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Salem Barrack demonstrates his miniature 'Ornithopter', a flying machine, at the Newark Airport in New Jersey.

Salem Barrack demonstrates his miniature 'Ornithopter', a flying machine, at the Newark Airport in New Jersey. The elastic powered plane makes a successful flight of several minutes.

Date: 1934, July 18
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029852
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
Young Italian journalist going to United States; scenes of visit in New York City with famous landmarks and Italian influences

Documentary depicts the conversation of an Italian journalist with an American man. Transworld Airways (TWA) Constellation passenger plane lands at airport in Italy. Several people seated in the waiting hall at the airport. A young Italian journalist going to United States meets an American man. The men talk to each other about the mutual interests of both the countries. View of traffic in streets of New York. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic. Manhattan skyscrapers and skyline of New York City seen. A woman works in an office in the Empire State Building in Manhattan. View from her office of East River and Welfare Island. Chrysler Building seen slightly below the Empire State Building office level. View from Empire State Building to West. Ocean liner in Hudson River and New Jersey visible in distance. Taxis driving on Park Avenue. Italian-made automobiles are seen in traffic, including an Italian red convertible with top down. A woman enters the beauty salon of Julius Caruso. Italian creations are kept in the salon, including Venetian glass products. The woman gets her hair done by the stylist. Ferragamo shoes are seen. Exterior view of the Plaza Hotel, on Central Park, South. Woman enters the hotel carrying a parcel. She tries on some Italian designer coats. Women try Italian designer jewelry and evening gowns. Italian office machinery made by Olivetti Company is displayed. Leather bags made by Gucci, from Italy, are shown.

Date: 1956
Duration: 5 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675041846
Wiley Hardeman Post receives welcome after flying solo around world and Colonel Roscoe Turner earns Bendix Trophy for speed

Wiley Post on arrival at Floyd Bennett field in New York, after flying around the world in 8 days. People take dinner at dining table to celebrate the setting of a new record in aviation. Crowd stands around the aircraft after arrival. Motorcade of Wiley Post in New York City. People welcome him with ticker tape parade in New York. Mayor of New York city, John Patrick O'Brien presents him with Medal of Valor. Next segment covers pilot Colonel Roscoe Turner who sets a new record of 10 hours and 5 minutes flying coast to coast from New York to Los Angeles. His Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft is seen landing and Roscoe Turner smiles broadly for the camera. He won the Bendix Trophy. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933, July 22
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071119
Dirigible USS Akron during its first flight from Lakehurst, New Jersey to Washington DC.

First flight of the dirigible USS Akron from Lakehurst, New Jersey to Washington DC. Airship floats in air, U.S. navy symbol and Akron written on it. The cabin at the bottom of Akron. Buildings and Potomac River shoreline seen from it. Views as it flies over the National Mall, the White House, the Washington National Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Main Navy and Munitions Buildings, and several Potomac River Bridges including the Memorial Bridge. Empty land seen at Gravelly Point where National Airport was later built. Passengers in the dirigible looking out the windows at the sights below. Control room, navigation captain and crew members talk, including good views of the ship's captain, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S. Navy. A cook checks on roasts cooking in an oven. Airship flies directly over Washington Monument. Views of Union Station from the airship, and then views from directly over the U.S. Capitol. Many views of the airship in flight taken from an adjacent airship or plane. Views of another U.S. city on the east coast, and then views of the airship flying over Manhattan Island. New York City skyscrapers and skyline seen from the airship.

Date: 1931, November 2
Duration: 10 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036624
Animation shows the functioning and working of the AN/FPS-85 Spacetrack Radar in Florida,United States.

A USAF film report covering the principles of electronics phased array radar AN/FPS-85 for performing functions of satellite surveillance and spacecraft instantly and concurrently. A view of the space. A satellite moves in the space. The AN/FPS-85 Spacetrack Radar at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Men working at drawing boards. The Bendix Building in Baltimore, Maryland. Cars parked outside the building. An array antenna on top of the building. A five-storey array antenna Bendix facility. A view of the AN/FPS-85 Spacetrack Radar at the Eglin AFB. The antenna elements on the radar. The AN/FPS-85 radar facing equator. An animation depicting the functioning and working of the AN/FPS-85. The functions include satellite detection, recognition of old targets, tracking of new targets and target signature data.

Date: 1965
Duration: 7 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069282