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Chief Justice Stone swears in President Harry S Truman in Washington DC, and Truman's early life highlights.

Chief Justice Harland F. Stone swears-in President Harry S Truman in Washington DC as President of the United States. James Forrestal, Edward R Stettinius and others look on. Views of the town of Lamar, Missouri where Truman was born, and of his home in Independence, Missouri. Pictures of Harry Truman in his World War I uniform and battle scenes during the first World War. Truman in front of a statue as a newly elected Senator. Harry Truman chosen as Vice President and view of him speaking with President Roosevelt. View of U.S. Capitol and Washington monument during funeral procession of Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with White House flag at half staff. President Harry Truman gives speech to Congress in the U.S. Capitol.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023232
Major sources of air pollution and recommendations to control it in the metropolitan city area of Kansas, United States.

Air pollution in the metropolitan city area of Kansas, United States. View of Kansas City skyline on clear day and on smoggy day. Vehicles move on the streets. View of jet airliner taking off, emiting smoke. View of Kansas center city. An animated map shows seven Counties that differ in terms of land use, industrialization and economic activities in Missouri and Kansas. Kansas City Municipal and Fairfax airports, with aircraft taxiing. Aerial view of the airport areas with smog visible. View of bridges with factories behind barely visible through the smog. Rural road, with open burning of refuse in a large fire, with black smoke rising. Smoke rising from low building and from Large industrial plant. Aerial view of Kansas City from over the river,. with smoke obscuring the scene. Aerial view of smoke and pollution blanketing the whole area. Industrial plants along the river edge billowing smoke. The representatives of Kansas and Missouri present findings of the airport area survey during a conference. Animated illustrations of pollution sources: refuse burning; industrial processes; fuel combustion; and mobile sources.

Location: Kansas United States USA
Date: 1967
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072631
History of exploration and settlement in the Western United States including accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The film titled 'Time of the West' shows the geography of the Western United States and includes accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1806), headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to the Pacific coast and back. Mountainous terrain and the Missouri River in Montana. View of surrounding terrain and cliffs from a moving boat on the Missouri River. Reflection of cliffs in river water. Cloud formations in the sky. Panoramic view of lightening and rain clouds over mountains. Submerged trees in water. A cloud formation around the mountains. Water of the Columbia River flowing and falling over cliffs. Waves crash over rocks on the Pacific coast. Houses made up of tree logs. Rocky shores in Oregon.

Location: Oregon United States USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 7 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075457
Great Plains and Independence Rock, part of the Oregon Trail in the United States. Views of Great Plains landscape and animals.

Panoramic views of the Oregon Trail which was one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, leading from locations on the Missouri River to the Oregon Territory from 1841 to 1869. The Great Plains or so called a the time "Great American Desert" with high plains. Elk at a river bank. Bison or buffalo herd feeding and fighting on the plains. View of a covered wagon of the period seen on the plains. Wagon wheel ruts in limestone rock on ground showing old path the wagons followed. Independence Rock on the Oregon Trail, with carved names of pioneers who carved their names on its surface between 1841 and 1869. View of Sweetwater River. The Missouri River leading to the Oregon territory. An abandoned old wagon wheel on the plains.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075460
Warships of the U.S. Navy fleet in the Hudson River on Navy Day in 1945

View of the Hudson River from an aircraft flying North, over the New Jersey shoreline. United States Navy warships are seen in the Hudson River, on the occasion of President Truman's first official visit to New York City, on Navy Day, October 27, 1945. Approximately 50 ships were anchored in the Hudson. The first clearly identified is the Battleship, USS Missouri(BB-63) with the Destroyer USS Renshaw (DD-499) tied alongside (bringing President Truman aboard during his review of the fleet). Others seen include the USS Midway (CVB-41); the USS Enterprise (CV-6); The USS Augusta (CA-31); and the USS Boise (CL-47). Several more surface ships are seen followed by six submarines on the surface, as the aircraft approaches the George Washington Bridge. More warships seen North of the bridge. Scene shifts to the USS Missouri and USS Renshaw, again. Next, the aircraft flies past a Navy blimp hovering below, over the river. The Aircraft Carriers, Enterprise and Midway are seen again. Glimpses of the New York City shore and buildings are seen at times in the film, as well as the palisades on the New Jersey shore, near the George Washington Bridge.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1945, October 27
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075942
United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) damaged in Operation Crossroad "Test Able," risk in daily lives and discussion of radioactivity.

'Radioactive contamination' about the hazards posed by the sinking of a United States aircraft carrier and the methods to control radioactivity. United States Navy F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft taking off from United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. F6F-3 Hellcat firing rockets in air. Landing signal operator LSO using flags while guiding plane for landing on USS Independence. Kamikaze attacks at Tarawa. Anti aircraft guns on carrier cut down kamikaze planes as they attack. USS Independence flying USA flag at Tokyo Bay. Scene of surrender of Japanese at Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. Aerial view of atomic bomb blast at Bikini in 1946. The wrecked carrier Independence being towed away after it was used as a target for an atomic bomb test in 1946 as part of Operation Crossroads. Men at a construction site talk about contamination caused in sea water due to sinking of Independence containing radioactive waste. They comment, "she's all full of that radioactive poison" and with respect to eating fish in water near the ship, "would you eat fish again?" Two women dressed in furs, in a car, also discuss radioactivity. One woman says, "from what I've heard it's very dangerous. " View of 1940s car backing into oncoming traffic and almost causing an accident. An aerial view of atomic explosion at Bikini. Damaged USS Independence ship after TEST ABLE. Signs on board warn of radioactivity with words, "Keep Clear, Danger! Very Radio-Active" and "Radioactivity. Do not remain more than 2 hours." Men in small boat near USS Independence examine damage to the ship. Parts of the USS Independence being tested for radioactive contamination at the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory NRDL, Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California. The USS Independence being sunk in 1951. View of Bikini atomic bomb blast within a bay surrounded by ships. Simulation shows the effect a similar blast would have on a coastal city as a radioactive cloud covers the city. Officers holding handkerchiefs to their mouths as they enter an office building from outside. Firemen climb ladders while putting out a large fire. A house wife working in a kitchen and responding to a pot boiling over on the stove burns her hand. A man slips on a bar of soap in the shower while singing. An officer honking at an oncoming car as he is run off the road. Woman driver dressed in furs exclaims to her friend about the bad driving of men. Officer just run off the road by woman driver exclaims, "Women !" with frustration. Aerial view of test nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1951
Duration: 8 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051356
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