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A coal-fueled, steam powered truck and a collision-proof car are demonstrated.

Automotive progress notes feature a steam powered truck and a collision-proof car. A man fills coal into the hopper of a steam-powered truck and starts the truck. The truck is driven on the roads of a stone quarry in West Virginia. The truck was imported from the UK and has written on the door, "The Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd. Shrewsbury England". Smoke from the steam truck as it drives up a hill. Scene shifts to demonstration of a collision-proof car made with stainless steel mesh and plaster of paris. It was invented by a San Diego man. The car is driven on rugged terrain. After going over a large bump the drivers door flys open. Part of a "25 years ago today" UN newsreel story issued September 24, 1959.

Date: 1934, September
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044713
Service teams ride bobsleds and compete in try-outs for the '56 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Service teams compete in try-outs for the '56 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The team members ride bobsleds. Men note down the time. View of a timer. The bobsleds run on a snowy path.

Date: 1955, March 10
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044724
A commuter train gets derailed and passengers are transfered to another train on the central tracks in New York.

A commuter train gets derailed on a New York Central elevated train track. Views of the derailed train and wrecked railroads. Vehicles and people near a bridge for the central tracks. Passengers of the derailed train await help. Engineers talk standing next to the derailed train. The passengers are transferred to another train. The train starts and moves.

Date: 1957, June 27
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044727
The Board of Directors attend the annual meeting and inspects the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital at Saranac Lake, New York.

The annual visit to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital by its Board of Directors at Saranac Lake, New York. The building of the hospital. The Board of Directors visit the hospital. They attend an annual meeting. In the meeting a man shows X-rays and explains about the treatment given. The Board of Directors inspects the sanitarium and meets the patients. They take lunch and climb down the stairs. A statue of Will Rogers in the foreground.

Date: 1957, June 27
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044732
A lawn mower keeps going around a grass plot and cuts grass at even length automatically in New Jersey.

Demonstration of an educated lawn mower in New Jersey. A woman starts the automatic lawn mower. This gadget with trick arms keeps going around the grass plot and cuts grass at even length automatically. The woman and a man sit on a porch and have cold drinks.

Date: 1953, May 28
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044745
Test of rocket airplane for carrying mail. It barely clears end of launch ramp and scoots along ice.

Experimenters place rocket plane (named Gloria), intended to carry postal mail, on a launch ramp. The rocket is ignited and the rocket aircraft rises but quickly falls to the frozen surface of the lake. It scoots along the ice.

Date: 1936, February 9
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044893