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A man and a woman talk in the light of a kerosene lamp in the United States. Also shows the 1893 DeWitt Clinton replica locomotive and train in operation.

The world struggle for oil is depicted. Use of components of oil in homes and in railroads in the United States is shown. A dramatization shows the effect of a kerosene lamp on social life. A woman seated in a chair near a table in a room. A kerosene lamp in a corner. A man opens the door of the room and walks in. The woman gets up and welcomes the man. They both walk to a seat and sit down. Another woman enters the room. The man stands to greet her. She increases the light of the lamp and then leaves the room. The man decreases the light of the lamp. The man and the woman talk. The 1893 replica of the 1831 DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive is shown in operation with its three carriage train, in New York City. The DeWitt Clinton was the first railroad locomotive to operate on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in New York. The reproduction seen here was built in 1893 by the New York Central Railroad for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This footage was shot on July 17, 1921 when the DeWitt Clinton train was preparing for a trip to another exposition in Chicago. On this day it ran several times from 96th to 116th streets in New York City. New York Central employees are seen on the drain, dressed as passengers would have been in 1831. This replica was later displayed at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and is is now on display at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Michigan. It was acquired by Henry Ford in 1934, in an agreement with the New York Central that it would continue to travel to events on occasion.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1921, July 17
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050526
Lumber operations: Men cut trees and remove logs from a forest in the United States; lumber company operations in Johannesburg

A timber forest in the United States. Tall trees in the forest. Lumber workers and woodsmen cut trees. Fallen trees in the forest and along a way. Wooden logs on a horse drawn cart with massive wheels of roughly 10 or 12 feet diameter moving through the forest. Men walk across the forest. Exterior of a mountain lodge log cabin house. A man and a woman enter the house and other tourists are seen near a lodge. Other people seated inside the house are talking. Men working at a lumber mill atop giant stacks of lumber in Johannesburg, Michigan (Otsego County). Buildings along the side of the street in downtown Johannesburg, Michigan. Early model Ford cars parked outside the Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store building. Line of lumber workers walk near the company store building on a wooden ramp or sidewalk.

Location: Michigan United States USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077363
H.G. Wells poses aboard a ship on visit to United States. Richard Strauss poses for picture.

British writer Herbert George Wells (H G Wells) poses aboard ship on visit to United States, in 1921, where he will attend Washington Disarmament Conference. He removes his hat. German composer Richard Strauss, on second visit to America, in 1921. (His first visit was in 1904.)

Location: United States USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040013
Army Air Service bombing and other practice operational activities during the 1920s in the United States

Several Keystone LB-5s (triple tails) and LB-5As (double tails) move across an airfield, circa 1928. Test bombing of captured German battleship, Ostfriesland, in 1921. Smoke arises due to bombing. A formation of four Martin NBS-1 bombers over the former USS Alabama (BB-8), in the Chesapeake Bay, on September 23, 1921. A white phosphorus bomb explodes atop the ship raising a huge white cloud. One of the Martin bombers flies low over the water drops a smoke curtain. (World War II period).

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033881
Workers drill with rotators to sink a shaft in a mine in Michigan, United States.

The various types of drills and bits used for drilling into rocks in the United States. A Corliss air compressor that furnishes air power for rock drilling. Men in a mine in northern Michigan as they work with rotator hammers to sink a shaft 1700 feet below the surface. Six workers drill with rotators. A worker drills into the wall and roof of the mine. An auger rotator being used to drill into a soft ore bench.

Location: Michigan United States USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058838
A map gives a comparison of various endurance flight across the Atlantic from 1909 to 1921.

Various endurance flights and their comparison. A map of the United States as it depicts the comparison of various endurance flights from 1909 to 1921. Map compares various flights like the 1910 flight by Glenn Curtis, trans continental flight in 1919 by O.C. Read, non stop trans Atlantic flight by Captain John Olcock. 1st transcontinental flight by R.C. Towler in 1912.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059528
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