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Fruit development stages in cotton farming in southern states of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama of United States

Cotton farming in the southern states like Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama in the United States, early in the 20th century. Fruit development stages of the cotton plant. A farmer shows fruit in plant. Next stage is blossom, the developed flowers in cotton plant. A young girl attaches a flower to a boy's collar. The boll in fruit of plant develops. Man shows cotton fibers from the boll.

Location: Southern United States USA
Date: 1922
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036513
Protection of cotton fruit against boll weevil by farmers in southern states of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama of United States.

U.S. Government film documents cotton farming practices in southern states Texas, Mississippi, Alabama in the United States. Protection of developing cotton fruit from its arch-enemy boll weevil. A boll weevil eating up a cotton fruit. Farmers sprays a protective Calcium Arsenide pesticide in the cotton farms in night hours. Farmer on his mule cart, rides across the farm.

Location: Southern United States USA
Date: 1922
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036514
President Franklin Roosevelt signs Selective Service draft bill of 1940 in Washington DC.

President Franklin Roosevelt in his office in Washington DC. He is seated at his desk and signs the draft bill (Selective Service and Training Act of 1940, or STSA) which was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. Officials and cabinet members standing nearby. Painting on a wall in the background. He reads the conditions of bill. He states that the legislation intended to increase our armed forces becomes law. All men between 21 and 35 must register beginning October 16th, 1940. He says that "the terrible fate of nations whose weakness invited attack is too well known to us all. We must and we will marshal our great potential strength to fend off war from our shores. We must and we will prevent our land from becoming a victim of aggression."

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046158
Views of the United States. Farms, cities, highways, and beaches. Destruction in Japan by atomic bomb. U.S. infantry in combat

Farmers harvesting grain and corn with machinery on American farms with a narrow tractor harvester. Steel mills and heavy industry and cargo railroads in the United States. Industrial views with smokestacks releasing much smoke and smog (also pollution scenes). Scenes of New York City with busy streets filled with cars, buses, and truck traffic, together with pedestrians. Many varied 1940s and 1950s cars on the roads. Elevated and also aerial views of U.S. highway networks busy with 1940s and 1950s cars. Views of Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. Scenes of destruction in Japan from the atomic bomb, with sweeping views of destroyed city in Hiroshima or Nagasaki circa 1945 or 1946. U.S. Army infantrymen engaged in house-to-house fighting in Europe during World War II, firing rifles and moving between points of cover in a city filled with rubble.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043634
1930s and 1940s automobiles cross Market Street Bridge in Youngstown Ohio, United States

Traffic on streets in city of Youngstown Ohio. Point of view shot from a moving car showing 1930s and 1940s vintage automobiles crossing Market Street Bridge in Youngstown.

Location: Youngstown Ohio USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068413
Famous football games between Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins and between Cornell and Dartmouth

Some 1940 U.S. football highlights. Scenes of a long touchdown run and an interception and touchdown run from the 1940 National Football League Championship Game that the Chicago Bears won 73-0, on December 8, 1940. Scenes from the Dartmouth-Cornell "Fifth-Down" game of November 16, 1940, with Cornell quarterback "Pop" Scholl throwing a "winning" touchdown pass to William Murphy.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046739
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