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Project Thunderstorm undertaken in Ohio, for military observation and understanding of thunderstorm effects on aircraft

Officer sitting at desk reading newspaper during Project Thunderstorm in the Ohio. United States calendar on wall in an Officer's office. United States covered with a large mass of clouds in sky. Officer looking up at clouds. Officers seated in room listening to lecture about the Thunderstorm Project. Instructor gives lecture on various types of clouds which are drawn on blackboard. Officer giving lecture on P-61 which is drawn on blackboard. P-61's parked on runway. Close-up views of cockpit and control areas of P-61. Civilian mounting movie camera on top blister of P-61. Mechanic checking special recording instruments in rear of P-61. Animated drawing of P-61. G3 officers in classroom listen to instructor's lectures. Mechanics install radar installations and transmitters in nose of P-61. Radar device seen spinning inside nose of P-61. United States P-61 in flight. Civilian cataloging motion picture film using a motion picture projector on a desk. Civilian installing motion picture camera in nose of a Northrop F-15 Reporter. Aerial view of Northrop F-15 Reporter in flight. AT-6 parked on runway. Camera installations in rear canopy of AT-6 also for use in surveying storm cloud formations. Pilot approaches AT-6 and climbs into cockpit of AT-6. AT-6 warms up before take off. AT-6 in flight.

Date: 1947, September
Duration: 6 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034361
Contribution of WPA federal buildings projects in Ohio, United States, during the Great Depression.

From a film titled "A better Ohio". Scenes of Great Depression period in the United States: Idle men, closed factories, men searching through trash, sleeping on sidewalk. Scenes of post depression recovery: Smoke from factories, lines of workers, ample food, happy families. Views of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Ohio: Airstrip construction of runways at Cleveland Airport; construction of Dayton Airport runways and aerial view of the Dayton Airport area; pipe capping and sealing work at abandoned coal mines to prevent pollution of local water supply; remodeled orphanage in Defiance, Ohio, with orphan children playing on the grounds of the Defiance County Children's Home; repaired and updated buildings at the Home for Sailor's and Soldier's Orphans at Xenia, Ohio; newly built dairy farm at the Sailor's and Soldiers Home; Rebuilt wing of the old people's home for care of the elderly in Napoleon, Ohio; view of the newly constructed tuberculosis sanatorium in Toledo, Ohio (the William Roche Tuberculosis Hospital). Scenes of fast moving flood waters during flood of Spring 1936 in Ohio. Flood water rushing past flooded buildings. WPA -constructed dams, levees, and retaining walls are seen during building process. African American and white workers seen digging together with shovels on the project. New trees are planted at the sites.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030500
USAAF F-61 flying through thunderstorm clouds and pilots discuss thunderstorm test flight in Ohio,United States.

The Thunderstorm Project in Ohio, United States. The U.S. Army Air Forces F-61 Black Widow flying through thunderstorm clouds. The instrument panel in the F-61. The F-61 in flight. A pilot at the controls of F-61 flying through thunderstorm clouds. A large radar antenna revolving on a top of a tall tower. An officer operates a radar instrument board. An officer drawing weather maps. The F-61 flying through thunderstorm clouds. The F-61 in flight. The pilot at the controls of F-61 flying through thunderstorm clouds. The F-61 landing. The enlisted man operating controls in a GCA (Ground Control Approach) truck. The F-61 lands. GCA trucks in the foreground. A calendar. An officer seated at a desk and reads the Dayton Journal newspaper with headline "Pilotless Plane Spans Atlantic". The F-61s stationary at a ramp. A pilot stands in front of an aircraft. The F-61 taxis on a ramp. The pilot and the crew walk from the F-61. The civilians cataloging motion picture films. They sit at projectors and run films for review. Cans of films stacked in background. The F-61 pilots sit around a table and discuss thunderstorm test flight with the civilian authority. A formation of F-61s in flight. A formation of U.S. Air Forces F-80 Shooting Stars.

Date: 1947
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069277
Traffic stranded by the Great Blizzard of 1947 in New York City

The Great Blizzard of 1947 hits New York City in the United States. Program host Dennis James introduces. A snow-covered bus drives through 1947 blizzard in New York City. Snow covers the William Tecumseh Sherman Memorial at Grand Army Plaza in New York City. A taxi cab turns a corner through heavy snow. Pedestrians struggling through blizzard as they walk. Sedan slipping and hitting curb. Heavy snow falling through spot light. Aerial view of New York City skyline after blizzard, including Central Park, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Parked cars on the street covered in 26 inches of heavy snow after snowstorm. Parked city buses blocking street in New York City after snowfall. Heavy snow covers ships in New York Harbor and railway tracks. Stranded passengers drink hot beverages inside a subway train car. Snow removal in New York City by snowplows after the blizzard. New York City. Times Square covered under heavy snow, with only a few people. Men shoveling snow from their cars. Park Ave. at E. 77 street sign. Dennis James wraps up the program by advertising the United States Marine Corps.

Date: 1947, December 25
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078923
Prewar and wartime conditions of British, exchange of war material via lend lease, supplies rationed in Great Britain.

Prewar and early World War 2 conditions of the British in Great Britain. War ammunition for Britain transported from the United States to Britain as part of lend lease plan. Also war materiel sent the other way around from the United Kingdom to the United States, as the war progressed. A map showing the path between the United States and Great Britain through the Atlantic Ocean. Tanks for Russia from Britain. Aircraft and guns for the United States by Lend Lease. Tons of food and clothing in large containers for troops in Britain. Clusters of houses and buildings. Two men on a bridge. A lane in Britain. People in the lane. Tanks prepare for war. British soldiers in uniform. A woman seated at a vanity putting on lipstick makeup. Men and women in the streets in England. A man turns to notice the legs of a woman as she walks by. View of legs of many women walking by, not wearing stockings due to rationing. Brief shot of driver in a car in the United States as he hands his gas ration ticket to the gas station attendant. Back in England, scene as a man goes to a pub for whiskey. The pub keeper laughs at him as there is none. Men in a field harvesting grains for making industrial alcohol. Soldier painting word "Hitler" onto a bomb shell. Cartons of whiskey being transported to the United States as pay for the material that comes in to Britain. A man opens cartons from the U.S. with 'Made in U.S.A.' painted on it. Images of American made industrial machine goods purchased by the British, including machinery signs for "Cincinnati Bickford", "The Ohio Machine Tool Company", "Niles Tool Works, Hamilton Ohio", "The Cincinnati Planer Co.", "American Hole Wizard", and "Barnes Drill Company, Rockford, Illinois" A woman worker moves a large planer or drill press into position. Crane at a ship dock is seen moving a large wooden crate with "Ford" label on it. A man goes to buy cigarettes. A 'No cigarettes today' board. If there were cigarettes he would have paid the cost of the cigarettes and the tax to the shopkeeper. Close up view of coins on a table and large portion going to British taxes to pay for war. A newspaper headline which says "Britain spends 49,000,000 per day on war." Several industrial plants in Britain, with smoke and pollution rising from chimneys and stacks during high output war effort. Laborers working at a construction site, including brick layers, who pay 29% tax. Rich men who pay 97½ % tax: A man in a nice car parked in front of a church. He leads a bride in a wedding gown and possibly the Bride's father toward the doors of the church. Various views of British workers and workmen walking in and out of factories. British citizens in ration lines. Sheep being herded on pasture land in Australia. Vessels in ocean used by the British for supplies to Russia. Aircraft from the U.S. on board a ship, and British troops arriving on a ship dock.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054686
Columbus and Cleveland Ohio in 'This Land of Ours' documentary

State Capitol building in Ohio United States. Views of downtown Columbus, the state capital. People walking on the campus of Ohio State University. Crowd of city people in the Ohio stadium. Ohio State Fair scenes. 'Ohio Welcomes You-ENTRANCE' seen on the gates of the State Fair. Men grooming a cow. City of Cleveland and buildings seen by Lake Erie. Rail terminal, train, busy downtown streets of Cleveland. People getting onto trains. Iron ore port is seen. Lake freighter coming to the port of Cleveland. Huge cranes loading raw materials in freighter. Birth place of Thomas A Edison, inventor of electric light bulb. Man in lighting institute shows working of light bulbs. World's largest lightbulb is shown in the General Electric Lighting Institute in Cleveland. World's smallest bulb also shown at the tip of thin stick. Memorial to Wilbur and Orville Wright brothers,inventors of the first powered heavier- than- air aircraft.. Air planes flying during the Cleveland Air Races annual sky carnival. A formation of Air Force Boeing B-29 superfortress bombers flies overhead. Other U.S. Air Force aircraft fly past, including one jet aircraft that flies low and fast over the assembly. On the ground, a Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" bomber is on static display.

Date: 1951
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030583