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Reenactment of historic events including the great Chicago fire of 1871

Dramatization showing days of prosperity as a result of post-civil war industrialization in America. A barbershop quartet performing songs of the era. A stage show in a club or dinner theatre environment. Patrons throw streamers and watch the performers on stage. Reenactment as the great Chicago fire of 1871 takes place. Firefighters race to the scene and battle flames with buckets and hoses. Reconstruction takes place in Chicago and much of the city is rebuilt. Actual still photos of the city of Chicago during reconstruction after the fire.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048134
Setting up of Camp Century by United States Army engineers in Greenland.

'The story of camp Century: The city under ice' Location of Camp Century on a map of Greenland. Distance of the camp from North Pole. United States Army engineers arrive in Greenland in 1959 to set up Camp Century. Officers survey the snow covered area Engineer looks through leveling instrument. A scale shows the thickness of snow on the ground. Men erect flags to demarcate the boundary for Camp Century. Convoy of sleds carrying construction, food and other supplies arrives, cranes unload supply boxes. Wanigans also bring in supply boxes. Men with sled dogs on their backs enter wanigans and a caterpillar tractor pulls a series of wanigans. Men board polar cabs. Light aircraft lifts off. A cook in a kitchen inside a vehicle cuts meat. Soldiers being served food, men sleep in navy bunks. A convoy on the move.

Date: 1961
Duration: 6 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048577
United States Army engineers arrive to construct Camp Century in Greenland.

United States aircraft lands at construction site of Camp Century in Greenland. Polar cabs also arrive and officers greet each other. Officers at a meeting discuss the plans for construction of the Camp. A senior officer presides over the meeting and an animation of the camp indicates communication trench, area for housing, support facilities. Officer smokes a cigar as he conducts the meeting.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048578
United States Army engineers construct a pre fabricated unit at Camp Century in Greenland.

A snow milling machine cuts trenches to construct Camp Century in Greenland. Men of United States Army engineers put planks on shoulder of a trench. A sled dog helps out men. Trench cut by snow milling machine. Men place overlapping steel arches on the trenches to cover them. Men cut snow bricks. Engineers cut passage inside the tunnel with a shovel and men level the floor. Wood planks being placed a few feet above the ground. A vehicle carries pre fabricated sections to the tunnel and men place these sections to construct a camp unit. A man draws up electrical wires. Officer marks the completed unit on a map. Men build a snow brick wall at the entrance of the tunnel. Snow pushed into the doorway by a machine. A man and a dog get down the stairs at the entrance of the trench.

Date: 1961
Duration: 4 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048579
United States Army engineers construct a nuclear trench at Camp Century in Greenland.

United States Army engineers construct Camp Century in Greenland. A man gets a hair cut at the only barber's shop at the camp site. Snow milling machines cut nuclear trenches. Three machines being used for the purpose as two work from below and one above. Men put foundations inside the trench, men put overlapping steel arches to cover the trench. Men set up beams and frames. A man fits pipes in a tunnel, man works on sewerage line as he stands on a ladder. Insulation material wrapped onto the pipe lines. Men drill water from an underground hole. A man works on electrical heating system. A man gets out from an escape hatch to be used in case of a fire. Men enjoy skiing and other activities of recreation. A sled dog plays with a football in the snow.

Date: 1961
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048580
A vapor container transported to a nuclear trench at Camp Century in Greenland.

United States Army engineers construct Camp Century in Greenland. Diesel tankers pulled by tractor trailers cross ice covered fields to Camp Century in Greenland. Tractors enter maintenance shop at the camp. At the maintenance shop men work on vehicles. The United States Marine Fiddler ship arrives at a port with supplies. A vapor container for the nuclear reactor placed on a tractor to be transported to the camp. Other supplies transported to the camp area. A flat bottomed sled carries vapor container, Colonel checks the loadings. At the camp men work on steel arches, unload supplies and reassemble them. Shipment boxes opened, a tractor moves into a tunnel. Vapor container moves in a steel beamed building as a tractor tows it from the front and the back.

Date: 1961
Duration: 5 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048581