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Race car driver Dario Resta poses with his car and crew after dropping out of AAA-sponsored 500 mile race, Labor Day,1915

The new Twin City Motor Speedway. Dario Resta beside his Mercedes race car, number 24, posing with his racing team, after dropping out of the AAA-sponsored 500 mile race, at the 110 mile point, with a broken oil pump. (A cap from the back of the pump case had jolted off, causing a loss of oil.) Additional scenes from the race are seen. Start of the race. Cars racing on track.

Date: 1915, September 4
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025415
The German Derby is run at the Horner racecourse in Hamburg, in 1915, during World War I

Despite wartime, the famous German derby (Deutsches Derby) race is run as usual,at the Horner racecourse (Horner Rennbahn) in Hamburg, during World War 1. Two German sportsmen chat as they sit on lawn chairs at the racecourse. They wear boots, and one has driving goggles on his hat and smokes a cigar. Two uniformed German Army officers are seen standing amongst the crowd. A section of grandstand with flags flying atop it, in the background. Scene shifts to what looks like thousands of spectators crowded between the grandstands and the racetrack. Horses seen leaving the paddock and entering the racetrack proper, with jockeys aboard and escorted by their owners or trainers. Closeup of American jockeys, George William Archibald at left and Fred Korb, at right, chatting with German racing enthusiasts before the start. View from the racecourse infield, as horses and riders pass the grandstands. View from the inside railing as they pass. At end of race, German Jockey Willy Plüschke, is seen riding the winning 3-year old, Pontresina, of the Richard Haniel Stables, toward the winner circle. (The prize is 125 thousand marks.)

Date: 1915, July 18
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026880
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson's contribution towards the New York-San Francisco telephone line in the U.S.

Telephone line construction between New York and San Francisco in the United States. A picture of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell talking into a telephone while opening the New York-Chicago telephone line on October 18, 1892. Several men standing beside Dr. Bell. A donkey with a saddle on it. A man loading the donkey with devices. The man leading the donkey which is carrying the devices to be fitted on a telephone post in a hilly area. Several men erecting telephone posts while laying lines joining New York and San Francisco to the Bell System in 1915. View of a bear climbing down a telephone post. A picture of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell attending the opening of the transcontinental telephone line in New York on January 25, 1915. Several AT&T executives sitting on both sides of Dr. Bell. Dr. Bell repeated the historic first sentence transmitted on March 10, 1876, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you", on the telephone to Mr. Watson in San Francisco. A picture showing Thomas A. Watson, Dr. Bell's assistant in 1876, at the opening of the transcontinental telephone line. Mr. Watson replied to Dr. Bell, "It would take me a week this time, Dr. Bell".

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066327
Images showing interests, culture, lifestyle and events involving Americans, including World War 1, in the period 1915 -1918

America in the World War 1 years, before and during the U.S. involvement in the war. View of Woodrow Wilson in academic robe and cap, as President of Princeton University. Steel mill with stacks belching smoke. Workers tap an open hearth furnace in steel mill. Children on a city street dancing and being sprayed with a fire hose to keep cool in summer. Boy hopping over the backs of his friends. Boys seated on a bench. Scenes from early motion pictures, interposed with images of Uncle Sam from Army recruiting poster: They are rapid montage comedy and stunt scenes, including Keystone Cops chasing fugitive; cars racing, gangster shootouts from cars; automobile hijinks; men raising barrier at railroad level crossing while a woman is left dangling from the raised crossing gate; car races and crosses railroad track in front of rapidly approaching locomotive; comic car chase down; line of 3 open top cars racing over an edge into a deep ditch, a motorcycle taking flight off of a road and into a river; a man waving warning flag frantically at a blasting site; The Cunard Liner, RMS Lusitania, underway; Newspaper front page about torpedoing of the Lusitania. American soldiers boarding troop ship for France in World War 1; View of the troop ship deck filled with U.S. soldiers. Various scenes of U.S. troops in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France during World War I: amid war torn ruins and destroyed buildings in France; firing French 75s and heavier artillery; soldiers charging across no-man's land; French and American soldiers caring for wounded behind the lines and in trenches of the battlefields; soldiers placing helmets and identification cards of fallen soldiers on rifles that are inverted, bayonet into ground.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036807
Damaged La Scala Opera House and cathedrals in Milan, Italy during World War II.

The aftermath of Allied bombing in Milan, Italy during World War II. Italians walking around damaged buildings and rubble on the ground after heavy bombing. Damaged La Scala Opera House (Via Filodrammatici, 2, 20121 Milano MI, Italy) after the bombings. Interiors of the opera showing its damaged dome. Damage sustained in the Palazzo Marino (Piazza della Scala, 2, 20121 Milano MI, Italy), near the La Scala Opera House. A statue of Italian poet Alessandro Manzoni (Piazza S. Fedele, 20121 Milano MI, Italy) still stands among the rubble of the surroundings. Behind the statue is the Church of Saint Fidelis (Piazza S. Fedele, 4, 20121 Milano MI, Italy). Damaged glass dome of the famous shopping mall Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (P.za del Duomo, 20123 Milano MI, Italy). Italian men walking in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II after bombing. Exteriors of the Ospedale Maggiore (now known as the Policlinico di Milano Via Francesco Sforza, 35, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) after bombings. Corridors of a building with rubble spread all over. Cars and pedestrians on a street and damaged buildings in the background. The neighborhood of San Babila with significant damage. Basilica di San Babila exteriors after bombing. Damaged exterior of the famous Duomo Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy). Rose windows of the Duomo Cathedral. Damaged body of a naked statue. People close the doors of the Duomo Cathedral.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675066917
Crowds cheering for Benito Mussolini in Rome, Milan, and Venice, Italy

Italian troops parade. Italians cheer for Mussolini outside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (P.za del Duomo, 20123 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan, Italy. People gathered on St. Mark’s Square (P.za San Marco, 30100 Venezia VE, Italy) in Venice, Italy. A crowd cheers in front of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument (Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. Crowds gathered in front of the Duomo di Milano Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan and the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. View of the Milan Cathedral filled with cheering crowds outside.

Date: 1938
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037900