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Rodeo competitors between various units of Texas Prison System gather in Huntsville, Texas.

Performers from various units of Texas Prison System gather in Huntsville, Texas. They exhibit their skills against wild rodeo animals in a field. People gathered to watch the event. Spectators seated. Horses fall down. Men on ground. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, October 18
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053380
Spectators watch the Santa Rosa Rodeo as cattle riders perform on ground in Vernon, Texas.

Santa Rosa Roundup PRCA Rodeo in Vernon, Texas. Participants of Santa Rosa Roundup PRCA Rodeo, parade. Spectators watch the rodeo. A horse rider on horse back, comes out from chute and performs on ground. The performer falls on the ground. Cattle come out from chute and their riders perform. A bull rider falls down.

Date: 1958, June 30
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071626
Various scenes in Mandalay, Allied soldiers move through Burmese jungle and mountains during WW2

Animated map showing the map of Texas, USA superimposed on the map of Burma for size comparison. Various Buddhist temples and pagodas in Burma. A pagoda in Mandalay. A busy street in Mandalay. A young Burmese woman smokes a cheroot. A Burmese woman from the Kayan Tribe puts a neck ring on another woman. Aerial view of Burma jungle. During World War 2, United States soldiers make their way through the jungle. A raft crosses a turbulent river in Burma. Mountains on the Himalayan mountain range. Monsoon typhoon in Burma with rain falling on military tents. United States infantry crosses a swamp, hacking away at vines in the jungle with a machete.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078817
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) carrying passengers from St. Louis to Waynoka, Oklahoma, on coast-to-coast trip from New York

Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company's coast-to-coast passengers proceed on their flight legs from Saint Louis, Missouri to Waynoka, Oklahoma. TAT employee closes door on Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor passenger airplane, at St. Louis airport. Ground crewman plugs in compressed air hose to assist start of engine number three. TAT logo seen on side of the airplane. Next, the airplane taxis and takes off on plowed runway of snow-covered field. Animated map shows airplane heading to Kansas City, Missouri. View of cockpit as co-pilot shows weather report to pilot. Shift to a TAT weather station where meteorologists launch a weather balloon to check winds aloft. Closeup of the pilot's weather report being prepared. TAT officer serving lunch food to passengers in the aircraft. View from airplane of Kansas City, and then aerial view as it descends to Wichita, Kansas. Pilots in cockpit. Copilot radios Wichita. View of TAT radio operator responding and saying they should lookout for Lindbergh who is flying the route today. Next, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is seen flying past the Ford Tri-motor in his Curtiss Falcon biplane. Passengers look out to see him. View from the passenger plane descending over the city of Wichita, Kansas. Animated map shows next stop as Waynoka, Oklahoma. View from the air of numerous oil derricks in Oklahoma. Passengers leaving the airplane and boarding a trailer-bus at Waynoka. Closeup of flowers and sign on restaurant table, reading, "TAT, Reserved for TAT travelers." Passengers dining.

Date: 1928
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026614
Volcanic eruptions of Mount St. Helens in Washington State, United States, in 1980

Film begins showing pristine snow-covered Mount St. Helens in Washington State, U.S.A. View on March 20, 1980, the mountain appears to have less snow on it. Camera pans over the Cascade mountains. Still picture (illustration) of Mount St. Helens erupting in the past. Several hikers are seen sitting on the peak of the mountain. Camera pans over the view, showing Spirit Lake below and, in the distance, Mount Rainier. Slate reads: "Camp Mehan 1959."View of Mount St. Helens overlooking the Y.M.C.A. Boys try rowing a boat with one oar lock unfastened to the gunnel. one boy sailing alone in a small sail boat. Boys playing volleyball. Boys diving from a dock. A camper speaking with a Forest Ranger in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Campers in the park at places such as Bear Cove, Cedar Brook, and Donnie Brook. Hikers with full back packs exploring the forest. Campers cooking over a charcoal grill. A man with a fishing rod casting into a lake. Interior of a lodge at the end of a trail. View of Mt. St. Helens in 1979. View of a seismograph recording a moderate earthquake of 4.1 on the Richter Scale, beneath the mountain on March 20, 1980. View of smoke and ash rising from the mountain on March 27, 1980. Forest service vehicles closing roads and access to the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. View from the air, of a newly opened crater on Mount St. Helens. Forest Service workers and cooperating scientists setting up their gear to study the phenomenon. Nearby Ranger stations, such as Pine Creek are seen after being evacuated by the Forest Service. On March 29th, a second crater is seen on the Mountain. Explosive eruptions seen on March 31st. Camera captures these. A bulge in the mountain at Goat Rocks, is show. Narrator states that it is moving at 5 ft. per day. Another view of smoke and ash rising from the mountain. Scientist David Johnson is seen as he describes how the symmetry of the mountain means that volcanic outflows would come down on all sides of Mount St. Helens. A helicopter lowers a large refuse bin to help Spirit Lake youth camp operators hauling out. Outdoor shops are seen hawking Mt. St. Helen souvenirs. On May 18, 1980, a Forest Service tree planting crew is seen at work in a field. Rumbling sounds. A mountain lion is seen running. Tree planters look up as Mt. St. Helens has a violent eruption, which is seen on film, as the field workers run to escape. Narrator states the cloud reached nearly 14 miles into the sky. The cloud and internal bolts of lightning are seen. View of daylight obscured in Eastern Washington. Policeman wearing a face mask, stops a car from proceeding eastward. A helicopter of the 304th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron depart their Portland Air Base, to search for Geologist David Johnson, who was manning a scientific lookout above Cold Water Creek. View from inside the helicopter in flight. Narrator notes they failed to find him.

Date: 1980
Duration: 8 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037860
St. Louis Browns at spring training, San Antonio, Texas, 1938

Baseball's St. Louis Browns hold spring training in San Antonio Texas, March 1938. Players play catch, throwing baseballs to each other, as they lean out open windows of their hotel. One of the baseballs falls to the ground. One player gets doused with water by players in window above. Several players warm up their throwing arms on the field, where trees and outfield wall ads are seen in background. Two young women field grounders gently bunted by a player with a bat, standing several feet away, on home plate. Close up shot of Browns manager Gabby Street. Shot of unidentified Browns players. Players take practice swings from batting cage.

Date: 1938, March 21
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042792