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Bill Holmes climbs to the top of the flag staff on one of the tallest buildings, and repairs the staff, in New York City.

Bill Holmes risks his life and repairs a high flagstaff in New York City, New York. View of tall buildings and skyscrapers in New York City. A flagstaff on one of the tallest buildings. Man named Bill Holmes is seen climbing his way up to the top of the flag staff in a death defying stunt to repair the flag pole. Men gather on the ground, watch Bill Holmes climbing up. Bill Holmes, with a cigarette in his mouth, on the topmost position of the flag staff. Another man with Bill Holmes on the flag pole, performing the repair. A man stands at the base of the flagstaff and waves to the men.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1931, June 1
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054993
Landmarks and construction in growing Tucson Arizona; scenes from parades and rodeos in Arizona.

Scenes of the town Tucson in Arizona, United States. Old houses and buildings in the town. Late 1930s cars driving on a road in Tucson and parked outside a building. The Mission San Xavier de Bac is shown. The Pima County Courthouse with old cars parked in front. Views of campus buildings at the University of Arizona. Students on the campus of the university. Construction workers building new brick buildings in Tucson. This is constrasted with view of a Mexican worker mixing clay and straw to make Adobe bricks. The man presses the mixture into forms to make large bricks or blocks. Mexican American children sit by the side and watch him work. 1930s era cars drive on the streets of Douglas Arizona. Mexican mariachi street musicians wearing sombreros play guitars and sing. A city parade (possibly in Phoenix) heads down a street with a marching band and men on horses. Women and children watch the parade. A rodeo event in Phoenix is shown with men on bucking broncos and bucking horses.

Location: Tucson Arizona USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027895
Lifestyle of cowboys and ranchers and other people in Arizona, United States.

A cowboy rides a horse at a Ranch in Arizona, United States. Mountains in the background. Cowboys ride horses and herd cattle. A man and woman visiting at a dude ranch observe as a cowboy saddles a horse. The cowboy helps the woman mount the horse. Health resorts and spas in Arizona are shown. Patrons relax by a pool and spa, and others play golf. Color footage of late 1930s cars and automobiles driving on city roads in Phoenix. View of the city Phoenix. The Arizona State Capitol Building and other buildings and houses in the city. Women on a canoe in a park river or creek. Children emerge from a school building.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027894
Aspects of copper mining in Arizona, United States, with a focus on operation in Ajo Arizona.

The Crystal Palace, Bird Cage Theatre and Tombstone Epitaph office are shown, all in Tombstone Arizona. View of an abandoned silver mine. Animation on map shows marking of the main Copper producing areas of Arizona, such as Jerome, Miami, Globe, Superior, Ray, Morenci, Bisbee, and Ajo. A huge new Cornelia open pit copper mine at Ajo is seen. Churn drill at work in mining. Men in mine field give signals to each other with flags prior to blasting. Large amount of dust is blown as the blast takes place. Giant electric shovels are used to load the ore on trains. The railroad trains distribute the ore to crushers. The electric crushers concentrate the ore. A factory site is also shown.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027890
Lifestyle of Hopi Indian people at Oraibi, Arizona, and Navajo Indian people in Monument Valley area of Arizona

Native American Indian people of the Hopi people are shown living in Oraibi, Arizona in the late 1930s. Lifestyle of the Hope people. A woman climbs the stairs of a traditional Hopi dwelling, unchanged by modern civilization. Construction of houses is seen. Hopi women fashion pottery in an ancient village, while kneeling on a blanket on the ground. They shape bowls by hand. Completed Hopi bowls and vases, and ceremonial mats and baskets are shown. A man paints religious dolls known as Kachina dolls, each a replica of costumes worn during religious ceremonies. Children play with the dolls. Indian men work at a mining site, but they are constrasted with many Indian men who choose their traditional way of life. A Navajo American Indian man riding a horse passes near monuments and natural rock formations in the Monument Valley area of Arizona. A young navajo girl herds sheep and goats with Monument Valley rock formations in background, showing how children assist the tribe. Arid lands needing irrigation are shown, and narrator discusses need for irrigation to support growth of the Navajo nation. A Navajo brush shelter dwelling is shown, typical of those erected by the nomadic Navajo following their grazing animals from place to place. Navajo woman grinds corn in traditional manner by hand with a stone. Two Navajo boys watch her. A navajo woman wearing turquoise and silver jewelry. A navajo woman makes a rug by hand, using wool from Navajo sheep. The rug weaver follows no drawn pattern and uses her memory only to make the pattern. Prehistoric Native American Indian dwellings in the Canyon de Chelly are shown, protected as National Monuments, and originally home to ancient Navajo and Anasazi Pueblo people. An anthropologist participating in excavation at the Canyon de Chelly examines a piece of pottery. Scientists at a Canyon de Chelly ruin from end of 11th century AD extract a core sample from timber to determine the year of the dwelling construction by wood growth rate pattern.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027899
Davis Dam while under construction on the Colorado River; and irrigated farming and cattle operations in Arizona, United States

Construction operations in progress on the Davis Dam of the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. Cement bucket lowered by crane. Men building framing of dam walls. Mountains in the background. Irrigation ditches and pumps and wells employed on farm fields in Arizona. Large number of cattle on a farm and in a stockyard area. A very large stack of hay. Cattle breeding stock shown grazing on the open range and drinking from a river.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027893
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