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African American farmers seated on the porch of a house, talk and laugh in the United States.

African American farmers in the southern United States. Cows and hens outside a farm house. A farmer seated under a tree. African American woman comes out of the house and calls the man. The man stands up and walks away. The farmers seated on the porch of the house talking. The farmers laugh. An old man seated in a rocking chair. Other African Americans seated on the floor laugh.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071227
African American farmers listen as an African American man plays piano and sings a song in the United States.

African American farmers in the southern United States. An African American man plays piano and sings a song. African American farmers and a woman sit on chairs and a sofa, and listen. Some of them sing the spiritual gospel music. Closer views of the African American man singing and playing the piano.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071228
Construction of diversion tunnels and Hoover Dam being built in the United States.

Construction of the Hoover Dam in the United States. Civil engineers at the dam site. Views of dam site, and reclamation engineers rush towards the dam site for investigation. Engineers remove rock by placing dynamite. The construction underway. Explosions rise. Views of four diversion tunnels, two on each side (the Nevada side and Arizona side). Front end loader remove dirt and load onto dump truck. Engineers wok in the tunnel. Engineers climb rope suspended from the canyon wall. In November 1932, the Colorado river is diverted. Trucks carry construction material and engineers at work during construction of the dam. Clip is from a production narrated in 1962.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071602
German rocket pioneer Reinhold Tilling and his postal rockets

Activities of German rocket pioneer Reinhard Tilling. Opening scene shows a large postal rocket standing on its tail on a beach. A technician is adjusting something on its nose, as another man places mail into a compartment in the rocket body. Camera pans down from the top of the rocket to the fins at the bottom. A group of spectators watches from a sand bluff overlooking the beach. Two cameramen take up sheltered positions near the beach. The rocket is ignited and rises, only to fall back sideways onto the beach. Change of scene shows a group of persons with a Tilling rocket in marsh grass near a lake. Next, Reinhard Tilling is seen surrounded by spectators and some cameramen, as he explains his rocket, which is being held nose down by others. Tilling opens and displays the rocket's gliding wings.

Location: Germany
Date: 1931
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675072680
Rocket testing by German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling, at the lake lake Dümmersee in Germany

Still pictures of early German rockets on tripod launchers. A number of small rockets laying on the ground partially covered with a tarpaulin. Several men on a hillside with a rocket launcher pointed horizontally. Fleeting glimpse of the work shop of German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling, followed by views of several men holding a Tilling postal rocket nose down with its wings folded. They are standing in tall marsh grass near lake Dümmersee. Next, Reinhold Tilling is seen with his assistant, Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, making adjustments to a rocket, with its wings open. Men carry the rocket with its wings folded and place it on a tall pole. Next, the rocket launches straight into the air. Men maneuver in a sailboat and other boats in the Dümmersee, preparing to retrieve a Tilling rocket. Closeup of the men in the sailboat. Several men in a long boat near marsh grass where a Tilling rocket has landed.

Location: Germany
Date: 1931
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072682
U.S. Coast Guards capture gamblers unloading Canadian liquor barges and speedboat docked at harbor in New York.

U.S. Coast Guards capture liquor gamblers in New York during Prohibition. Men unload liquor aboard barges and speedboat docked at the New York harbor. A man watches the liquor bottles. Another man hauls a trolley loaded with liquor cartons. U.S. Coast Guard officials organize inquiries to capture two barges. The officials inspect the Canadian liquor barges. The officials capture the gamblers.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1931, January 26
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072967
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