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Thomas Edison operates a movie camera and films Henry Ford

Thomas Edison operates a movie camera, evolved from his kinetoscope invention. He makes a movie image of Henry Ford, seated in a chair in front of the camera.

Date: 1928
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030452
Scenes of Thomas Edison, his inventions, his wife Mina, and Edison greeting guests arriving at a gathering in his honor.

Close up images of Thomas Alva Edison amidst a crowd. People shake hands with Edison as they enter a building. The event is likely an October 20, 1928 recognition event honoring Edison, during which he received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Calvin Coolidge. Thomas Edison poses in a workshop. He operates a device. Electric light bulb invented by Edison is shown. A timecard of Edisons from September 1912 showing 112 hours worked that week. Edison with his wife, Mina (Miller) Edison. Smoke stacks emit smoke at an industrial plant. Crowd of workers gathered inside the plant listening to a speaker. The American flag flutters atop the plant's building. Night view of city streets at Times Square, New York City. Neon signs and advertisements on buildings and shops, all evidence of applications of Edison's inventions. Signs include advertisement at Mayfair Theatre for "The Spirit of Notre Dame" and "Finest Talking Pictures." Edison amidst crowd at recognition ceremony. Edison's light bulb turns off. Edison with Henry Ford. Thomas Edison greets stream of well-dressed guests entering a building. A large wreath is carried in by some of the guests.

Date: 1928, October 20
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030453
Eddie Rickenbacker, President of Eastern Airlines, hosts Cyrus R. Smith, President of American Airlines, after both airlines acquire DC-3 airplanes

Glimpse of U.S. Army gun crew operating a 3-inch M3 Anti Aircraft gun. Glimpse of 1st Lt Joseph H. Eastman and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker standing beside Rickenbacker's SPAD S.XIII #1 parked in front of a hangar at Foucaucourt Aerodrome, France, 1918. Sequence shifts to 1936, and office of Rickenbacker, now President of Eastern Airlines. A poster on the wall contains memorabilia from the 94th Aero Squadron, with which Rickenbacker flew in World War I. Camera pans over photographes bordering the poster. Next, Rickenbacker is seen conversing with his guest, Cyrus R. Smith, President of American Airlines, as they look at a picture of Rickenbacker and his Spad airplane, signed by numerous pilots who also served with the 94th Aero Squadron. A mounted model of a Douglas DC-3 airplane sits atop a table in the foreground. Rickenbacker and C.R. Smith, both hold onto the DC-3 airplane model as they shake hands. Closeup of the DC-3 model as Rickenbacker rotates it before the camera. (Note: Both Smith and Rickenbacker, presidents of their respective airlines, had mutual admiration for the Douglas DC-3 airliner. In 1934,Smith arranged to purchase 20 new DC-3 airplanes from the Douglas Aircraft Company. American's first DC-3 "Flagship Illinois," had its maiden flight on June 25, 1936. Eastern Airlines took delivery of its first DC-3 in December 1936.)

Date: 1936
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030454
U.S. Army Soldiers firing a 37mm gun from a paddle wheel raft while crossing a stream.

Soldiers from the U.S. Army arrive in a jeep. The jeep is boarded on to a wooden raft in the stream. Motor and a steering gear is attached to a paddle wheel. The raft is propelled across the stream. Soldiers fire a 37mm gun and an anti-aircraft gun in response to enemy attack. Soldiers reach the shore. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030491
Development of roads, rural school system, camps, and preservation of monuments in Ohio in 1930s

Hogs at a farm in Ohio. Farmer loads pigs into truck in order to transport them to the market. The truck gets stuck in a muddy road and the farmer is unable to free his truck. The hogs get tired and jump out of the truck adding to the farmer's complications. Demonstrates problems with low quality road system for farmers getting from farm to market. Federally financed road construction shows workers during the Great Depression as they reconstruct and level rugged roads under the Farm to Market Roads Program. Various machines used for the purpose of building new roads. A farm truck drives across a smooth road. A school bus approaches a new consolidated school building using the developed roads. View of an older rural school house in Ohio that is no longer used as a school due to school consolidation under the Works Progress Administration or WPA program. Two boys play on a see-saw in front of the school building. Children wearing shorts get off the school bus. View of main entrance of OYO Boy Scout Camp in West Portsmouth, Ohio. Boy Scouts view a knot tying demonstration as they sit outside the newly constructed Block House log cabin, built with federal funds under the Civil Works Administration, at the camp located in the Roosevelt Game Preserve. Views of the camp Headquarters building at Camp OYO. View of buildings of Old Fort Recovery, built by General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne, and restored by WPA.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030502
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) Airship disaster due to cyclonic storm in Ava Ohio.

USS Shenandoah destroyed tragically in Ava Ohio. The giant airship ZR-1 crashed due to cyclonic storm. Ripped and torn into three pieces killing several crew members. Front part of the airship crashed at Ava while middle part and tail of the ship fell at Sharon 10 miles away from Ava in Ohio.

Date: 1925, September 3
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030544