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Local boys build a steam powered automobile, automobile drives down a road in Jamesburg, New Jersey.

Local boys build a steam-powered automobile in Jamesburg, New Jersey. Three boys make the amateur version of a Stanley Steamer auto. The boys use kindling wood to stoke a fire for steam power. Steam rises from the device. The boys hop onto their car and drive it down a road in before a gathered crowd. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, March 13
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044738
Igor Sikorsky at the controls of the VS-300A helicopter during a free flight. It rises and then settles back to the ground.

The VS-300A helicopter, built by the Vought-Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation,Stratford, Connecticut. Demonstration free flight without cables attached to ground. A slight improvement on the VS-300, the sign on side of helicopter reads, 'VOUGHT-SIKORSKY VS-300A' This is an early 300A with two tail rotors. Inventor and Engineering manager of the company, Igor Sikorsky, is at the controls. The helicopter ascends and then descends and lands.

Date: 1940
Duration: 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044897
German forces operating in European Theater during World War II. Soldiers under fire in fields and attacking a town.

German soldiers advance in European Theater during World War II. German soldiers maneuver in a field. A flaming airplane falling from the sky. Naval gunfire at night. German soldiers entering a town.

Date: 1940
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044913
German Dornier 17 bombers in flight over Europe during World War II.

A flight of three German Dornier 17 bombers in flight, silhouetted against the lighter dusk sky, somewhere over Europe during early phase of World War Two.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044925
Filipino bank employees work at a coin counting machine and write cheques at National City Bank in Manila, Philippines.

National City Bank in Manila, Philippines. Filipino bank employees work at a coin counting machine. Tabulating cheques. People queuing at bank teller window. Filipinos write cheques.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045288
German Air Force Junkers 88 bombers on a nighttime bombing mission over London, England

A German airfield where bombers are getting ready to take off on mission to blitz bomb London, England during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. View from one of the German aircraft in a large formation of Junkers 88 bombers in flight. Aerial view as the aircraft pass over the coast of England, United Kingdom. The shoreline visible below. Point of view from inside cockpit of German aircraft mission during bombing raid. British defenders employ lights and antiaircraft fire. Bombs can be seen as exploding lights in the darkness on the ground.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045588