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Views of mountain slopes, clouds, trees, children picking flowers in a mountainous area

Narrated feature about human curiosity and basic science. Sunlight glistens on snow-covered mountain edge. Trees on a mountain side. Girl in a hat runs along a mountain slope, beside melting snow fields, picking early spring flowers and putting them in a wicker basket. A boy plucks a flower and examines it with a magnifying glass.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023087
Actors portray discovery of Microscopic lens and rabies vaccine

Narrated feature about scientific discoveries and applications of the microscope. Actors portraying invention of microscope in Delft Holland. Actor grinds and polishes a lens. He looks through the microscopic lens at a drop of water and discovers minute living organisms. Actor portraying French chemist Louis Pasteur studies the microscopic forms of life found in the solution of ferment. He discovers that heat kills germs. Men ferment wine. Discussion of pasteurization, vaccinations, and Pasteur. Herd of sheep grazing. Boy contaminated with rabies comes to Dr Louis Pasteur. Boy bitten by a dog. He discovers a vaccine for the deadly rabies and gives it to the boy.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023088
Applying lessons from microscopic science, a doctor performs an antiseptic surgery on patient.

Narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. View of a microscope. Chemist looks through a microscope in laboratory. Microscopic view of the living organisms. Milk pasteurized by heated coils in large drums. Milk graded with pasteurization label. Boy drinks a glass of milk. Doctor from London performs an antiseptic surgery on patient. He sterilizes the instruments to be used in the operation. Doctor arrives at a home in Berlin to treat a girl suffering from Diphtheria. View of sick girl in a bed, through an outside window with snow falling. The doctor gives her a diphtheria injection. Girl recovers and walks outside of building and gives a hug to her mother. Young children getting vaccination in a doctors office.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023089
Animated telescopic view of a Solar Eclipse. Citizens and astronomers preparing to view an eclipse

Animated view of sun and description of a total eclipse. Animated picture of moon passing across the sun. Citizens preparing to watch an eclipse. Astronomers from all over the world watch the sight. Moon covers the image of sun with halo of light around it. (Solar Eclipse). Tongues of flame in the halo of light visible through telescope. Animated view of earth from the moon.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023093
Farmer in Tennessee receives phosphate fertilizer from TVA and applies it to his fields

On development and advances from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Men aboard train hands a sack of Phosphate fertilizer to farmer, manufactured at the TVA's Muscle Shoals plant. Train with sign "Knox County Soil Conservation Association" on the side of the train car. Farmer draws horse drawn carriage beside train and is given a bag of the phosphate fertilizer. Farmer applying the fertilizer to his fields with a horse drawn cart. Farmer in hose drawn cart passes a farmhouse. Cows graze in the field. View of houses and electric poles. Farmer shows an electric transmission box attached to a barn.

Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023094
Roads, bars, and restaurants in the Tennessee Valley

The efforts of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) to improve the lives of rural communities in the Tennessee Valley. Newly laid road in a rural area, with a 1930s era car driving on it. City "problems" being brought to rural areas due to electrification and new infrastructure: Car parked in front of a log cabin with a sign beside the stone chimney that advertises offerings including fast food, reading "Dix's Cabin. Beer on tap. Wines. Liquors. Hot Dogs & Hamburgers." A different store with sign "Brown's Parkside Bar & Grill. Wines. Liquors." Another sign there reads "Parkside Grill Comfort Station."

Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023096