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War production manufacturing workers busy at the Douglas Aircraft Factory in Long Beach, California during World War 2

Factory workers at A-20 (Fighter-Bomber Army plane) engine line in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California during World War 2, supplying aircraft for the war effort. Women factory workers make adjustments to engines in a Pratt-Whitney engine line. Close up of a woman worker at work on an aircraft engine. African American workmen stack plexiglass parts for bomber aircraft gun or bombing sights. Ex-sailor works on wing of aircraft. Shirtless worker removes an aircraft tire from a rack of tires and rolls it by hand. Propaganda cartoon poster above the rack shows a frightened Hideki Tojo up a tree and reads 'Tokio Kid Say' and shows an attack dog below, keeping him in the tree, and wearing a collar that says, "Conservation," encouraging workers to conserve and use factory resources wisely for the war effort in order to beat the Japanese.

Date: 1942, November
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052405
Women workers work at upholstering department and welding in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California.

Old man works on multiple-bit drill press in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California, during World War 2. Old men work on grinders. Both elderly women and young women war production workers in upholstering department. Women war workers wear protective helmets and shields and serve as welders. They weld parts in the aircraft factory to aid the war effort.

Date: 1942, November
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052407
School children imitate the regular 'Big Time' circus in Mammoth 3-ring in Long Beach, California.

School children imitate the regular 'Big Time' circus in Mammoth 3-ring in Long Beach, California. They play the part of clowns and perform acrobats. School girl imitates a ring-woman with children posing as lions. Dog performs stunts. Child puts dog into a box which has 'Dyeing Machine' written on it and then pull pretend link sausages from the box. Children watch the show.

Date: 1933, August 24
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022455
Clyde Schlieper and Wes Carroll depart and return to Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California after making a new world record.

Fliers land at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California after setting a new world record of 30 days and 6 hours in flight. Their Piper Cub dubbed "Spirit of Kay" takes off. Spectators look towards the sky. A sea plane taxis on water for departing. Clyde Schlieper and Wes Carroll return to Marine Stadium after setting the world record for the longest sustained flight -thirty days in the air. Men assist them in getting off from the sea plane. W.E.S. Carroll, Clyde Schlieper and other personnel pose for a camera.

Date: 1939, October 30
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070944
Boys use oars to row boats on the flooded street and enjoy themselves in Long Beach, California.

Boys enjoy during a flood in Long Beach, California. Water on streets due to heavy rains. A jeep drives through the flooded street. Boys use oars and row boats on the street. They enjoy themselves. Building submerged in water in the background. A boy with a dog on a wooden platform in water. A pair of footwear floats in water. Boys in a boat in the background.

Date: 1935, January 16
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069442
Toshichi Nakamura invents a swimming tube with propellers and demonstrates it in Long Beach, California.

A swimming tube being demonstrated in Long Beach, California. Toshichi Nakamura with a swimming tube around his waist. The swimming tube is equipped with two propellers. He jumps into water from the deck of a ship. Nakamura walks to the shore with the swimming tube around his waist.

Date: 1933, June 8
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066030