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Preflight inspection and take off of an airship in the United States.

From a U.S. Navy training film in the United States on the working of airships. Operations of airships. A crew goes aboard and members take their stations. They check parts of the airship. A radioman checks electronic gear. A navigator prepares for a mission. An elevator man also checks his controls. A command pilot sits between a rudder man and the elevator man. Auto pilot is installed to take care of normal cruising conditions. The ship is undocked and brought into position for a take off. Men watch the airship. 'US Navy' written on the ship. Diagram depicts the functions of different parts of airship. The airship takes off.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077417
U.S. Navy training film about special flight conditions for airships

From a U.S. Navy training film "Special Conditions of Flight" on the working of airships. Special conditions of flight are explained. An airship in flight. High winds and snow create problems for flight. It also creates problems for ground handling of the airship. The airship lands. Ground crew rushes towards it. 'US Navy' written on the airship. Men at work. Special masts are erected on the ground to handle airships during bad flight conditions. A crew inside the airship. The airship in flight. An instrument panel. A rudder man at the controls of the airship. Guided by careful weather forecast, the airship's operations are conducted.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077418
An airship lands aboard an aircraft carrier for refueling in the Atlantic Ocean.

A U.S. Navy airship lands aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CV-20) underway in the Atlantic Ocean. A signal officer signals on the deck of the carrier. He gives landing signal. Advancing party men hold short lines and pass it on to short line party. Ground officer signals. Drag rope party steadies the tail of the airship as it lands. Crew members fasten the lines and when all lines are secured airship lands. Before take off ground officer signals. Short lines being let loose and it takes off. Another airship in flight in the background. In case of adverse weather an airship being refueled in mid air. A fuel hose being hoisted aboard the airship to be refueled without landing. An airship in flight over the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077419
Dignitaries attend an official meeting at a government building in Europe.

An official building in Europe. Dignitaries arrive in cars and enter the building. Officials from various countries seated inside the building. Flags of various nations on poles. A dignitary speaks into a microphone.

Location: Europe
Date: 1950
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064675
U.S. servicemen look at statues of English literary figures, and other statues, in Great Britain.

Suggestions being given to U.S. servicemen to be assigned to posts in Great Britain. U.S. Officer walking with a woman in a park. U.S. Airmen visit shrine with statues of British literary figures, including those of John Milton, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare. View of British Houses of Parliament. Big Ben clock tower at Parliament striking. View of a ceremony occurring at the Standing Lincoln statue of Abraham Lincoln, at Parliament Square, Canning Green, in London, England. Unveiling of Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Statue at Grosvenor Square in London England on April 12, 1948.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065571
Morrison and Knudsen construction company building dams in Afghanistan

Opening scene shows view from vehicle traveling from the Pakistan border over the Spinbaldak-Kandahar highway. View from above of a yellow truck on that road and arriving at the Morrison and Knudsen (MK) construction company headquarters near Kandahar. Views of the buildings to house and otherwise provide for MK employees. View of several camels walking away from the camera in a desert area. An MK crane lifts a drag line bucket in process of laying out a canal. An old man and a young boy watch the process. View of the MK-built dam across the Helmand River that will supply canals with water for irrigation. The King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, arrives with aides to inspect the project. (Narrator notes the King was present at the gate-opening of the dam in 1949.) An MK engineer converses with the King. View of water flowing for the first time into a new canal. (The water approaches a man walking in the dry canal.) Engineers converse while standing above a canal construction site. Below, teams of Afghan workers work on the canal sides. An Afghan surveyor, using a transit, to lay out the center line for a canal, waves his arms to an assistant in the distance. Closeup of man driving a stake and another holding the line that will mark the center line. Earth moving equipment being used to prepare the canal bed. Closeup of machine wheels turning. Glimpse of freshly-dug long canal

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066743
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