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P-40D aircraft taking off and pilot Bob Fausel breaks speed record going 661 MPH during vertical dive.

Army test pilot Robert W. Fausel on airfield smiles for camera in cockpit of P-40D aircraft at Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio. P-40D taking off and breaking speed record with a 661 mile per hour vertical power dive. P-40 in flight. Plane lands and pilot Bob Fausel smiles again for the camera standing near the aircraft. (Opening slate states Buffalo New York, but this event actually occurred at Wright Field in Ohio).

Date: 1940, April
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039340
The U.S. National stock market craze during the "Roaring 20's" before the stock market crash.

An office entrance in Tacoma, Washington. Sign at door reads: "A.R. Blair & Co. Importers." A man smokes and reads the Tacoma Daily Ledger newspaper in his office. He reads the page with New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) prices for Thursday, August 30, 1928. A sign '"George R. McCall & Company, Stocks and Bonds, with offices at New York, Buffalo, Chicago & St. Louis." A number of the company's clients sit in chairs and watch as the latest stock prices are posted on display boards. Men are shown on the telephone communicating stock orders to their brokers. Hectic activity is seen on the New York Stock Exchange with floods of orders to buy and sell shares. Stock exchange number boards lit up with numbers. Men are seen in various places hovering over stock exchange ticker tapes running fast out of ticker tape machines. Scene of fireworks in the sky at the end (alluding to collapse of the stock market and the "Crash" on Wall Street that precipitated the Great Depression).

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065250
American Curtiss P-40 fighter planes are being readied for shipment to United Kingdom

Shows P-40C’s in production at Curtiss plant in Buffalo, NY (2303 Kenmore Avenue), getting readied for shipment to United Kingdom as a part of Lend-Lease program. Aircraft workers working in Curtiss plant, assembling aircraft. A worker moves a stack of aicraft tires. P-40 fighter plane taxiing and planes in flight line at Curtiss facilities at the Buffalo Airport.

Date: 1941
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039306
Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, monitor returns during night of 1940 U.S. National Elections

Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, on election night, November 5, 1940, gathered to watch returns displayed on the Times Building. View of people in crowd, illuminated by search light beam as they cling to a street sign post. Behind them can be seen lights of the Rialto Theater and various other neon signs.Men are seen on elevated platform, maneuvering search lights to shine on various parts of the crowd. A sign showing Uncle Sam and message: "No third term." People in crowd milling about. Marquee of New York movie Theater. Mounted police thinning out the crowd in places. Moving lights on Times building report results from Hudson County, New York. And they spell out:"Roosevelt leading in States having a total electoral vote of 442." "McNary concedes." "Wilkie retired at 1:30 AM with announcement he would have no further statement until he awakened." Part of another announcement reads:"Republican leader refuses to concede election."

Date: 1940, November 5
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050197
Oklahoma Aggies play DePaul in 1940 National Invitation Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York

Excerpts from the 1940 National Invitation Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal game already underway between Oklahoma Aggies and DePaul at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Numerous scoring scenes are shown in the course of the film, many of them involving long set shots. (Oklahoma won 23 to 22 and advanced to the Semifinals.)

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046734
Men work on U.S. Navy Curtiss airplanes as they are released for the Allies in Buffalo, New York.

U.S. Navy Curtiss airplanes are released for the Allies in Buffalo, New York during World War II. The airplanes parked at an airbase. Men working on the airplanes. An aircraft takes off and in flight overhead.

Date: 1940, June 10
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077089