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Early versions of machine-operated clothes washing machine; vacuum cleaner; and spinning wheel.

Woman stops early model washing machine, sets up attached wringer and begins to wring water from the freshly washed clothes. Woman cleans carpet with early model Eureka vacuum cleaner, probably a Eureka Model 8, while a man sits reading a newspaper. Woman washes her face with washcloth in bathroom equipped with hot and cold running water. Old woman knits as she sits on chair, in front of a fireplace, while a motorized spinning wheel prepares yarn for her project.

Date: 1920
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025347
A film sketch about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and tracing his personal history and career leading to the Presidency in the 1980 election.

Opening scene shows U.S. President Ronald Reagan holding a little girl, and then standing with officials and Secret Service agents, as he prepares to enter a car. Closeup of him smiling. Closeup of President Reagan signing his autograph for spectators in a crowd. Next, Reagan and his wife Nancy are seen on November 4, 1980 waving to supporters at the Century Plaza Hotel, celebrating his election victory as the 40th U.S. President. The President elect says a few words of thanks to them. Views of the crowd cheering. Adopted son, Michael Reagan holds his son Cameron as he and his wife, Colleen Reagan, join Ronald and Nancy Reagan on the stage, followed by daughter Patricia Reagan and son Ron Reagan. The crowd cheers the President elect and his family. At this point the film begins showing images about Ronald Regan's life, starting with baby pictures; his parents; Tampico, Illinois, where he was born; Dixon, where he is seen in a school picture and with boyhood friends. A photograph of "Dutch" Reagan President of his High School Class. Reagan in photo with other members of the Eureka College football team, in Eureka, Illinois. The seal of the college. Pictures of Reagan with college classmates and teammates. Reagan posing in bathing suit when he was swimming team coach. Young Reagan, after graduation, as a sports announcer, sitting at a microphone labeled: "WHO" in Davenport, Iowa. The broadcasting tower of that radio station. A Track and field event taking place. Reagan posing with a pipe in his mouth, at the WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. A baseball game in progress before a full stadium of spectators. In 1937, a Chicago baseball team is seen boarding a ship to a Spring training camp in California. (Narrator states Reagan accompanied them.) Aerial view of buildings at the First National Studios (home of Warner Brothers) in Hollywood. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, circa 1952, being applauded at a gathering when he was President of the Screen Actors Guild. Views of Reagan in U.S. Army uniform. A U.S. Army C-47 aircraft taking off from a field under attack, with fires burning and smoke rising (possibly during Japanese December 7, 1941 attack on installations in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii). U.S. Airmen standing on a ramp next to a Douglas C-47B-1-DL transport aircraft (tail number: 43-16145). What appears to be a ViP version of a B-50 aircraft parked on a ramp with an honor guard at the stairway. Ronald Reagan, in uniform, signing up for active duty. Later, Captain Reagan, U.S. Army Air Forces, is seen with other uniformed men at a gathering in Warner Brothers studios. The entrance of Paramount Pictures studios in Hollywood. A large group of studio employees walking between buildings. Reagan speaking, as President, of the Screen Actors Guild, at an outdoor gathering. Actor Robert Young and film industry executives stand nearby. Reagan, as Chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council, addresses a dinner gathering of that organization. He is also seen testifying before he House Committee on Un-American activities Committee (HUAC) on October 23, 1947.

Date: 1980
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044186
36 foot Higgins Eureka landing boat loads and unloads a car on the beach of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana.

Test of Higgins Boats in Louisiana, United States. A 36 foot Higgins Eureka landing boat in Lake Pontchartrain . A car is loaded on the boat. The boat sails away. The boat comes to the beach and unloads the car.

Date: 1941
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046396
Harry S Truman becomes the Vice President and then takes over as President of the United States.

Harry S Truman and other officials work on some documents. Truman's Vice Presidential campaign. People hold boards reading 'Truman for Vice President' during Democratic National Convention of 1944. Vice President Truman with President Franklin D Roosevelt. View of the exterior of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. Soldiers and horses with Roosevelt's casket during funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A crowd at the Washington Monument. The United States flag at half staff on the White House. Truman addresses the Congress. He talks about cooperation and duty. Nazi German Axis soldiers surrender during World War II in Europe. A large crowd at Broadway celebrates VE Day in New York City. The first atomic bomb mushroom cloud billows into the sky over New Mexico during the Trinity atomic bomb test. Signing of Japanese surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri at the end of World War 2. Japanese official Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs documents, then General Douglas MacArthur signs documents, and presents a pen to General Wainwright standing behind him. An American official takes a seat and goes through some documents. An officer reads documents at a table as soldiers stand by and watch.

Date: 1948, October 18
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031319
American staff car enters through a gate of a Russian Embassy building in Tehran, Iran.

American staff car on the streets of Tehran, Iran. 'USA' written on the car. Buildings in the background. The car enters a gate. A guard on the gate. The car arrives in front of a Soviet Embassy building during the Tehran Conference (project "Eureka"). A guard stands on stairs. British soldier Honor Guard stands in front of Embassy. Squad of British and Russian soldiers marches past Embassy. Cameramen take pictures. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, December 1
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053418
Japanese-American recruits in U.S. Army train on machine guns and anti aircraft guns at Camp Shelby in Missouri.

Japanese-American recruits in the United States Army, under training at Camp Shelby in Missouri, United States. A soldier practices firing a machine gun while others watch. Field training to the Nisei soldiers. Artillery advances in trucks on the roads. Nisei soldiers loaded in trucks. An anti aircraft gun under camouflage. Recruits learn to load it and take aim. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, February 16
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037183