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Christening and launching of USS Natoma Bay.

Lord Halifax speaks over a microphone. Edgar Kaiser and Lord and Lady Halifax on platform. Lady Halifax christens ship and ship leaves ways. Ship goes down ways. Ship dead in water. Lord and Lady Halifax and women attendant on platform. Ship dead in water and tugboats approach. Bow view of ship on ways.

Date: 1943, July 20
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039512
Lady Halifax sponsoring a party on christening and launch ceremony of USS Natoma Bay in World War 2

Bow of ship. Lord and Lady Halifax sponsoring party on platform on launch of USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62). A man speaking on microphone. Spectators assembled at the party. Lord Halifax speaks at microphone. Lady Halifax near the microphone. Woman hands flower to Lady Halifax and crowd applauds. Lady Halifax cracks bottle and ship leaves ways.

Date: 1943, July 20
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039513
A U.S. Navy WAVE working in a motion picture projection booth in World War II

A woman of the U.S. Navy WAVES program ("Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service") operating motion picture projectors in a projection booth, during World War 2. She wears a short-sleeve white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie pushed back on each side. she watches the screen (unseen) while monitoring the projectors. The sequence is interrupted. It picks up again as she is seen threading the film on a motion picture film projector and starting it

Date: 1943
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039518
Constructing a new Petroleum refining facility in the United States

View from a height, of a Petroleum facility construction project underway. A crawler-Mounted Latticework Boom Crane on the site. Steel framing erected in places and pre-fabricated tanks of various sizes and configurations on the site. Workers digging with shovels in a waist-deep earthen hole. welders at work on large size piping. A man turning a large valve control. Workers moving through a labyrinth of pipes and valves. Tall fractionating columns.

Date: 1943
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039521
Newsreel "Biggest family of shipbuilders help win war"

Fifteen members of large Brockmiller family work in war production industry as ship builders at Kaiser Shipyards on the Pacific West Coast of the United States during World War 2. Wide view of war production workers busy at Kaiser Shipyards, building warships. Workers line up at pay booth to receive pay. A woman worker operating a blowtorch and then opening her protective face shield when done. The members of the family gathered at dining table eating food. Whole family including grandchildren seen together.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040769
Newsreel 'Cadets race in cross country endurance test' during World War 2

United States Navy cadets in the Naval Aviation program are seen in a 6 mile cross-country race during their basic training. U.S. Navy cadets run up hillsides, across waterways, and swim in larger water during the race.1,600 cadets seen racing for the endurance and fitness test.

Date: 1943
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040774