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Workers clear towns, farms and forests to make way for rising water behind Grande Coulee dam in Washington.

Area cleared for Grande Coulee dam in Washington. 2,400 workers clear entire towns, farms and forests to make way for the rising water behind the dam. A group of men work in the field. A house is burned down. The owners hug and cry looking at their burning house.

Date: 1939, June 5
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043537
Gymnasts from the Niels Bukh School of Gymnastics demonstrate individual and collective forms aboard USS New York.

Danish Gymnastics team exercises aboard USS New York in New York. Male athletes from Denmark's Niels Bukh School of Gymnastics aboard the ship. The men demonstrate individual and collective forms of the sport.

Date: 1939, June 5
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043542
Signal Servicemen undergo sonic deception training at Army Experimental Station in United States.

Army Experimental Station at Pine Camp, located in Great Bend, New York, United States. Signal Servicemen check recording instruments and play sound deception records on phonograph player at Army Experimental Station. Signal Corps Sonic Company soldiers (sometimes referred to as the Ghost Army) stand in review in front of tanks and trucks. U.S. Army officers reviews them. Animated diagram shows Company headquarters and Administrative Platoon. U.S. Army servicemen skilled in sonic deception and decoy sound in World War 2 are seen recording the sound of tanks and other armored vehicles. Officials check graphs at the headquarters. Board reads AES School. Instructor takes a class in a classroom at AES School. Servicemen undergo training at the test Station. A group of students operates the sound amplifier. German headquarters shown on an animated map. Animation shows various tanks sending out sounds to the German enemy as decoy to disguise and mislead the enemy regarding actual troop movements.

Date: 1945
Duration: 13 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043550
President Woodrow Wilson and other dignitaries draw draft slips at New York Herald's office in New York, during World War I.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson talks at New York Herald's office in New York, United States, in World War 1. Headlines of the newspaper 'The New York Herald'. Draft slips enclosed in gelatin capsules are put into a glass bowl. Woodrow Wilson's eyes are covered with a blindfold. Wilson draws a draft number from the bowl. Other dignitaries also draw draft numbers one by one in the same fashion. The draft slips read and result declared. Man writes results on a New York Herald's Bulletin Board. People gather in large numbers to see the results. Men raise their hats and cheer after knowing the results. U.S. flags hung outside New York Herald's building. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917, May
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030402
Damaged dirigible after it hits a mountain in Laurel Canyon outside Hollywood.

A U.S. Navy dirigible hits a mountain while lost in fog. The mishap occurs in Laural Canyon outside Hollywood California. The wrecked dirigible lying on the ground as men survey the damage. Man searches the damaged blimp.

Date: 1920
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030509
Surrendered German warships received by Allied Board as war reparations, are towed by U.S. Navy into American waters

Following World War I, surrendered German ships received from the Allied Board as part of war reparations, are towed by the U.S. Navy. The dreadnaught battleship SMS Ostfriesland, damaged in the Jutland battle, is seen. The Scout Cruiser Frankfurt sunk at Scapa Flow seen under tow. Disabled due to negligence, Frankfurt towed across the water. Surrendered destroyers towed by naval tugs.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030510