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French soldiers use teletype to direct artillery during World War I.

Group of French soldiers direct moving artillery barrage ahead of advancing infantry, during World War 1. (The actual artillery is not seen.) Two of them wear headsets. One holds field chart, while another transmits instructions to the artillery via teletype. The French soldiers walk across a field and take up new observation post in a tree line.

Date: 1916
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027510
Animation of night sky, man harnessing fire and steel and early blacksmith operations leading to World War 1 era war production

Opening shows a German language poster promoting a May 4, 1940 Grosse Mei-Feier and military concert sponsored by the German American Companies of Brooklyn New York City, to be held in Schwaben Hall at Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. Next is opening credits for German film "Mettaldes Himmels" (Metals from Heaven), made in 1936. Animation shows the night view of the sky in Germany. Moon and stars in the sky. Meteors shoot. One impacts the earth and explodes. A crater on the earth's surface. Blacksmith of middle age pounds piece of glowing metal into a sword. A water wheel in a hut. Men work. They hammer metal in glowing hot fires. Rapid montage of scenes of war armament production and application of metals in war materiel. Rifles and artillery on a World War I era battlefield. World War 1 German tank on the battlefield. Military biplane aircraft fly in the sky. Naval ships fire guns and bombard targets. A German naval torpedo running near surface of water. Smoke arises due to firing.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027591
Preliminary U.S. Naval bombardment of Iwo Jima before invasion in World War II

February 17, 1945, Minesweepers move across the beaches of Iwo Jima, where U.S. amphibious landings are to be made. Diagram shows their positions and paths. Minesweepers are seen running parallel to the shore and then with Mount Suribachi behind them. Diagram illustrates Japanese shore batteries pattern of fire at U.S. gunboats. Actual scenes of the gunboats being destroyed and damaged by Japanese fire. At the same time, American reconnaissance swimmers jump from fast patrol boats. U.S. Navy ships begin firing white phosphorus shells to set up smoke screens. U.S. swimmers are recovered, after reconnoitering the beach areas. Gunboat 474 (USS LCI(G)-474) is seen severely damaged. Stretcher bearers seen on deck of a U.S. ship. Diagram shows the plan to employ naval gunfire from the battleships, Idaho, Nevada, New York, and Tennessee, at close range, against Japanese shore batteries. Numerous views of gunfire from those battleships.

Date: 1945, February 17
Duration: 5 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027604
U.S. Navy capital warships support ground troops during U.S. invasion of Okinawa, Japan (WW2)

An animated graphic shows Japanese gunfire near Naha Okinawa pounding U.S. 420th Group artillery positions located on the small island of Keise Jima, near Okinawa. Also animation of the U.S. Navy Cruiser, USS Tuscaloosa, moving in to provide counterfire against the Japanese batteries near Naha. Actual views of U.S. warships provide a floating mobile artillery to support the ground troops. U.S. warships firing on Japanese artillery positions near Naha Airfield. Details seen include: At time 00:36, the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, firing a starboard mounted 5in/25cal gun. Time 00:40 is the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43 in camouflage Measure 32v1, Design 1D earlier in the war. Time 00:52 is the battleship USS Colorado, BB-45, in camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D and in the background is the battleship USS West Virginia in camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. (World War II period)

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027751
Aspects of copper mining in Arizona, United States, with a focus on operation in Ajo Arizona.

The Crystal Palace, Bird Cage Theatre and Tombstone Epitaph office are shown, all in Tombstone Arizona. View of an abandoned silver mine. Animation on map shows marking of the main Copper producing areas of Arizona, such as Jerome, Miami, Globe, Superior, Ray, Morenci, Bisbee, and Ajo. A huge new Cornelia open pit copper mine at Ajo is seen. Churn drill at work in mining. Men in mine field give signals to each other with flags prior to blasting. Large amount of dust is blown as the blast takes place. Giant electric shovels are used to load the ore on trains. The railroad trains distribute the ore to crushers. The electric crushers concentrate the ore. A factory site is also shown.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027890
Landmarks and construction in growing Tucson Arizona; scenes from parades and rodeos in Arizona.

Scenes of the town Tucson in Arizona, United States. Old houses and buildings in the town. Late 1930s cars driving on a road in Tucson and parked outside a building. The Mission San Xavier de Bac is shown. The Pima County Courthouse with old cars parked in front. Views of campus buildings at the University of Arizona. Students on the campus of the university. Construction workers building new brick buildings in Tucson. This is constrasted with view of a Mexican worker mixing clay and straw to make Adobe bricks. The man presses the mixture into forms to make large bricks or blocks. Mexican American children sit by the side and watch him work. 1930s era cars drive on the streets of Douglas Arizona. Mexican mariachi street musicians wearing sombreros play guitars and sing. A city parade (possibly in Phoenix) heads down a street with a marching band and men on horses. Women and children watch the parade. A rodeo event in Phoenix is shown with men on bucking broncos and bucking horses.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027895