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High School students contribute to improvements in housing conditions in New York City

Two High School boys stand on a New York city street. Tenament buildings are behind them. children play on the sidewalks and in the street including one riding a home-made roller skate box scooter with the number 2 on it. The boys walk past many children. They are making not of buildings with inadequate fire escapes. Scene suddenly shifts to a boy standing on a bridge overlooking railroad tracks. He is annotating a map or buildings along Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Next, the student is seen presenting information about this matter and engaging in a discussion about it with classmates. Later, a student spokesman is seen presenting findings about housing inadaquacies to an assembly of people. Local people demonstrate in the streets, carrying banners decrying current conditions. Scene shifts to new housing projects with playgrounds and seemingly better conditions for the residents. Children are seen running in Central Park. A woman (teacher) with children on a ferry boat looking at the skyline of lower Manhattan. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067144
Trainees are introduced to a training schedule at Fort Irwin in Mojave, California.

The series 'The Big Picture' talks about armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. A rocket is launched. Artillery mounted on a tank is fired. Helicopters land. Soldiers fire guns. Master Sergeant Stewart Queen speaks about 6 weeks armored combat training that includes tank firing and maneuvering. A trainee writes a letter to his parents. The trainees get into buses. The buses are driven to Camp Irwin. Mountains near the training center. A board reads 'Headquarters the armored combat training center Camp Irwin California'. Cars driven on a road. The tanks fire at a firing range. The trainees march. The trainees enter a service hall. Colonel Holmes gives an orientation lecture. The trainees sit and listen. They are taken in trucks to a gunnery range. They jump out of the trucks. They attend a lecture on a training program. The trainees march. The tanks lined up in the background. The trainees are lectured on what not to do near the tanks. Firing from the tanks. The trainees observe. They check oil in the engine of a tank. Wheels of the tanks.

Date: 1955
Duration: 6 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067158
Trainees work on tanks, engines, range finder equipment, machine guns and communication equipment in Mojave, California.

Armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. An instructor teaches trainees to turn the turret on a tank manually. Another instructor explains about the engine. The trainees repair the wheels of a tank. They enter a range finder building. The trainees sit on chairs and learn. A trainee looks through a range finder. The trainees sit on benches in groups. The instructors teach them about 30 caliber machine guns. The trainees learn on a cut away model of M-48 tanks. The instructor teaches them about radio communication. The trainees on a communication equipment.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067159
Trainees learn to mount, to maneuver and to handle tanks at Fort Irwin in Mojave, California.

Armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. Lined up tanks. U.S. Sergeant Brewer gives signals. U.S. trainees stand in front of the tanks and learn to mount them. The tanks are moved. The trainees give hand signals for tank maneuvering. A trainee sits near a swimming pool and writes. The trainees mount the tanks and work on them. A trainee places bullets in belts. The trainee carries an elevation marker. A flag is waved from a control tower as a signal for firing. The trainee fire from the tanks.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067161
Trainees learn to fire from tanks on targets at Fort Irwin in Mojave, California.

Armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. U.S. trainees fire from tanks on targets. An officer in a control tower. The trainees bring their targets for scoring. A trainee points to the hits on a target. The trainees stand near a score board at the base of the control tower. They are in a line for lunch. The trainees sit on the ground and eat lunch.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067162
Trainees learn to fire guns mounted on tanks on targets at Fort Irwin in Mojave, California.

Armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. U.S. trainees fire from guns mounted on tanks. The trainees fire on targets at a firing range. An officer gives a signal from a tower and speaks into a radio device. The trainees clean the guns.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067163