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Seabiscuit finishes third and Heelfly wins the Santa Anita Race in Arcadia, California.

Seabiscuit in the third position in the Santa Anita Race in Arcadia, California. Horses on the track. The owner of Seabiscuit smokes a cigar. He looks through binoculars. Spectators in the stands watch the race. The race is won by Heelfly.

Date: 1940, February 12
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033947
C. S. Howard's wonder horse, Seabiscuit, wins the richest Santa Anita Handicap Race in Arcadia, California.

Seabiscuit wins the Santa Anita Handicap Race in Arcadia, California. Horses on a track. Spectators seated in the stands. The race starts. The spectators watch the race. C. S. Howard's 'Wonder Horse' Seabiscuit wins the race.

Date: 1940, March 4
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033949
Seabiscuit 'Wonder Horse' is taken to his owner's farm after the retirement from Santa Anita Race Track in California.

Seabiscuit 'Wonder Horse' retires from the Santa Anita Race Track in California. Seabiscuit with a jockey. He gets in a van. A sign on the van reads ' Caution Horse Van'. He is taken to his owner's farm.

Date: 1940, April 15
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033957
American actor Edgar John Bergen and wife Frances Bergen with Charlie McCarthy watch a rodeo in Victorville, California.

Charlie McCarthy sees a rodeo in Victorville, California. Cowboys on their horses. Spectators seated in the stands. American actor Edgar John Bergen and wife Frances Bergen with Charlie McCarthy see bronc riders with wild animals. Three of them stead in stands and talk.

Date: 1940, April 15
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033958
People watch as electric-welded vessel SS American Leader is launched at harbor in San Francisco, California.

A $200,000 ship, the SS American Leader, is launched at a dock in San Francisco, California. People at dock watch the launching ceremony. Streamers on the electric welded ship as it slides down into sea and sails. Other boats and tugs in the bay near the ship can also be seen.

Date: 1940, October 16
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037161
Nisei, the Japanese Americans develop rubber extraction from guayule plant at Manzanar Relocation Center in California.

Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment) during World War II. A Japanese-American grows guayule plant generally grown in Mexico and Texas, experimentally at Manzanar Relocation Center in California. Japanese-American scientist at a laboratory in the relocation center invents methods to extract more rubber from guayule plant. Dried and ground plant at the laboratory. He makes production equipment from old automobile parts. A man paints old parts and modifies them for use. Rubber extracted from guayule plant rises to the surface as the container gets filled with the chemical. The scientist stretches the rubbers so made to check its quality.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037177