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Port of Stockton wins steamboat race in Sacramento, California.

Two paddle wheel steamboats in a race. Smoke pours from the stacks of the boats in Sacramento, California. Captain of one of the boats is seen in bridge window. Large number of people on both of the boats cheer. Views of the stern paddle wheel at the end of a boat. Flags wave on the boats. Port of Stockton steam boat wins the race.

Date: 1938, June
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034097
Max Baer, former heavyweight champ umpire at a boys little league baseball game in Sacramento, California.

Boys practice before their little league baseball game in Sacramento, California. Children wearing Dodgers uniform. Max Baer, former heavyweight champ as umpire with Jean Ray. Baseball game goes on with Baer as the umpire.

Date: 1955, July 15
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035506
Japanese billiard player Masako Katsuro demonstrates her skills to Air Force men in Sacramento, California.

Japanese billiard player Masako Katsuro in Sacramento, California. She is married to American Air Force Sergeant. She demonstrates her skills to Air Force men. She hits balls on the billiards table. Men applaud.

Date: 1952, February 14
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070425
A two headed calf eats in Sacramento, California.

A two headed calf in Sacramento, California. The two headed calf eats from a tray. The second head grows out of the side of the natural cranium. A man points at the three horns of the calf.

Date: 1936, September 2
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066984
A dynamite explosion causes a twenty foot crater and hurls the truck pieces half a mile away in Sacramento.

Dynamite truck blast shatters wide territory in Sacramento, California. The dynamite explosion causes a twenty foot crater. People stand around to view the rubble in the crater. Shattered glasses on doors and windows. Damaged window curtains. A painting knocked out of place due to the blast. A toppled lamp shade. Food cans on a kitchen floor. People crowd at the blast site. A damaged truck tire lies nearby. People hold the damaged truck pieces hurled half a mile away.

Date: 1936, April 1
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043762
"Operation Firestop" experiments in aerial firefighting. Various aircraft used in firefighting.

World War II scenes of German Stuka dive bombers in operation. U.S. B-25 bomber in flight, and views of firestorms from Allied incendiary bombing of Axis targets. Scenes of the "Operation Firestop" project in 1954-55, in California. U.S. Forest Service and other agencies cooperate in a one-year project headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California. Aerial views of Camp Pendleton area, in Southern California. A modified Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber in flight discharges water from its torpedo bays. Men installing fabric water container into the bomb bay of the TBM. The aircraft seen in low level pass, dropping water contents onto field. Cropduster pilot Floyd Nolta, seen flying his Stearman biplane over California landscape, and then taxiing in to park, after landing. On the ground, we see how he modified his airplane to release water from a hopper in its bottom. On August 13, Vance Nolta flies the Stearman on multiple sorties, dropping water on a fire in the Mendecino Forest. Nolta filling his water tank from a hose at Willow Airport, and dropping water from the air, above the fire. View at Willow Airport, of 7 Stearman and N3N airplanes modified for aerial firefighting. Views of these aircraft dropping chemically treated water from the air. TBM aircraft equipped with 400 gallon tanks drop water from the air. PBY flying boat seen in flight. A B-26 bomber passing low and dropping chemically treated water. A Navy Mars flying boat passing overhead as it drops water from a 7000 gallon tank.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058692