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Medieval instrument craftsman Lynn Elder plays a hurdy-gurdy, makes medieval instruments, teaches apprentice students in his workshop

Musician plays a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed musical instrument, near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Lynn Elder assembles body of a hurdy-gurdy. Lynn Elder bends wood for a dulcimer. A female student assembles a wooden body of a dulcimer. Student traces wood with pencil. Craftsman teaches a student how to carve wood. View of a rebec. Student carves wood to make instrument. A student tests a dulcimers sound using quill. Musicians play medieval instruments. “Magic Mountain Workshop 1968” sign. Lynn Elder drills a hole into wood and applies glue to a dulcimer. He puts metal string on dulcimer. A musician plays a medieval instrument. Various medieval instruments on display as Lynn Elder plays a hurdy-gurdy.

Date: 1970, December 23
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078883
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
Rifles being manufactured, assembled and test fired at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts.

A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Rifles being manufactured at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. Men work on machines at the armory. A man operates a barrel straightener machine. Parts of rifles being assembled. A man inspects the receiver of a rifle. A rifle being test fired at the armory. German aircraft in flight as they drop bombs over cities in Europe during World War II. Civilians run for cover during an air raid by the Germans. United States Congress ion session. The Japanese attack the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December, 1941. Explosions occur during the Japanese air attack.

Date: 1955
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065965
Montage of scenes showing West 125th Street and vicinity in Harlem, New York City

Bus moving on 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, passes the Apollo theater. The theater marquee advertises Gloria Lynne, and the Jimmy Smith trio. The street is wet and parked cars along the curb show a dusting of snow. Up the street, the Loew's theater can be seen. Traffic in both directions on the street, including a large truck, and a small wheel loader construction machine. Closeup of the Apollo marquee, with illuminated lights circling its base. Poster at the entrance, with photograph of Gloria Lynne, and other featured acts. Beside the headliners, the poster mentions "The Wanderers," and "Kenny & Warren," and "Symphony Sid," who are pictured in the poster. Camera pans over the marquee area. Pedestrians walk past. Scene shifts to nearby Playland arcade. Coin-operated rides for children are shown near the entrance,including mechanical horse, automobile (dusted with snow), and helicopter rides. A Neon sign reads "Playland Admission Free. Shooting Gallery." Many cars drive on the street and pedestrians make their way across the street, between them, in the middle of the block. A bowling alley, named "Harlem Lanes," is advertised by a marquee that also touts a cocktail lounge, bar, and restaurant. A restaurant called "Palm Cafe," is seen, and above it a sign in office window reading "Beneficial Finance Loans." A street-level window advertises "Rudy Williams and his Rocking Combo." A Pawn shop advertises "Rhode Loans, Cash in a flash." Club Lido has a snow covered awning extended across the sidewalk and a sign above reading,""Lido Bar & Grill." View of the Reverend Oberia D. Dempsey's House of Hope and Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church on 125th Street. The main church entrance with schedule of services posted beside it. Camera focuses on the House of Hope sign, with messages calling for protection of women and children from the "Dreadful Narcotic Racket, and to rid Harlem from crime misery and fear. It also refers to the House of Hope as a Half-way-house and Rehabilitation Center for drug addicts coming from hospitals and other institutions. Sign cites Rev.O.D.Dempsey as Director, and Assemblyman Lloyd E. Dickens, as chairman, and appeals for support in their $100 thousand campaign. Another sign advertises the Mississippi Alabama Southern Relief Committee seeking to provide food, money, and clothing for the thousands of homeless and destitute.

Date: 1964, January 29
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035560
Army Corps of Camouflage Engineers builds camouflage at Fort Heath in Massachusetts.

Camouflage engineers at Fort Heath in Massachusetts during World War 2. Aerial view of Fort Heath with its Coastal areas. U.S. Army Corps of Camouflage Engineers builds camouflage for coastal defense battery installations. Engineers build gun emplacement and concealment using fishnets and other material to deceive enemy. They prepare camouflage paint and paint it on a roof. Tree branch brought in by army truck.

Date: 1941
Duration: 7 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043552
Camouflage Engineers camouflage buildings and bridges with camouflaged nets at Fort Heath in Massachusetts.

Camouflage engineers at Fort Heath in Massachusetts. U.S. Army Corps of Camouflage Engineers look at maps. Housing and other structures camouflaged to resemble installations. A group of engineers builds fishnets. They cut strips and tie them onto fishnet to build a camouflage. Engineers work on machine cutting iron rods, welding and fitting instruments. These iron rods are placed near a bridge. The iron rod structure placed on the ground. Engineers make wooden boxes for camouflage. Camouflage nets placed over a bridge. Buildings, bridges and other neighboring area camouflaged. Engineers tie camouflaged nets with strings and rods. Engineers stand next to artillery. Building next to coastal area. World War 2 era aerial view of Fort Heath with camouflaged areas.

Date: 1941
Duration: 20 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043553