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Motorcycle patrolman patrols on highways, unsnarls traffic jams; Snow removal from highways in winters, in the United States.

Maryland State Police motorcycle patrolmen at their post, with sign "Maryland State Police - Substation A". A police patrolman notices a moving violation by a motorist and gets on his motorcycle to pursue. The police officer pulls over the motorist and is seen writing a ticket for the woman driver in the car. A police officer on foot stands at a busy intersection and gives hand commands to control traffic at a bend on highway. Winter time views show a a big snow plow as it removes snow from highways during winters. Many 1920's and 1930's automobiles, including cars, trucks, and buses are seen on American roads and highways. A car passes on a bridge. Cars drive on a four lane. Next scene shows the Statue of Liberty as seen up close from an approaching boat. Final scene shows Bandmaster and United States Marine Corps band as they play. The conductor turns and takes a bow.

Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036983
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
Student drivers attend lecture by Bob Bondurant, ambulance, police and race car training at Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving

A Mercedes-Benz sedan driven by Bob Bondurant. Sign for the "Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving" located at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. Gran Prix racecar driver, Bob Bondurant, drives. Grand Prix and other racing trophies awarded to Bob Bondurant. Various cars parked in driving school lot. Bob Bondurant lectures to driving school students inside classroom, mostly men but one woman as well. Bob Bondurant points to diagram. A woman drives a red Chevrolet Camaro on driving school road course. Bob Bondurant uses a toy racecar to demonstrate proper drifting. A car drifts on road course. Police car drives in road course. Ambulance driver drives during a practical driving class. Ambulance drifts on wet road course and recovers. Police pursuit driving in road course. Police car safely evades a tumbling block from car. Police car makes a sharp 180 turn during police pursuit driving class. Police car overtakes and apprehends car. Grand Prix student racecar drivers approach several cars, including Porsches and Grand Prix models. Driver puts on a helmet and enters car. Two cars both drive off, one a Porsche 911. Grand Prix drivers drive in road course during training, with two Porsche 911 cars chasing a Grand Prix model. Bob Bondurant speaks to female student driving a Chevy Camaro. Tire rolled in front of a moving ambulance. Bob Bondurant lectures with diagram. Police car pulls up after laps. Bob Bondurant shakes hands with female driving student. Traffic light turns red.

Date: 1970, December 23
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078887
1920 San Francisco CA Democratic Party National Convention, James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) campaigning as Democratic Party President and Vice President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt walking with James M. Cox, the Democratic Presidential candidate for the 1920 election. Supporters shake hands with the Roosevelt and Cox. 1920 Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco. Signs say “Philippines”, “Michigan”, “District of Columbia”, “Ohio”, “Missouri”, and other US states and territories in the 1920 Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco, California. Female Democrat supporter enthusiastically raise her arms. The woman political activist cheering at the Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco, California. Signs with the name of US states and territories at the democrat National Convention. Franklin D. Roosevelt give speeches and smiles as he campaigns as the democratic Vice President candidate for the 1920 United States election. Democrat supporters’ parade in San Francisco showing their support for James M. Cox. A scene from a Marion, Ohio parade supporting James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigning for 1920 election. Brass band playing. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James M. Cox wave at supporters. Women, wearing hats and white dresses, and white sashes with word "Marion" on them marching in support for the democratic Party. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James M. Cox smile and wave at supporters. Eleanor Roosevelt and her children with pet dog, a German Shepherd, at Hyde Park. Eleanor Roosevelt smiles. Crowded Democratic Party campaign before 1920 Presidential election. Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to crowd, campaigning for the Democrat Party. Democratic supporters cheer. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in car. Franklin D. Roosevelt takes his hat off as greeting, a man with roses in car with Roosevelt. Roosevelt greets his mother and goes inside their house, the Springwood estate at Hyde Park (4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, United States). Roosevelt speaks to the people of his hometown, Hyde Park New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt shakes hands with Hyde Park, New York residents. Franklin D. Roosevelt with wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt with his children.

Date: 1920, July 6
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079075
Images recorded from chase plane during the first powered flight of an X-15 Rocket Plane, at Edwards Air Force Base, California

Photograpy from an airborne chase plane, on the occasion of the first powered flight of an X-15 rocket plane. A Lockheed F-104 Starfighter chase plane seen flying in the contrails of the NASA B-52 mothership (NB-52A,52-003) flown by pilots Bock and Allovie, An F-100D fighter flies slightly ahead of the B-52. The X-15, 56-6671, with Scott Crossfield, in the cockpit, is cradled under the B-52's right wing. View from the photo chase plane, as it pulls closer to the B-52. The X-15 and leading F-100 chase plane are clearly visible. The camera plane has dropped back and the X-15 releases, from the B-52 mothership, as its rocket engines simultaneously ignite. It drops and accelerates below and in front of the B-52. It stays below momentarily, without leaving a contrail. Then it accelerates and climbs rapidly out of sight. Sunlight glares as two chase planes are seen.

Date: 1959, September 17
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021370
Army Air Service bombing and other practice operational activities during the 1920s in the United States

Several Keystone LB-5s (triple tails) and LB-5As (double tails) move across an airfield, circa 1928. Test bombing of captured German battleship, Ostfriesland, in 1921. Smoke arises due to bombing. A formation of four Martin NBS-1 bombers over the former USS Alabama (BB-8), in the Chesapeake Bay, on September 23, 1921. A white phosphorus bomb explodes atop the ship raising a huge white cloud. One of the Martin bombers flies low over the water drops a smoke curtain. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033881