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Wright brothers single seated plane 'Baby Wright' on field

Wright brothers Model R called as 'Baby Wright' on field. 'Baby Wright' Airplane was a single seated airplane.

Date: 1930
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041059
Allanstand Cottage Industries and men working in Presbyterian mission efforts for Appalachian people in western North Carolina

Presbyterian mission work in the southern appalachian mountain region of Madison County, west of Ashville, North Carolina. Man attaches a skid cart to a horse. A woman climbs in the skid. Man inspects dilapidated buildings. Group of men work at rebuilding and restoring the buildings. One man adjusting a door handle or lock, another man cutting wood with a saw. Storefront of Allanstand Cottage Industries at 16 College Street, Ashville, North Carolina, originally founded by Frances Goodrich. Sign "Allanstand" over the entrance way and the words "Blue Ridge" seen above that. Sign in a window under an awning, "Allanstand - Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild" (which later became the Southern Highland Craft Guild). 1930s era car parked out front of the shop. Pedestrians pass by on the sidewalk in front of the Allanstand Craft Shop. Bearded man rebuilding a stone post beside a driveway or road, with a farm and cows in the background. Another man in business clothing looks on.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023115
Baseball players train in northern U.S. states during World War II, 1943

Newsreel clip entitled "Ball Players Train in North" shows major league baseball teams holding spring training in 1943. Teams were not allowed to travel south to Florida because of World War 2 travel restrictions. First part of clip shows men (presumably baseball players) riding in a horse and buggy along a tree-lined road. Giants seen running on field and meeting with manager and Hall of Fame outfielder Mel Ott. Players pose for camera, all wearing long sleeves. Closeup of Giants Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell. Giants players seen throwing at posters of Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo -- Leaders of the Axis powers during the war. Players look at the posters after throwing; note patriotic war patch on Giant player's sleeve. Clip shifts to Washington Senators training camp the same year. Coach and renowned baseball clown Nick Altrock leads players in warmup drills. Players warm up in outfield, near what looks like a heating plant. Closeup of Senators pitcher Dutch Leonard throwing. Closeup of Senators owner Clark Griffith (in overcoat) talking with manager Ossie Bluege. Closeup of Bluege. Players marvel over of 7-foot player Richard Ahrens, who was signed by the Senators that spring as a possible publicity stunt; he never appeared in a minor or major league game. Washington players pretend to warm themselves up by small campfire on the field. Another shot of Altrock. (Note: There is no indication where these clips were taken but the Giants trained in Lakewood, New Jersey that spring and the Senators trained in College Park, Maryland. )

Date: 1943, March 19
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029287
President Franklin D. Roosevelt receives honorary degree of Doctor of Law from Washington College, in Chestertown Maryland

President Franklin D. Roosevelt receiving an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Washington College, located in Chestertown Maryland. View of campus of Washington College, President at stage, dons a cap and gown to receive the degree, a huge gathering at the college. Hiram Staunton Brown, Chairman of the Washington College Board, and Washigton College President Gilbert W. Mead also seen with President Franklin Roosevelt.

Date: 1933, October 21
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032943
American inventor Emile Berliner and his son Henry Berliner testing the Berliner helicopter at College Park.

Emile Berliner and his son Henry Berliner, and other people gather around the helicopter. Henry Berliner in Berliner helicopter taking off in short flights and re-landing. This is one of the first machines which fly forward after rising vertically. Several views of test flying of the Berliner helicopter.

Date: 1922, June 16
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039288
Berliner helicopter tested in Washington DC, United States.

Berliner an early helicopter lands at Bolling fiield in Washington DC, United States. Pilot stands with the helicopter in the background. Men work on the helicopter. Helicopter's engine starts and it takes off. (Note: The Berliner helicopter that first made a controlled flight, in 1924, is in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum collection and displayed at the College Park Aviation Museum in Maryland)

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049056