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Amelia Earhart Putnam and associates preparing for her round-the-world flight.

Amelia Earhart Putnam with associates preparing for her round-the-world flight, at Oakland Naval Air Station, California. Her Lockheed Electra aircraft (tail number: NR 16020) taxis slowly in front of Navy hangar. Small puddles of rainwater on the ramp. Paul Mantz ducks down into cockpit of the parked airplane and then reappears again. Engines of the Lockheed Electra are started and it taxis under guidance of ground crewmen. Amelia Earhart Putnam standing in cockpit of her airplane talking with Paul Mantz, as he tightens dzuz fastener on an access panel in fuselage. Earhart, Mantz and George Putnam huddle beside the airplane.

Date: 1937, March 13
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063655
Amelia Earhart Putnam and associates prepare for her round-the-world flight, in Oakland, California.

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra parked, with engines running, on wet ramp in front of hangar at U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland California. In change of scene, Amelia Earhart climbs from cockpit of the parked airplane and, with helping hand, from Mechanic Bo McKneely, jumps from the wing to the ground. (McKneely is on top of the fuselage, refueling the airplane.) Earhart talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.

Date: 1937, March 13
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063656
United States President Harry S Truman with his wife and daughter at his residence in Independence, Missouri.

United States President Harry S. Truman seated with his wife, Bess Wallace, and daughter Mary Margaret in Independence, Missouri, after his successful election as President, in 1948. The Trumans read congratulatory telegrams and letters lying on a table in front of them. President Truman speaks to his wife and daughter. Truman with his family outside his house in Independence, Missouri. They look at flowers in the garden. Mary Margaret picks off a flower from a bush. Harry Truman looks on and smiles. Margaret gives a flower to her mother. Mrs. Truman admires flower from her daughter. Harry Truman wraps his arms around his wife and daughter, speaking with them.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063661
Mayor of Gdynia in Poland, surrenders to the Germans and German troops march in the city.

Germany invades Poland. German soldiers on streets in Gdynia, Poland. The Mayor of Gdynia surrenders to the Commander of the German troop. Soldiers stand in front of food grain sacs. Troops march in the city with rifles in their hands. German battleships fire at Polish enemy and clear the bay of Danzig, Poland.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063669
U.S. Army Cavalry Unit trains at Fort Crook, Nebraska during the period of American involvement in the Mexican Revolution

Contingent of U.S. cavalry arrive at a grove on training grounds of Fort Crook, Nebraska. They are mounted in formation. On their commander's order, the entire formation backs up and moves forward, again, in unison. The cavalrymen dismount. In another sequence, a small group of cavalry gallop from the distance, up a hill and stop short of the camera. Next scene shows dismounted cavalry lined up in front of stables. They mount their horses in unison, at a command. Their commander faces them, as three mounted buglers, behind him sound a bugle call. His horse paces about a bit as the bugles blow. In next sequence, several dismounted soldiers set up an artillery observation post, including a telescope on a tripod, in a field, as a mounted officer watches. An officer directs a cavalryman who sets a flag in the field. Back at the stables, mounted officers lead a group of soldiers pulling caissons and artillery pieces, with teams of horses. Dismounted soldiers are assembled with grazing horses, at the grove seen earlier. An officer arrives and issues an order. The soldiers mount and form up before moving out as a unit.

Date: 1914
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063751
Film made during Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Nile Expedition 1927

George Eastman stands holding a still photograph camera, in front of a thatched hut displaying a large sign reading "Kodok." He motions to local African tribesmen, holding spears, to come closer and pose for him. Closeup of Eastman photographing the tribesmen. The two women in the party, Osa Johnson, wife of cinematographer, Martin Johnson, and Mrs.Carl Akeley, are carried in Sedan Chairs, of sorts, borne on shoulders of natives. The are protected from the sun by umbrellas. Next, Osa Johnson is seen, chatting with Daniel Pomeroy, George Eastman and white hunter, Philip Percival, as they stand beside a thatched shelter. Percival is smoking a pipe and Eastman holds a cigarette. They all step into the shade of the shelter. The four are next seen, dimly at a table protected by mosquito netting. Native assistants raise the netting to allow cinematographer Martin Johnson (unseen) to capture the moment on film. One of the native assistants pours Eastman a drink from a large earthenware jug. Liquor bottles are on the table.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063762