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Joe Lunn of Columbus, Georgia wins the final of the junior speed classic in Soap Box Derby in Akron

Newsreel 'Soap Boxers, Junior speed demons tangle in 1952 Derby'. Several children wearing helmets ready for the youth soapbox car racing. Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart talks with a participant who is readying for the race. Coaster cars on the track. Eleven year old Joe Lunn of Columbus, Georgia wins the final of the junior speed classic in Soap Box Derby in Akron in Ohio. Huge crowd cheers him.

Date: 1952, August
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041152
Various Buildings, Monuments and Landmarks of United States.

Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.

Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023512
Men fire pistol at targets during timed fire pistol match on Camp Perry in Ohio, United States.

Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio, United States. Men fire pistol at targets during a timed fire pistol match. R. P. Nowka of the Los Angeles Police fires pistol at the target. R. C. Bracker of Columbus fires at a target.

Date: 1927
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067679
Tests on tires show motorists new ways to save rubber in Akron Ohio.

Shows tracks of a moving tank. Workers manufacturing tank-tracks in factory. Huge rubber inflated tire-tubes rolled out of factory by workers and loaded on trucks.Shows a Car in Akron Ohio performing various strain tests on tires over different road surfaces. July 1941.

Date: 1941, July
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028739
General Electric plant and operations at Lockland, Ohio. Advances in jet propulsion. Jet airplanes of the early 1950s.

Animated illustration of rapid improvements in GE jet engine designs. Views of the GE plant at Lockland, Ohio. Interior of a jet passenger liner airplane, as envisioned in 1951. View of flight attendant or stewardess in uniform, delivering tray of food to a passenger in the cabin of an aircraft in flight. View of Dr. Sanford A. Moss, standing in front of the Collier Trophy, looking at his award certificate, in 1941. The trophy was awarded to him and the U.S. Army Air Corps for development of the aircraft engine supercharger. Discussion of Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Air Force, General Electric and Convair ideas about building an atomic powered airplane. Views of the GE gas turbine laboratory. Montage of jet aircraft of the early 1950s. Among those seen are: Convair SF-92 delta wing fighter plane; The Chase XCG-20A 4-engine cargo plane; North American F-86 sabrejet; Grumman F9F panther; F-89 Scorpion; and B-36 bomber, plus several unidentified experimental aircraft. Several scenes of B-47s in rocket assisted takeoffs.

Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063989
Major General George Patton, other officers and enlisted men signing up for private flying school and practice flying.

Shortly before direct American involvement in World War 2: Major General George Patton, Commander 2nd Armored Division at Fort Benning, Georgia and 66 other officers and enlisted men signing up for private flying school in Columbus, Georgia. Officers studying on field. They board Fairchild aircraft and Cadet Monoplanes and take off. General Patton seen preparing to pilot an aircraft. Graduates lined up and getting diplomas.

Date: 1941
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039346