British Prime Minister Winston Churchill celebrates his 87th birthday in England. People lined up outside his Hyde Park Gate home to wish him happy birthday. Churchill comes out of his house and the people cheer. Police and officials stand along with them. Cars parked on the street. Churchill sits in a car and the car leaves the area.
Traffic and other conditions in New York during World War II. Vehicular traffic on a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Aerial view of the vehicular traffic. A poster outside a gas station reads: 'Sorry No Gas. Don't blame us. Blame Hitler'. Wide view of 5th Avenue in New York City with Flatiron Building (Fuller building) in distance. Cars are seen being prepared for long term storage, covered, and stored in garages because of gas shortage and few people using cars. A traffic policeman stands near a guard post near a tunnel entrance. A sign board reads: 'Lane Closed'. Very little traffic is seen anywhere. Neon lights on the Manhattan skyline skyscraper buildings including Times Square at night. Lights with World War 2 wartime blackout conditions. Aerial view of the buildings during a blackout with very few dim lights. Woman in grocery store market loading many soup cans into her basket before in a pre-war scene. Woman at cash register ringing up the purchase. Contrasting scene with a sign on a stack of food cans that says "Only one to a customer" during wartime food rationing. Consumers use ration books for food. Close-up view of ration book. Narrator explains ration book system, including Ration Book One and Ration Book Two. Women home makers in kitchens opening pantry and taking inventory of what items they have. Long line of people outside a building to get a ration book. People inside, mostly women and some young children, submitting paper work and receiving ration books. A young boy and then a woman are seen buying food items from a grocer shop using ration books or coupons. People buy vegetables at a market. Delivery boy at a residence door dropping off groceries and receiving ration stamps. A cartoon caricature of Axis leaders Mussolini, Hitler, and Hirohito with labels "Fatso, Ratso, and Japso" for the three leaders, respectively. Wooden cases loaded onto a ship in a harbor.
A U.S. Army jeep rolls slowly in front of a group of civilians with their hands raised in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They are guarded by Czech partisans and Czech citizens. (The civilians are likely German civilians during expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovia at the end of the war. They may also include Czech civilians accused of collaboration with the Germans.) Two U.S. soldiers walk on sidewalk with a Czech policeman. The soldiers stand in front of a group of civilians on the sidewalk, looking upward. An elderly Czech civilian man with a rifle looks upward from edge of a building. A German officer is seen in window of a building. A white cloth (as flag of surrender) hangs from adjacent window. Armed U.S. soldiers escort high-ranking German officers, from their local headquarters, to a vehicle, as local citizens watch. U.S. soldiers and Czech partisans in a backyard, look for snipers in building nearby. German military prisoners, guarded by Czech partisans, stand with hands raised on a sidewalk. The partisans search German soldiers as they come out of a building. Some civilian women are held with the German soldiers.
The working of the steam turbines in the United States. The reaction and impulse principles used in harnessing the steam power in turbines. The demonstration of the speed of steam in the turbine. A police officer firing his revolver. View of him while he fires his handgun at targets on a firing range. The speed of blades of turbine when they revolve is noticed with the help of gauges. The blades must be anchored properly so that the pressure can be controlled. The control of centrifugal force in the turbine. Men work on the steam turbine. Some maintenance problems arise when high speed turbines are constructed. Careful designing of the steam turbine being done for the control of the great speed of the steam. A high quality oil is needed for lubricating the parts of the turbine. A diagrammatic representation of the working of the auxiliary pump. The working of the oil filter, oil tank, main oil pump driven by the shaft are also represented. The check valve opens and the oil flows in the turbine. The speed of the pump being regulated. The metal surfaces of the turbine never touch each other. They are separated by the film of oil.
The activities of the U.S. 287th Military Police Company in Berlin, Germany. The man grooms his horse on the picket line. He dresses the hoofs of the horse. He then leads the horse to the wash pit. Man washes the horse.
The activities of the U.S. 287th Military Police Company in Berlin, Germany. Horse platoon in formation on the ground. It prepares to leave on its rounds. Platoon sergeant briefs the patrol. A man seated on horse back as he holds a flag.
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