Refine Your Search

Adak Alaska USA 1943 stock footage and images

- Showing 12775 to 12780 of 27411 results
Uses of dynamite for agriculture, digging ditches, exploding buildings and breaking ice jams in the United States.

A film on uses of dynamite in the United States. Use of explosives for advancement of agriculture. An area is cleared for agriculture by exploding it with dynamite. Smoke rises from the explosion. Men watch the explosion. A ditch is dug with the help of dynamite. An old church building is exploded with dynamite to make a new building. Smoke rises from the explosions. Ice jams are broken by exploding.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076926
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets and talks with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in Washington DC, United States.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC, United States during World War II. Churchill seated with U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a desk. Some officers standing behind them. Churchill and Roosevelt talk and pose.

Date: 1941, December 22
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077053
A large crowd of workers pledge their services as air raid wardens in Chicago, Illinois.

A mass meeting of workers in Chicago, Illinois. Interior of a building. A large crowd of workers seated inside a hall. The U.S. flag flying on a flag pole. A banner reads: 'Remember Pearl Harbor Be Alert'. Other banner reads: 'President Roosevelt Mayor Kelly We are Ready'. The workers pledge their services as air raid wardens.

Date: 1941, December 22
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077058
People gather during church rites undertaken for pilot hero Colin P. Kelly in Madison, Florida.

The nation honors pilot hero Colin P. Kelly in Madison, Florida. He sacrificed his life after crippling a Japanese warship off the Philippines during World War II. People gather outside a church. People including his wife come out of the church. Airplanes fly in formation overhead. A photograph of Kelly on a table. Kelly's widow seated near the photograph reads a paper. Kelly's wife and infant pose.

Date: 1941, December 22
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077060
A large homecoming crowd gathers to watch the college football game between Army and Rice in Houston, Texas.

Homecoming 1958 college football game played at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. The Rice Owls host the U.S. Army cadets from Westpoint. Scenes from the game. Rice Quarterback Alvin Hartman connects key passes to Buddy Dial. Also scenes with Army Quarterback Joe Caldwell throwing to Bill Carpenter (known as the "Lonesome End"), and later to halfback Bob Anderson. During the game, 69,000 home fans at Rice Stadium cheer while watching the action. After blocking a Rice field goal attempt on the 9 yard line, Army scores on a touchdown pass to Pete Dawkins (later the Heisman Trophy winner that year) in the final minute to win over the Rice Owls 14-7.

Date: 1958, November 8
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077064
Speed racers Sir Malcolm Campbell and Gar Wood break records in the United States.

New land and sea speed records are set in the United States. People gather in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sir Malcolm Campbell seated in his race car 'Blue Bird'. He drives the car on Daytona beach and sets a new record driving at the speed of 272 miles per hour. People cheer. Close view of him smoking a cigarette in the car after his speed run. Speedboat racer Garfield Arthur Wood seated aboard his speedboat 'Miss America' on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. He races the 5000 horsepower mahogany speedboat and wins the Harmsworth Trophy. Close up view of Gar Wood smiling after his race. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077067