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U.S. Navy officers inspect Japanese aircraft Mitsubishi A6M (Zero) at Naval Air Station in Anacostia

U.S. Navy officers inspect captured Japanese Mitsubishi A6M, the infamous "Zero" fighter plane. The captured enemy aircraft has been painted over with U.S. markings and tested at Naval Air Station in Anacostia . A test pilot prepares to fly the captured plane. The captured Japanese Zero taxiing out for take off. Japanese Zero in flight. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, September 20
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041078
Military and civilian applications of radar and electronics

1946 Film about military and civilian applications of radar and electronics. View of the LaGuardia Airport Administration Building (passenger terminal) in New York, with control tower and various antennas on its roof. A TWA Constellation and DC-3 airplane on the airport ramp, as another aircraft is on the final approach to land. Commercial cargo vessels in New York harbor (Statue of Liberty barely seen in the misty background). A passenger railroad train speeding along the tracks. Radar returns shown on a plan position radar scope, tracking weather returns. Tropical storm hitting a seaside area. Scientists and technicians at work in a laboratory filled with electronic equipment. View of buildings at U.S. Army Signal Corps' Camp Evans, New Jersey. Sign above one entrance reads: "Evans Signal Laboratory." Inside the laboratory, images created by radar signals bounced off the moon are seen on a radar scope, during "Project Diana," on January 10, 1946. View of the Army's GB-4 radio controlled television glide bomb, suspended on a chain inside a building. It rotates around showing various views. Scene shifts to a launching track outdoors at a coastal facility, where a glide bomb takes off raising smoke as it accelerates along the launch path. Next, a GB-4 glide bomb is released from underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. It is seen flying away from the aircraft. Inside the aircraft, a crew member views its progress by means of television images received from a transmitter in the front of the bomb. Glimpse of the television images. View from the ground of the GB-4 bomb gliding to the ground and exploding. Views of a German V-2 rocket at Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Ground , New Mexico, where it was being tested by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1946. Inside a control room, an Army technician gives the signal to launch, and the V-2 rocket fires and rises straight into the sky, with its fiery tail visible as it gains altitude. More views of scientists, engineers, and technicians inside a Signal Corps electronics laboratory. Soldiers being trained in radar technology, seated at an electronic array. An army staff sergeant technician working on radar components. A variety of different radar antennas rotating outdoors.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038745
The Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC, United States.

Monuments in Washington DC, United States. Several ducks swimming in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) with the Washington Monument behind, and Capitol visible in distance. A street lighted in the night. View of the Potomac River, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the U.S. Capitol, in single view, early morning. A street in downtown Washington DC. Cars moving on a road and buildings on either side of the road. The U.S. Capitol building (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States) seen in the background. The Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) in view. Equestrian statue at George Washington, at Washington Circle in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Capitol viewed at dawn, along an empty Pennsylvania Avenue. The Washington Monument, seen from space between buildings. Equestrian statue of Civil War hero, Major General John A. Logan (Washington, DC 20005, United States), at Logan Circle, Rhode Island Avenue and 13th St. NW. The U.S. Capitol dome. View from Memorial Bridge, of Lincoln Memorial and Washington monument (in distance).

Date: 1972
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066408
Various scenes of kidnapping, FBI investigators in tie shop, FBI car chase criminals, and the Washington National Cathedral

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”.

Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078870
Mass arrest of hippie anti-war demonstrators during the 1971 May Day Protests in Washington DC

Hippie protesters walking through the streets of Washington, D.C. as they join the May Day Protests on early Monday morning, May 3rd, 1971 to protest the Vietnam War. A hand circles areas on a map showing the protesters’ target areas in Washington DC. View of the May Day protest manual shows Washington DC’s traffic circles and bridges for reference to protestors. Still image of United States President Richard Nixon as he says, "we’re going to see to it that the thousands of government workers, who have a right to go to work peacefully are not interfered with by those militants, those few militants, who in the name of demonstrating for peace abroad presume that they have the right to break the peace at home." View of the May 4, 1971 front page of The Washington Daily News with headline, “The Cry Today; “We Will Stay””. Traffic in Washington DC before sunrise. Seal of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police on police car door. Police officer speaks to a federal soldier, saying, "I'll start working on my men, and I'll be back very shortly." Federal troops at night in formation. Hippie demonstrators with a flag walk past a drug store at night, probably in Dupont Circle. Predawn traffic on Key Bridge at night with Marriott Key Bridge sign in background. Predawn traffic in Washington, D.C. with three motorcycle cops on standby. Soldiers on bridge, possibly the Whitehurst Freeway. Rush hour traffic on Memorial Bridge heading towards Lincoln Memorial with federal troops standing guard on bridge. Rush hour traffic over Key Bridge with Rosslyn, VA in background. Camera pans from the "Time to Save" sign on the Dupont National Bank building at 1369 Connecticut Ave. NW, to the Dupont Circle fountain. D.C. metropolitan police talk to federal troops in front of the Dupont Circle fountain. A mosaic of moving images showing demonstrations in Dupont Circle, Washington Circle, and Georgetown. Police push protestors against squad car to search and arrest them. A police officer confiscates items, such as keys, tickets, and screwdriver, from an arrested demonstrator. Arrested demonstrators raise their fists inside the police bus. Police order demonstrators to leave the area. Black police woman searches a woman hippie protester. Hippies arrested as they lean against bus with hands up. Protestor van towed away. A black policewoman conducts a search on a young woman. Demonstrators board a police bus after their arrest. Demonstrators board the back of a Hertz truck used by the police. Demonstrators detained in an emergency detention center near RFK Stadium. A radical flag flying at the detention center. A page pertaining to “Arrest and Jail” in the “May Day Tactical Manual” for participants on the 1971 May Day Protests. Police officer take photographs of arrested demonstrators standing on street with hands zip tied behind their backs. Arrested hippies smile as their pictures are taken. United States Park Police officer looks at watch while writing arrest reports. Demonstrators wave from bus as it drives away after mass arrest.

Date: 1971, May 3
Duration: 5 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078915
National commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington DC.

At time of sesquicentennial celebrations of the city of Washington DC: City development planning underway by the Planning Commission in Washington DC. Animated map of Washington DC by the National Geographic Society. Statue in a park. National Commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge. The commission members are seen walking across the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the Virginia side to the Washington DC side. View of the Lincoln Memorial and 1940s era cars in traffic circle and on Arlington Memorial Bridge. Commission members examine mock-ups of equestrian statues atop pylons at the Washington DC entrance to the bridge. (In 1951, the Arts of War Sculptures, named Sacrifice and Valor, by Leo Friedlander, were erected in those positions). National Capital Park and Planning Commission personnel are seen working at drafting tables in their offices in the Department of the Interior building. The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission members meets in the Lord Calvert Mansion in Riverdale for future planning. Exterior view of the Lord Calvert Mansion. Inside, the commission meets and a man points to and explains a chart on traffic control. The chart, dated September 1947, shows traffic flow into Washington DC during the "peak hour" of traffic, during which 58,000 automobiles pass through the area being studied. Elevated, aerial view from the U.S. Capitol Dome looking out across the city of Washington DC and on to the Potomac River and Virginia on the other side of the river.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073229