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Atomic bomb detonation during nuclear weapons test at Nevada testing site
Atomic explosion during nuclear weapons test at Nevada testing ground during the Cold War. An atomic bomb explodes in the middle of a desert in Nevada. Following the explosion, a very dark, thick mushroom cloud forms from explosion site. Smoke trails left by test rockets interact with mushroom cloud.
USMC Choctaw helicopters landing; Marines moving alongside vehicles on desert road for training
A United States Marine Corps Sikorsky H-34 "Choctaw" military helicopter lands on desert in Nevada, United States (during Vietnam War period). Heavy dust flies over the area as the helicopter lands. Two Marines approach the helicopter. The helicopter hovers away. Marines on foot move alongside military vehicles on desert road. Other Marines sit on top of moving vehicles. Marines sitting on top of a moving artillery vehicle. A Marine in training holding a rifle as he moves on foot. Marines resting on roadside.
Quaker college students participate in a Penn-Craft work camp, building homes at a Pennsylvania mining community
College student volunteers of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) work together at a Penn-Craft work camp, building homes and facilities for a coal-mining community in Pennsylvania (possibly Norvelt?). Opening image shows the book "The Plight of the Bituminous Coal Miner" by Homer Lawrence Morris and Joseph H. Willits. View of farmland and a new mining community from a high hill. Craft work Camp in Pennsylvania. View of a community mining area. Coal elevator building and rows of miner's homes close together in the background. Students help miners build new homes. They work on scaffolding, building walls of homes with stone and mortar. View of lumber piled high and a worker sawing a board. Workers move building materials in wheelbarrows. A stone home with a partially framed roof. An African American student volunteer breaks up rock with a sledge hammer. Volunteers load stone from a nearby quarry onto waiting trucks. Workers slide rocks from a quarry to a waiting team below, who loads rock pieces into a mill that pulverizes the rock and turns it into stone dust that is then carried away for use in the building projects. View of Miners simple, temporary houses. A mining family relaxes on a bench swing in front of a house and children of miners play with a dog. Men framing a temporary home. A woman volunteer paints the exterior of a house.
Routine life in Native American Indian adobe village in New Mexico.
A Native American adobe community in New Mexico. An alleyway between adobe homes. Wooden ladders against the buildings to provide access to roofs. A graveyard marked with dozens of crosses. A large structure stands in background beside a long tunnel-like structure. Out on the desert, bleached bones of animals are seen on the ground. A woman holds up an antler. Closeups of various bones held up for the camera. Views of artwork incorporating images as well as actual bones. Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, in her studio. A closeup of one of her canvases. View of an artistic mobile suspended from a building beam. POV view from window in O'Keefe studio, of desert outside, as a car drives past. A small animal running across the ground. Goats in a pen. Panning views, from high rock formations, of desert below. A muddy creek beneath the hills, with simple bridge crossing it. The Rio Grande River running past a tree bent toward the water. Views of higher mountains (described by narrator as "mossy." Forests of various kinds in the mountains. Sheep grazing near a forest of aspen trees. Scenes of trees flowering in Spring. A fall of water from a mountain spring into a pool. Rivers and streams of water flowing into ever larger tributories toward the Rio Grande River. Diversion of water into irrigation ditches. Such a ditch circling a cultivated field, where two farmers are cutting a crop with a hand-held reaper. More views of landscape. A farmer uses a shovel to open path for water to flow into an irrigation ditch. The water seeping into field planted with crops. Closeups of various farm produce, including apples and various varieties of colored corn. Native American men, women, and children shucking corn. Irrigation water flowing into fields of crops. A man and woman hang peppers in the sun to dry. A wooden water wheel being turned by water. Worker inside small building housing a water-driven wheel in village of Barranca .He feeds grain into spout connected to grind stone.
Construction of the Hoover dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada in the United States
In a 1970 television program, host Lee Marvin talks about Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, in between Arizona and Nevada in the United States. Historical scenes from construction of the dam in the early 1930s. Crane lifts a number of workers on a raised platform. Worker comes down the mountain with the help of rope. Workers walk across bridge. Dynamite explosion dislodges rock for dam construction. The Hoover dam under construction. Rock blasting in the dam's diversion tunnels. Construction workers eat food in Anderson's Mess hall. Views of workers dining in the mess hall and the kitchen during food preparation. Includes interviews with workers Joe Kine, Tommy Nelson, and Doug Moore who participated in construction. Later aerial views of the Hoover Dam around 1970.
The U.S. Army motor transport convoy of 1919 crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains into California
View from just beside and below a mountain road in Sierra Nevada mountains, as trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army motor transport convoy make their way from Nevada into California. View from ahead, and below of the trucks. The narrow mountain road is lined with rock boulders and the mountain rises almost vertically beside it. A Holt tractor pulling a truck by a chain, along a stretch of the road. Trucks proceeding successfully on their own on other parts of the road. Several picturesque views by the camera operator.
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