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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is administered the oath of office as Chief of Naval Operations.

Pentagon swearing-in ceremony of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, as Chief of Naval Ooperations (CNO). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, stands by Admiral Nimitz. Then Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal stands alongside Admiral King, while Admiral Nimitz completes the oath. Forrestal and Admiral King congratulate Admiral Nimitz. The new CNO sits at his desk and confronts a stack of papers.

Date: 1945, November 21
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054183
Early ski jump footage: Spectators stand and watch the snow skiing Pre-Olympics Tournament in Cary, Illinois.

Scenes from a snow skiing ski jump Pre-Olympics Tournament in Cary, Illinois. Norwegian stars perform ski jumps. A large area of a steep hill with a jump is covered with snow. Spectators stand and watch the tournament. Kaare Walberg breaks the hill record in the ski jump. Sigmund Ruud and Birger Ruud perform dual jumps in ski jumping. Several men fall while landing their ski jumps.

Date: 1932, January 18
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054198
Legalized betting by Pari-Mutuel machines at new Hialeah Park in Miami, Florida.

A race course at new Hialeah Park in Miami, Florida. A huge crowd of 15,000 people gather. People walk in corridors and walk on stairs. A man operates the controls of machines. Jockey Al Snider rides 'Flying Heels' and wins in Inaugural Handicap. A huge crowd seated in the spectator area. Legalized betting by Pari-Mutuel machines. The crowd cheers during the horse racing.

Date: 1932, January 18
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054203
A Tucker Armored Combat car anti-aircraft automobile is tested on a hilly terrain in Rahway, New Jersey.

An anti-aircraft automobile is tested in Rahway, New Jersey. The automobile, designed by Preston Tucker, and known as the Tucker Armored Combat Car, is tested on a hilly terrain. It features a power operated gun turret known as the Tucker Turret. The vehicle carries three machine guns and a rapid-fire one pounder.

Date: 1938, October 26
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054205
A mechanical sugar cane cutter moves in a field in New Roads, Louisiana.

A mechanical sugar cane cutter is demonstrated in New Roads, Louisiana. Men and women work in sugar cane fields. African Americans work in the field. Men stand in a group. The mechanical sugar cane cutter moves in the field.

Date: 1938, October 26
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054206
Polio victim Fred B. Snite, Jr. is taken to a railroad station in his mechanical respirator in Chicago, Illinois.

Infantile paralysis victim Fred B. Snite, Jr. in his mechanical respirator in Chicago, Illinois. He is taken to a railroad station. A mirror is attached to his iron lung. He is taken to the station in his customized trailer. People stand at the station. Polio victim Fred B. Snite, in his iron lung, is pushed up a ramp into his own railroad car. Traveling companions gather at the back of the railroad car as the train departs. Sign on back of railroad car reads, 'Dixie Limited'

Date: 1938, October 26
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054208