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Oak Park Illinois USA 1946 stock footage and images

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Girls operate a switchboard and work at files in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

A telephone room in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Girls operate a switchboard. Two information girls work in the foreground. Other two girls work at files. A girl works at a file. Girls operate the switchboard and put plugs in a board.

Date: 1946, July
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046558
Experiments conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States to dispose of waste uranium.

A documentary titled 'Project Salt Vault' depicts methods of disposing of waste uranium in the United States. View of a nuclear power plant. Cars parked in front of the plant. Electrical feeders attached to a bay. The conveyors. Uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor. An animation depicts the reprocessing of the leftover uranium fuel to separate it from radioactive waste. The uranium waste is stored in tanks. A man undertakes experiments at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to reduce the volume of the waste. An animation depicts heating process for reducing the waste. A sign board reads 'Project Salt Vault, Oak Ridge National Laboratory'. A salt bed is used to dispose of waste uranium. A man walks in a salt mine.

Date: 1969
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068698
Local people in their neighborhood, a section of the South Bronx, New York City

Views of a South Bronx neighborhood. From a high vantage point, camera pans across rooftops of apartment houses in section of the South Bronx, New York City. Voices of local residents (unseen) are heard in conversations. Camera zooms in on Wash hung to dry on lines stretched across alleyway between backs of buildings. It focuses on members of a family staying cool by sitting outside on the fire escape of their building. A shirtless boy is looking about in a vacant lot. Another boy splashes water flowing near the curb in the street. Scene of activity on Oak Terrace, elderly Jewish women walk to Temple on Beekman Ave. Children seated in their window. Groups of children playing self-organized games in the street. Women and children on an apartment stoop. Two young women walking together. Boys climbing on their fire escape. Girls playing "potsie" (variant of hopscotch) in the street. Children with noses pressed against their apartment window screen. A girl riding her bicycle. School-aged children talking. Two old ladies walking slowly along the sidewalk. A boy giving a smaller one a "piggy back" ride. Women and their children on steps of their building. Young men "hanging out" on the sidewalk. They gather around with others to watch two boys wrestling in the street. Boys jumping on old furniture placed at the curb. A man, a woman, and a teenage girl, walking. The man holds a small boy in his arms. The teenager takes the boy and she and the man hold his hands as he walks between them. View from car driving slowly uphill on Eagle Avenue heading towards 149th Street. Cars parked on the left side include one that has been completely stripped of its wheels and tires. Further along, two men look under the open hood of a 1960 Plymouth Fury automobile, parked at the curb. Other cars seen parked and pedestrians walking on sidewalks. View from car approaching business district, where steel grates protect some closed establishments. A man getting a shoeshine on the sidewalk. Two well-dressed little girls walking. Pedestrians walking past a line of shops. Partial writing "...Jtch unknown Sinners" is scrawled on building, underneath a sign in Spanish advertising Ballantine beer.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020823
Summer work camps in Flint, Michigan, coordinated by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers)

Summer work camps in Flint, Michigan organized by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). College student volunteers clean in Oak Knoll Park. Two men dig around a tree and uproot it. Man chopping a tree with an axe. Two men reaping tall grass with a scythe. Men uproot and dig out stumps, and carry cut trees and branches to a pile. Black smoke rises from a heap of burning brush. Children play in the park, coordinated by American Friends Service Committee members in Community Planning and City Planning roles. Families with boys and girls attend United Auto Workers (UAW) picnic.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023121
Workers and officials at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

First pictures of uranium used by scientists to develop atomic bomb. Workers and officials at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, engaged in process of creating plutonium from uranium for atomic weapons. Male and female technicians handling radioactive material without getting close to it, using a pantograph. A microampere meter held in a palm is shown. Women observing through a microscope. Officials of the lab Colonel Arthur H. Frye, Dr. J.H.Zinn, and D. Norman Hilberry are seen holding a brick of super heavy uranium, and having some discussion.

Date: 1946, July
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035852
A film titled 'The Photographer' featuring philosophy, techniques and artistry of Edward Weston, and various California landmark views

A film titled 'The Photographer' featuring philosophy, techniques and artistry of Edward Weston. A woman is seen taking photographs of two men on the Coast of California as they crack open a sea food. The woman later takes the camera along with her. Signboard reading 'Edward Weston' is seen. Several cats are seen in the simply furnished home of Edward Weston. Next scene shows a 1946 Pontiac car going through an automated car wash. Next scene shows Weston and the woman in a different car after their car is washed. Point of view (POV) shot from moving car on Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, California, as car passes by Chapman Park and approaches the Packard Bell building with radio towers behind. Next scene is on Wilshire Boulevard looking out at the Zephyr Room at the Chapman Park Hotel, and then on the opposite corner is the Brown Derby Restaurant (also called the Little Hat). The woman drives the car with the photographer seated beside her. Natural scenic beauty of California including plowed farm land outside Los Angeles, and then roads near Yosemite National Park and view of Half Dome from a moving car. Also seen are California farms, Sierra Nevada mountains, forests, rivers and sand dunes seen. The photographer takes pictures. Close up views of his old fashioned view camera. View from under cover or hood, just behind the photographer's shoulder, as he looks into the view screen from under the drape.

Date: 1948
Duration: 9 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040683