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Racers drive their cars at great speed on dirt track at Legion Ascot Speedway in Los Angeles, California.

Automobile Classic race at the Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles, California. Racers drive in their cars on the dirt track. Motorcycles riders ride along the road. People watch the race. Hillside view along the race track.

Date: 1935, March 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063951
U.S. Army Air Forces officers confer with General Electric executives about producing America's first turbojet airplane engine

Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.

Date: 1941, October 4
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063980
U.S. Army Air Forces officers consulting with General Electric executives about manufacture of turbojet airplane engine.

U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063983
Naval transport ship (AP-23) leaves New York harbor carrying deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon

U.S. Navy West Point Class Troop Transport (AP-23) (Formerly the ocean liner, SS America ) backs out of Pier 61, in New York City, with help of tug boats. The ship carries deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon, including A.V.Yannelli, Italian General at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Several of Yanelli's friends, and reporters linger at the entrance to Pier 61. Several taxis and a truck loaded with baggage arrives. Men, women and children are seen with their baggage. The ship proceeds down the Hudson River, carrying 137 Italian citizens and 327 Germans from the closed consulates of those nations. The transport ship is underway at 2:55 PM on July 16th, bound for Lisbon Portugal

Date: 1941, July 16
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064215
Dr. Arnold Gesell demonstrates 28 week old child's ability to pick up large blocks at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

American Pediatrician Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates with a toddler at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Doctor Arnold Gesell with a 28 week old baby in an enclosed area. Onlookers watch from outside. Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates child's ability to pick up blocks. Doctor Gesell places large blocks and pellets on the table. Toddler picks up large objects but cannot pick up the small pellets.

Date: 1946, January
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064242
Dr. Arnold Gesell places ring, block and pellet in front of a 28 week old child at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

American Pediatrician Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates with a toddler at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Doctor Arnold Gesell with a 28 week old baby in an enclosed area. Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates child's ability to pick up blocks. Doctor Gesell places blocks on the table. Toddler picks it up and put it in his mouth. He places a ring tied with a string. Child tries to hold the string but fails. Toddler holds ring and puts it in his mouth. Doctor Gesell places small pellet in front of the baby and the child cannot get a grip of the pellet.

Date: 1946, January
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064243