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A man becomes aware of telephone manners and decides to improve his telephone habits.

A film titled ' A new voice for Mr. X' shows through an enactment how a man becomes conscious of other person's telephone voices. Mr. X meets a friend and they both visit a telephone company shop where Mr X listens to a recording of his own voice as it sounds over a phone. He thinks of making changes in his office that will improve telephone conversations.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038314
A man establishes new telephone practices in his business organization.

An enactment shows a man ,Mr. X after having realized the importance of good telephone habits goes through newspaper,books and listens to radio broadcasts in order to learn to speak pleasantly. He observes how telephone calls are answered at various business organizations. He acquaints his staff members with new telephone habits for a better business. Scenes include the business man in his office with a female secretary standing by to take notes, scenes of the man in his living room chair, smoking a pipe and listening to his console radio, and scenes of the man in office settings.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038315
A man experiences improvement in his business after adopting new and better telephone practices

An enactment shows a man,Mr. X discussing the after effects of adopting new telephone practices involving personal interest, on his business. Wrong telephone habits lead to adverse effects on the business whereas pleasant telephone habits reflecting personal interest of the employee in the caller helps build reputation of the company. Scenes include the man in his business office talking to his female secretary, and various scenes with the man speaking on the telephone to different parties. Also scenes of two women speaking on the phone, and a shop keeper in a general store.

Date: 1940
Duration: 10 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038316
Goat kids being fed milk in United States

A newsreel titled 'Old man bock makes bid for "Quint" honors' shows five goat kids with a mother goat as a girl feeds milk to the kids from a bottle in United States. Kids sit in her lap.

Date: 1936
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038319
Howard Hughes flies a Northrup Gamma airplane from Chicago to Los Angeles in less than half a day

A newsreel titled 'Lunches in Chi. Hops to L.A. For his dinner.' Howard Hughes, famed industrialist and aviator, is seen dressed in a suit and tie, seated in a Chicago restaurant having lunch. He finishes and leaves. The next scene shows nose of a Northrop Gamma 2G airplane with engine running. A brief glimpse of Hughes,still in suit and tie, wearing leather flying helmet with goggles pushed up on his forehead. With Hughes piloting, the airplane taxis and takes off from Chicago. It is seen in a gentle left bank as it departs. Later, Hughes is seen landing at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California. Hughes is seen in opened cockpit as he taxis in to the parking ramp. He taxis past a Stinson hangar, parks, and climbs down from the aircraft. He is accompanied by a number of men as he walks across the parking ramp. (Note: Howard Hughes is flying a modified Gamma 2G airplane, number NC13761,that he leased from famous woman aviator, Jacqueline Cochran, who ordered it powered by a liquid-cooled 700-hp Curtiss Conqueror engine,driving a two-blade propeller. Hughes modified it with a 1000-hp Wright SR-1820-G2 radial engine, driving a three-blade constant speed propeller, and used it to set a new transcontinental nonstop record, flying from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 9 hours 26 minutes 10 seconds with an average speed of 259 mph, on 13-14 January 1936. The flight shown here set a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California.)

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038321
Bold Venture,a horse wins Preakness Stakes at Pimlico race course in Baltimore,Maryland

A newsreel titled 'Preakness won by Bold Venture in amazing finish' shows Bold Venture,a horse win Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico race course in Baltimore,Maryland.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038323