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Children collect scrap aluminum utensils for World War 2 effort in Wilmington Ohio.

People of Wilmington Ohio including hundreds of children collect scrap aluminum metal for the War cause during ration effort for World War 2. Small boy throws metal cup toward three Boy Scouts in truck loaded with scrap metal. Scrap metal deposited under banner saying "ALUMINUM FOR DEFENSE". Boy Scouts pose for camera with scrap metal in hands. They add scraps to collected pile.

Date: 1941, July
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028750
Quintuplet lambs and their mother in a field in Wilmington, Ohio.

Quintuplet lambs make a record of strange births in the United States. The lambs with their mother in a field in Wilmington, Ohio. A man feeds a lamb.

Date: 1936, May 6
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053233
Briefing on Operation Thunderstorm at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington,Ohio

Briefing session of officers on Operation Thunderstorm at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington,Ohio. Drawing of P-61 Black Widow on the board. P-61's stand on field. Man checks film on a moviola. View of transformers used for man made lightening. Man walks inside a huge ribbed cylinder. A specially equipped plane's canopy is subjected to bolt of man-made lightning. Briefing group on radar and Rotating radar antenna. Operators work at radar sets in a Nissen hut. Men rig cameras. Storm indication on radar screen. Radar unit in a van. Antenna rotating. P-61 comes in for landing. Radar van in foreground. Briefing on weather bureau research. Civilian pointing to station on chart. Weather testing balloons are sent aloft. Man at a tracking radar set. Weather map received on facsimile receiver. Man removes message (readings) from a teletype.

Date: 1947, June
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029110
P-61 aircraft gather records from thunderstorms at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington,Ohio.

Technician draws lines and shades area on a weather map at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington, Ohio. A U.S. Sergeant in radar station checks shaded areas on the map. Indication of storm on radar scope. Pilots rush to P-6s or Black Widows and take off. Five P-61s in flight. A P-61 enters a stormy cloud. Inside the cockpit view of the Pilot of P-61 in flight. View of radar antenna at ground base and men at radar station. P-61s fly through stormy weather. Technicians gather reports and look at record films on moviolas. A P-61 in flight gains altitude and banks.

Date: 1947, June
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029111
Nine year old equestrian prodigy puts champion pony that he, himself, trained, through a series of record jumps.

A newsreel titled " Child horseman puts pony over record jumps," shows a 9-year old award-winning boy equestrian, with his champion pony, in Wilmington, Ohio. He and his pony demonstrate their skills for the newsreel camera. First he is seen jumping his pony over a high post and rail obstacle. Next he jumps a double wide obstacle, and then, an extremely high single post and rail. Following that. the boy takes his pony over a triple wide post and rail jump. The next jumping challenge is aother horse being held within confines of a post and rail, by a man. The boy and his pony easily clear the standing horse. Closeup of the boy repeating his jump over the horse. Final scenes show him astride his pony, holding several trophies he'd won for his equestrian skills. Closeup of his champion pony, displaying numerous ribbons won in jumping competitions.

Date: 1935, December 18
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038436
Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II

Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032614
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