28 Sep 1940
Cavalcade of San Francisco
This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.
The Steel Road
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
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