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Ernie Pyle reports in newspaper about why he likes Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Tribute to war correspondent, Ernie Pyle in New Mexico. Newspaper column by Ernie Pyle, called "The ROVING REPORTER." In it Pyle mentions many places he could live, including the Pacific Northwest, New England, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Key West, California, and Honolulu. Images of these places are shown. Farmers loading hay in the Northwest; A church in New England; A paddle wheeler ship on the Mississippi River; A seaplane coming in to land on the water at Key West, Florida; Aerial glimpse of Golden Gate Bridge; the Diamond Head mountain in Honolulu. But Pyle chose to live in Albuquerque New Mexico. View of a passenger train arriving at station in Albuquerque. The street and house where Ernie Pyle lived A woman on the porch of the house petting Pyle's dog Cheetah. Inside the house are views of his study, books, and photographic memorabilia. View of Pyle with American soldiers in World War 2. American troops marching in war zone. Troops trying to keep warm in snowy conditions, and advancing in street fighting and other places, firing at hidden enemies Scene shifts back to Pyle’s study at home and focuses on a map of New Mexico. Glimpse of Santa Fe and its Capitol building, and its old Palace of the Governors. Persons on horseback riding in the town of Taos, and views of its Pueblo village. Gravestone of famous Frontier Scout, Kit Carson. Coal being moved in open rail cars from a mine in New Mexico. Street scene in Roswell and the New Mexico Military Institute with cadets marching in a field. View of Silver City, and of various metal ores being mined. Carlsbad Caverns, seen with visitors on a walkway in front of a huge opening and views inside the caverns where visiting children are singing the hymn, Rock of Ages. Views, back again to Ernie Pyle’s home, its study and living room, with his dog Cheetah sitting on one of the chairs.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028197
Animated map shows phototheodolites, tracking radars Stations near Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico

Sign reads "Holloman Air Force Base Alamogordo New Mexico”. An animated map of New Mexico showing the location of cities such as Alamogordo New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Map of New Mexico showing Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo and Mockingbird Gap. Then the animated map shows the various positions of phototheodolites and tracking radars between Holloman Air Force Base and Mockingbird Gap. Positions of the Beacon Triangulation Stations in New Mexico are also shown on the map.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079930
Adobe buildings under construction at Native American Indian settlement in New Mexico

Adobe construction shown in Native American settlement in New Mexico. Men shoveling clay soft clay and straw together into a wooden mold wheel barrow. He empties the mold along with others, on the ground where many are already laid out. Scene shift to open yard where many of these adobe building blocks are stacked up, on end. Workers mixing clay mud at a construction site and delivering it to workers, on wooden scaffolding, finishing the exterior of an adobe building. Closeup of an adobe masons smoothing clay with their bare hands on various parts of the structure. Closeups of features of adobe structures. Views of an entire adobe village. Outdoor ovens (hornos) are seen in foreground.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040094
Routine life in Native American Indian adobe village in New Mexico.

A Native American adobe community in New Mexico. An alleyway between adobe homes. Wooden ladders against the buildings to provide access to roofs. A graveyard marked with dozens of crosses. A large structure stands in background beside a long tunnel-like structure. Out on the desert, bleached bones of animals are seen on the ground. A woman holds up an antler. Closeups of various bones held up for the camera. Views of artwork incorporating images as well as actual bones. Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, in her studio. A closeup of one of her canvases. View of an artistic mobile suspended from a building beam. POV view from window in O'Keefe studio, of desert outside, as a car drives past. A small animal running across the ground. Goats in a pen. Panning views, from high rock formations, of desert below. A muddy creek beneath the hills, with simple bridge crossing it. The Rio Grande River running past a tree bent toward the water. Views of higher mountains (described by narrator as "mossy." Forests of various kinds in the mountains. Sheep grazing near a forest of aspen trees. Scenes of trees flowering in Spring. A fall of water from a mountain spring into a pool. Rivers and streams of water flowing into ever larger tributories toward the Rio Grande River. Diversion of water into irrigation ditches. Such a ditch circling a cultivated field, where two farmers are cutting a crop with a hand-held reaper. More views of landscape. A farmer uses a shovel to open path for water to flow into an irrigation ditch. The water seeping into field planted with crops. Closeups of various farm produce, including apples and various varieties of colored corn. Native American men, women, and children shucking corn. Irrigation water flowing into fields of crops. A man and woman hang peppers in the sun to dry. A wooden water wheel being turned by water. Worker inside small building housing a water-driven wheel in village of Barranca .He feeds grain into spout connected to grind stone.

Date: 1948
Duration: 7 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040095
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe examines her paintings in New Mexico.

Traditional crafts seen in a Native American Indian settlement in New Mexico. Dwellings and bushes. Artist Georgia O'Keefe. She picks up a prehistoric bone from the land and takes it to her house. She enters the house and examines her art. Paint brushes in a box on the table. Birds fly in the sky. She paints the flying bird. The land. Vehicles pass on the street. Paintings of Georgia O'Keefe on the wall of the house. A horse-cart passes on the street in front of a church. Painting of the church on the wall of the artist's house.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028209
Navaho artists make pottery and Indians perform ritual rain dance in New Mexico.

Traditional crafts in a Native American Indian settlement in New Mexico. Pots decorated in a house. Navaho artists make pottery. They give shapes to the pots on a potter's wheel and then put them in furnaces. Bushes and houses. The land. Mountains in the background. Indians perform ritual rain dance. Other people watch them. Dark clouds in the sky. Barren land.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028210