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United States soldiers process V-Mail, deliver V-Mail to soldiers based overseas during WW2

United States soldiers receive bags of V-mail letters, the primary method of correspondence with soldiers stationed abroad during World War 2. Soldiers unloads bags of V-Mail letters onto sorting table. V-Mail letters placed in cutting machine to be sliced open. Man hands over V-Mail to staff in separation table for processing and targeting operation. Staff folds away a rejected V-Mail. Staff inspects V-Mail, only to fold it away as reject. Accepted V-Mails stamped with numbers according to destination. Staff carry bundle of V-Mail to take to recording operation. Man puts down bundles of V-Mail for recording staff. Woman operators use Recordak machines to photograph every V-Mail letter. Recordak machine photographs V-Mail letters. Female operator puts a paper saying “END” into Recordak machine. Female operator pulls camera reel from Recordak machine. A motion picture film developer inspecting a machine that develops and dries the 16mm film. Pile of 16mm film reels being put into boxes. Men working in front of huge pile of V-mail letter bags. A long-range flying boat, a Boeing 314 Clipper, taking off from water. Delivery soldier salutes to United States Army Captain Roy Lewis before handing over a bag containing V-Mail 16mm film reels. Army Captain pours boxes containing V-Mail film reels onto his desk. Captain opens box and pulls out a film reel. Employee in printing room uses an enlarging machine to print V-Mail. Machine prints V-Mail. Female employee spins rolls of newly printed V-Mail on rewind table. Female employee slices a roll of V-Mail into letters. Male employee uses machine to fold V-mail letters. Employee uses machine to pack V-Mail into envelopes. Machine seals envelopes. Male employee retrieves a stack of V-Mail ready for delivery. Military postman distributes V-Mail to waiting soldiers. Soldier's hand holds a V-Mail letter.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078494
FBI forensic investigators sort out fingerprint files and examine forensic evidence recovered from crime scenes

Federal Bureau of Investigation employees sort out files containing fingerprints in the Fingerprint Identification Section of the FBI Headquarters. Two FBI employees look through fingerprint collection in the Identification Section. Fingerprint document being examined. Forensic scientists walk through hallway of the FBI Laboratory on the 6th floor and attic of the Justice Department Building in Washington DC. Forensic investigators examine a firearm....part of a rifle. A forensic scientist looks at evidence under microscope. Forensic investigator of the Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) examines a check sent as an evidence. Forensic scientist uses typewriter. Forensic investigator uses microscope do handwriting analysis on two documents. Forensic scientist examines the weight and thickness of a paper sent as an evidence. A paper thickness gauge is used to measure thickness. Forensic scientist compares rope fiber crime evidence against many samples of ropes. Forensic scientist examines a plaster cast of the sole of a shoe found as evidence in a crime scene.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078864
Forensic investigator examines dust sample using spectrum analysis machine, professor lectures to students in FBI Academy

A forensic investigator at his desk in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters. Forensic scientist inserts a vial of dust sample into a spectrum analyzer. Forensic investigator marks notes on roll of paper from spectrum analysis machine. View of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Sign saying, “FBI Academy”. Students of the FBI Academy enter school. FBI Academy Professor lectures in classroom. FBI Academy students listen attentively in class. The professor notes to the future FBI agents that, "it will be your responsibility to make civil rights a reality within the realm of federal authority."

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078865
Judo demonstration, instructor teaches firing rifle, target shooting practice in FBI Academy, crime scene training.

Judo demonstration for students at the FBI Academy. FBI Academy students watch judo demonstration. At the FBI Academy shooting range, an instructor demonstrates to students how to fire at targets with a tommy gun machine gun. Instructor successfully shoots red moving target. FBI Special Agents trainees listen to instructor. Instructor shoots at pop up target photos. Target photo of man holding a gun falls to ground. FBI Academy students in wooded outdoor site during a crime scene training class. FBI Academy Students examine and documents a woman mannequin during their crime scene training class.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078866
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover works from his desk, scenes of various crimes being committed.

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, works from his desk in the FBI Headquarters in Washington DC. A teletype machine printer prints out data of crimes being reported real-time in the United States. A man shoots at a mechanic with a handgun. Body of mechanic falling into vehicle inspection pit in garage. Burglars attempt to open a vault using blowtorch. A young man opens a locker and steals a wallet.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078867
Medieval instrument craftsman Lynn Elder plays a hurdy-gurdy, makes medieval instruments, teaches apprentice students in his workshop

Musician plays a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed musical instrument, near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Lynn Elder assembles body of a hurdy-gurdy. Lynn Elder bends wood for a dulcimer. A female student assembles a wooden body of a dulcimer. Student traces wood with pencil. Craftsman teaches a student how to carve wood. View of a rebec. Student carves wood to make instrument. A student tests a dulcimers sound using quill. Musicians play medieval instruments. “Magic Mountain Workshop 1968” sign. Lynn Elder drills a hole into wood and applies glue to a dulcimer. He puts metal string on dulcimer. A musician plays a medieval instrument. Various medieval instruments on display as Lynn Elder plays a hurdy-gurdy.

Date: 1970, December 23
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078883