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Bessie Pastor and husband Michael Berliney create synthetic ice in Toledo.

Bessie Pastor and husband Michael Berliney create synthetic ice in their Toledo, Ohio home lab. The substance is poured into molds and blocks of synthetic ice are manufactured. Masons join blocks and smoothen them out to build skating floor. Children,men and women wearing skates take a test run on the synthetic ice flooring. April 1938.

Date: 1938, April
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028777
Bulldog Bright Beauty's thirteen pups pampered by neighborhood kids in Philadelphia.

Bulldog Bright Beauty gives birth to a record litter of thirteen puppies in Philadelphia. The neighborhood kids help bathe the pups then hang them on the clothesline to dry while Bright Beauty supervises. April 1938.

Date: 1938, April
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028779
University of Illinois Gymnasts Team perform gymnastics in Champaign Illinois.

University of Illinois Gymnasts Team pose before camera and show off their gymnastics skills at a field in Champaign Illinois. Gymnasts tumble, twirl and somersault through the air. April 1938.

Date: 1938, April
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028781
Lucky Teeter and fellow daredevils crew perform stunts at show in Memphis Tennessee.

Stunt driver Lucky Teeter and his fellow daredevils amaze and thrill the crowds during a Memphis, Tennessee show. Teeter leapfrogs over a line-up of automobiles in his car, does a flip and bursts through a ring of fire. Instant rewind of several of the stunts. April 1938.

Date: 1938, April
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028782
Keel laying of the Polaris submarine USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) in Groton, Connecticut.

Keel laying of the polaris submarine USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) in Groton, Connecticut. Shows electric power cable running from the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) to the dock. Thus, the nuclear reactor aboard the Nautilus is providing electric power to operate the crane for laying the keel of the USS Lafayette and also for welding, later on. Sign on dock, reads Atomic Power, SSN-571 Nautilus. The worker on the dock turns the power on. The keel of the USS Lafayette is put in place by the crane. Several yard worker in foreground. Sign reads, "USS LAFAYETTE (SSBN-616), Keel laid January 17, 1961". The keel hangs from a crane hook. French Ambassador Herve Alphand, Secretary of US-Navy(SECNAV) William B. Franke; President of General Dynamics' Electric Boat division, Carleton Shugg; and Vice Admiral(VADM) Hyman G. Rickover, all appear on a stand as the keel is being laid onto the blocks. The bottom section of the keel is lowered to the keel blocks as the dock watchers observe. Press officials gather at the ceremony. SECNAV Franke at podium speaks to the group in the yard. A worker puts a welder's apron around the SECNAV. VADM Rickover watches as SECNAV welds his initials into the keel of the USS Lafayette. Ambassador Alphand welds his initials onto the keel of the USS Lafayette. Alphand speaks from the platform to the group, completes his speech, and Carleton Shugg steps to the microphone at the close of the ceremony. The VIPs leave the platform.

Date: 1961, January 17
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028971
Admiral Hyman Rickover receives Distinguished Service Medal, aboard the USS Nautilus in Groton,Connecticut.

Admiral Hyman Rickover is honored aboard the USS Nautilus in Groton,Connecticut. Participating VIPs include: French Ambassador Herve Alphand; Secretary of US-Navy(SECNAV) William B. Franke; President of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation.Carleton Shugg; and Vice Admiral(VADM) Hyman G. Rickover. They arrive aboard the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) for the ceremony. Vice Admiral Rickover is saluted by Navy officers. standing on a podium set up on deck of the submarine. Officers and men on the Nautilus stand at attention. LT. J.F. Laboon, JR. Chaplain, gives a short invocation. Commander of Nautilus, Lando W. Zech, introduces Vice Admiral Grenfell who steps up to the mike. French Ambassador Alphand gives remarks. SECNAV gives his address and presents the Distinguished Service Medal to VADM Rickover.

Date: 1961, January 17
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028972