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Pilot's compartment of the Memphis Belle B-17 aircraft shows pilot at controls.

Outtakes from the Memphis Belle documentary movie. Combat missions of B-17 aircraft in France. Top turret of B-17 firing. Large aerial formation of B-17s. Interior of the Memphis Belle B-17. Appears to be Pilot Captain Robert Morgan at controls and views of tail gunner, Staff Sgt John P. Quinlan. Aerial formation of B-17s. B-17s leaving vapor trails behind. Aerial views of coastline. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053118
General Devers and Colonel Era C Eaker inspect the Memphis Belle B-17 aircraft on USAAF airfield in England.

Outtakes from the Memphis Belle documentary movie. B-17 aircraft on U.S. Army Air Force airfield in England. Mechanics on top of plane. Colonel Ira C Eaker and General Jacob L Devers inspect the famous Memphis Belle. General Devers addresses the crew of the Memphis Belle and other airmen gathered. A B-17 stationary on the airfield.

Date: 1942
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053119
Launching of cruiser USS Santa Fe (CL-60) by sponsor Miss Caroline T. Chavez in Camden, New Jersey.

Launching of USS Santa Fe (CL-60) in Camden, New Jersey in World War 2. Sponsor of the Santa Fe, Miss Caroline T. Chavez speaks into a microphone. Officers and guests in background. Chocks under the side of the Santa Fe prior to the launch. Miss Caroline and two maids of honor at the launching ceremony. Miss Chavez breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of Santa Fe as she starts to slide down the way. Shipyard workers wave at the launching of the ship.

Date: 1942, June 10
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053296
Cruiser USS Santa Fe (CL-60) slides down ways at her launch in Camden, New Jersey.

Launching of USS Santa Fe (CL-60) in Camden, New Jersey in World War 2. USS Santa Fe slides down the way. Shipyard workers at the launch of the ship. Tugs take over Santa Fe and tow her into a basin.

Date: 1942, June 10
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053297
British film intended to acquaint British people with United States landscape, rail transportation, and farming history.

British World War 2 era film showing scenes in the United States from earlier in the 1900s. Film opens showing 19th Century animated map of the United States. It traces the development of the railroads in the U.S. It shows rail lines reaching the Missouri River by the year 1860. (Narrator states this took 250 years to happen.) But in another 10 years, the map shows the Union Pacific and other rail lines extending two the West Coast, and U.S. commerce shifting, from North-South movement, to East-West (with an animated steam locomotive moving across the map). Chicago is highlighted as the greatest railway junction in the world (the "Piccadilly Circus" as the British narrator describes it). View of a late 1800s model steam locomotive train pulling freight railroad cars on railroad tracks in a desert area of the Western United States. Point of view from camera on moving railroad train pointing straight down at railroad tracks moving by at high speed. Landscape and wide views of the arid Western parts of the U.S. Group of Native American Indians watching a railroad train pass. Construction supplies being offloaded from a train. A wind-driven water pump. Buffalo herds affected by the railroads. Wire fencing installed to control cattle on large Western ranches. Large team of horses pulling late 1800s wheat harvesting farm equipment as it harvests wheat in fields. Views of wheat grains being poured at high volume. Cattle roaming in the high country. Views of Chicago stock yards. A man marking in chalk on a Board of Trade chalk board, indicating the prices of farm commodities including wheat, corn, oats, and rye. Various views of steam locomotives pulling trains throughout the rail network, including some 20th century trains near the end of the film, and some close-up views of wheels turning fast on moving railroad trains.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053396
Model community, growth in cities, and town meetings in the United States.

A U.S. Army soldier seated on a chair takes a nap. A cup kept in front of him on the table. Children walking on sidewalk in small town America. Downtown view of small Indiana town. View of an American family of a small town seated in dining room for a dinner meal. Children exit a one room school house. Both a well-kept high school building and a rural simple school are shown, with boys and girls in bare feet exiting the poor rural school down a wooden ramp. Men lined up for work. Children playing in slum and tenement areas in poverty stricken areas. Quick views of skyscrapers, new schools, buildings, colleges (including view of Rice University in Houston Texas) and art galleries in the United States, including the National Gallery of Art entrance. A Texan in a cowboy hat delivers a John Randolph famed "Texas Brag" saying, "If all the hogs in Texas were one big hog, he could dig the Panama Canal with three roots and a grunt.” The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Labor organizer John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) states, "The American Federation of Labor can help if it will, it can uphold anything, but we shall carry on." An American town hall meeting in progress. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053397