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Copper mining in Morenci, Arizona, United States

Huge open pit copper mine in Morenci, Arizona, United States. The ore reduction plant with giant industrial smoke stack is seen next to the mine pit. Views of molten copper being poured from smelter into large crucible. Molten copper running into a sand bed from a furnace being tapped. Molten slag (waste) being poured into a slag heap from a crucible. Molten copper with traces of other valuable minerals, such as gold, being poured into molds creating anodes suitable for further electrolytic reduction. Cooled anodes being loaded onto trucks for shipping.

Location: Morenci Arizona USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027891
Lifestyle of Hopi Indian people at Oraibi, Arizona, and Navajo Indian people in Monument Valley area of Arizona

Native American Indian people of the Hopi people are shown living in Oraibi, Arizona in the late 1930s. Lifestyle of the Hope people. A woman climbs the stairs of a traditional Hopi dwelling, unchanged by modern civilization. Construction of houses is seen. Hopi women fashion pottery in an ancient village, while kneeling on a blanket on the ground. They shape bowls by hand. Completed Hopi bowls and vases, and ceremonial mats and baskets are shown. A man paints religious dolls known as Kachina dolls, each a replica of costumes worn during religious ceremonies. Children play with the dolls. Indian men work at a mining site, but they are constrasted with many Indian men who choose their traditional way of life. A Navajo American Indian man riding a horse passes near monuments and natural rock formations in the Monument Valley area of Arizona. A young navajo girl herds sheep and goats with Monument Valley rock formations in background, showing how children assist the tribe. Arid lands needing irrigation are shown, and narrator discusses need for irrigation to support growth of the Navajo nation. A Navajo brush shelter dwelling is shown, typical of those erected by the nomadic Navajo following their grazing animals from place to place. Navajo woman grinds corn in traditional manner by hand with a stone. Two Navajo boys watch her. A navajo woman wearing turquoise and silver jewelry. A navajo woman makes a rug by hand, using wool from Navajo sheep. The rug weaver follows no drawn pattern and uses her memory only to make the pattern. Prehistoric Native American Indian dwellings in the Canyon de Chelly are shown, protected as National Monuments, and originally home to ancient Navajo and Anasazi Pueblo people. An anthropologist participating in excavation at the Canyon de Chelly examines a piece of pottery. Scientists at a Canyon de Chelly ruin from end of 11th century AD extract a core sample from timber to determine the year of the dwelling construction by wood growth rate pattern.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027899
Dignitaries and officials gather at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States.

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States. Entrance to Arizona Memorial with letters above entrance 'USS Arizona memorial'. U.S. Navy Admiral Perry and staff enter the memorial from a boat landing. Guests arrive in a boat at boat landing to the Memorial. Admiral Riggs and party enter the memorial followed by the guests. Admiral W. S. Benson and Admiral Metzger arrive at boat landing and enter the memorial with guests.

Location: Honolulu Hawaii USA
Date: 1962, May 30
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061875
Arizona and American southwest from a moving train in the 1920s; Governor Thomas Edward Campbell at Frontier Days rodeo

Countryside of Arizona,United States. Views of landscape and an open field. Mountains in the background. Camera slate indicates next scene is of Frontier Days rodeo in Prescott, Arizona. Arizona Governor Thomas Edward Campbell and an older woman pose for the camera. A boy is nearby behind them, looking on. Governor Campbell smiles, takes off his cowboy hat, and waves it. Landscape views of mesas, buttes, prairie and railroad tracks from a moving train in the American southwest and western United States. Point of view shot from moving railroad train car, of a woman looking out of a train window at the countryside.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072787
Panoramic view of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States.

View of the Grand Canyons at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, USA. Heavy cloud covers above the canyons. Panoramic, wide sweeping views of the Grand canyon area and nearby mountains and valleys. A group on mules moving on a path in the canyon and passing into a stone tunnel.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675050323
Tripartite Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan in Berlin, Germany. Ensuing attacks by Germany and Japan in World War II

This film is a scattering montage of World War 2 scenes from 1939 through 1945. Part of an agreement between Nazi Germany and Yugoslavia is shown in English. It is dated June 1, 1939 and ostensibly signed by Adolf Hitler. Next, German Ju 87, Stuka dive bombers are shown peeling off from formation, on April 6, 1941, to attack Yugoslavia. Bombs bursting on the ground. Closeup of a Stuka airplane in a dive, making its characteristic whine, and dropping bombs. Bombs exploding just outside some concrete walls. German infantry running along railroad tracks and entering backyard of house in a village. German soldiers observing from overlooking hill; climbing over rubble; and marching along a road toward a village. Animated map showing German invasion areas early in World War II, extending through most of Europe and into Norway, by 1941. Animated map shows further invasions into France, Belgium, low countries, the Balkans, and Eastern front towards the Soviet Union. Map highlights Tokyo, Rome, and Berlin. Delegations walking in hall of building in Berlin, to sign Tripartite pact, on September 27, 1940. The group is led by by Count Galeazzo Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister, and Mussolini's son-in-law); Joachim von Ribbentrop, Germany's Foreign Minister and Japan’s Ambassador Saburō Kurusu. The diplomats are seen, next, standing near a table as Adolf Hitler enters rendering Nazi salute. He shakes hands with Count Ciano and Ambassador Kurusu. Hitler is seated to watch the proceedings. Von Ribbontrop is seen signing for Germany. Next scenes show German armored units heading East in Operation Barbarossa (June of 1941). A sign identifies the town of Eydtkau (Eydtkuhnen) on the German-Lithuanian border. German armor and artillery moving eastward. German troops destroying international crossing barriers. German troops firing siege guns. Montage with glimpses of German battle scenes showing tanks, guns, rockets in action with attendant explosions, fires, and destruction. Formations of German warplanes in flight, including Junkers Ju-52s that carry troops, including paratroops. View from above of Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in formation. Battle of Britain scenes, with view of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England (which miraculously survived the Blitz). The Tower Bridge in London, seen through a haze following blitzkrieg. German Junkers 87 Stuka dive bombers peeling off from formation to attack. British anti-aircraft searchlights shining beams skyward. Diving bombers illuminated by the lights. Anti-aircraft guns firing. Nighttime scenes showing gunfire flashes, explosions, tracer bullets and fires in London. British fire brigades fighting fires in London buildings as some collapse from the German bombing during the so-called "Blitz." Scene shifts to Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, as a Japanese bomb explodes on a U.S. Navy warship. The USS Arizona billowing smoke and listing as it succumbs to Japanese bombing. Another view of the Arizona sinking. Smoke rising from Battleship Row, at Pearl Harbor. Glimpse of postwar Nuremberg trial.

Location: Europe
Date: 1940, September 27
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058663
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