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A Yosemite Transport System (YTS) stage driving from a day trip in Yosemite, California

A Yosemite Transport System (YTS) stage drives up a rock-lined road from Yosemite. Conifer trees surround the mountainous roads. Scenic views of mountains and surrounding forests at Yosemite.

Date: 1937
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079639
Rainwater erosion damages crops in California, United States

Orange trees growing in an orchard in California during the Great Depression. Walnut trees in a grove. Mountains surround a bean field. Clouds forming before a storm. Wheat stalks blowing in the wind. Lightning and thunder during a thunderstorm. Torrential rain floods a farmland. Soil erosion from flooding seen on a hillside. A farmer walks through land severely damaged by floods after a storm. A farmer and his wife survey the damage done to their orange grove after flooding. Various farmlands damaged by soil erosion. Muddy topsoil oozing and collapsing during heavy rain. Rain washing away the topsoil of land. Gullies forming from torrential rain. Topsoil being washed away in creeks. Rapids in creeks during heavy rain, pouring into rivers. Flood washing away an uprooted tree. Soil erodes from side of a river. Aerial view of topsoil pouring into the Pacific Ocean along the California Coast.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079779
Amelia Earhart takes off from NAS Oakland, on first leg of her round-the-world flight.

Amelia Earhart and her crew take off from the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, to begin their flight around the world. Views from another aircraft as their Lockheed Electra flies low over Western Span of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco, heading West toward the Pacific Ocean. Scene on the ground, several days earlier, Paul Mantz and Amelia Earhart Putnam converse, as he secures a dzuz fastener on the aircraft fuselage. Mechanic Bo McKneely helps Earhart step from the wing of the airplane. She talks with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz, talks with Earhart and George Putnam while Bo McKneely refuels the Lockheed Electra. In final scenes, ground crew pushes the Lockheed Electra into a Hangar at the Naval Air Station.

Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063652
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan airborne in the Lockheed Electra checking navigation equipment and procedures

Preparations for Amelia Earhart's trip around the world in her Lockheed Electra airplane. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in flight, checking navigation equipment and procedures in the air. Aerial views from another aircraft of the Lockheed Electra over the Oakland Bridge and other landmarks. The aircraft is seen landing and taking off at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California

Date: 1937, March 13
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063653
Amelia Earhart takes off on her flight around the world. Preparations prior to the flight.

Amelia Earhart takes off from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland, California in her Lockheed Electra aircraft, to begin her round-the-world flight. The runway and ramp contain small puddles of water from a recent rain shower. Aerial views from another airplane of the Lockheed Electra as it flies over the Oakland area of California. View of Oakland Bay Bridge.(These were probably shot on March 13th during their checkout flight.) In separate scenes, prior to departure, on the ground, Amelia talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.

Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063654
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