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Tobacco growing and harvesting at tobacco farm.

Chesterfield Cigarette packets put into cartons by men in a factory. Cartons move on conveyor belt. Houses, traffic, pedestrians and church in a city. A monument in the city. Men discuss outside a building. Man enters office. Door sign reads 'Agriculture Conservation Association AAA County Office'. Men at desk examine tobacco leaves and share documents. Sign 'Tobacco Experiment Station'. Tobacco plants at experimental stations. Tobacco bundles on horse-drawn cart. Men at a tobacco farm. A man sows tobacco seeds. Field covered by men. Tractor ploughs field. Men at the farm place tobacco seedlings. Young boys come at farm with shovels. Tractor driven in farm and men cut weeds. Growing transplanted tobacco plants in farm. Men top at field. Young boys ride horses. Men pluck leaves from plants at farm. Horse-drawn carts loaded with tobacco leaves. Leaves cut by men and women. Tobacco leaves tied on wooden sticks stored in a room. Leaves heated in a room. Hanging leaves examined by men after heating. Old man and a woman wrap similar leaves together in grading process. Men in the farms.

Location: Virginia United States USA
Date: 1949
Duration: 10 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039929
A documentary film about Danville, Virginia and the role of tobacco in the lives of its people

Film begins showing a sign on a wooden barn, reading: "Barn Dance Tonight." Country music is heard. View inside the barn shows a fiddler playing, along with musicians playing guitar, banjo, and piano. Couples dance to the music. Closeups of the musicians. Closeups of dancers. Closeups of spectators feet moving to the rythms. A girl eating an ice cream cone while seated watching the dancers. Scenic views of the countryside in Autumn. Farmers loading tobacco from barns into trucks that are seen moving on highways, to market. A sign in a cornfield reads: "Danville, VA. World's Best Tobacco Market." View of downtown Danville, busy because it is auction time. Sign at a newspaper office reads: "The Bee, Founded 1899." Inside the shop, a printer reads a new edition of the paper with headline about "Opening Tobacco Sales." Open stake truck carries load of tobacco into Holland's Auction warehouse. Glimpse of auctioneer taking bids. Farmer takes a "lot" of tobacco in a wheelbarrow for weighing. Buyers gathered around a table, examine tobacco and bid as auctioneer chants. Farmers collect proceeds of their sales from cashier at the auction house. Views of farmers and families in the business district of Danville. Men fill a barbershop and converse, while waiting for haircuts. Next, the film shows folks enjoying themselves at a "County Fair." Tents and amusement rides dominate the fair grounds. Many views of children on Ferris Wheels, Merry-go-rounds, and other rides. Older persons watch aerial performers on a high wire. Various pieces of farm equipment are on display and looked over by farmers. Prize live stock is exhibited by some farmers. People pass a dixplay entitled: "The Farm Family, the Heart of the Nation."Women exmine samples of foods displayed in glass containers. Samples of eggs are examined by judges.Other camples of vegetables and such are judged. Tobacco samples are also judged for quality. A judge places a blue ribbon on the winning tobacco sample. At a large display of competing tobacco lots, the blue ribbon winner discusses his product with other farmers. Scene shifts to growing season, showing tobaccco farmers working in their fields.

Location: Virginia United States USA
Date: 1949
Duration: 6 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039930
Titan and Bomarc missiles launched at Cape Canaveral.

Titan I missile launched. Cars arrive at gated entrance to Cape Canaveral. Military Police (MP) on guard. Sign at the entrance reads 'Atlantic Missile Range'. Four engine drone planes take off controlled by operator on the ground. Bomarc missile wheeled out of hangar. Images of radar screens tracking the drone plane. Bomarc missile launched toward drone plane. Bomarc missile intentionally redirected shortly before impact with the drone plane in order to save the drone plane for other tests.

Location: Cape Canaveral Florida USA
Date: 1962
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039931
SM-62 Snark missile and Jupiter 'C' Explorer launched.

SM-62 Snark missile launched. Jupiter missile launched. Night view, Jupiter 'C' Explorer launched. Sparrow missile carried by F-3D plane releases, streaks through air and hits an aircraft B-17 in flight. B-17 explodes.

Location: Cape Canaveral Florida USA
Date: 1962
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039932
U.S. infantry in combat at battlefield.

Personnel at controls in the blockhouse, prepare to launch Atlas missile. Atlas missile launched. C-119 plane flies overhead. Mass of paratroopers jump and float to earth. U.S. infantry fires rifles at fields. Mechanical mule with 106mm recoil less rifle moves across field. Tracked vehicle fires mortar from its rear. SS-10 antitank weapon fires missile at a tank in distance. Shell follows till it hits the tank. Multiple rocket launcher fires and bursts on target. M-2, 8 inch howitzer and M-53, 155 SP gun are fired. Bursts in the distance. Several H-13D helicopters fire machine guns while hover over the ground. Cameraman records battle.

Location: Cape Canaveral Florida USA
Date: 1962
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039934
Two-engine bomber take off from carrier on a mission.

Republic F-105 Thunderchief and a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter in flight. KC-135 Jet tanker refuels a bomber. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carries an X-15 while in flight. Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber in flight. Ships at sea. Delta jet takes off from carrier USS Enterprise. Two-engine bomber takes off from carrier. H-34 helicopter takes off from the carrier. Mr. Hunter and Commander Harper chat on bridge of Enterprise. U.S. Navy airship blimp takes off from deck of aircraft carrier. Destroyer pass carrier. Alfa missile launched from destroyer and explodes in the sea. Guppy-type submarine. Atomic subs Seawolf SS-575 and Nautilus SSN-571. Atomic sub Skate SS-578 breaks through ice at North Pole. Admiral George W. Anderson on bridge of Skate. Launch of the submarine George Washington SSBN-598.

Location: Cape Canaveral Florida USA
Date: 1962
Duration: 5 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039935
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