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Sights including Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal, Mount Vernon and Christ Church in Washington DC.
Film on Sesquicentennial of Washington DC, released in 1950. Film segments created for presentation by Treasury Department at meeting on April 25, 1929. A portrait of the first President of the United States George Washington. Animated maps of the original 13 colonies and the 10 square mile Federal District of Columbia. View of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. George Washington's landmark plantation home, Mount Vernon. Christ Church in Alexandria. Old houses on a street and a hill in Georgetown. Sketch of Suter's Tavern. Animated map shows the L'Enfant development plan and the location of principal buildings. The first section of the U.S. Capitol built on Jenkins Hill. The U.S. Capitol building designed by William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Sketch of the White House designed by James Hoban. Sketch of Capitol Building in 1827 with dome constructed by Charles Bullfinch.
Residential apartment developments east of Pennsylvania Avenue and near Oxon Hill and other areas outside Washington DC
1940s views of new housing units in the form of residential apartment buildings east of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Apartments with parking garages under them across the South Capitol street bridge near the Oxon Hill area. A 1940s sedan car pulls into a parking garage under an apartment building. Next view is out Maryland Avenue and over Bladensburg Avenue to the northeast, showing apartments and other buildings in the Greenbelt area. Car traffic is seen driving through the University of Maryland campus. Apartment construction underway in areas near the University of Maryland. Construction of Colonial Village, with aerial and ground level views of the site. Traffic driving along the Mount Vernon Highway with the Potomac River beside it (later George Washington Parkway). Apartment building construction in Alexandria. Busy traffic scene of commuters arriving in Washington DC on a work day. People get on and off trolley car lines in Washington, D.C. Other commuters wait to board a bus. Late 1940s automobile traffic on street in Washington, D.C.
Wright airplane flies with first army personnel Lt. Frank Lahm over Fort Myer in Virginia, during an official exhibition.
Official trial of the Wright airplane at Fort Myer in Virginia, United States demonstrating compliance with specifications in the presence of the Aeronautical Board, U.S. Signal Corps. Orville Wright and U.S. Army Lieutenant Frank Lahm in the cockpit of the aircraft prior to the take off. The airplane is launched and it flies over barracks and administration buildings. U.S. soldiers remove doors from a storage building. The soldiers prepare to remove the aircraft from the storage building. U.S. Secretary of War William Taft, U.S. Army Major General George Owen Squier, Lieutenant Lahm and Major Faltpsam stand near the hangar building as the aircraft is being removed from it. Men tow launching weight up into the top of a tower. The launching tower shows weights suspended. A soldier moves the Wright aircraft out to the launching platform. Lieutenant Lahm sitting at the controls. Orville Wright stands in the front talking to a mechanic while another officer stands on the right wing of the aircraft. The aircraft is launched. Spectators watch the flight. Orville Wright making adjustments in the aircraft engine prior to the first cross-country flight in America: from Fort Meyer to Alexandria. A person in the back pulls the propeller through. U.S. Army Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois sitting in the cockpit.
FBI agents and Virginia state police arrest criminals after motel stake out.
Dramatization. View of The Virginia Lodge motel at 6027 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA 22303-2101 from roof of building across the highway. An FBI agent observes motel while crouched on roof top. Close up man looking through binoculars. POV through binoculars at motel with parked cars. FBI agent removes binoculars and uses wireless telephone to communicate with another agent in an office, saying, "Eyeball 1 to dugout." FBI agent in office calls to “Eyeball 2”, another agent. View through car windshield of FBI agent talking on remote telephone while observing motel. FBI agent in office on phone. Chief of police answers the telephone from his office. A white panel truck drives in parking lot. FBI agent and chief of police talks to each other on the phone. Mugshots of criminals. Hand pointing to map drawn in chalk on blackboard. Virginia state troopers in meeting before sting operation. A senior police officer says to the gathering, "I want each of you to come up to the board and show me just what you will do from start to finish." Black and white photos of a car parked in front of a motel. A Virginia State Police car, a 4-door 1964 Plymouth Fury, rush into motel parking lot. Policemen hide behind police car. Police car rush to the scene in the motel. Policemen aim their guns hiding behind police cars in the motel parking lot. A man drinks a bottle of wine from his bed. Another man answers telephone call from the police. Man pulls out a handgun to confront surrounding police. View through motel window curtains at police with guns drawn. “They’re all over, it’s finished!” the man shouts at his companion in bed. Policeman pointing gun from behind building. Two men emerge out of motel room, backing out of doorway their hands in the air with their backs turned from the police. Policeman uses megaphone while holding a pistol, saying, "spread your feet apart." Suspects put hands against wall and FBI agents frisk the two arrested men thoroughly. FBI agents handcuff the two men and lead them away. State police enter the motel. Closing credits "The Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Axis forces of Rommel's Afrika Corps in full retreat after facing heavy Allied attacks in El Alamein, Egypt.
Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt, North Africa, between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942, during World War 2. View of Big Ben clock tower in London, England, United Kingdom. In a UK war material production facility, British women war production workers stop work to listen to BBC announcement over public address speaker that Axis forces of the Afrika Corps (Africa Corps) under German commander Rommel are in full retreat in El Alamein, Egypt. Scenes in North African of British tanks advancing past many pieces of destroyed German armor, tanks, and artillery. Views of captured German planes, artillery, tanks and prisoners. Some artillery and tanks destroyed or still smoldering from recent attack on the retreating German forces, including smoldering Panzer tanks (Pz IV). Destroyed and bombed out German Luftwaffe aircraft parked on the ground. Five divisions of Italian soldiers in the South, abandoned by Rommel are swept up by Allied forces as prisoners of war. Italian prisoners kneel at a ditch and drink water from it. German prisoners march under British guard. German General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, captured near the hill of Tel el Mampsra, marches on sand under British guard. Aerial views of British Royal Air Force planes bombing retreating German positions on ground. Bombs away views from aircraft, and explosions and clack smoke arises from ground. View of British RAF pilot in cockpit flying De Havilland DH 98 Mosquito aircraft and strafing German trucks and armor as they retreat across open desert. Low level views of British Mosquito aircraft as it strafes German positions, as seen from cockpit of Mosquito aircraft.
An aerial view of the Israeli attack on Egyptian aircraft during the six day war in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
Combat action between Israeli and Egyptian aircraft during the Six Day War, during War of Attrition, in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. A map of the war zone shows Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and surrounding areas. Israeli aircraft strafes Egyptian aircraft on an Egyptian airfield. Egyptian bombers and helicopters explode. A massive cloud of smoke rises. Aircraft in front of a hangar. Airstrips seen. Mountains in the background.