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Manufacturing of U.S. Army rifles in an American war plant during World War I

Manufacturing of Army rifles in the United States during World War 1. Workers at a small arms plant in the U.S. examine wooden rifle stocks during World War 1. Men wheeling numerous dollies of rifle stocks to another part of the factory. Fully assembled rifles (appear to be either 1914 or M1917),loaded on a tray are lowered by African American workers using a manual pulley hoist to place them into a bath of hot cosmoline grease (for preservation). Then they are raised and moved to above a draining table, where they are removed and placed on a dolly. Men clean up the drippings. Next scene shows an African American worker placing the new rifles in wooden boxes for shipment. Closeup of an open wooden box of rifles ready for closing and shipping. Workers stacking 10 wooden shipping boxes of rifles in a hand dolly and moving it to shipping dock.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063741
U.S. 3rd Marine Division tanks fire at Japanese positions on Iwo Jima Island during World War II.

United States Marines of the 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima Island during World War 2. 3rd Marine Division Sherman tanks firing point blank at Japanese positions. Marine riflemen taking cover below crest of hill, behind the tanks. One Marine fires a grenade with his rifle. A Marine fires his weapon and several Marines move forward to a new protected position. Several Sherman tanks line a ridge and fire their guns.

Date: 1945, February 25
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063852
Early attempts to fly various heavier than air contraptions. Later use of rockets for propulsion; GE jet engines circa 1951.

Early history of flight with various ornithopters and flying contraptions. A bicycle-powered 8-winged airplane collapses in front of a hangar during takeoff attempt. Man wearing a set of wings, and a tail, tries to fly by running and also by jumping off a large rock. The so-called Pitt Sky Car in action. A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. It simply jumps up and down. A man riding a bicycle being propelled in part by a pack of rockets burning behind his seat. It gets too hot and he abandons the bicycle just before the rocket pack explodes. Animated discussion of Newton's 3rd law of motion and its relevance to the jet airplane engine. Diagrams and illustrations. A Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star aircraft taking off, and in flight, with its speed brake extended. View of General Electric jet engine, circa 1951, that delivers over 5800 pounds of thrust. These engines being produced in the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts and the new (1951) GE plant at Lockland Ohio.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063987
U.S. Marine Corps film and photograph floods, war, and the damage caused by it in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Film 'Sunset in the Pacific' shows United States Marine Corps photographers taking pictures and filming motion pictures in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Night view of a huge explosion. Two photographers shoot still pictures from behind a rock. Marines advance on beachhead. Combat photographer with a 35 mm movie camera crawls over ground and into a trench. Flood waters flow through a valley, smashing into homes and shacks. Photographers shoot stills with speed graphic. Civilian photographers take pictures of an ongoing American Legion Parade in New York City. Legionaries march with the American flag in hand. Two photographers take pictures of couples dancing in a ballroom. Band plays in the background. Sailor watches as chief photographer explains working of 35mm movie camera.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064072
Marines of U.S. 1st Marine Division cross rope bridge during training at Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, in World War II.

U.S. 1st Marine Division undergoes training at Wagga Wagga Island in New South Wales, Australia, during World War 2. Marines cross rope bridges over a small stream. Explosion near them throws water into the air.. Wirraway trainer airplane flies low overhead. Marines wait in line to cross the rope bridge.

Date: 1943, August 13
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064082
Finnish minister Hjalmar J. Procopé takes out newspaper clippings from envelopes at the Finnish Embassy in Washington DC.

Envoy of Finland Hjalmar J. Procopé at Finnish Legation in Washington DC. Finnish minister Hjalmar J. Procopé at his desk in the office. He speaks over the phone. Hjalmar J. Procopé reads the front page of The Evening Star newspaper with headlines “New Smashing Finnish Victory Reported”. He looks at the newspaper and takes out dollar bills and newspaper clippings from envelopes. Hjalmar J. Procopé looks at the newspaper clippings.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064158