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The 1938 Massachusetts Handicap horse race at Suffolk Downs in Boston, Massachusetts.

Spectators watch the 1938 Massachusetts Handicap horse race at Suffolk Downs in Boston, Massachusetts. Jockeys takes their horses to starting point. Race starts and jockeys race on their horses. The race is won by Menow, a 10-to-1 shot, ridden by jockey, Nick Wall. (Note: The race was expected to feature the much-anticipated meeting of Seabiscuit and War Admiral, but Seabiscuit is scratched due to an injury just minutes before the race is scheduled to take place, much to the dismay of the record crowd that had gathered. War Admiral finished fourth in this race. This would help set the stage for the famed match race between the two champions that is ultimately held at Pimlico in Baltimore, MD later that year.)

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1938, June 29
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034098
Technicians in WADC buildings and in MIT facilities; and supersonic propeller undergoing test on large test stand at WADC.

Technicians and members in the laboratories and offices of WADC, Dayton, Ohio, United States. Aerial view of approach to Wright Air Development Center (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), includuing view of Wright Memorial on Wright Brothers Hill. Low altituide aerial view of Aero Medical Laboratory, wind tunnel area, static structural tent building and the main flight line area. Hand holding book entitled, "Wright Air Development Center" (WADC). Hands open book-on first page is: "Mission of WADC". Interior, laboratory research building at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), airmen push rack down test area and into vault. Exterior view in Cambridge Massachusetts of the MIT Great Dome and Building 10 seen from Killian Court, with text engraving seen on building frieze: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two members of the Institute walk down steps of Building 10. Two technicians working in office building. Supersonic propeller undergoing test on large test stand. Superimposed over this picture are the words: Research And Development. Supersonic propeller undergoing tests. Two technicians at control panel of the test stand. USAF B-50 Superfortress aircraft in flight. Engine starting on B-50 in flight-plane equipped with special deicing equipment. B-50 in flight showing special test and research instruments and operator.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071930
A group of people arrive to the town of Cummington in Massachusetts, USA.

A dramatized documentary about immigrants in Cummington. Scenes of a meeting inside a meeting hall. The speaker addresses the attendees. Men speak and present their views. Men, women and children exit a bus. They walk down a road carrying their belongings. Natives at a shop and a gas pump watch. Men, women and children do several activities inside their rooms at night. Mother sings lullaby for her infant. Film narrated in Hungarian. Music by Aaron Copland

Location: Cummington Massachusetts USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Hungarian
Clip: 65675050125
Scenes from a Carnival-fair in the town of Cummington, Massachusetts, USA.

Shows a woman sweeping the backyard of her house in Cummington. View of a parking lot at a fun-fair or carnival venue. People ride on a ferris wheel, including point of view shot from moving ferris wheel. Children ride on a merry-go-round or carousel. Large crowd gathered at the fair. People do shopping, visit art exhibition and visit a tent where canned goods including fruits and vegetables are on display. Oxen in pairs compete in a weight pulling contest. Boys compete in a throwing game and a strength contest to swing a mallet. People watch a horse-cart racing or chariot racing event. A man and woman order hot dogs or frankfurters at a tent. A child eats cotton candy. Family poses for group picture. A photographer sets up his large box still camera and photographs the family, as children stand nearby the photographer to watch. Scene inside a meeting hall. Men speak up. Aerial views of a canal or narrow river and countryside. A bus leaves. Film narrated in Hungarian. Music by Aaron Copland

Location: Cummington Massachusetts USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Hungarian
Clip: 65675050131
Pilot Lowell Bayles dies in crash of the GEE BEE race plane during an attempt on the world landplane speed record.

Crash of Gee Bee Z Super Sportster airplane at the Wayne County airport in Detroit, Michigan, on Dec. 5th 1931, during attempt to break the world landplane speed record. Ground crew and one of the Granville brothers, who built the airplane, roll the Gee Bee out of a hangar. The aircraft displays tail number NR 77Y and has large numeral 4 painted on fuselage. City of Springfield is painted on front of the airplane. Pilot, Lowell Bayles, climbs into the cockpit and starts the engine. Crew chief places canopy over the pilot's cockpit. The aircraft takes off with modest rate of climb and makes slow banking turn to the left. Camera next shows the Gee Bee descending rapidly as Bayles dives the race plane at high speed into the officially timed sea level course. Camera captures view of wing breaking off and aircraft rolling and crashing in flames. Witnesses rush to the crash site and emergency equipment responds. Views of smoldering wreckage. (According to some sources, the accident began when the gas cap loosened in the slipstream and blew through the pilots canopy hitting pilot Bayles in the face, either stunning or killing him.) His reaction on the controls pitches the plane up sharply causing a catastrophic structural failure of the right wing. The plane then snap rolled into the ground and explodes into a blaze alongside railroad tracks bordering the airport. Bayles' body was thrown 300 ft. as the huge radial engine broke loose and was hurled hundreds more feet. (Recent experiments with a reproduction of the aircraft also indicate that wing flutter would develop at speeds above 240 mph on the Gee Bee Z Super Sportster.) Part of the building shown at 1:52 still exists today in the far northeast corner of the airport near all the rental car companies. The railroad tracks still exist as well. The plane appears to start to break apart over what is now the intersection of Middlebelt & Wick Roads (1/4 mile south of I-94) in Romulus, MI.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1931, December 5
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046366
United States airship Akron takes off for its first flight in Akron, Ohio.

Maiden flight of United States airship Akron. C.E. Rosendahl along with the crew of Akron lined up with people in the background. USS Akron comes out of a hangar at Goodyear Zeppelin in Akron, Ohio on 23rd September, 1931. American flag at the nose of the airship. Airship lifts off and in flight. A sign on the ground reads ' Goodyear Zeppelin ' The airship returns after its trial flight.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042202
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