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PBY Catalina with soldiers aboard in flight from Morotai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines.

U.S. Navy PBY Catalina of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron transport soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II The PBY Catalina, an American flying boat, in flight. The island of Philippines visible. The aircraft among the clouds in the sky. The coastline in view. Trees and inhabited areas along the coast line.

Date: 1944, October 19
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054893
PBY Catalina with soldiers aboard in flight from Morotai Island,New Guinea to Mindanao,Philippines during World War II.

U.S. Navy PBY Catalina of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron transfers the U.S. soldiers and war correspondents from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II. The PBY Catalina in flight. An officer typing a document at the typewriter. The aircraft in flight above an island. The coastline in view. Rocky terrain along the coast line.

Date: 1944, October 20
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054894
President Harding and others pay last respects to the American Unknown Soldier of World War I, lying in state at U.S. Capitol

The American Unknown Soldier of World War I lying in State at the U.S. Capitol before burial at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. The Unknown Hero lies in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States), Washington DC. U.S. First Lady Florence Harding drapes the casket with a white silk ribbon as an official helps her. Officials and officers around the coffin as President Warren G. Harding places a wreath on the coffin. U.S. Vice President Calvin Coolidge and Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft lay a wreath on the coffin. General John J. Pershing lays a wreath and salutes. The Unknown Soldier in the Capitol dome. Wreath and flower placed over the casket . People pour in to pay respects and view the body. A long line outside the Capitol as people arrive to pa tribute to the Unknown Hero. Casket of the Unknown soldier inside the Capitol. Animation depicts the sacrifices made by American soldiers in the past including the American revolution, War of 1812, and the American-Spanish War of 1898.

Date: 1921, November
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021988
Historical Reenactment of USS Maine sinking and monumental buildings in Havana, Cuba.

The USS Maine (ARC-1) arrives at Havana harbor in Cuba. A historical reenactment of the USS Maine (1889) sinking in Havana Harbor before the Spanish American War in 1898. Monumental buildings and street scene of Havana. Calle Zulueta nearing El Capitolio or the National Capitol of Cuba. The American flag flutters.

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022659
Beginnings of successful powered heavier-than-air flight. Wright Brothers flights in U.S. and Europe. General Hap Arnold

History of aviation. A balloon in flight. Historic glider such as that which interested U.S. War Department as early as 1898. In 1903, a crew of men moving a Wright Flyer into position. Two men turn over propellers on a Wright Flyer, and the engine starts. View of the Wright-designed water-cooled engine. View of Orville Wright. The famous first powered flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville Wright at controls. Animation shows that 120 foot flight juxtaposed against a B-36 wing. Wilbur Wright in Europe, in 1908, gesturing as he converses with interested parties. A gallery of spectators including the President of France, King of England, King of Spain, and King of Italy. Wilbur Wright places a wheel under the right wing of a Wright Flyer and lashes it to the strut. A team of horses pulls the plane across the field. Men maneuver the plane onto a monorail on the ground. Men pull on a heavy rope to raise a weight in a tower, for a catapult. Two men spin the propellers and the Wright Brothers airplane motor starts. Wilbur Wright and his passenger, a French journalist, board the plane. The catapult weight drops, launching the aircraft which flies low over the field. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt speaking (He is seen on a podium campaigning for the Bull Moose Party nomination at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas on September 22, 1912.) War department issues specifications for a heavier-than-air craft. Reenactment of a Wright brother signing a bid contract. A Wright Flyer airborne at Fort Myer, Virginia, as the Wrights meet the Army specifications and sell, U.S. Army airplane number 1, to the War Department, in 1908. Gold Aviator wings being pinned on the uniform of a U.S. Army pilot. Photograph of Army Air Forces Chief, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, wearing his original aviator wings on his service uniform. A Glenn Curtis training airplane starting up and taking off. View of a DH-4 airplane and a Wright Flyer taking off together.

Date: 1908
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051723
Musician, Composer, and film maker, Hanns Eisler, appears before Subcommittee of House Un-American Activities Committee

Subcommittee of House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) holds hearing in Los Angeles, California, United States. Johannes (Hanns) Eisler, musician, composer and film maker, is being questioned. He is questioned about his associations with the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. The witness spells his full name for the Committee, and states that he was born July 5, 1898, in Leipsig, Germany. He states his occupation, as composer and that he studied in Vienna and was a student of Arnold Schonberg. In response to questions, he recalls visiting the Soviet Union several times in the early 1930s, for film making and musical publishing. He denies ever receiving any monies from the Soviet Government.

Date: 1947, May 12
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054211