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French Link Spring Hotel waiters participate in a race carrying food trays on their heads in French Lick, Indiana.

French Link Spring Hotel waiters participate in a race in French Lick, Indiana. Waiter outside the hotel prepare for the race. Well trained waiters carry food trays on their heads during the race. They hold table over each arm. Onlookers watch the race along the road.

Date: 1935, March 20
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063948
Buccaneers (pirates) dance and cheer inside a night club in Miami Beach, Florida.

Buccaneer pirates run night club in Miami Beach, Florida. Club staff dressed as pirates prepare for arrival of guests. Door is opened and guests walk into the club as they smoke cigarettes and are greeted by the pirate cast. Men and women dance in the club. People dressed like pirates cheer inside the club which has a dinner theater type of atmosphere.

Date: 1935, March 20
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063950
Racers drive their cars at great speed on dirt track at Legion Ascot Speedway in Los Angeles, California.

Automobile Classic race at the Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles, California. Racers drive in their cars on the dirt track. Motorcycles riders ride along the road. People watch the race. Hillside view along the race track.

Date: 1935, March 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063951
U.S. Army Air Forces officers confer with General Electric executives about producing America's first turbojet airplane engine

Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.

Date: 1941, October 4
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063980
U.S. Army Air Forces officers consulting with General Electric executives about manufacture of turbojet airplane engine.

U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063983
Man and woman working inside an office in Washington DC.

Workers working inside an office in Washington DC. Man getting inside a building and walking out. Man and woman working inside an office. People walking in and out of the office. Man opens letters and takes out dollar bills from the envelopes. Woman writes on a paper seated at desk. She speaks over the phone.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064156