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Yorktown Virginia USA 1936 stock footage and images

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Franklin D. Roosevelt at Arlington National Cemetery together with John J. Pershing on Armistice Day 1936.

Activities in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States during Armistice Day commemorations on November 11, 1936. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Arlington Cemetery, standing beside U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn. A large crowd gathered at the amphitheater near Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. U.S. Army General John Pershing speaks at amphitheater in Arlington.

Date: 1936, November 11
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068724
Laborers and projects of the Work Progress Administration in West Virginia during the Great Depression.

Men breaking rocks for road building in rural areas of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia. A 1936 Ford Tudor sedan car approaches and passes by, along a road through rural area. A man stands in a horse pulled cart moving on a rural road. Post office at Helvetia, West Virginia, a small town where many citizens still practice traditions from their heritage in Switzerland. Old woman sitting churning butter outside farmhouse. Women with Swiss cheese. Tourists arrive in Ford Tudor sedan car at Seneca Rocks, and views of the large rock formations. A sweeping wide view of Germany Valley. Work of the Conservation Commission fish hatchery in Morgan County, as fish including bass are added. Young women feed deer for restocking of forests. A woman feeds a white tailed deer fawn with a bottle. A woman pets a white tail deer buck with antlers.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051767
U.S. Navy Coastal Minesweeper operating in a river. Boat displays pennant containing three exclamation and three question marks

Coastal minesweeper operating on James River at mine warfare school, Yorktown, Virginia. Pennant containing three exclamation marks and three question marks (!!!???) suggests it was not yet officially commissioned.

Date: 1943, April 6
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049297
The Nuclear Ship Savannah is controlled by various dials as it is underway during test trials in the United States.

A film "The Nuclear Ship Savannah" depicts testing trials in the United States. Sea trials of the nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship, NS Savannah. She cruises in calm waters from her testing base at Yorktown, Virginia. Officers seen in operating positions. Helmsman steers her through various turning maneuvers. Engineers place challenging demands on her propulsion system from full speed ahead to full speed astern. Narrator calls attention to lack of smoke stack on this ship. atomic symbol painted on ship's side. Animated illustration of a nuclear reactor. View of turbine deck aboard the ship. View of the nuclear reactor control room. Numerous views of the Savannah cruising in calm waters. She is seen cruising the Delaware River near the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Model of the USS Savannah, first to cross the ocean using steam power (although she has sails). Animation showing departure of the Savannah from that city in 1819 and depicting boilers, retractable paddle wheels,and swiveling smoke stacks.

Date: 1962
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070683
The NS Savannah undergoes final sea trials including operation at full power from its nuclear reactor

The Nuclear Ship ( NS ) Savannah during its test trials in the United States. The NS Savannah leaving the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yards at Camden New Jersey, enroute to Yorktown, Virginia, is seen passing the Delaware Memorial Bridge, as she cruises along the Delaware River. views of spray blowing across the ship underway. View of reactor control room, where increasing levels of power are demanded until full (100%) power is set on April 14, 1962 and the Savannah achieves a speed of 22 knots. The NS Savannah docks at her home port of Savannah, Georgia.

Date: 1962, April 14
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070690
SPARS in uniform march on a road and attend a class in the United States.

New recruit SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve ) arrive at Benjamin Lincoln Hall in the Coast Guard Training Center, Yorktown, Virginia. The women in casual dress along with their luggage enter the buildingl. The girls march and is guided by a SPARS officer. The girls wearing CG (Coast Guard) uniform march in a squad. The girls marching on a road. Their feet are shown as they march. A woman seated at a desk talks. The SPARS attend a class. The SPARS seated at a table write. A SPARS officer stand at a podium in the background. A view of the SPARS seated at a table in the classroom.

Date: 1974
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069910