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Dr. Leo Szilard and Dr. George Pegram appear in moving picture at Physics Laboratory in Columbia University

At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.

Date: 1946, July
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044641
Test of rocket airplane for carrying mail. It barely clears end of launch ramp and scoots along ice.

Experimenters place rocket plane (named Gloria), intended to carry postal mail, on a launch ramp. The rocket is ignited and the rocket aircraft rises but quickly falls to the frozen surface of the lake. It scoots along the ice.

Date: 1936, February 9
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044893
Myron C Taylor, President Roosevelt's special envoy to Pope Pius XII arrives home with Mrs Taylor on the SS Excalibur.

Myron C Taylor on the SS Excalibur. Myron Taylor is President Roosevelt's special envoy to Pope Pius XII. He arrives home with Mrs Taylor on the SS Excalibur. Other officials on the ship. Cameramen taking photographs.

Date: 1940, September 9
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046151
Buffalo Bill Cody converses using sign language with Iron Tail, Oglala chief.

Buffalo Bill Cody in the United States. American soldier and showman Buffalo Bill Cody and Native American Indian Oglala Lakota chief, Iron Tail, (whose profile is featured on the buffalo nickel) seated in chairs outside a tent as they interact with each other using sign language. Frontal and profile closeups of Chief Iron Tail. Closeup of Buffalo Bill.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078132
Niagara Falls and Canadian Power station in Winter

At beginning the film shows partially frozen Niagara River in snowy scene near Niagara Falls. The Honeymoon bridge seems to be in the background, but views are obscured by mist. Next is a view of the Canadian Niagara Power station overlooking the Niagara River, at Niagara Falls. Final view is of clouds billowing above Niagara Falls.

Date: 1919
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078138
A ferry boat ride to Ellis Island as seen from the wheel house of the ferry "Ellis Island."

Wheel House of Ellis Island Ferry boat, with the name "Ellis Island" painted on it. View from the wheel house, as the ferry travels toward Ellis Island immigration center. Wheel house view as the ferry heads into its slip on Ellis Island, and as it berths. Deck hands set bridging plate in position and passengers leave the ferry. A luggage trolley being driven aboard the ferry.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078223