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United States Naval Academy gymnasts practice for their meet with the Army in Annapolis, Maryland.

Gymnasts practice in Annapolis, Maryland. Members of the United States Naval Academy gymnastics team practice for their meet with the Army. The gymnasts go through a routine of tumblings, cross bar tricks and rope climbing.

Date: 1940, January 29
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044065
American economy strengthens after the Great Depression; also growth and prosperity and civil rights reform in 1950s and 1960s.

Chronicles recovery in America after the Great Depression in the United States, from roughly 1933-1967, but with emphasis on the earlier years of that period. Pre-war work programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) help with employment. Farmers work in their fields with tractors. Officials in an office discuss and prepare graphs. Workers drill and work at a construction site. The 1933 Homeowners Loan Corporation sparks new home building. View of new homes being built and new suburban neighborhoods. Brief scene of bombing at Pearl Harbor. American warships launching from shipyards during World War II. Women war production workers work in factories in the United States. Post-war Marshall Plan aid being sent to European countries. Crates of supplies marked for European countries. Industrial output booming again, and scenes of industrial factories and plants with smoke pouring from chimneys and pollution from stacks. Large pool typists room filled with female typists and clerical workers busy at work in government agency. Close up views of hands of women operating typewriters. Reforms for housing projects, African American Civil Rights and measures taken to stabilize unemployment, with scenes of successive Presidents signing reform bills, including Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. A ship departs from a harbor with goods. A convoy of vehicles on a road. Various Federal buildings in Washington DC. The White House building. An aerial view of an American town and of a factory with pollution smoke emitting from stacks. Letters being delivered to elderly women. People enter a medical clinic and wait in the clinic waiting room. Racially integrated classroom of older high school students or university students, with white and African American students, and both young men and women. A young white woman worker and a young African American working in a machine shop or possibly an academic shop class. A white and a African American man share a sandwich and views of white and black people together in integrated classrooms and factories as segregation begins to wane. Elementary school children in a classroom drawing pictures.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044178
Film 'National Youth Administration' shows African Americans engaged in construction work in the United States.

National Youth Administration Film shows the African American Youth in United States. United States map shows Alabama and Georgia. African American Youth workers involved in construction work. People walk on a street. African Americans converse with each other. One-sixth African American Youth involved in relief work.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044260
African American woman employed by the National Youth Administration supports her large family in the United States.

African American Youth learn skills through program of the NYA (National Youth Administration) in Georgia and Alabama. The NYA employs African American Youth through State Agencies. Houses of the African American community. Clothes hanging outside their houses. Employee of the NYA inside the house converses with another woman. African American woman with her family members.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044261
African American Youth do their daily chores under National Youth Administration Resident Farm Project in Boligee, Alabama.

The NYA (National Youth Administration) Resident Farm Project in Boligee, Alabama. African American man rides a mule. Women involved in household tasks. They fill water and wash clothes. Men plow fields with the help of horses. Woman collects wood. African American man at farm, gives food to chicken and pigs. African American Youth eat food. They stand outside a dormitory.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044262
The National Youth Administration African American Youth paint and construct their own houses in rural areas of the United States.

The NYA (National Youth Administration) Youth in rural areas of the United States. African American man, who built a little room for his chickens. Woman named Mary who painted her house and decorated the rooms after learning at NYA.

Date: 1940
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044263