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The Washington Redskins in Ballston, Virginia perform drills during training for their first football game of the 1938 season.

The Washington Redskins Pro football team members in training for their season-opening game with the College All Stars. The team members perform various drills. Two players hold a barrel with no top or bottom as the quarterback throws the ball through it. Players kick field goals. A player kicks the football off the nose of a fellow player laying on his back. A coach sprays water from a hose on team members while they are lying on the ground. A flag of the United States in the background.

Location: Ballston Virginia USA
Date: 1938, August 15
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033925
Army Air Forces airplane crashes in front of spectators during air show at Langley Field, Virginia, 11 December 1938.

Crowd gathered to watch air show celebrating 20th anniversary of Langley Field, Virginia. Seven Y1B-17s from the 2nd Bombardment Group, at Langley Field, fly very low in an echelon-right formation. The crowd gazes at the sky. Several Consolidated PB-2As, from the 8th Pursuit Group, in flight. R3-2As dive and fly by in front of the crowd. A lone Y1B-17 flies low over the ground. One of several low-flying PB-2As, 35–50, of Headquarters Squadron, 8th Pursuit Group, suddenly dives into the ground and crashes, bursting into flames. People watch the burning wreckage. A crash truck responds and is seen besides the wreckage. Spectators rush towards the crashed plane. (Army Air Corps Major Alfred J. Waller was killed in the crash and Observer, Sergeant John Johnston was injured.)

Location: Langley Field Virginia USA
Date: 1938, December 11
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045790
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt inspects one of the government's rural settlement communities in Arthurdale, West Virginia.

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives in Arthurdale, West Virginia. View of new houses in the area built through US government New Deal programs. Roosevelt seated with other officials in a car. He arrives to inspect one of the government's new rural settlement communities. People gather on a road of the rural town. Roosevelt seated in his car and talking to people who have gathered around, including men, women, and children. A boy nearby wearing a Boy Scout uniform. President Roosevelt makes a joke as he pets the nose of a steer, saying that "it's what people call a West Virginia moose." A family poses for the camera on a porch. The people laugh. Scene changes to Roosevelt addressing people in a hall, as the graduation speaker for the local high school in Arthurdale. He speaks about the new tax bill (the Revenue Act of 1938), saying "At midnight tonight, this new tax bill automatically will become law. But it will become law without my signature or my approval." Scene changes to a dance. The First Lady of the United States, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt enjoys a square dance in a dance hall. Men playing musical instruments including guitar and banjo, and a caller calls out the changing moves of the dance as Mrs. Roosevelt and others dance.

Location: Arthurdale West Virginia USA
Date: 1938, May 27
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076846
Involvement and contributions of American soldiers in the history and development of the United States of America

The involvement of the American soldier in the history and growth of the United States from early 1900s until roughly 1938 before World War 2. Scenes of Washington DC and Mount Rainier. Two Confederate and one Union Uniformed veterans of the Civil War walk together in the Arlington National Cemetery, in Virginia. U.S. Soldiers marching during World War I. U.S Cavalry riding in parade during World War I. Views of cities and towns in which U.S. Army posts were established, in the United States. Army troops and cavalry creating trails and paths, and eventually railroads, in wilderness areas of the United States. View of the Presidio Army Base and the Golden Gate Bridge, California. Subtle references to U.S. Army accomplishments, curbing Mississippi River floods (Corps of Engineers) and conquering Yellow Fever (Army Doctor Walter Reed) with views of: point of view shot from moving railroad train in a Colorado canyon; a side wheeler River boat on the Mississippi River; a sugar cane field in Cuba. View of locks in the Panama Canal. Statue of World War I soldiers

Location: United States USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028431
Consolidated A-11 aircraft practice gunnery and fly in formation over Virginia Beach in Virginia

United States Army Air Corps exercises on Virginia Beach, Virginia. U.S. Army Air Corps Consolidated A-11 aircraft practice gunnery and fly in formation. View of the ground target for aerial gunnery. Machine guns on nose of A-11 firing at target. Ground target burst into flames. Pilot in cockpit of aircraft. Machine guns on A-11 nose fire at ground target. Target burst into flame.

Location: Virginia Beach Virginia USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068160
Creation of Good Neighbor Fleet of ships operated by Moore-McCormack Line with service from the U.s. to South America and Latin America

Exterior view of Pan American Union Building in Washington DC, with a 1930s Packard four door sedan-limousine parked in front. A man entering the building. Jefferson Caffery, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, seated in an office and reviewing paperwork. Narrator describes the creation of the Good Neighbor Fleet (where Moore-McCormack Lines, also called Mooremack, was contracted to run three ocean liners of the U.S. Maritime Commission between the USA and South America, called the Good Neighbor Fleet.) Close up picture of brochure advertising the new fleet, and picturing the three ships (The California, Virginia and Pennsylvania from the former Panama Pacific Line, with new names Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina.) Next scene shows 3 men meeting (this is possibly Moore-McCormack Lines founder Albert V. Moore, on right, seated at a table and in discussion, possibly with U.S. Maritime officials. Man on left is possibly Emmet McCormack.) Passengers aboard liner SS Brazil as it departs port. Crowd on docks wave at the ship leaving New York harbor. View from on board SS Brazil in New York Harbor as a nearby tug boat sprays water. Skyline and skyscrapers of New York City's Manhattan Island seen in background. Map of South America showing route of a Good Neighbor ship. Good Neighbor Fleet ships at a harbor in South America. U.S. State Department diplomats in South America beside one of the ships as fleet service is inaugurated. Exterior view of Pan American Union building and its sign in Washington DC (later called the building of the Organization of American States). President Ortiz of Argentina, President Alfredo Baldomir of Uruguay, and President Getulio Vargas of Brazil are shown in discussion with various officials.

Location: South America
Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051780
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