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Charles Lindbergh and others review troops at Fort Amador in Panama.

Colonel Charles Lindbergh along with Major General William S Graves, Commanding General of Canal Zone, Major General Malin Craig and Brigadier General William Cruikshank review troops at United States Army base, Fort Amador in Canal Zone, Panama on January 11, 1928.

Date: 1928, January 11
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049067
United States OA-10 of the 1st Rescue Squadron lands at sea in a practice rescue of men in a life raft in the Carribean

Air Sea rescue operations in the Carribean. Officers in control room as they speak over the wireless. A man plots on a map. United States Air Force OA-10 A air sea rescue plane, from the First Rescue Squadron at Howard Air Force Base, U.S. Panama Canal Zone, is seen in flight. Aircraft flies low over the sea. Crew of the plane in the observation point while in flight. Men in life raft wave towards the plane. Rescue plane lands and taxis.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051343
People at railroad tracks after a blast at Drainage Canal tunnel in Chicago, Illinois.

People at railroad tracks after a blast at Drainage Canal tunnel in Chicago, Illinois. Vast crowd gather to see. Trapped firemen and workers saved by rescue workers by means of buckets similar to that used in mine shafts. Smoke rises from a building.

Date: 1931, April 16
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035142
United States soldiers enjoy fishing at Fort Amador in Panama

Canal Zone in Panama. United States soldiers catch fish with fishing rods at the end of causeway at Fort Amador in Panama. Ships in the distant background as they wait to enter the canal. Hills in the background as soldiers stand and sit on rocks to catch fish.

Date: 1953, July 7
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048569
German engineer, Reinhold Tilling, conducts the first successful mail-rocket flight, on Dümmersee near Osnabrück,Germany

Men carefully move a Tiling mail rocket from a boat on a canal, handing it up to others on shore. Row boats are seen in the canal and sailboats on the lake (Dümmersee) in the background. The rocket is carefully carried with fins folded and placed on the ground. Reinhold Tiling with his assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, prepare the rocket for launch. View of rocket, being held,sitting on its nose. In next scene, the rocket is placed on its launch pole,in the marsh, behind a man sitting in a boat.The launch team raises the rocket. In next scene,viewed at a safe distance, the rocket emits smoke, rises rapidly, and slowly turns toward the lake (Dümmersee). Next, the rocket is seen on the surface of the lake with its wings open, as the team, standing in a boat, recovers it. A completely new sequence begins on Sunday, August 21, 1932,with more rocket launches at Atterheide-Osnabrück. Several Tiling rockets are seen laid out on the ground, with their wings opened. Closeup of a single rocket. Still photographs of show a rocket early in launch and another of rocket curving away later in the flight.

Date: 1931, April 15
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024388
King Victor Emanuel III watches the Regatta Storica in Venice, Italy.

The annual Regatta Storica takes place on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Several gondolas and boats are being rowed in the Grand Canal during the Regatta Storica. The boats row under the Rialto Bridge (Sestiere San Polo, 30125 Venezia VE, Italy). King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy speaks to officials as he watches the regatta. A group of men row an elaborate boat.

Date: 1931, September 24
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059120