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Portraits of Presidents of the U.S. and history of American flag; views of Red Cross flag, U.S. flag of 1812 and the English flag

Portraits of Presidents of the United States. Portraits of U.S. Presidents - Benjamin Harrison, Martin Van Buren, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, James A. Garfield, Woodrow Wilson, Zachary Taylor. Views of several flags in a short called "The Story of Old Glory" on the history of the American Flag. Views of the Red Cross flag of England, U.S. flag of 1812 featuring 15 stripes and 15 stars (the Star Spangled Banner namesake design). Also view of the King's Colors of England with the white cross of St. Andrew added to the English flag by order of King James I.

Date: 1917, May 17
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071574
An amphibious landing and bombers on a mission and troops battle on a Pacific Island.

Dramatization shows how one defective walkie-talkie can impair battle plans, United States. U.S. transporters including cruisers, destroyers and crew carrying ships underway in South Pacific on a mission to attack on Japanese installation and Island no. 6. A personnel plays whistle from the bridge of cruiser. Interior of manned radio operations room:Task Force officers sitting around table and discuss over battle plans. A personnel talks on radio device. American bombers in formation flight. Pilot and copilot in cockpit. American aircraft drop bombs on Japanese installation. Explosion and large column of smoke rise. Task Force officers look at map of Japanese island no. 6 in the radio room. Animated map shows Japanese Island no. 6 showing an amphibious landing and bombers on a mission. U.S. soldiers on landing crafts with walkie-talkies. Artillery fire on the Pacific island. Troops disembark from the landing craft and heads towards beach area. Soldiers move into action and fire artillery. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071596
Walkie-talkies are rush-ordered as defective radio fails and American workers work on assembling of walkie-talkie in the U.S. (WW2)

Dramatization shows how one defective walkie-talkie can impair battle plans, United States. Troops battle on a Pacific Island in World War II. Soldiers move into action and fire artillery. Task Force team in manned radio operations room. Soldier talks on radio device from the island to headquarters. Soldiers move into building for counter attacks. Soldiers try to make contacts with headquarters. They fail to make contact as defective radio fails. Soldiers kneeling on island. Explosions and smoke rise. Shows Under-Sec. of War, Robert Porter Patterson; Chief of Services and supplies, Brehon Burke Somervell and Chief of signal officer, Olmstead in their offices. Walkie-talkies are rush-ordered for the invasion. Radios are being made in factory. American workers work on assembling of walkie-talkie instruments. A careless worker produces a defective set. Walkie-talkies are sold.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071597
Focus and Adjust Sound Level test film

Test film with blue background, includes an instruction to 'Please adjust your sound level and focus picture properly before audience showing'

Date: 1962
Duration: 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071600
Proposal of construction of the dam gets Congressional approval to regulate and control the Colorado river, in U.S.

A film 'The Story of Hoover Dam' shows how proposal of the dam is passed in the United States. A sign reads 'A Modern Civil Engineering Wonder of The United States'. Aerial view of the Hoover Dam. Automobile traffic across the top of the dam. Architecture of the dam. People enter onto dam to see reclamation project and listen to the story of Hoover Dam. View of Black Canyon. Animated map of geographical climate of the Colorado River. Views of mountains and flooded water. Dried crops and bare trees due to raging waters of the river. A wind mill seen. Proposal of construction of Hoover Dam comes in the House of Representatives of U.S. Capitol for Congressional approval to regulate and control the Colorado River, in 1928. View of President Calvin Coolidge addressing Congress in the U.S. Capitol in 1928. President Herbert Hoover in his office in the White House in 1930, signs the bill of appropriation for construction of the dam.

Date: 1962
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071601
Construction of diversion tunnels and Hoover Dam being built in the United States.

Construction of the Hoover Dam in the United States. Civil engineers at the dam site. Views of dam site, and reclamation engineers rush towards the dam site for investigation. Engineers remove rock by placing dynamite. The construction underway. Explosions rise. Views of four diversion tunnels, two on each side (the Nevada side and Arizona side). Front end loader remove dirt and load onto dump truck. Engineers wok in the tunnel. Engineers climb rope suspended from the canyon wall. In November 1932, the Colorado river is diverted. Trucks carry construction material and engineers at work during construction of the dam. Clip is from a production narrated in 1962.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071602