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A boxing match in United States

Two men punch each other at a ring to win a boxing bout during Congressional inspection tour in United States. Referee declares a man winner as policemen cheer.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058608
Forests being burned to clear away the land for agricultural use in United States.

' Up in flames' about the history of fire fighting forests. Men cut tree in a forest in United States. Forests being burned to clear away the land for farming. A massive forest fire storm is shown. Smoke rises from the remains after the fire. Men clearing the land. Cleared up piece of land.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1984
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058683
The "Big Blowup" forest fire of 1910 in Elk City Idaho. Firefighters recruited.

History of fire fighting in forests in United States. United States President Theodore Roosevelt standing with several persons, including John Muir and Chief Forester, Gifford Pinchot. Roosevelt on speaker's stand. Picture of Northern District Forester, William B. Greely and his staff, in Missoula, Montana. Scenes from 1910 during period of drought. A ranger checks a rain gauge. Picture of Smoke rising in a forest as a fire breaks out in Montana. Firefighters are recruited and head to Montana on horses and mules. Smoke rises as fire spreads across the forest. Firefighters work with hand tools and axes in attempt to control the fires. August 20, 1910, hurricane force winds create the "Big Blowup" fire storm starting in Elk City Idaho. Destruction in Wallace, Idaho. Scenes of aftermath, showing swaths of destroyed forest. Men in area filled with smoke, felling a large tree using axes. Forest Rangers standing on a mountain peak, scanning the horizon, with field glasses, for signs of fire. A Ranger on horseback. A Ranger approaches a fire, puts his backpack down and starts to clear brush. A fire warden standing on a peak looking for signs of fire.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058684
Early activities in the United States to combat forest fires. Circa 1910 scenes of lookout stations. Osborne fire finder

Scenes of early Forest Ranger activities to fight forest fires. A circa 1910 photo of Fire Warden standing on observation post at top of extremely tall tree. A flag flies at the observation post. A tree House observation post on the top of a tall bare tree. A "wooden skyscraper"lookout tower. A fire warden and his family pose in front of their house at the base of a lookout tower in Arkansas. Lookout house built on a high peak in Willamette National Forest, Oregon. A tall steel tower lookout in the Suwanee forest, Georgia. A Ranger at an early lookout point, equipped only with a map and compass. Fire warden sights through a W.B. Osborne's fire finder and makes a telephone call. Observations from two ranger stations being plotted on a map and the intersecting lines give the exact location of area under fire.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058685
Early means of communication used in case of a forest fire in United States.

Early developments in North American forest fire detection and communication Various methods of communication used to send information during a forest fire. Smoke rises from forest and a Ranger, carrying a spade, climbs a hill in the area. Circa 1920 picture of a man with a carrier pigeon used to send information in case of forest fire. Rangers with shovels working around smoking underbrush. Another man with a hand mirror for reflecting the suns rays and sending a signal to others. A man speaks over a telephone. Man in a room as he speaks over a wireless handset.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058686
U.S. Army aircraft patrol for forest fires, in 1919, in the United States. Bulldozers and forest plows introduced in 1932

World War I scenes of U.S. Army airplanes in action at the front. A picture of U.S. Army Major Henry A. (Hap) Arnold and California Forester Kurt Dubois, who, together, started the fire patrol practice by United States Army aircraft in1919. Army flyers lined up on a field. Army Curtis JN-4 (Jenny) airplanes in flight as smoke rises from the forests below. Weighted messages with ribbons attached, being dropped by pilots while in flight to inform about a forest fire. Later on after the installation of radios a pilot sends a message on a radio set in case of a forest fire. In 1920s, Crawler tractors used to skid logs out of the forest. In 1925, tractor with a blade was developed and used to build forest roads. In 1932, a Bulldozer being used to create firebreaks during a Southern California fire. A fire plow in operation.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058687
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