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Labor strife in San Francisco affects Ocean Shore Railroad and United Railroads. City runs Municipal Special train.

Group of striking United Railroads workers standing in sand at waters edge, waving their hats at the camera. Tents are visible behind them. They lift an object from the sand. View of railroad car damaged by rocks and other objects hurled by strikers. Ocean Shore electric railroad car on street in San Francisco. Passengers get on and off. The electric rail car moves down the street and turns following the track, as a police officer steps into the intersection. Model T car and truck seen behind officer. Ocean Shore railroad train with rough paper sign hung on its side, reading: "Municipal Special, 12th and Mission Streets." Men are hanging out the window over the sign and waving. Many get off the train and stand on the pavement.as the train pulls away

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1917, August 31
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072427
Technicians and physicists work on plutonium core nuclear device Gadget prior to Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico.

Activities the day before the Trinity nuclear test conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II (part of the Manhattan Project). Technicians and physicists work inside a tent erected on the test tower platform in the Jornado del Muerto desert test site. The men perform final arming of the plutonium core nuclear implosion device nicknamed the "Gadget". White duct tape seen in use in places on and in the enclosure; as a adhesive since welding would be prohibitive. They attach the Gadget, the first atomic bomb in history, to a crane hook. Persons seen in the footage include Herbert Lehr and Louis Slotin. Also seen is Robert Oppenheimer at 0:38-0:40 wearing a soft brimmed hat, shirtsleeves rolled up to elbows, and ID badge at center of chest. Oppenheimer is seen again, no longer wearing hat (now holding it in his right hand), in blue collared shirt, standing behind the device from 1:13 to end of clip.

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072462
Gadget being hoisted to top of tower for detonation prior to the Trinity Nuclear test in Alamogordo,New Mexico, United States.

Activities prior to the Trinity nuclear test conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II. This is the day before the first ever atomic bomb test in history (the first ever detonation of a nuclear device). The plutonium core nuclear device nicknamed the "Gadget" being raised up to the top of the steel tower after final assembly. Men arrange drum shaped cushioning pads on platform, under the device, as the hoisting begins, and cover the pads with canvas tarps. The Gadget atomic bomb being hoisted to the top of a 20 meter steel tower for detonation early the next morning.

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072463
Views of wire connections to detonators on nuclear device 'Gadget' used in the Trinity nuclear test, Alamogordo, New Mexico

Views of the nuclear test device nicknamed, "Gadget", showing network of wires going to detonators surrounding core. The first ever atomic bomb device is in position at the top of its test tower, the day before it produced the first nuclear detonation in history. This device was detonated in the early morning of the next day, July 16, 1945. The detonation test event was named Trinity. (World War II period).

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072464
Mushroom cloud rises up after the Trinity nuclear test at Alamogordo in New Mexico, United States.

The first detonation of a nuclear device in history. Trinity nuclear test being conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II. Pitch black night is blindingly illuminated as the nuclear device sometimes nicknamed "The Gadget" is detonated in the White Sands Proving Ground, ushering in the "atomic age." Then the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb explosion can be seen. Billowing smoke and fire fills the view.

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072465
Mrs Rosemary Saks wins the grandmothers bathing beauty contest organized in New York City, United States.

Grandmothers at a bathing beauty contest in New York City. Contestants pose in the swim wear. The panel of judges, judge the contestants. Mrs Rosemary Saks wins the contest. Judge greets the winner.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1967, June 6
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072481
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