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A newsreel depicting launch of Victory ships, men joining Merchant Marines, and war factory production in World War 2

A newsreel showing merchant ship building and role of merchant ships and liberty ships in World War 2. Launch of U.S. ship "SS Joseph N Teal" on September 23, 1942, just 10 days after its keel was laid at Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, owned by Henry Kaiser. A motorcade of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist and father of modern American shipbuilding industry. A huge gathering at the Kaiser shipyard in Portland for the launch of the merchant ship. Views of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Cadets in officer training program practice emergency ship evacuation drills and diving drills. Civilian recruits in line at recruiting station to join the Merchant Marines. Factory and manufacturing scenes in war time industries, making bomber aircraft, artillery, patrol boats and tanks. War materials loaded on railroad cars and cargo vessels. View in ship engineering area below including view of ship engine fires burning for propulsion. Sign on wall "Alert! Your skill and devotion will win the war." Views of the ship galley kitchen, wheel house and sailors eating food prepared by ship cooks. A world map is shown. Scenes of victory fleet ships unloading cargo at ports worldwide.

Location: Portland Oregon USA
Date: 1942, September
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032591
Film illustrating participation of African Americans in U.S. history from Colonial times to after the Civil War

Opening scene shows African American congregation in church, during World War 2, listening to their preacher speak about liberty. Closeup of the Minister speaking. As he refers to the seed of Liberty taking root in Boston, a plaque on the gate of the Granary Burial Ground of 1660 is shown reading: "Within this ground are buried the victims of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770." The gate swings open revealing the cemetery. Next, an illustration of British Redcoats shooting into a crowd on that occasion is shown. Closeup of the illustration shows an African American, named Crispus Attucks, falling as the first victim of the gunfire. A monument to him on Boston Common, is then shown. Closeup of the monument. Excerpt from a film about the Revolutionary War shows reenactment of the battle off Concord. The 221-foot granite obelisk at Bunker Hill, Boston, is seen, marking the site of the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. A musket is seen with a sign attached reading: "Gun belonged to Peter Salem, a colored man who carried it at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, and with it shot Maj. Pitcairn." (Refers to Major John Pitcairn, a Scottish Marine officer, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.) Illustration and painting of Peter Salem with his musket in the company of other patriots, is shown, as well as a glimpse of a mass reenactment of the battle of Bunker Hill. Next is seen the famous 1851 oil-on-canvas painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, by the German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Closeup of one oarsman, identified as African American, Prince Whipple. Film Reenactment of the ragtag American army at Valley Forge in the snow, shows their suffering. Among them is an actor in the role of African American, Salem Poor, who had purchased his freedom from slavery and fought with Washington's army. A bell ringing and the American flag of 13 stars signifying the 1776 Victory. Film reenactments of pioneers including whites and African Americans working together, felling trees and building forts and barns, and the like. Scene shifts to a man of war ship under sail firing a salvo from its cannons. This is followed by illustrations of Commodore Perry in the battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812. In a dory with Perry is a black man named Tyler Thompson. War ships exchange gunfire. Narrator cites Perry's famous words of victory: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Scene shifts to a painting of American general Andrew Jackson and his troops, at the Battle of New Orleans, in 1815. A battle reenactment shows a black American soldier participating. Postwar view of American ship building activity. View of a large sailing vessel. Cannon fire ushers in the Civil War in 1861 as Confederates fire on Fort Sumter. Images of combat are overlaid by the statue of Abraham Lincoln in his memorial at Washington, DC. Next, settlers are seen heading West in a wagon train. Camera focuses on a black couple who are part of the wagon train. White and African American men work side-by-side building a railroad. An early steam locomotive races along the tracks. .

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077350
U.S. Coast Guard barracks at Salem Air Station and a machine shop in the United States.

U.S. Coast Guard station in the United States. Entrance to U.S. Coast Guard barracks at Salem Air Station in Salem, Massachusetts. Interior of a machine shop. Officer's recreation room (exterior). Garage, containing battery room.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071070
Players of Oregon State and the Oregon Ducks play a football match and Oregon State wins the match in Eugene, Oregon.

An American football match between Oregon State and the Oregon Ducks in Eugene, Oregon. Spectators seated in a stadium watch the match. The match in progress. Oregon State wins the match.

Location: Eugene Oregon USA
Date: 1939, November 13
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070956
World War II heroes are given a warm welcome in Portland, Oregon.

A parade to honor war heroes of World War II in Portland, Oregon. Officers seated in jeeps move past a cheering crowd. An aircraft loaded onto a truck as it drives past civilians. Decorated floats at the parade. The officers stand in jeeps and salute.

Location: Portland Oregon USA
Date: 1942, June 29
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057759
Oregon State Beavers beat Oregon Webfoots with a score of 18-0 in a college football game played in Corvallis.

College football game between Oregon State Beavers and Oregon Webfoots in Corvallis. Large crowd cheer in stand. Game in progress. Oregon State Beavers beat Oregon Webfoots with a score of 18-0.

Location: Corvallis Oregon USA
Date: 1936, November 23
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060576
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