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USS Langley (CV-1) in Panama Canal and USS Saratoga (CV-3) being launched

The U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Langley (CV-1) going through the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal with many aircraft parked on her deck. In different sequence, aircraft are seen taking off and landing on the deck of the Langley. Complete change of scene shows launching of the USS Saratoga (CV-3) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Camden, New Jersey. The USS Saratoga is christened with a bottle of champagne and slides down the ways into the river. Views from the deck of the Saratoga as she proceeds down the ways.

Location: Panama
Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041842
Americans voting in U.S. cities during 1944 Presidential election; Roosevelt defeats Dewey.

Presidential elections in the United States. Americans voting in various cities. People lined up outside building to vote. Buildings along the sides of the street. Acts and figures pasted on a board. People reading the news. President Roosevelt casting his vote at the Town Hall in Hyde Park, New York. Tabulation of the figure. Crowd at Times Square follow the returns. A board reads: 'National Broadcasting Company Election chart'. Announcements of figures on radio. A woman writing the figure on a board. Announcement of results at the Republican National Headquarters. Governor Dewey conceded defeat and President Roosevelt receives congratulations at Hyde Park.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046224
Baseball at the newly completed Astrodome in Houston, and President Johnson throws first pitch at game in Washington DC.

Exterior and interior views of the newly completed Astrodome in Houston Texas. Star topped column outside. Fans pack the stadium for an exhibition baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros. View of the then-translucent ceiling of the dome shaped stadium. The centerfield scoreboard reads 'Tilt' as Mickey Mantle of the Yankees hits a home run. The Astros score the winning run. Views of the advanced new scoreboard displaying lighted animation of Texas bulls and fireworks. In Washington DC on April 12, 1965, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson throws out the first pitch at the opening day game between the Washington Senators and the Boston Red Sox. Players take pictures and home movies. The president shakes hands with Senators manager Gil Hodges and Red Sox manager Billy Herman. Johnson throws out first pitch, with Vice President Hubert Humphrey watching at left.

Location: Houston Texas USA
Date: 1965, April 12
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046629
LSD tests conducted on unwitting victims including prostitutes and drug addicts by the CIA in the United States.

A documentary depicts research and administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the late 1950s and into the 1960s (part of project MKUltra). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. View of a part time chemist for the CIA, Dr. James Moore, who narrator says duped amateur mycologist and mushroom science enthusiast R. Gordon Wasson into providing information that led to the development of LSD. Mr. R. Gordon Wasson is asked about a magic mushroom leading to the drug psilocybin. He talks about how they found the mushroom in Mexico and ingested it as administered by a local shaman or magical priestess, Maria Sabina, in a Mazatec mushroom ritual. Wasson describes his own experience of what it was like to be under the influence of psilocybin. He describes visions and his sensory experience. Narrator relates how Dr. Moore was instructed by the CIA to get close to Mr. Wasson and obtain the magic mushrooms on a trip to Mexico, and that internal memos revealed plans to derive a drug from the mushrooms that would remain an agency secret. Dr. Moore discusses his work in helping the CIA to produce a new drug. Anonymous speaker relates information from CIA operative of plans by the CIA to test the drug on unwitting American citizens. People drinking and sitting at a bar. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, tells about discussions with Mr. George White. Scenes with swirling colors and lights meant to simulate the experience of someone taking LSD drug. CIA operative says that George White helped the CIA locate unwitting persons on which to test the drugs, including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. Traffic on city streets. Narrator states that Mr. White set up safe houses for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and night clubs. Exterior neon sign of Plantation Inn Motel in San Francisco, another safe house. View of an apartment building atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, with a view of San Francisco Bay from the safe house apartment. Former CIA official relates how they used the safe houses to administer drugs to prostitutes and determine if the drug could be useful in getting people such as prostitution customers to reveal secrets. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Views of a college campus green. Narrator states that millions of dollars were spent on LSD research at universities throughout the United States. Narrator states that word spread on college campuses about the drug, and ushered in the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. Dr. Timothy Leary is interviewed and states that he gives the CIA credit for launching the consciousness movement and counter-culture events of the 1960s. Scenes of Dr. Leary in 1967, depicting him while using the drug. Dr. Leary states that the CIA funded and encouraged use of the drug by hundreds of psychologists to advance research and understanding of it, and that psychologists found it to be an intelligence enhancing and consciousness raising experience.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 7 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047228
Aircraft manufacturing factories at various places in United States

Manufacturing of aircraft in United States World War I. Aircraft factories at Elizabeth, New Jersey; Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio. Aerial views of aircraft factory, railway siding, warehouses and lumber yard. Crowd of men war production workers go to work at one of the plants and factory workers at work. Men sit around small round tables as they eat in a plant cafeteria. Many of them appear to be production plant executives and at least one U.S. Navy sailor in uniform. African American waiters seen in the dining area.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048522
Franklin D Roosevelt during his Presidential campaign in United States.

Scene of steam locomotive starting to move. Engineer in the locomotive cab. Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential election campaign. A railroad train pulls up at a station in Kentucky. Governor of New York, Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a public meeting in Topeka, Kansas,about the new deal and its help for farmers. His train arrives in Seattle and a large crowd welcomes him at the rail road station. A train moves over a bridge and Roosevelt arrives in Springfield, Georgia to campaign for the Presidential elections. He receives a warm welcome in Georgia.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049693
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