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Logging and lumbering operations in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.

A forest service worker cuts and marks a tree for logging operations in Arizona, United States. Loggers cut down a large pine tree with a two man saw. The logs are loaded on a truck by heavy equipment loader. The logs are pushed off the back of the truck by a bulldozer. The logs are loaded in a train. Smoke rises from the locomotive engine of the train as it moves carrying large cut trees. Mountains in the background. A sawmill operation in Flagstaff, Arizona. Logs are brought to sawmills and dumped into a giant pool or pond area. Men with hooks move the logs up onto lifts that carry the logs into the saw mill. Men at the mill output side lift cut lumber off of the running belt track and stack it for pickup by a special lift machine that lifts the lumber bundles. Elevated view from a high ridge of the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. A woman and a child walk on a field with the mountains of the San Francisco Peaks rising in the background.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027897
Arizona and American southwest from a moving train in the 1920s; Governor Thomas Edward Campbell at Frontier Days rodeo

Countryside of Arizona,United States. Views of landscape and an open field. Mountains in the background. Camera slate indicates next scene is of Frontier Days rodeo in Prescott, Arizona. Arizona Governor Thomas Edward Campbell and an older woman pose for the camera. A boy is nearby behind them, looking on. Governor Campbell smiles, takes off his cowboy hat, and waves it. Landscape views of mesas, buttes, prairie and railroad tracks from a moving train in the American southwest and western United States. Point of view shot from moving railroad train car, of a woman looking out of a train window at the countryside.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072787
Destruction in coastal northeast USA from the 1944 "Great Atlantic Hurricane" (First example of a named hurricane in the US)

Views of The Great Atlantic Hurricane lashing at northeast United States areas (after having already hit the North Carolina Outer Banks), and views of the aftermath and early cleanup following the storm. Regions shown include Atlantic City, Long Island (where it came ashore as a category 3 hurricane on September 15, 1944), New York City suburbs, and parts of New England. High surf flooding boardwalks and coastal cities. Trees bent over and snapped in high winds. People walking with difficulty in the high winds. Streets of towns submerged in water. Coastal docks destroyed and large boats scattered high onto shore areas. Trees, poles, and wires downed over roads and homes. Entire homes moved off of their foundations and placed down the street. The "Great Atlantic Hurricane" was the first example of a named hurricane by the Miami Hurricane Warning Office, which later became the National Hurricane Center. The name was meant to reflect the hurricane's size and intensity.

Date: 1944, September 15
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034857
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.

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.

Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027899
Wreath placed at stone wall containing names of those who died during sinking of the USS Arizona.

Two SH3A helicopters fly over the water, arrive the coast area on route to Hickam Air Force Base. One of the helicopters contains Astronaut Gordon Cooper. Sailor stands by a large wreath placed up against a stone wall containing the names of the deceased from the sinking of the USS Arizona. The colors fly from the flag pole at the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. Arizona Memorial and the flag.

Date: 1963, May 18
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040226