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Indian chieftains share jokes in sign language and General Scott bids them a farewell using sign language in Montana.

U.S. Army Major General Hugh L. Scott and U.S. Representative from Montana Scott Leavitt meeting Native American Indian chiefs at Fort Browning in Montana to evolve methods of perpetuating the Indian sign language in 1930. The Indian chieftains seated in a Piegan council lodge. The formal features of the council are completed. A tribal chief plays an instrument. General Scott seated next to him. Several views of the Indian chieftains talking and sharing jokes with each other in sign language. General Scoot speaks to a chief in sign language. The chieftains crack jokes in sign language and laugh. The Indian chieftains talk in sign language. The council gets over. General Scott bids farewell to the chieftains using sign language.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069798
Student pilots trained in California with a specially designed Lockheed jet aircraft.

Lockheed jet trainer aircraft tested in California. The student and instructor seated in a cockpit of the new Lockheed jet trainer. The jet taxis and takes off. The trainer and instructor seated in cockpit while formation. The jet aircraft lands at Burbank Airport. A parachute opens as the aircraft lands.

Date: 1954, February 23
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069888
Women in the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) training during World War II

Three Uniformed women in the U.S.Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) arrive at the entrance of a Coast Guard Station, during World War 2. The station includes a light house. Next, a Coast Guardsman explains the light to them as they stand on a platform at its top. Scene shifts to about a dozen SPARS women boarding a Coast Guard training ship. Some of them ascend rope ladders in the ship's rigging. Three of them drive away in a blue Coast Guard jeep, up a dirt road to a waterfront. There, while standing in a boat (unseen but moving up and down) a Coast officer converses with one of them while referring to a chart. The next scene shows the three women on top deck of a Coast Guard Fireboat, where a Coast Guardsman demonstrates one of their firefighting water guns. The water pressure is increased, creating a powerful stream of water. Scene shifts to about 25 SPARS women assembled on a lawn in front of a frame building. A woman officer motions them into formation and reads orders. Next, from viewpoint, above, the formation of SPARS women is seen marching along with Coast Guardsmen in a parade.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069909
Men load freight car wheels aboard a U.S. Merchant Marine ship for delivering it the U.S. Army in Philippines.

A film titled 'Hannibal Victory' depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A small boat at the edge of the Mississippi River. A steamboat underway in the Mississippi River. A man stands at a deck of the steamboat. A man operates a navigation wheel. Horn of the steamboat blows. The man operating the navigation wheel. The steamboat underway in the river. A railway bridge across the Mississippi River. A train passes over the bridge. The statue of famous American Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens also known as Mark Twain. Two women walk up steps. A plaque reads about Mark Twain. The statue of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Traffic on a street. People walk on a pathway. A railroad station. Smoke comes out from locomotives. Wheels of the freight cars. Men assembling the freight car wheels. A close up of the wheel with 'Hannibal' written on it. Animated map depicts the transport of freight car wheels from Hannibal to San Francisco. The wheels are hoisted and taken aboard a U.S. Merchant Marine ship in San Francisco. A man aboard the ship operate the controls. Several views of the wheels loaded aboard the ship. Ships at a port. War supplies are taken aboard a merchant ship. Two men seated in the foreground. A ship with a U.S. flag.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069914
A Fordson tractor being sold in Midwest USA

Two farmers are operating an early model Fordson tractor pulling a binder across a field. They stop to allow a well-dressed Ford tractor salesman and a third farmer to examine their tractor. Scene shifts to street in front of a Fordson Tractor dealer's showroom. The "third farmer" from earlier scene examines a new tractor parked at the curb.Two salesmen are with him, and one cranks the tractor to start it. The shop next to the Fordson dealer, has Jones Motor Company logos in its windows and signs,above,reading:"Thomas & Johnson Motor Company" and advertising the "Jones Six" automobile. Another sign at this shop reads: "Luthy Battery Station."

Date: 1919
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070234
American Air Defense activities during the Cold War

Film opens showing a U.S. Navy Gleaves-class destroyer in a bay. Closeup of radar antennas atop a U.S. Navy ship. A U.S. Navy submarine operating on the surface in icy waters. It has what appears to be a cylindrical shelter on its deck. The boat is covered in ice. Several men in foul weather gear are on its deck. Interior of a radar monitoring center, where a sailor, wearing a headset, monitors a plan position radar scope, where an unidentified aircraft is detected. Scene shifts to a U.S. Air Defense centers where such information is plotted on charts. Sign on table reads: "Supervisor GOC" (referring to the Ground Observer Corps) Civilian volunteer members of the Ground Observer Corps (organized by the U.S. Air Force in 1950) enter a room for a meeting. Narrator states that their mission is to operate 14 thousand observation posts and 49 filter centers. View shows predominately women volunteers in the group. Two uniformed Air Force men show silhouette diagrams of American military aircraft. Women connecting numerous phone callers at a large switch board installation. A barber serving a customer in his shop. A volunteer ground observer, at an outdoor post, watches as a flight of U.S. Air Force P-47 aircraft flies overhead in formation. A U.S. Army member of the Anti-aircraft Command, is seen at a desk. He receives a report of an unidentified aircraft and pushes a button to sound bells alerting soldiers who leave a dining hall in the midst of a meal to respond to their battle stations. They are joined by soldiers from elsewhere in the area. All rush to their assigned locations. View of them running across a field. A large suspension bridge in the background. Soldiers manning 120mm M1 anti-aircraft guns amidst views of rotating radar antennas. Soldiers loading shells into the guns. Soldier monitoring the unknown aircraft on radar equipment. View of hurriedly abandoned dining hall with uneaten meals on the tables. Soldiers lowering gun barrels and placing covers over them after the alert is cancelled.

Date: 1954
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070289