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Work Progress Administration Federal Theater Project Marionette play for children in Los Angeles California

A line of parents with their children entering the Marionettes: Theater of the Magic Strings in Los Angeles, California. Marionettes depicting characters such as a chef, an old lady, and some clowns, onstage. Work Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theater Project puppeteers control their strings from above the stage. A kangaroo king marionette, wearing a crown and a cape, hops onstage. Children watching the marionette play. Marionettes dance onstage as confetti fall. (Great Depression period)

Date: 1936
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079043
Work Progress Administration directors review scripts; performance of "It Can't Happen Here" in Boston; WPA African American actors perform

Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079044
American astronaut John Glenn puts on space suit, prelaunch activities before the launch of “Friendship 7” in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Close up view of NASA engineer. NASA engineer peers through a periscope. A row of arclights ignite to light Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14. View of Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14, the launch site of Friendship 7 spacecraft. NASA engineers watch the launch from outside. Closeup of zipper on space suit closed after pressure suit fabric tucked inside. American astronaut John Glenn puts on his space helmet. View of scientist looking down as he helps John Glenn with his helmet. Scientist smokes a pipe. Scientist adjusts John Glenn’s spacesuit gloves. Scientist ties John Glenn’s glove laces. John Glenn closes his fist to make sure the gloves were securely tied. The scientist smiles. John Glenn, in his helmet, smiles back. John Glenn prepares for insertion by getting into his capsule couch mold.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079050
Flight Controllers working at Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission Control Center before launching astronaut John Glenn on “Friendship 7”

View of Friendship 7 spacecraft orbital flight path on control center map. View of NASA flight controllers of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network at Cape Canaveral. Flight controllers are on their early generation computers (IBM 7090), making calculations and research vital to the Mercury-Atlas 6 flight. View of the board displaying the Friendship 7 flight path. Flight controller talks on headset, saying "roger CTC, Control Center is go."

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079051
American Astronaut John Glenn takes a NASA Astronaut transfer van and arrives in Mercury-Atlas 6 launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Close up view of John Glenn, wearing his spacesuit. Media reporters taking notes while they watch the astronaut information officer, who is announcing important information about the upcoming launch of Friendship 7. John Glenn, wearing his spacesuit, walking out of the hangar of Cape Canaveral, Florida and waves at military officers. John Glenn gives a short wave. Reporters observe John Glenn closely as he and an entourage of engineers board the NASA astronaut transfer van. NASA scientists and technicians, wearing white jumpsuits and work helmets, make final preparations for the launch of Friendship 7. Shadows of men against wall. View of Pad 14 in Cape Canaveral. Arclight on on Pad 14. View of Friendship 7 on Pad 14 in Cape Canaveral before launch. NASA astronaut transfer van, carrying John Glenn, approaching Pad 14 in Cape Canaveral before launch. Side view of John Glenn inside the NASA astronaut transfer van. View of NASA transfer van wall written with names of animal and human astronauts previously launched before John Glenn- Ham (the chimpanzee), (Alan) Shepard, (Virgil “Gus”) Grissom, and Enos (the chimpanzee). View of hardware inside NASA transfer van. View of NASA transfer van interior roof with “A. Shepard” stenciled. View of clock moving. View of John Glenn looking sideways. NASA transfer van with police escort entering Pad 14 before launch of Friendship 7. NASA scientists waiting for Friendship 7 to launch. NASA transfer van approaching Friendship 7. NASA staff near Pad 14 service tower. John Glenn waits inside NASA astronaut transfer van. NASA astronaut transfer van approaches near Friendship 7. NASA staff watches the launch preparation. John Glenn and entourage of scientists get off the NASA astronaut transfer van. John Glenn shakes hands with NASA employee before getting inside elevator of Pad 14 service tower. Elevator ascends the service tower of Pad 14. John Glenn and the NASA scientists inside elevator of service tower. NASA ground crew in service tower watch the elevator containing John Glenn ascend. A NASA scientist gives his colleague a pat on the back before he and his colleagues accompany John Glenn out of the elevator. Mcdonnell Aircraft Corp crew, wearing white jumpsuits assist John Glenn to enter the Friendship 7. Flag of the United States painted on Friendship 7. View of John Glenn’s eyes blinking. “United States” written on Friendship 7. View of John Glenn’s eyes before launch of friendship 7.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079057
American Astronaut John Glenn enters the Friendship 7 capsule, other prelaunch activities of the Mercury-Atlas 6 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Mission control asks Padleader Guenter F. Wendt if he and John Glenn are ready for insertion into the capsule, to which the “roger” reply was given. United States Astronaut John Glenn climbs into the Friendship 7 capsule. Mcdonnell Aircraft Corp crew assist John Glenn by helping him slide inside the hatch and sit inside Friendship 7. NASA ground crew at Cape Canaveral working behind IBM 7090 computer to monitor launch of Friendship 7. View of NASA ground crew near service tower of Pad 14. View of NASA ground crew with headphones wait for Friendship 7 launch. View of Mercury-Atlas 6 orbital path. NASA telemetry personnel waiting for Friendship 7 launch. Mcdonnell Aircraft Corp crew shake John Glenn’s hands before bolting the capsule hatch in place. View of sunrise at Cape Canaveral.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079058