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Men of the First Motion Picture Unit work for special photographic effects in films in Culver City, California.

Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. A sign reads: 'Special Photographic Effects'. Men work inside a building for special camera effects in a film. A guard tower. Military artists aboard rafts underway at sea during a film. They discuss amongst themselves.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062801
Men work in the sound and music department of the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California.

Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. Men standing outside the sound department. They work for synchronization of sound with dialogs and actions of a film. Men seated in the music department play different musical instruments. The unit bugler blows a chow call. Personnel being served. They eat in a mess hall.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062802
A training of combat camera crew members during field maneuvers in Culver City, California.

Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. A training of combat camera crew. Soldiers march with rifles. They stand in formation. Training of crew members during field maneuvers. Cameramen take photographs and record battle scenes on a battlefield. A bomb explodes near the cameramen. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062803
Camera crew members aboard airplanes in flight for the purpose of aerial photography in Culver City, California (WW2)

World War II activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. Airplanes parked at an air base. Camera equipment being loaded into United States Army Air Force Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan and a United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) A-20 Havoc aircraft for aerial photography. Men in the cockpit of an airplane. A large formation of A-20s in flight. USAAF Curtiss P-40 aircraft in flight. The engine of a USAAF C-47 Skytrain stops and starts. A PT-17 aircraft flying at low altitude over airfields. A USAAF BT-13 Valiant performs an aileron roll. A USAAF Martin B-26C Marauder drops a large life raft and the BT-13 Valiant spins down. The U.S. flag atop a flag pole. Unit personnel at a retreat ceremony in a part of the main building.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062804
Hollywood movie stars aboard a Lockheed Constellation plane piloted by aviator Howard Hughes in Culver City, California.

Movie stars on board a Lockheed Constellation plane landing at airport on cold winter day with wind blowing and ice on the ramps. Planes parked on a ramp. A crowd warmly dressed against the cold await arrival of the airplane. Lockheed TWA Constellation plane arrives & pulls up. Edward G. Robinson & others get off the plane. Words on side of plane read 'Star of California,Sky Chief'. Howard Hughes in the cockpit. Hughes leaves the airplane. Seen, seated, inside the aircraft, are Movie stars Veronica Lake, Cary Grant, Edward G. Robinson, Janet Blair, Walter Pigeon, William Powell, and Frank Morgan aboard the TWA Constellation flight piloted by Howard Hughes.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047842
Devastation in Elizabeth, New Jersey residential neighborhood after American Airlines plane crash; also mid-air explosion of plane at British air show.

Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.

Date: 1952, January 23
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049157