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Dramatization: Formation of Ku Klux Klan

Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A house in South Carolina. A woman meets another in a boarding. Gus, the renegade stands and watches them. The two ladies meet in a garden. They hug each other. A house situated in background. The woman shakes hands with a man. She talks to him. The Little Colonel arrives. He stands on the street. Both of the ladies talk. The woman leaves after sometime. A chair present outside the house. The little colonel orders Gus to keep away from the girl. Gus talks to another man. The little colonel sits nearby a river. He smokes cigar. Some children arrive near the river. They put a white covering on them and hide in the field. Other children arrive and watch them. The Ku Klux Klan,or KKK, is formed.

Date: 1916
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027385
Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and their early gliders.

Early multiengine aircraft flying in formation. Wilbur Wright talks with two Frenchmen at Le Mans, France, in 1908. Orville Wright is seen. Various views of the Wright Brothers' glider experiments.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027431
Wilbur Wright is seen adjusting a transporter wheel on his airplane.

Wilbur Wright adjusts a transportation wheel to his airplane. Airplane on the field. Man on horse-cart. Other men stand on the field. House in the background.

Date: 1908
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027433
The Wright flyer engine is started by two men.

Wright flyer aircraft of the Wright Brothers is started by two men pulling on the propellers.

Date: 1908
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027434
Scenes from 1904, preparing to launch a Wright airplane using a falling weight

Wright brothers and other men inspect launching rail on the field. A Wright Flyer airplane is maneuvered onto the rail. Men raise a weight up a tower in preparation for catapulting the airplane.

Date: 1904
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027435
Scenes from the Dole Derby or Dole Air Race from California to Hawaii in August, 1927

Opening scene shows several aircraft and aircrews on an Airfield in Oakland, California, readying for the Dole Air Race to Hawaii. A modified Travel Air 5000 aircraft, NX869, named "Woolaroc," is seen in the near foreground. Behind it is another Travel Air 5000, named "Oklahoma." Next, the "Oklahoma" and the "Aloha"(NX914), a Breese-Wilde 5 Monoplane are seen with engines running and taxiing. The "Aloha" takes off and climbs sharply after gaining airspeed. Several Wickes-class destroyers are seen steaming underway. (Slate reports they patrol the course to be flown over the Pacific.) Scene shifts to wreckage of the "Angel of Los Angeles" a twin engine Bryant Monoplane, which crashed on a test flight at Montebello, California. (Pilot, Arthur V. Rogers, bailed out at the last minute but his parachute didn't fully open and he was killed.) Next is shown the wreckage of the "Pride of Los Angeles," an International CF-10 Triplane, after crashing into San Francisco Bay on August 11th. Pilots J. L. Giffin and Theodore S. Lundgren are seen stepping from the water, unhurt. A crane, on a barge, lifts the wreckage from the shallow water.

Date: 1927, August
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027439