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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy sign movie contracts with Rogers to star in movies for Universal Pictures in California.

American ventriloquist Edgar Bergen stands with his mannequin Charlie McCarthy near a desk. Hollywood executive producer Charles R. Rogers seated at a desk. He draws a contract for starring roles in new Universal pictures. A close up Charlie and Bergen. They both talk. They look at Rogers drawing the contact. A man enters the room. Roger hands over the contract to Edgar Bergen. Charlie McCarthy and Bergen look at the contract. They talk to the man. A close up of Charlie McCarthy and Bergen. Bergen talks to the two men inside the room and laughs.

Date: 1937, August 9
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069867
Seabiscuit wins the Massachusetts Handicap horse race in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Handicap horse race at Suffolk Downs in Boston, Massachusetts. Spectators in the stands. The horses moving towards the starting point. The spectators cheer. The race starts. The horses running on the race track. The spectators watching the race. Seabiscuit wins the race.

Date: 1937, August 9
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069868
Wilson urges $2 billion increase in defense budget during a defense budget talk at the Winter White House in Georgia.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a defense budget talk at the Winter White House in Augusta, Georgia. A sign reads 'Augusta National Golf Club'. The Winter White House. U.S. Budget director Percival Brundage, U.S. President Eisenhower, U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson and administrative leaders seated around a table. They discuss nations future defense budget. Wilson urges $2 billion increase in the budget. The members discussing the budget. A close up of Eisenhower.

Date: 1956, December 10
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069881
Admiral Nimitz is honored by Boy Scout for his leadership to youth aboard USS Kearsarg in San Francisco, California.

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard USS Kearsarg in San Francisco, California. Admiral Nimitz is greeted by honor guard of the Boy Scouts of America. He boards aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge. Boys Scout aboard the deck. Admiral Chester Nimitz stands at a podium and speaks into a microphone. The boys scout and other people on the deck listen to him. He is honored by the Boy Scout for his leadership to youth. The people attending the ceremony. Admiral is presented with a memento.

Date: 1954, February 23
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069890
Men load locomotives aboard SS Hannibal Victory and lay pine timbers to cushion the weights of locomotives, San Francisco.

A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A man cleans a plaque of SS Hannibal Victory ship with a cloth. The chassis stacked at the port . A trolley tows the freight car underframes. The stevedores and longshoremen at work . They load freight car underframes aboard SS Hannibal Victory. The freight car underframes is hoisted and lowered aboard the deck. K-rations, cots, hospital supplies like bandages and plasma loaded in the spaces between the cargo. Men aboard the ship at work. The eight full-grown railroad engines complete with tenders taken towards the ship on the railroad flat cars. Men stand near a locomotive on the railroad flat car. The men aboard a ship and at the dock. A man attaches ropes to the locomotive. The hoisted locomotive is taken aboard the ship. A man directs. The locomotive is cautiously lowered at the deck. A crane operator operates the controls. The locomotive is being lowered. The men giving directions. The men lay road bits and big pine timbers to cushion the weights of the big locomotives . Several views of men turn buckle and put steel rod assemblies to the deck , clamped them tight and wedged chained and bolted them down. A chief with his wife walk and talk. A view of the city in the background. They walk towards the dock. The men covering the locomotives. The chief and his wife cross a road and walk along streets of San Francisco with harbor views behind them. Cars parked on side of the road. The crane operator seated at controls. Men finishing the end tasks. The chief meets his wife before leaving. The chief boars the ship. His wife stands at the dock. Men aboard the ship at work.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069915
A new propeller, to change the course of the ship, is developed and tested for the U.S. Navy in Bremerton, Washington.

Testing of a new propeller in Bremerton, Washington. View of the newly developed propeller for the U.S. Navy. A professor of Washington University, the inventor of the propeller, beside the device. View of the blades of the propeller, changing the pitch of which changes the course of the ship. A landing craft on which the propeller is tested. The landing craft moving forward on the water. The professor with another man on the craft. The craft turning the direction by changing the pitch of the blades. Men beside the propeller.

Date: 1946, May 9
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069950