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Transmission of a telephone call from San Francisco to Plymouth, England; early switchboard operators.

A film shows how voice travels over phones, and dramatizes the transmission of a telephone call from San Francisco to Plymouth, England. Functions of telephone system components, including generators, towers, transformers, technicians at circuits, wire lines and the aerial systems at Rocky Point in New York, Cupar in Scotland and Houlton in Maine. Shows switchboard activity at the London Trunk Exchange. Workers, mostly women telephone switchboard workers, answering and routing calls in telephone exchange.

Location: Rocky Point New York USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 16 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039602
Ohio Senator and Presidential candidate Warren Harding surrounded by people on boardwalk in Atlantic City.

Ohio Senator Warren Harding walks along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City New Jersey. Footage is dated 1920, likely during the run up to the 1920 presidential election in which Harding was elected President. He is interrupted by a young girl while taking a walk on the boardwalk. Then many children surround Mr. Harding to shake his hand and greet him.

Location: Atlantic City New Jersey USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039647
Olympic Mountains and Mount Rainier as seen from a plane flying over Washington coast.

Plane flies over Washington coast and cloudy skies. Olympic Mountains in background. Islands and rocks on coast. Mount Rainier is seen above low hanging clouds.

Location: Washington State United States USA
Date: 1966, April
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039730
View of rocks and islands on Washington coast and Mount Rainier as seen from a flying plane.

View from a plane flying over Washington coast. Low hanging clouds over Washington coast and Olympic Mountains in background. Islands and rocks on coast. Mount Rainier is seen.

Location: Washington State United States USA
Date: 1966, April
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039731
Nuclear reactors designed and developed to power spacecraft after numerous tests.

Los Alamos Atomic Energy Commission Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico and mountains in the background. Scientists work with diagrams of nuclear reactors. Different equipment and nuclear rocket designs. Prototype of Nuclear reactor is made. Technicians work with KIWI experimental reactors. Towers and buildings in desert. KIWI reactor is checked in nuclear assembly. Reactor is taken to the testing area on a special rail car. Man works at a remote station to control the car. Liquid hydrogen is pumped into the reactor on rail car from near by storage tanks. Reactor tested on test stand shows flaming torch. Reactor transported for disassembly and inspection on car by remote control. Men use remote control manipulators for inspection. Exhaust gas from other reactor on test stand. Men work on diagrams. Narrator discusses next step as the NERVA program (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications), a combined government and private industry (Aerojet and Westinghouse) effort headed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO). Animated nuclear rocket shown with NERVA technology, given the letter designation NRX.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1968
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039738
Use of radio for communicating to the general public; behind the scenes aspects of radio broadcasting, and people listening to vintage radios.

Big clock illuminated at night. Pendulum swings on cuckoo clock. Woman darns a sock. Little boy rides on father's back as he crawls on all fours. Boys hands seen turning dials on vintage radio as family listens to radio in their living room. A wealthy high society couple pour themselves coffee from silver set. The man gets up and turns dial to listen to radio. Patient in hospital room with bed lamp lit and nurse touches patient's forehead. Patient wakes up and turns on the radio. Couple in a parked car. Man turns on radio. Announcer watches the wall clock ticking off seconds. An orchestra prepares to play in a radio studio. Panel on WNBC in group discussion. President Truman speaks. View of football game and a radio studio drama production underway. Fibber Magee opens his famous closet. Exterior view of Rockefeller Plaza and pan view of 30 Rockefeller Center building from ground level upward (RCA building entrance). Teletype machines, switchboards and wires of radio and television studio operations. NBC radio tower. Radio engineer with earphones works at a radio broadcast control panel. Interiors of WMCA lobby. Engineer at radio system controls. Woman in a room applies facial cream, walks up to the phone and dials. Girls at telephones near radio announcer in studio take orders.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039750
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