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Bolinas Beach California USA 1934 stock footage and images

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Tobacco processing in a factory and making cigarettes.

Recording describes the process through which dry tobacco leaf is converted in finished product as cigarette. Buildings and traffic in a Southern American city. Sign on the entrance of a bank reads 'Planters Bank & Trust Co.'. People at counters in bank. Tobacco farm and tobacco plants. Warehouses containing dry tobacco leafs. Tobacco leafs transferred to steam chambers for processing. Man at steam chamber controls. Women separate leafs and leaves put into baskets. Leaves pass on air pressure pipelines. Leaves are further processed by women before transferred into factory. Tobacco leaves are put into machine where stems are cut off. Tobacco leaves then put into machine for blending. Technicians and workers at machines. Equipment in a factory. Slicing of tobacco bales done by putting it into a machine with rotary blades. Shows man at machine. Fluffy masses of blended tobacco goes to cigarette making machine through conveyor belts. Cigarette produced in factory. Women near machines make cigarettes. Finished cigarettes at packaging machines. Men pack cigarette packets into cartons.

Date: 1949
Duration: 6 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039928
Tobacco growing and harvesting at tobacco farm.

Chesterfield Cigarette packets put into cartons by men in a factory. Cartons move on conveyor belt. Houses, traffic, pedestrians and church in a city. A monument in the city. Men discuss outside a building. Man enters office. Door sign reads 'Agriculture Conservation Association AAA County Office'. Men at desk examine tobacco leaves and share documents. Sign 'Tobacco Experiment Station'. Tobacco plants at experimental stations. Tobacco bundles on horse-drawn cart. Men at a tobacco farm. A man sows tobacco seeds. Field covered by men. Tractor ploughs field. Men at the farm place tobacco seedlings. Young boys come at farm with shovels. Tractor driven in farm and men cut weeds. Growing transplanted tobacco plants in farm. Men top at field. Young boys ride horses. Men pluck leaves from plants at farm. Horse-drawn carts loaded with tobacco leaves. Leaves cut by men and women. Tobacco leaves tied on wooden sticks stored in a room. Leaves heated in a room. Hanging leaves examined by men after heating. Old man and a woman wrap similar leaves together in grading process. Men in the farms.

Date: 1949
Duration: 10 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039929
A documentary film about Danville, Virginia and the role of tobacco in the lives of its people

Film begins showing a sign on a wooden barn, reading: "Barn Dance Tonight." Country music is heard. View inside the barn shows a fiddler playing, along with musicians playing guitar, banjo, and piano. Couples dance to the music. Closeups of the musicians. Closeups of dancers. Closeups of spectators feet moving to the rythms. A girl eating an ice cream cone while seated watching the dancers. Scenic views of the countryside in Autumn. Farmers loading tobacco from barns into trucks that are seen moving on highways, to market. A sign in a cornfield reads: "Danville, VA. World's Best Tobacco Market." View of downtown Danville, busy because it is auction time. Sign at a newspaper office reads: "The Bee, Founded 1899." Inside the shop, a printer reads a new edition of the paper with headline about "Opening Tobacco Sales." Open stake truck carries load of tobacco into Holland's Auction warehouse. Glimpse of auctioneer taking bids. Farmer takes a "lot" of tobacco in a wheelbarrow for weighing. Buyers gathered around a table, examine tobacco and bid as auctioneer chants. Farmers collect proceeds of their sales from cashier at the auction house. Views of farmers and families in the business district of Danville. Men fill a barbershop and converse, while waiting for haircuts. Next, the film shows folks enjoying themselves at a "County Fair." Tents and amusement rides dominate the fair grounds. Many views of children on Ferris Wheels, Merry-go-rounds, and other rides. Older persons watch aerial performers on a high wire. Various pieces of farm equipment are on display and looked over by farmers. Prize live stock is exhibited by some farmers. People pass a dixplay entitled: "The Farm Family, the Heart of the Nation."Women exmine samples of foods displayed in glass containers. Samples of eggs are examined by judges.Other camples of vegetables and such are judged. Tobacco samples are also judged for quality. A judge places a blue ribbon on the winning tobacco sample. At a large display of competing tobacco lots, the blue ribbon winner discusses his product with other farmers. Scene shifts to growing season, showing tobaccco farmers working in their fields.

Date: 1949
Duration: 6 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039930
Titan and Bomarc missiles launched at Cape Canaveral.

Titan I missile launched. Cars arrive at gated entrance to Cape Canaveral. Military Police (MP) on guard. Sign at the entrance reads 'Atlantic Missile Range'. Four engine drone planes take off controlled by operator on the ground. Bomarc missile wheeled out of hangar. Images of radar screens tracking the drone plane. Bomarc missile launched toward drone plane. Bomarc missile intentionally redirected shortly before impact with the drone plane in order to save the drone plane for other tests.

Date: 1962
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039931
SM-62 Snark missile and Jupiter 'C' Explorer launched.

SM-62 Snark missile launched. Jupiter missile launched. Night view, Jupiter 'C' Explorer launched. Sparrow missile carried by F-3D plane releases, streaks through air and hits an aircraft B-17 in flight. B-17 explodes.

Date: 1962
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039932
U.S. infantry in combat at battlefield.

Personnel at controls in the blockhouse, prepare to launch Atlas missile. Atlas missile launched. C-119 plane flies overhead. Mass of paratroopers jump and float to earth. U.S. infantry fires rifles at fields. Mechanical mule with 106mm recoil less rifle moves across field. Tracked vehicle fires mortar from its rear. SS-10 antitank weapon fires missile at a tank in distance. Shell follows till it hits the tank. Multiple rocket launcher fires and bursts on target. M-2, 8 inch howitzer and M-53, 155 SP gun are fired. Bursts in the distance. Several H-13D helicopters fire machine guns while hover over the ground. Cameraman records battle.

Date: 1962
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039934