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Dramatization:Woman accosted by ruffians. Newsboy watches. Policeman saves woman.Santa and angel visit. Woman brings gifts

Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization : Snowy day. Woman is accosted by two ruffians, and rescued by policeman, as newsboy watches from doorway. Inside a modest house, Santa Claus talks with an angel holding an illuminated star. The woman and her husband carry christmas bundles, to door of newsboy's house, as policeman watches. Inside, the newsboy tries on new clothes.

Date: 1902
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073393
Man operates uncoupling of the freight cars during the Hump operation at a railroad classification yards in Enola Pennsylvania

Development of the railroad transportation in the United States. Animated map depicts the network of railroads in America. Freight trains parked on railroads at a yard. Buildings in the background. Many different Pennsylvania line locomotives pass by, merging into montage of the logos of various railroad companies including Missouri Pacific Lines, Canadian Pacific, Illinois Central and New York Central. Freight cars reach the Hump operation in railroad classification yard at Enola, Pennsylvania. Railroad cars undergo an inspection during their course. Railroad cars are are uncoupled and they move on tracks with gravity. Man operates at control tower. Tower operator works on the teletype list of number of railroad cars. Close up of track switching and track braking. View of refrigerator cars, flat cars, coal cars, steel cars, tanker, container and merchandised cars. A flat car with farm tractors on board.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073409
A horse race gambler searches for his angry wife and asks her forgiveness for his gambling

Paper print. An early motion picture titled 'Sporting Blood' depicts a fight between a wealthy husband and wife because of a race horse in the United States. A man reads sports news from a newspaper. His wife comes and sits with him at a table. A maid serves them tea. A telegram boy comes and hands a telegram to the man. It contains a tip on a horse race. The man tells his wife he must leave on important business. His wife reads the telegraph. The maid opens a door. Wife's friend enters. The women arm themselves with kitchen implements and leave the house. Two men talk on a street. A man on a horse drawn cart. Men purchase tickets from a race bid counter. They watch a trotters horse race. The man arrives home. The maid complains to the man about his wife. The man leaves his home and arrives at a court. He reports about his lost wife. The wife sits near a street fountain. Other women in long dresses and fancy hats (typical of wealthy of the gilded age) come and they talk to her. The husband asks a shopkeeper and other men about his lost wife. All the gamblers wives join together in protest.Their husbands follow them. The husband asks his wife to forgive him. He takes her to a stable and shows her the horse named Sweet Marie. Other husbands do likewise with their irate spouses.

Date: 1904
Duration: 6 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073429
A man consoles a woman after the death of her mother in the United States.

The film titled 'Child of the Ghetto' depicts sorrows faced by a woman in the United States. A woman weeps as she looks at her mother's dead body. A man consoles her. The woman sits in a chair in her house. Another woman comes and tells her to go out to work. At approx. 1 minute into clip, live scenes of Rivington Street, in New York City, with immigrants crowding the sidewalks and street vendors and their carts jamming the curbs. She seeks work but is rejected several times. She finally gets piece work at a garment factory and takes a pile of clothes to her house. She sews clothes and goes to the factory to deliver the garments and get paid. The factory owner's son steals money from his father and accuses the woman of it. The woman runs from the factory and arrives at her house. A policeman arrives at her house. The woman runs from her house and hides in the country. A farmer sees her and takes her to his house. She started living at the farmer's house. The policeman comes to fish near the farmer's house. He sees the woman and recognizes her. She asks the policeman to believe she is innocent. He does, and goes back to fishing. The farmer and the girl are happy.

Date: 1910
Duration: 10 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073469
Atomic bomb scenes WWII; atomic testing at U.S. Army atomic experiment station 'Camp Desert Rock' in Nevada, United States

Episode of "The Big Picture", a U.S. Army series of news release programs. U.S. Army cameraman recording Nike missile launch. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud.. Army troops spill out of Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. U.S. Army infantry soldiers ascend hill firing their rifles. Atomic experiments at Camp Desert Rock in Nevada, United States. U.S. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen seated at a desk in his office. He speaks about a series of atomic experiments ("Desert Rock 6") held in barren lands of Nevada at Camp Desert Rock. Celebrating victory in Europe, during World War 2, American troops parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, with the Arch of Triumph behind them. Happy Parisians watch the parade. War scenes in Japan: footage of explosion and mushroom cloud rising after atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Barren land on the ground in Hiroshima after the August 6, 1945 atomic blast there . B-29 bombers in flight. Atomic bomb test detonation. Atomic artillery gun M65, also called the Atomic Cannon or Atomic Annie, fires and creates nuclear explosion on distant target.Viking missile launch. U.S. soldiers on parade. Headquarters sign at U.S. Army atomic experiment station at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada, displaying 6-pointed star with "A" in center.. Several atomic test explosions. Soldiers on hillside witness a non-nuclear explosion. Buses carry troops along a road past a sign warning of radiation hazard. Army captain, instructor, briefing troops before the start of atomic maneuvers.. Maps of planned maneuvers. Engineer surveyors lay out ground zero target. View of the ground zero area which is the target area for testing. Signal men lay communication lines to receive and transmit teletype messages. Men operate machinery and dig trenches in which troops will take cover. Other men cover them with sand. [Note: According to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, from February 18 to May 15, 1955, the United States conducted Operation Teapot, a nuclear test series at Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat on the Nevada Test Site in the continental United States. During the test period 14 nuclear shots and 1 non-nuclear shot were detonated. Several thousand scientific, military (army, air force, navy, marines), and civilian contract personnel participated in the organization, planning, and execution of the test series. Military exercises undertaken during and following the shots took place under the name Desert Rock 6.]

Date: 1955
Duration: 6 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073522
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt signs Selective Service Training Act of 1940. American men are drafted for military service

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses officials in Germany. German military aircraft in flight . Bombs falling on targets. German troops march through streets. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at a desk in his office, signs the Selective Service Training Act of 1940. Officials mix serial numbers in a glass container. President Roosevelt announces the serial numbers of the men drafted into the U.S. Army. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets await the announcement. Selected men are shown in all places and in all walks of life, in the United States. They undergo a medical and physical checkup at the induction center to begin service as new military recruits. Those inducted receive basic training and begin tours of duty in the U.S. Army. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073569