Opening title "The Old Home Town". A young woman opens the front door of a house with a Service Flag in the window during World War 2. Service Flag displayed in house window showing one star, meaning 1 person in the household is serving in the military. Camera pans inside living room, displaying photographs of relatives serving in the military. Woman writes a letter to her son. Hand writing out letter with pen. View of the First National Bank of Springfield on Main Street, Springfield New Jersey. Woman buying ticket at movie theater box office. Movie theater displays sign that reads “Buy War Bonds and Stamps Here”. A woman enters Hoffman Drugstore Luncheonette with her child. High School students drink soda while sitting at drugstore counter while soda clerk fills soda from soda fountain. View of downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Women out shopping and eating ice cream in downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Children exit the James Caldwell Elementary School at 36 Caldwell Pl, Springfield Township, NJ 07081 and line up in front of the police crossing guard. Mailman walking down residential street and delivering mail to a woman at a house. Smiling woman closes door with Service Flag displayed. Woman shares letter with neighbor. Women read a V-Mail from abroad. Paperboy riding bike throws evening newspaper to porch. Man gets newspaper from porch. Man reads newspaper while sitting in living chair. Wife and daughter read from behind the man reading newspaper. The family reads the newspaper together. A Lions Club Honor Roll signage containing every person fighting abroad in Springfield, New Jersey. View of Springfield Township military Honor Roll. A Lions Club member adds a star beside the name Howard Lott, a soldier who died fighting in the Mediterranean. Two Lions Club members look mournfully at sign. A “Handy-Man Association” meets together near the Lions Club Honor Roll signage. Old man sawing wood while wife watches. Old man fixes bureau drawer. Man cleans window while on ladder. Old man climbs ladder to remove window screen. Woman gives doorknob to a man and he re-attaches it to a door. Man paints a porch while a woman sweeps. Townspeople enter the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey (37 Church Mall, Springfield Township, NJ 07081, United States). Townspeople attend church service. Pastor delivering his sermon. Women lower their heads in prayer during church service. View of bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey.
Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.
Pan from sign reading "FBI Laboratory" to a scientist in lab coat standing in front of a geographical map of the United States. In front of the forensic expert is a package. Forensic expert shows an FBI pamphlet titled “Suggestions for handling of physical evidence: identification, preservation, wrapping and packing, transmittal”. FBI forensic expert cuts paper packaging using a letter knife. Forensic expert opens flap to show that all packages containing physical evidence are double-wrapped and sealed. Forensic expert opens letter using a letter knife. View of a letter from the Seat Pleasant, Virginia Police Department. FBI forensic expert explains that "physical evidence is the most important clue in this investigation.
A written introduction by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Aerial view of the 8200 block of Georgia Ave., Silver Spring MD. (Little Tavern at 8230 Georgia Avenue seen left side of street) Pedestrians with shopping bags walking outside the J.C. Penney Co. department store at 8650 Colesville Rd. Silver Spring, MD 20910. Two women typing documents at the offices of Capital Film Laboratories 470 E Street SW Washington, D.C. 20024 A short order cook at a restaurant kitchen window, rings bell after placing food on counter for the server. Waitress places a new order to line cook by placing check on rotating check-minder. A machinist shapes metal using a lathe at D. Ballauf Manufacturing Company ( 619 H Street, N.W. Washington D.C.) View of receipts next to lathe operator. Man picks up newspaper printed from printing machine. Newspaper printing press running, likely at the Washington Post or Washington Star. Mechanic working under the hood of a car. A receipt next mechanic reads, "replace fuel pump." Front end loader scoops soil in construction site. Surveyor looks through transit scope and takes notes at a construction site. A forklift operator moves a Gibson refrigerator, still in box, from a loading dock truck. Man signs a receipt at an appliance wholesaler. A United Airlines Douglas DC-8-11 passenger airlplane taxiing on a runway, likely Washington National Airport, before takeoff. A United Airlines officer checks his watch, takes down notes. A Metropolitan police officer stands behind a counter while listening to a woman as he fills out a missing person report .
Escape artist and stage magician Harry Houdini performs. Huge crowd watches police buckle Harry Houdini into a straitjacket. Harry Houdini, upside down and wearing a straitjacket, being hoisted by a crane four stories above the ground. Harry Houdini escaping from straitjacket and throwing it to the ground. At a Paris theater, three men tie Harry Houdini to a chair. A gendarme sits beside Harry Houdini as he watches. Harry Houdini struggles to free himself, falls with his chair, and manages to undo his rope. Harry Houdini covers the head of the gendarme with coat, ties rope around gendarme’s neck and to the chair.
General Charles de Gaulle presents regimental colors and standards to soldiers as a symbolic reconstruction of the French Army during liberation ceremony in Paris (World War II). Two stern United States military police stand in the crowd. French troops attend the ceremony in Place de la Concorde (Place de la Concorde 75008 Paris, France). General Charles de Gaulle presents flags with regimental colors that had been hidden from Germans during the war to French soldiers at the Place de la Concorde. Soldiers go down the stage after receiving their standards. Close up of an elderly soldier. Soldiers salute to General de Gaulle after going on stage. Soldiers receive their standards from General de Gaulle. Words seen on flags include "Honneur et Patrie (Honour and Fatherland) and "Republique Francaise" (French Republic.)
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