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Successful six-shot flight test of Project Orion small scale model.

Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by a series of nuclear detonations, called nuclear pulse propulsion. A successful six-shot flight test of a Project Orion model is seen.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039745
Boys speak about their discovery of buried gold coins and how it will help them financially.

A film titled 'Boys dig up pot of gold'. View of the three story row house at 132 S. Eden Street in Baltimore, Maryland. View of a basement window on the building. View inside an office of two teenage boys, Theodore Jones and Henry Grob, standing in front of a desk covered by gold coins they discovered when digging a hole in the basement of the Eden Street building in August 1934. Close-up view of the gold coins and the degraded metal can that had held them when they discovered it underground. (Their discovery yielded 3,558 gold coins dating from the 1830s-1850s, with a face value of $11,200.) Henry Grob speaks and says, "I'm glad tthat the decision of Judge O'Dunne (Judge Eugene O'Dunne) was in our favor, because now I can complete my education, buy my mother a home, and help others in my family who are in need." Theodore Jones then adds, "That's a swell idea. I think I'll do the same." Close-up view of hands of a man picking up a number of the coins.

Date: 1935, February 20
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039748
A preacher Elder Michaux describes his view of paradise.

A preacher Elder Michaux leads his people in song they sing. People clap and sing. Elder Michaux describes his view of paradise.

Date: 1935, February 20
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039749
Preacher speaks to congregation of Sharecroppers.

Group of Sharecropper farmers enters church in a rural town. View of church bell beside a simple, small wooden church building. Scenes of the church parisioners entering and leaving the church. Interiors of the church. Men and women seated. Preacher reads and speaks to congregation. Men and women listen to preacher and stand.

Date: 1939, April
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039755
Preacher leads the congregation of sharecroppers.

Congregation of sharecropper farmers sings "What a friend we have in Jesus" in a church. Sharecroppers seated and listen to Preacher. They stand.

Date: 1939, April
Duration: 5 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039756
Images of European immigrants to America around turn of the 20th Century

Camera pans over still images of late 19th and early 20th Century immigrants to America. One group photo shows men standing around women seated. Voice of an old man, from Liverpool England, narrates as camera shows more views of immigrant families. Scene shifts to that man speaking of the hardships and poverty of immigrants he witnessed passing through the port of Liverpool, England.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039763