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Carpenters make emergency airlock at St. Clement Dane's Grammar School in London, England during World War II.

Workers make emergency airlock at St. Clement Dane's Grammar School in London, England during World War II. The School adapted as a gas decontamination depot. Workers knock out window blocks. Carpenters working with Hammersmith Hospital in the background. Workers chiseling out bricks. They plaster emergency airlock vent. Two school boys enter the room with evacuation kits in hand.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064232
Workers remove stained glass from windows and place sandbags at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, England (WW2)

Workers place sandbags around Canterbury Cathedral (Cathedral House, 11 The Precincts, Canterbury CT1 2EH, United Kingdom) in Kent, England during World War II, as protection against enemy German bombing. Workers fill sandbags to place them around the Cathedral. They remove the famous stained-glass windows. The crowd watches them. Workers place sandbags in front of the windows.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064233
British people buy blackout materials and prepare for bombing in London, England during World War II.

British people prepare for war in London, England, early in World War 2. Board outside a shop reads 'Materials suitable for blackout'. Woman looks at the shop. People walk by the street. Poster reads 'Blackout Blinds, Made to Order'. Torches and ARP (Air Raid Precaution) emergency kits on display.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064234
Workers dig trenches and fill sandbags in London, England during World War II.

British people prepare for war in London, England during World War II. Group of workers dig trenches and fill sandbags. Tents in the background. Crowd watches from fenced area. Workers make a sandbag wall. Young boy watches through the fence.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064235
'Emergency Conservation Work' shows development of parks and Civilian Conservation Corps at work in the United States.

Film 'Emergency Conservation Work' shows development of the National Parks system in the United States. Images from early 1930s in the United States with idle and quiet factories, mills, and smokestacks due to unemployment and Great Depression. Factory with a board that reads 'Closed' on it. Unemployed workers stand in line at the gates of the General Employment Agency and gather around bulletin boards at the agency. Young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at a meal with heads bowed in prayer, and then standing in a line at the start of a work day. CCC workers digging in a field. Several sign boards seen including: Edisto State Park developed by U.S. department of Interior; CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camps SP-3 Poinsett Co. 421; Myrtle Beach State Park Emergency Conservation Work; Co. 262 CCC Camp Florida SP-3; Old Lodge Camp SP-15.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064309
American Civilian Conservation Corps work in fields and destroy pests as part of conservation work in the United States.

Forest Conservation Work in the United States. Man looks through binoculars. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps providing work during great depression) men work in field. Tractor on the field. Two workers atop a tower. Dead trees being cleared from the forest. Workers fell dead trees and cut wood. Civilian Conservation Corps destroy tent caterpillars by burning their tent nests, and fight grasshoppers and pests that destroy meadows by spreading poison bran by the handful.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064310