. A Nazi officer gives a speech. German Sturmabteilung marching in a parade with Nazi salutes. Children playing in a game where they roll a large ball using only their heads while hopping along. A woman swimmer enters water at a beach. Several Sturmabteilung in a training drill in water.
From the civil defense film "Duck and Cover" in the United States. Scenes of explosion and fire. People from fire extinguishing department spray water on a building. A person near the fire extinguisher service truck. Traffic police directs the moving vehicles. Children cross a road. A professor explains to the children about the dangers of an atomic bomb. Cartoon animation: atomic explosion. A buildings being damaged by the explosion. A turtle covers itself. A woman applies medicine to a child. A teacher explains ways to protect oneself during an explosion. A picture of a turtle drawn on a board. A girl child hides herself under a table.
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