American film actress Sandra Dee arrives in her hometown Bayonne, New Jersey. She visits her school. Exterior of the school building. People gather inside the building. They greet the actress who is featured in her new film 'The Snow Queen'. People cheering and applauding. She poses with her family for a photograph. Sandra seated in a car stopped in the street and surrounded by a huge crowd of people seeking autographs and photographs of the star. People gather around the car. She gives autographs to them. She is seen at an autograph signing session, and then being escorted by bodyguards and police out of a door to a waiting car to bypass the crowds of autograph-seekers. Some citizens see her and run for her car. She waves to a crowd outside waiting as snow falls.
Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. M1 helmets of U.S. soldiers and medics piled up on the ground. A man cleaning the helmet shells and spray painting over insignias on the helmet shells, including a 29th Infantry Division helmet, a Medic helmet, and an MP (Military Police) helmet. Narrator indicates that totally worn out helmets are sold to factories as scrap.
Clip compares Washington DC to an industrial boomtown where the big business is government, during World War 2. Men and women working in offices. A young woman seated at a desk and doing clerical work. Identification cards of civilian women working for the U.S. Army. Pedestrians and workers walking on a street of Washington DC. Buildings along street sides. People at the entrance of Union Station. A woman identified as Phyllis Hood joins others in a Diamond Taxi cab leaving Union Station. Woman exits the taxi and looks at various buildings as she seeks a place to live in Washington. Boards on buildings read: 'No Vacancy', 'No Rooms' and 'Filled Up'. Wearing a fur coat and hat, she stops and sits on her suitcase, removes a shoe, and rubs her tired feet. She talks to a police officer on a traffic corner, who directs her to the U.S. Office of Information. She is seen inside the main hallway of the Office of Information. They direct her to an availble room at the former French Embassy building at the intersection of 16th Street and Kalorama Road NW in Washington DC, by Meridian Hill Park. She enters the building which that narrator says serves as a hotel for girls. She talks to a receptionist in the main hall lobby and then ascends the stairs. Phyllis Hood along with two other girls seated inside a room. They talk amongst themselves and relax. Woman hangs nylon stockings from a hanger to dry. The women going to sleep at night and turning out bedside lights. A large room with an operations maps, and clocks on the curved wall showing time in various international cities.
A documentary on Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Center in Miami, Florida. An aircraft in flight overhead. It flies over the clouds. It heads towards a hurricane. Crew members locate positions and watch through different instruments in order to ensure reaching the eye of the hurricane. The radar operator watching through the radar scope. A contact is established with the navy base in Miami. The information is given to the hurricane center. A man locates the position of the hurricane on a map. Warnings about the hurricane are given to people. Traffic on a street. Policemen alerting people about the hurricane. The Red Cross distributes food and medicines to people. Coast Guard patrol airplanes giving out the warnings. Men discussing. Shutters and windows of houses and buildings are closed. The roofs of the houses are tied up.
Mays department store (owned by J.W. Mays) distributes garments to needy people in Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. People lined up outside the shop. Buildings in the area. Traffic on a street. Some people in the line are unruly and police work to restrain a woman. People get clothes.
U.S. troopers of the 101st Airborne Division, are seen marching in full combat gear along a road in Nijmegen, Holland. Next, trucks loaded with paratroopers drive around a bend on Bow Street, at the corner of Lindenberg, where part of the "hello castle" (aka ""Old Man-Bat-Zate") is seen in background. An MP (military policeman) controls traffic. Local people wave friendly goodbyes from the side of the road, as the trucks pass out of the city. The trucks stop for a break en route, where paratroopers warm themselves by a fire, as local children gather near them. One small boy tries to sell a pair of boots to a paratrooper. A middle age man looks into the camera as it photographs paratroopers reboarding their trucks. View of troopers seated in back of a truck. Camera focuses on several smiling as they climb into their truck. Others posing for the camera as they lean out the side of their truck.
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