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Growth of housing, military facilities, and military industries in Talladega, Alabama for World War 2

Growth of war industries in Talladega Alabama during World War II. Newspapers of Talladega, Alabama. A large crowd on barge, coming to land. Scene of an office. Workers at a construction site in Alabama. A man operates a crane. A big cylindrical elevator at hook of the crane lowers down. A truck at house. Dog outside house. A man operates a full track tractor at construction site. African American workers lay railway tracks for a railroad train service. Many scenes of the African American work crew working on the railroad tracks, and taking a break to drink water from a ladle. (Background sound track during these work scenes is a man singing the African American spiritual song "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." A side rail pulls down as attach to hook of a crane. Tanks on rail coaches. Food loads arriving by railroad train cars to feed the growing population of war workers. Potatoes in sacks. A cook prepares food. People in war time production industry eat food at dining table in groups in a mess hall or dining hall. People do various construction jobs building infrastructure for war workers. A man operates a crane. A cylindrical box lowers down. Children play outside a mobile home trailer. A child with a cat. An open air theater. A bunk house with beds for rent. People at a cafeteria. A woman with children. Cars outside a cafeteria. A board reads 'Field Office'. Large crowd.

Location: Talladega Alabama USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 9 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035534
After solving problems related to housing, war production goes up at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama in World War 2.

War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of people gathered outside the Personnel Office in Mobile. Congress provides 2 million dollars for housing of war workers (building tanks, guns, ships and other war material in factories, manufacturing plants, and shipyards for the war effort). Shows racially segregated housing and facilities for African American workers versus white workers. Views of a cleared slum area where African Americans had been living been living in poor quality homes before the war. Shortage of housing is addressed with new housing for African American war workers, "Certified Colored War Workers". African American children play and eat at a nursery. Dormitory units for single war workers equipped with gymnasium and other basic facilities. Government owned trailers built by the Maritime Commission near a ship yard. The problem of providing a day nursery is undertaken. Modern permanent homes for war workers who can afford them. After meeting the problems like housing and sanitation, production goes up at the ship yard. A new ship being launched at the ship yard. A sign on the ship reads ' Cedar Mills'.

Location: Mobile Alabama USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059208
Highlights of Senior Bowl football game between College all stars from North and South at Mobile, Alabama, in 1967.

Several highlights from the 1967 Senior Bowl football game. A crowd fills the sold-out Ladd Peebles Stadium, in Mobile Alabama, for the Senior Bowl game, matching all star football players from the North and the South. Oregon State's Bob Grim is seen running the ball to pick up 25 yards. North's Quarterback hits Iowa State's Eppie Barney for a touchdown, with 1:13 remaining in the 3rd period. South quarterback Terry Southal, of Baylor, passes to Louisiana State's Dick Redding for a touchdown at the 13:12 mark of the 4th quarter. North's Bob Grim takes handoff and runs from the 40 yard line until pushed out of bounds at the South's 15 yard line. Nebraska's Harry Wilson runs the ball for a touchdown in the 4th Quarter. North beats the South 35 to 15. (Note:The final North tally came at the very end of the game with a pass from BYU's Virgil Carter to Nebraska's Pete Tatman. Bubba Smith of Mich. State was a monster on Defense and won the MVP award.)

Location: Mobile Alabama USA
Date: 1967, January 9
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043344
Railroad train derailment and destruction in Xenia Ohio due to a tornado during April 1974 super outbreak across 13 states

Ominous clouds in sky during Super Outbreak of tornadoes in April 1974 that hit regions in many states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the Canadian province of Ontario. Xenia Ohio city manager Bob Stewart seen talking to his wife. A man checks storm on radar during a tornado in United States. A man rolls a machine to other room. During recording, a man shows areas that come in tornado's range. Sheriff dispatcher gives warning to all police and sheriff personnel about the sighted tornado in Montgomery County. Dick Burroughs on phone at Miami Valley Disaster Services in Dayton Ohio. A freigh train entering Xenia, Ohio just as tornado, scene via a student's 8mm camera comes into view and bears down on Xenia Ohio. Tornado hits the city of Xenia. Reenactment as city manager's wife takes call from him warning of tornado and she heads for basement cover. U.S. Air Force dispatches emergency medical convoy from grounds of base hospital at Wright Patterson Field. View of medical staff from the base mobilizing with ambulances and heavy construction battalion. Box 21, an emergency group responds to siren. People gather and discuss their plan include Military Personnel. A man explains situation. Rescuers save victims from tornado and take away dead bodies to temporary morgues.

Location: Xenia Ohio USA
Date: 1974, April 3
Duration: 6 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034358
A patient cries as he tells his story to the psychiatrist in the Mason General Hospital in the United States.

Casualties of World War II receive mental aid in New York, United States. A psychiatrist listens to the story of a military patient in the Mason General Hospital suffering from mental and emotional trauma. The patient, an African American U.S. Army soldier from the Headquarters detachment of the 50th Quartermaster battalion, Mobile, Alabama, cries as he tells the doctor how he suffered headaches, grief and homesickness (or "nostalgia" as he put it) on receiving a photograph of his girlfriend shortly before the war and missing her greatly.

Location: Brentwood New York USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057582
Various Buildings, Monuments and Landmarks of United States.

Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023512
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