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Various vintage EV delivery vans and trucks running on Edison Batteries (nickel-iron battery)

Animation shows the location of Edison Battery (also known as nickel-iron battery or NiFe battery) as installed in an early EV trucks. Photos of early EV trucks include a ‘Beech-nut Packing Company delivery’ battery powered electric van and a ‘National Biscuit Company’ (Nabisco) electric delivery truck. Several ‘Ward’s Tip Top Bread’ battery electric delivery vans leave a building. A ‘Sunshine Biscuits’ battery electric delivery van drives out of a warehouse. An ‘Imperial Laundry Co.’ battery electric delivery van driving on the street. A driver reverses and parks a ‘Ward Baking Co.’ vintage EV delivery van. Close up of Thomas Alva Edison's hand writing a letter about battery electric power, in which he notes that his battery promises "actual savings in practically every industry." Thomas A. Edison signs a letter while sitting at his desk and smiles. His Edison battery is on the desk before him.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080180
Jim Henson and other puppeteers prepare and rehearse with ‘The Muppets’ characters

A feature on Jim Henson, creator of 'The Muppets'. The Muppets characters such as the Cookie Monster, Grover, and Herry Monster on display. Big Bird smiling. Oscar the Grouch hiding behind a tree. Cookie Monster holding an A-shaped cookie. The Muppets creator Jim Henson rehearses a Sesame Street sketch as Ernie. Another puppeteer playing as Simon Soundman rehearse alongside Jim Henson in front of a mirror. Jim Henson talks to a colleague beside a woman inside his Manhattan office. “It seems to me that it might be better to use the little guy Harvey Muskrat (sic) for that part” Jim Henson told his colleague. Puppet designers working at the Jim Henson Company studio. A female puppet designer adjusts the dress of Ma Otter from ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’. Another female designer cuts fabric from her desk. A female puppeteer moves the head of a Muppet puppet. Jim Henson performs as Emmet Otter from the Muppets movie ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’ (1977). Emmet Otter tells a joke to a woman, making her laugh. A puppet designer works to animate Ma Otter. Animatronics control Ma Otter as she uses a sewing machine. Emmet Otter rowing a boat. A puppet designer operates animatronics to make Emmet Otter move. Emmet Otter’s head moving automatically. The Howard Snake from ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’ moving his mouth. Jim Henson, producers, and puppeteers attend a script read-through. Jim Henson holding Fred Lizard. Puppeteers rehearse as the ‘Riverbottom Nightmare Band’ Muppets. Jim Henson performs as Howard Snake.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1977
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080181
Director Oveta Culp Hobby speaks to first batch of graduating WAAC officers in Fort Des Moines (WW2)

United States Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Director Oveta Culp Hobby speaking to first WAAC officers to graduate from Officers Candidate School in Fort Des Moines, Iowa during World War II. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps salute before taking their seats. Audience clapping before Director Hobby congratulates the graduates of the six-week WAAC program. “In the days and years to come, this saga will become of increasing strength to the nation. Shortly you will go on active duty, your graduation today is, in a real sense, a commencement of service” Hobby continued. “I can assure you, that you will be serving the purpose you had in mind when you volunteered as officer candidates for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. I can assure you that it is a path of duty and devotion. You will serve as incorruptible witnesses for freedom. You have formed the soul of this corp. We will flourish and inspire and guide those who will follow you” Hobby concludes her speech before introducing Representative Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers to the graduates.

Location: Des Moines Iowa USA
Date: 1942, August 29
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080233
Hippie "love in" at New York's Central Park

A hippie with Afro hairstyle and a flower in his hair dancing. Hippies dancing to rock music at a love-in in Central Park, New York City. Narrator says, "rock music is a basic ingredient of the hippy life. So too are drugs..." A hippie dances wildly. A hippie woman with elaborate eye makeup who appears to be high or tripping on drugs. Hippies playing a xylophone outdoors. A man gathers a bunch of flowers from a box in Central Park. Hippie giving away flowers.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1970
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080246
Operation Doorstep personnel bring model cars and mannequins into the Nevada Test Site

Explosion from nuclear blast. Destroyed houses and debris after a nuclear weapon explosion during nuclear testing by the United States. A mannequin partially covered by wood debris. Two men inspect groups of sitting mannequins. View of male, female, and infant mannequins. A man carries a female mannequin into a truck. Old and new passenger cars parked on the side of a road. Cars are marked with numbers. Cars start to drive in a convoy. Cars driving on the highway to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)’s Nevada Test Site, formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, in Nye County Nevada. Cars are left at Yucca Flat. Joshua trees and weeds on Yucca Flat. Instruments to measure temperature are attached to the cars. A radiation film badge behind a car seat. Parked cars are stationed in various ranges from intended ground zero of shot Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear test during Operation Doorstep. A man places a female mannequin on the passenger seat of a car. A boy mannequin is seen inside the car.

Location: Nye County Nevada USA
Date: 1953, March
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080260
Mannequins posed inside rooms of model houses at the Nevada Test Site before nuclear blast

Vehicles parked outside a model framed house at the Nevada Test Site before Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep. United States Civil Defense personnel gather outside the model framed houses. A KTLA news van parked outside a model house at the Nevada Test Site. Venetian blinds on house windows. Mannequins sitting in a model first floor living room and dining room. Girl and toddler mannequins sitting on the floor together. A mannequin lying in a sickbed. A pair of shoes on top of bedside table. A mannequin holding a book faces the window. A scale model of a box-type shelter. Mannequin inside a shelter. A bomb tower seen from a distance. Model house and a car near the bomb tower. Outdoor shelter of reinforced concrete at the Nevada Test Site. A scale model shows the interior view of a basement exit type home shelter.

Location: Nye County Nevada USA
Date: 1953, March
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080261
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