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Various American activities, lifestyle, and industries as seen in the early 1970s.

Children at school cafeteria lunchroom in a school. A boy selects food from the lunch line offerings and puts it on his tray. Building of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A few buildings and homes of a small town along a rural road, as seen from a moving car or vehicle. A small power plant. Sign announcing future home of Loudoun County campus of the Northern Virginia Community College. A Childrens Hospital under construction. A new campus under construction for the Mercer County Community College. A mother and baby. A newborn baby being brought to car from hospital, by a nurse. Area of heavy industry. Contaminated beach in Mendocino County California. A working cowboy with rope lariat. A golfer on golf links. A farmer plowing behind a mule. A large piece of farm equipment in operation. A small ferry moving several cars across a river. Low aerial view of late 1960s and early 1970s cars on a network of highways.

Date: 1974
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070331
Film showing the type of Naval aviation training and kinds of assignments experienced by U.S. Marine officer, John Glenn, before his service as an astronaut.

Film that illustrates the kind of aviation training and early career experiences of American Astronaut John Glenn. Narrator discusses this throughout, but there are no images of John Glenn, himself in the film, which begins showing a formation of North American T-28 training planes from the U.S. Navy flight school at Pensacola, Florida, flying over water. Closeup of one doing a roll. Glimpse of instructor discussing Navy Mark 8-A Weems navigational computer in a classroom.. Cadets at Corpus Christi, Texas, in Altitude Chamber experiencing the effects of high altitude flight and learning about their individual symptoms of hypoxia onset. A cadet in the cockpit of an airplane as instructor standing on its wing points out features of the aircraft controls. A cadet using a sextant to shoot sun lines in daylight. Cadets engaged in calisthenics, and playing volley ball on a court set up on a flight line. A line of Navy Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft, with folded wings are parked in the near background. Cadets in dress whites leave a chapel following a service. Graduation parade and exercises in which the cadets are awarded their Navy wings of gold. A formation of four Navy Grumman F9F/F-9 Cougar aircraft in formation, viewed from above. Closeup of pilots in several parked Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, followed by Formation of several in the air ostensibly blasting enemy targets below, raising white smoke. A U.S. Navy Lockheed T-2V Seastar jet training aircraft performing a roll in flight at high altitude with condensation trails visible behind its wingtip tanks. Brief views of air combat during the korean War. Navy Vought F8U supersonic Crusader aircraft in flight. An X-15 aircraft being dropped from underneath a U.S. Air Force B-52 jet bomber. It rockets away rapidly from the Bomber.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070447
American astronaut John Herschel Glenn is taken aboard a ship after his spacecraft lands in the Atlantic Ocean.

A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. John Glenn in Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft traveling in space. A view of the earth from the spacecraft. The location of the spacecraft on TV monitors at Cape Canaveral in Florida. A man talks over a phone. Men at work in a building. Glenn directs the spacecraft back to earth. He is recommended to use the fly-by–wire mode. Caribbean was selected to receive Friendship 7. Glenn says that there is a fireball outside. Men at work in the headquarters building. A ship underway at sea. Men look at the spacecraft through binoculars. The spacecraft lands in the Atlantic Ocean . Glenn is taken aboard. He boards an helicopter and arrives at the headquarters.

Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070449
U.S. Army Air Force demonstrates Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk aircraft, during World War II

Curtiss military aircraft being demonstrated during World War 2. Large number of Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplanes seen in flights of three, each. They fire their machine guns (two nose-mounted and two in each wing). Next, about 15 or more are seen in loose formation. A group of U.S. Army officers, seated at a stand on the banks of a waterway, watch as a group of P-40s fly past, at low altitude. Small boats are seen in the water near pilings and a decrepit dock. A large, loose formation of P-40s flies past, in flights of three, stacked vertically. (At this point sound of the aircraft can be heard.) Two more large formations of P-40s fly past. Then individual P-40s are seen following one another at large intervals. They fly low over the camera site. Scene changes to P-40s flying over a Curtiss Aircraft factory building. Curtiss aircraft company workers stand outside the building to watch the show. some P-40s fly past low, in close formation. Six P-40s fly past at altitude in vertical stacked formation. Two flights of three, pass directly overhead. The P-40s in Two flights, separate and fly away individually, imitating fighter dog-fighting tactics. Large view of American flag, with series of P-40s flying past, behind it.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070477
A sailor hanging on a cable attached to USS Akron in flight over Camp Kearny, San Diego, California.

The U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4)in flight over Camp Kearny, San Diego, California. she drops mooring cable to crew of about 100 sailors on the ground. Part of the cable breaks, and three sailors are left dangling on the remaining cable. They are pulled up as the Akron rises and two of the sailors fall to their deaths. One sailor (Navy Apprentice Seaman, C.M. Cowart) remains secure on the cable and is reeled into the airship. Captain of the airship, Lieutenant Commander, Charles Emery Rosendahl, gives a public statement following the accident.

Date: 1932, May 11
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070495
A crowd around a hangar and soldiers push the Wright Flyer aircraft out of the hangar for testing at Fort Myer, Virginia.

Orville Wright and U.S. Army aviator Frank Purdy Lahm, the first army passenger, test the "Wright Flyer" at Fort Myer, Virginia. A small group stands at the door of a hangar. A crowd gathers around the hangar. The doors of the hangar are opened. Dignitaries greet each other. Notable dignitaries present include U.S. President William Howard Taft and Mrs. Taft, U.S. Army Major General George O. Squier, U.S. Army Major Charles McKinley Saltzman. U.S. Army soldiers open the doors from the hangar. They push the Wright Flyer sideways out of the hangar.

Date: 1909, July 27
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070566