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Army Air Service bombing and other practice operational activities during the 1920s in the United States

Several Keystone LB-5s (triple tails) and LB-5As (double tails) move across an airfield, circa 1928. Test bombing of captured German battleship, Ostfriesland, in 1921. Smoke arises due to bombing. A formation of four Martin NBS-1 bombers over the former USS Alabama (BB-8), in the Chesapeake Bay, on September 23, 1921. A white phosphorus bomb explodes atop the ship raising a huge white cloud. One of the Martin bombers flies low over the water drops a smoke curtain. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033881
Rural water mill and the rise of Kenneth Killinger as a preacher in the southern Appalachians

Depicts life near the southern Appalachian region of Marion, Virginia in Smyth County, and specifically the path of Kenneth G. Killinger from being a mill operator to becoming a mountain missionary of the Lutheran Synod of Virginia. Man carries sack of corn to a water powered mill. Sign "Corn Ground." Young man actor portraying Kenneth G. Killinger weighs the corn with a simple scale and then pours it into the stone grinder. He gives the ground corn to the customer, along with a booklet that reads, "The Augsburg Sunday School Teacher, 1910." Close view of the contents page of the booklet. The young man standing at the edge of the mill, water wheel turning beside him. Scenes portraying two memories from his youth: A woman taking a paddle to a boy as punishment. Next scene is a group of teenage and younger boys gathered together and taking drinks of moonshine whiskey alcohol from a bottle. They cringe from the taste and pass the bottle around. Scene of men digging a grave in a graveyard beside a rural church. Killinger reenters the mill. Scene of young Killinger sitting on the porch of a rural home, reading to young children. Killinger counseling a bed-ridden elderly woman. On screen text reads, "Kenneith G. Killinger. 'The Mountain Missionary' of The Lutheran Synod of Virginia. Marion, Virginia. July 24, 1921." View of Killinger in 1921, preaching to congregation sitting under a tree. The congregation entering a small makeshift church building. The congregation entering an abandoned rail car turned into their church. The congregation later in a larger church building. Killinger preaching. Rural children singing from hymnals. Churchgoers exiting the church.

Date: 1934
Duration: 5 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023102
United States aircraft drop smoke bombs on USS Tennessee during Chemical Warfare Service training operation.

A United States Army training film about the chemical warfare service. United States Navy battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) serves as training target for U.S. aircraft dropping smoke bombs onto the USS Tennessee. Explosions around the battleship. Smoke rises all around the ship.

Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044453
Tennessee Valley Authority develops the Tennessee River system in United States.

Harnessing rivers in United States. Tennessee River flows with full force. Floods cause damages in farms and towns. The flow of water causes soil erosion. Tennessee Valley Authority develops the Tennessee River system for flood control and to generate surplus electricity to avert waste of water power. Congress passes Tennessee Valley Authority legislation. Construction crew works on the construction of dam. Workers balancing on steel beams, high in the air. Riverters throwing and catching hot rivets. Steam shovels and pneumatic hammers in operation. Concrete being poured and a welder with helmet and torch,at work. Animated map shows the river and tributaries. Several other dams in view. The dams help in electricity power generation and irrigation.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054482
Creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Text of 1933 Act creating TVA and scenes of the project.

Film regarding creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Picture of United States Capitol building. Text of 1933 Congressional Act creating the TVA, appears progressively as background while scenes of the project are shown. Aerial view of power plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. A little girl stands alone, looking over a TVA dam. A utility worker stands on a large electric insulator. View from a barge as it passes under a bridge on the Tennessee River. Bridge under construction over Tennessee River. Aerial view of flooded area. Animated map shows Tennessee River Basin.

Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023069
The interstate highway system in America

A man rides a two-wheeled dune bike on the shoreline at Jensen beach, Florida. Cars move on multi-lane Interstate Highway. Many 1970s cars seen. Signs with distances and directions along the roadside and above the highways. Signs for Interstates 40; Hwy 95 in Virginia;Hwy 65 at Birmingham Alabama;Hwy 75 N to Atlanta and S to Macon and Florida;Hwy 80 in Iowa; Hwy 85 in Georgia; and Hwy 15 in Montana. Other destinations include: Chattanooga,Knoxville,and Louisville. Cars repaired in a garage. A car moves out of the garage and takes to the highway. Cars, bikes and buses on a highway. Cars loaded onto a car-carrier truck and transported along the Interstate Highway. A Continental Trailways bus on a highway. Point of view shot from moving vehicle driving on highways near Washington DC area.

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048711