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Group of farm boys from Texas depart College Station and visit agriculture operations in other states.

Documentary titled 'Farm Boys Abroad' depicts farm boys of Texas visiting different parts of the United States. View of the dome and the Academic Building of Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas. A group of boys gathered on the steps of the Academic Building are led in cheers by a leader. They tip and wave their hats. People stand beside a train at the railroad train station. Boys and young men from the Texas group are seen hanging out of the doors and windows of the train and waving as the train leaves the station. Boys from Texas look at cattle and horses at a farm in Kansas, inspecting the quality of the animals. Boys carry placards 'Texas farm boys'. A boy wearing a Texas arm band pats the side of a steer as he inspects it. Next scene is in Nebraska, showing a crop harvest at a farm, with a wheat harvesting machine in operation, and a horse drawn wagon from which a boy is throwing hay. Boys with cows and cattle milling about in a field in Iowa. Next scene shows a boy leading a giant boar pig outside a sty. Sign on pig sty reads, "The Rainbow, 329731,The Breed's Greatest Sire."

Date: 1920
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026607
Inaugural air mail service in 1918; a R-4 helicopter in 1943 carries mail to an airport for air delivery in Washington DC, United States.

The 25th Anniversary of the Air Mail Service in the United States. Past events from year 1918 show the inauguration of air mail in the United States. A man holds an envelope to be delivered by air. President Woodrow Wilson talks to a pilot. Scene changes to 1943 in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Air Mail Service. A U.S. Army Sikorsky R-4 helicopter lands outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. The pilot speaks to the helicopter designer, Igor Sikorsky, and receive a special package of mail. The helicopter is seen landing in Arlington Virginia at recently opened Washington National Airport, to deliver the package to a waiting aircraft. Crowd of people gathered outside at Washington National Airport terminal building to watch the helicopter landing. Mail being loaded aboard an air mail aircraft. The helicopter takes off.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065878
United States Army Air Forces training, in 1943. Student pilots marching

United States Army Air Forces student pilots wearing flight suits, helmets and goggles, march at an airbase in United States. A car in the background. A hangar filled with Link trainers for instrument flying training. A student pilot demonstrates the Link trainer, with the cover open. AT-6 aircraft taking off. Beech AT-10 aircraft in formation. AT-6 aircraft in formation.

Date: 1943
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053442
U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 crash-landed in desert near Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, Texas, during World War II

A USAAF B-17F is seen where it crash-landed in the desert near Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, Texas, on February 18, 1943, in World War 2. The film was shot some time later when salvage operations are underway including removal of engines. As the camera pans around the plane, a bent propeller is seen in the sand. The tail number 25326 is seen, identifying it as Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress, 42-5326, of the 351st Bombardment Group, 511th Bomb Squadron, with home base at Biggs Field. The camera focuses on the plane's empennage.

Date: 1943, February
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020483
Famous astrologer, Belle Bart reveals her predictions for the year 1936 in New York, United States.

Belle Bart, famous astrologer at desk in her office, New York, USA. She speaks on her predictions for the Year 1936. She reminds viewers of her predictions for the year 1935. She says that the period of prosperity will extend from 1936-1943. She further says that although war is imminent in the far East, and that some nations will become eclipsed during this period, the general trend through 1943 will be "happiness and prosperity for all."

Date: 1936, January 3
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049979
Laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipeline network between Texas and Illinois in the United States during World War 2.

A map shows pipeline network for the transportation of oil and its by-products in the United States, largely for the war effort during World War 2. Shows the laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipelines in Arkansas, Texas, and other locations. Tractors and explosives being used to clear the ground for laying the pipelines. Oil pipeline being laid across a river bed. A welder welds the joints. Pipelines being laid in trenches. Men operate valves to turn on the flow of oil in the new Big Inch pipeline. High octane aviation gas is filled in an aircraft at an airfield. Soldiers fill gas cans all lined up in a lot. An oil tanker in the background. Troops load gasoline jerrycans on trucks. B-17, B-26, and B-24 Bomber aircraft in refueling operations on various airfields. B-17 taking off and formation of aircraft in flight. Formation of tanks and military vehicles move along a battlefield. Narrator encourages American people in giving up home comforts of goods and fuels made from oil so that they can be directed to the war effort.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050493