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Bandleader Aviator Roger Wolf Kahn, makes daring low altitude pickup of mail in Norfolk, Virginia.

Bandleader-Aviator, Roger Wolfe Kahn, son of multimillionaire banker, Otto Kahn, sits in a 1930 Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket airplane. He taxis and takes off, flying from New York to Norfolk Virginia, where he makes a daring low altitude test of system for in-flight pickup of mail. He swoops to within a few yards of the pickup point, and snags a mail satchel suspended atop a building only 102 feet high, The mail pouch is delivered by air drop in a field, where it is picked up by a man who places it in a car and drives away. (Note: This actual airplane, Bellanca NC 7084, is being restored by its owner, Dan Cullman of Kent, Washington.)

Location: Norfolk Virginia USA
Date: 1931, April 21
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026605
History of Berlin before and after World War II showing zones of occupation and poor living conditions post-war.

Nazi soldiers at attention with guns drawn in Berlin during World War 2. U.S. soldiers on watch from damaged Berlin building. Man watching the Brandenburger Tor with binoculars while sitting in car. Pan American passenger airplane in flight after the war. Pan American passenger reading Time and other magazines onboard. Aerial view of Berlin early 1960s. Pan American plane landing at Tempelhof Airport. Pan American passengers descending to tarmac under sign that reads, "Today Pan American has completed 93153 Transatlantic Crossings". West German immigration officer inspects passport of tourist in Tempelhof Airport’s passport control. Brandenburg Gate from West Berlin during the early 1960s. A man observing the Brandenburger Tor from the Straße des 17. Juni street in West Berlin. Sign saying “Achtung! Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin” (“Warning! You are now leaving West-Berlin” in German). View of Berlin in 1920s and 1930 decades. Drive through Brandenburg Gate in the 1920s. Point of view shot driving through Berlin in the 1920s. Various street signs in Berlin showing “Unter Den Linden” and “Friedrichstraße”. Tourist bus flying American flag departs in Berlin 1920s. Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) along the Unter den Linden boulevard during the 1920s. View of the Berlin Cathedral dome. View of the Gendarmenmarkt square showing the Konzerthaus and the French Church. Pedestrians in Friedrichstraße. Berliners in Lustgarten park on Museum Island. Early Nazis driving in Berlin streets in 1930s. Hitler saluting parade. Hitler addressing Germans. Berlin in ruins in Spring 1945 as occupying Allied tanks pass in front of Brandenburg Gate. Old starving woman walks on streets of Berlin amid ruins in 1945. Ruins of Berlin include Reichstag Building during 1945 battle. Women and children emerging from underground Berlin bunker in 1945, to a scene of devastation and rubble in the city. Ground view of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche) after being bombed. Interior of ruined Reichstag Building. Potsdam Conference 1945, Map of WWII Europe. Berlin map, including official Berlin map with signatures showing Zones of Occupation. Germany allied control authority gathering including American, British, and Soviet representatives. French, American, Soviet flags in Germany. Rebuilding of Berlin mostly by women clearing rubble, using shovels, buckets, wheelbarrows and cleaning old bricks for reuse. Over-crowded train in Germany post-WWII filled with German civilian refugees abandoning the cities and heading to the countryside of Germany to resettle.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037555
Truck hauls Polaris missile container and container lifted by crane on USS George Washington in Charleston, South Carolina

The Polaris missile being hauled from Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, South Carolina. A truck carries Polaris missile container leaves Naval Weapons Annex gate of the Naval Weapons Station Charleston. A sign reads 'Main Gate Ammunition Gate, Naval Weapons Annex'. Truck hauls Polaris missile container moving along roadway. A sign reads 'Restricted Area'. USS George Washington (SSBN-598) tied up to pier at Charleston. Slings hang from Polaris missile container. Slings from dock crane lowered to Polaris Container. Workers attach sling hook for lifting of container. Container lifted by dock crane. Container lowered to stand on dock. Crane operator during moving of container.

Location: Charleston South Carolina USA
Date: 1960, November 12
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068059
Public Improvement created by Work Progress Administration in West Virginia during the Great Depression.

View of elderly people and orphan children entering a building. WPA or Works Progress Administration Public Improvements show new log houses at Mercer County Industrial Park, a commune or community helping men, women, and families affected by the depression. Women milk cows. Man plowing a field with two horses pulling a hand plow, to provide food for the common community. Line of men with hoes work in a garden. Scenes from Camp Fairchance at Low Gap in Boone County West Virginia (South of Madison and Danville) shows totem poles at the camp entrance, a boy blowing a bugle, boy orphans waking up in a bunk house and girl orphans eating together in a dining hall. Young girl children sewing. Children playing, swimming in a nearby stream or lake, and marching behind a band on the grounds of the camp. Camp buildings seen in the background. Trumpeter on wood frame lashed tower blows bugle as American flag is lowered.

Location: West Virginia USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051770
Miners around open door of a shop at Twin Branch in West Virginia.

View of town of Camp Maher at Twin Branch in West Virginia. View of tipple. Miners around open door of a shop. Workers at mine cars.

Location: West Virginia USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035241
Miners are killed and injured when the locomotive of a train explodes in Powellton, West Virginia.

Miners are killed and injured when the locomotive of a train in which the workmen were riding explodes in Powellton, West Virginia. People gathered around the wrecked locomotive. Men inspect the wreckage. A damaged house near the wreckage. Group of four sad looking young boys seated near the site. Two of these children are wearing early flyer hat and goggles as part of play costumes. The right eye of one boy appears to be slightly injured and swollen. They are looking sad and dirty. A young boy and a young girl wearing overalls look very sad and tired. Fire blazing on embankment beside railroad tracks.

Location: Powellton West Virginia USA
Date: 1934, December 31
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061025
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