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Trapped motorists by snow avalanches at Stevens Pass in Washington

Snow avalanches trap motorists at Stevens Pass in Washington. Food is provided to the trapped motorists. Buses, cars, trucks are trapped in snow that roared down steep mountain passes. All vehicles are checked for occupancy. Rescue operation carried out as bulldozers break the compact snow which is removed by highway snowplows.

Date: 1947, February 6
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040926
United States Air Force propaganda film about the Roswell Incident and Project Mogul weather balloon experiments.

The Roswell incident according to the United States Air Force. Roswell Daily Record newspaper shows article about flying saucers. Popular books on the Roswell incident such as “Roswell Ufo Crash Update: Exposing the Military Cover-Up of the Century” and “A History of UFO Crashes” by Kevin D. Randle and “The Roswell Incident” by Charles Berlitz. Magazines People and Omni featuring UFO stories. The International UFO Museum (114 N Main St, Roswell, NM 88203, United States) in Roswell, New Mexico. An “EYES ONLY” document prepared for President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. Forensic experts examine a strange body believed to be alien remains. Foreign books on the Roswell incident written in French and Japanese. A New Mexico magazine shows a UFO flying saucer and the words “UFO The Roswell Incident” on its cover. The sliding door of the United States Air Force archives closing. New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff on a newspaper article about UFO. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. The Washington Post January 14, 1994 article with title “GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe”. An accompanying photo depicts a flying saucer and alien remains. View of the Pentagon. A man and a woman uncover records and files from a United States Air Force archives. Archive shelving inside the United States Air Force. Archivists pushing a trolley. Map shows the location of Roswell in New Mexico. Pages of a report being flipped. Page of a report reads “WHAT THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS NOT”. Another page reads “An Extraterrestrial Craft”. Page of a report reads “to project “Mogul” be classified “TOP SECRET”. An atomic bomb explosion with red skies in the United States. The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 14, 1941. Debris and fire from a surprise attack. An acoustic sensor used in Project Mogul. A radar reflecting target being carried by a white weather balloon during Project Mogul. Weather balloons on the beach. A scientist holds a radar target tied to a weather balloon. Scientist lets go of the weather balloon with radar target. A man standing on top of a United States Army bus with satellite dish observe the weather balloon flying upwards. Photographs of “flying disk” fragments from Roswell in 1947. A man holds a fragment claimed to be from a “UFO”. “Flying Disk” debris that are debris made of aluminum foil, rubber, paper, and sticks. Army Air Force officials identifying debris from radar targets and weather balloons found in Roswell. Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey, Commanding Officer of the Eighth Air Force, inspects the remains of a weather balloon and Rawin radar target on July 8, 1947. Colonel Thomas J. DuBose, the Chief of Staff of the Eighth Air Force, sits on the right. Roswell Daily Record front page reads “Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer”. Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey with weather balloon debris.

Date: 1997, March 31
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079917
Mr. Johnson testifies about memorandum and is questioned during Senate Hearings,1947 in Washington DC.

Senate Hearings,1947 in Washington DC. Officials and dignitaries seated for Senate Hearings, 1947. Mr. Johnson, a businessman, is questioned. He testifies before Senate War Investigating Committee. A memorandum, made by him is passed to Mr Johnson. He reads it and answers. He testifies about the memorandum and is questioned about his conversation with Mr. Nelson. Dignitaries and members of the Congress seated during the hearings.

Date: 1947
Duration: 6 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071725
National commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington DC.

At time of sesquicentennial celebrations of the city of Washington DC: City development planning underway by the Planning Commission in Washington DC. Animated map of Washington DC by the National Geographic Society. Statue in a park. National Commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge. The commission members are seen walking across the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the Virginia side to the Washington DC side. View of the Lincoln Memorial and 1940s era cars in traffic circle and on Arlington Memorial Bridge. Commission members examine mock-ups of equestrian statues atop pylons at the Washington DC entrance to the bridge. (In 1951, the Arts of War Sculptures, named Sacrifice and Valor, by Leo Friedlander, were erected in those positions). National Capital Park and Planning Commission personnel are seen working at drafting tables in their offices in the Department of the Interior building. The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission members meets in the Lord Calvert Mansion in Riverdale for future planning. Exterior view of the Lord Calvert Mansion. Inside, the commission meets and a man points to and explains a chart on traffic control. The chart, dated September 1947, shows traffic flow into Washington DC during the "peak hour" of traffic, during which 58,000 automobiles pass through the area being studied. Elevated, aerial view from the U.S. Capitol Dome looking out across the city of Washington DC and on to the Potomac River and Virginia on the other side of the river.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073229
Jim Crow Laws affecting African Americans from finding justice and equality despite of the 13th and 14th Amendments during the 20th century

Artist impression of the House of Representatives as the United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Images of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. African-American student, victim of the Lamar High School School Bus Attack, listens to Frank Jackson, the attorney defending him, as he lectures him about the history of African-American rights and freedom. Off camera, Jackson quotes the 14th Amendment, saying, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Image of Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. Off camera, Jackson quotes Tillman's comment about "virus of equality..." Artist impression of Black Americans in court during Reconstruction. Students inside the school bus on their way to Lamar High School School before bus attack. Image of Black-Americans inside a bus during the 1950s. Jim Crow signs seen, including a sign reading “White only Ladies Rest Room”. Image of a doctor standing in a door labeled “COLORED” while talking to patient with baby. Image of door with sign that says “White-Trade”. Image of door with sign that says “Colored-Trade”. Image of President Rutherford Hayes. Fire burning. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members in costume hanging (lynching) a Black American. Man menacingly holds a bat and says “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. A view of the United States Supreme Court. Artist Impression of Homer Plessy refusing to move from the White people coach to the Jim Crow train coach in 1896. “Equal justice under law” engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Artist impression of John Marshall Harlan, former Attorney General of Kentucky and great dissenter of cases that restricted civil rights such as “Plessy v. Fegurson”. “But until a majority of judges on the Supreme Court would agree, Black Americans would find little justice” says Frank Jackson.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079003
Temple of Justice, Steven's Home, Governor's Mansion in Olympia Washington; views from SS Potlatch steam ferry in Hood Canal

Various landmarks in and near Olympia Washington, in Thurston County Washington, United States. Temple of Justice building (seen in brick as originally constructed). A man walking outside the home of the first Governor of Washington, Isaac Stevens, located on Capitol Way and Eleventh Street in Olympia Washington, and originally constructed around 1856. The home is in a dilapidated state and partially boarded up. View of the exterior of the Washington State Governor's Mansion in Olympia. A wooden wagon frame parked on the lawn. A car leaving from the covered portico on the driveway at the executive mansion. Scene changes to dock at Hood Canal as passengers board the S.S. Potlatch ferry steam ship. Views from the S.S. Potlatch underway in Hood Canal. A man looks over the edge of the tour ship. Wooded shoreline along areas of Hood Canal. Women and children on the deck of the ship. The ship stops at dock at Brinnon to offload passengers, and then continue on. The ship stops at Seabeck summer resort area. View from behind a young girl on the ship as it docks at Seabeck and people on dock greet the ship.

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042496
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