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The U.S. Army Air Service Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark" being refueled in midair from a Douglas C-1, in 1929.

Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051736
Opening ceremony of San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge in 1936, San Francisco, California.

View of The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, CA, United States) over San Francisco Bay at the Pacific Ocean. Ceremonies where the bridge was opened to general traffic after completion of construction in 1936. California Governor, Frank Finley Merriam, uses a blowtorch to cut a chain, officially opening the bridge to vehicle traffic. Cars are seen massed, ready to commence the crossing. Cars pass through lane dividers and drive on the bridge. View of the towers and suspension cables from a car passing underneath. Buildings seen from the bridge. Traffic on the bridge. (From a 1961 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.)

Date: 1936, November 12
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052223
Use of papers in cargo delivery and planning to avoid traffic blockage at naval supply center, in Oakland, California.

A U.S. Navy training film in the United States. Cargo at Naval Supply Center in Oakland, California. The Administration Building of Naval Supply Center. Officials in meeting about planning of cargo delivery. Animation shows use of papers such as Bill of Lading and Way bill, Booking papers, Terminal papers and Manifest papers at port. Rail loads cargo taken to warehouse and then loaded on the ship. Any delay or stoppage results in the ware house being filled and the traffic being blocked. A map shows traffic between Oakland and Norfolk. Use of fork lift truck for cargo transfer. A checker checks and pastes identification paper on packet with information of dock receiving and shipper company. Officials plan and do the necessary changes for the cargo delivery.

Date: 1951
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046357
Oakland Police Department undertakes new community service oriented method of policing

Sergeant briefs a room full of police officers in Oakland, California at start of their shift. Closeups of individual policemen. Patrolman John Dixon in his patrol car notes that new procedures improve relations with the community but ease somewhat on law enforcement. He knocks on an apartment door.He talks with a woman there, about her child. Several patrol cars stop a car and search a suspect, as local residents watch somewhat amused. In locker room at the police station, a uniformed officer speaks of being more community service oriented, at the expense of law enforcement. Oakland Police Chief George Hart, in civilian clothes, defends the new approach to policing. The uniformed officer agrees that it would be a mistake to go back to the earlier approach.

Date: 1974
Duration: 5 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029950
Seventy-two trolley cars piled in a huge bonfire following their condemnation as obsolete, Oakland.

Obsolete trolley cars piled in a huge bonfire in Oakland, California. Seventy-two trolley cars parked in an open area in Oakland. Men marking on trolley cars. Men set trolleys on fire. Burning trolleys.

Date: 1935, August 19
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047821
FBI agents and rescue personnel search the crash site of United Airlines Flight 615 near Oakwood, California

United Airlines Flight 615 crashed on approach to Oakland, California, killing all 50 passengers and crew. Rescue personnel search on the crash site of the Douglas DC-6 (N37550) into Dry Gulch Canyon southeast of Oakland. An officer inspects the debris. Personnel talk on telephone. Casualties carried on stretchers by rescuers. Damaged parts of the aircraft on the rugged mountain terrain. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents rush towards the site to investigate the wreckage of the aircraft crashed.

Date: 1951, August 27
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071432