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People gather during the christening and taking off of a Bellanca aircraft in Mineola, New York.

The history of famous airplanes. A Bellanca aircraft in Mineola, New York. A small girl christens the aircraft. She breaks a bottle of champagne over the propeller of the aircraft. A crowd in the background. The three crew members of the aircraft - pilot C. D. Chamberlin, navigator L. W. Bertaud and pilot Bert Acosta pose. The aircraft taxis across an airfield. 'Paris' written on a side beneath the front windows. 'Bellance' written on the tail. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft approaches for a force landing after damaging the left landing gear wheel during the take off. The pilot sets the airplane down on the right gear. The airplane slows down, settles back upon the left wheel which collapses. The aircraft wheels around to the left dragging on a wing tip. Spectators run towards the crashed aircraft. The landing gear is repaired.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070309
The Spirit of St. Louis aircraft is brought into the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, United States.

The history of the famous airplanes. A tractor pulls up a trailer to the front of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, United States. Wings of the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft on the trailer. Army personnel lift the wing section from the trailer and carry it into the building. The fuselage section is moved into the institute. The nose section and the engine of the Spirit of St. Louis. Interior of the institute shows the Spirit of St. Louis being raised off the floor. The aircraft hangs suspended in the institute. Past events show American aviator Colonel Charles Lindbergh standing beside the nose section of the airplane.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070310
Scenes illustrating consumer prices and worker earnings, as tracked by Census Bureau in United States in early 1970s

U.S. Public Health Service Outpatient Clinic. An ambulance entering a yard. Businesses advertising their prices with price posters in shop and store windows, including: A radio and television store; A drycleaner and laundry; Furniture store; Carpet store; mattress store, grocer; butcher; and dairy. Workers carrying their earnings statements. Exterior view of woman outside post office after she collects retirement income check from U.S. Post office, at Brooklandville, Maryland, 21022. A telephone booth in front of the Post office.

Date: 1970
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070329
Smoke rises as a soldier throws a grenade on a field in France during World War II.

U.S. soldiers in France during World War II. A soldier sits near a road marker. He smokes. Other soldiers lying in ditches at the front. A soldier throws a phosphorous grenade out in a field. Smoke rises from the explosion. Soldiers dig up an unexploded shell. A sapper with a mine detector.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070341
French forces parade in city of Marseille, France, following its liberation in World War II

Parade along the Quai de Rive Neuve, Marseille, France,on August 29, 1944, celebrating the city's recapture by French forces in World War 2. French troops marching (with several Resistance members, in civilian clothes). Spectators watch from walls and buildings as well as sidelines. A French Colonial military marching band plays, followed by Colonial troops, some in turbans and others (Senegalese) wearing the red fez. They lead donkeys carrying artillery pieces. A group of French women in uniform, stand in front of tanks lined up on the sidelines. French troops in formation on the sidelines. A color bearer stands in moving military vehicle as it passes a large French tricolor flag displayed on a building. Many spectators line a wide parapet on that building. French General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert, commander of the French forces that liberated the city, is seen conversing with several officers. Later, He is seen walking behind General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander of the French First Army that liberated Toulon and Marseilles., and Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, a French journalist, politician and member of the French Resistance. A woman runs into the street and presents a bouquet of flowers to General de Tassigny.

Date: 1944, August 29
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070344
American flyers who escaped from Swiss internment during World War II

view of a building in Annecy, France, during World War 2. Flags of Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and Poland displayed together. A busy street with many bicyclists. A truck driving on a road carrying a group of American flyers who have escaped internment in Switzerland. The flyers, in civilian clothes, smile and wave at the camera from the back of the truck. Change of scene to front view of the truck arriving at Annecy airfield. some flyers are riding on the fenders and running boards of the truck. view of German prisoners of war clearing stones from a field near the airfield runway. A C-47 transport aircraft landing on the field, in background. The German POWs pose for the camera. Cyclists on a dirt road near the airfield, pause to watch a C-47 taking off. Children on bicycles wave to the camera. View again, of German prisoners clearing stones from the field. Local children looking to the sky for airplanes.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070345