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Cadets construct a pontoon bridge and mule carts cross over it at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. Cadets construct a pontoon bridge. They advance in woods with a barge on mule carts. They get on the barge walking on wooden platforms. A number of cadets place wooden platforms on the bridge. View of the newly constructed pontoon bridge. The mule carts cross over the bridge.

Date: 1935
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064835
Cadets march on a field at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. View of the United Stats Military Academy building. Cadets in uniform come on a field. They march with rifles in hand. Spectators watch the parade. Officers march with the American flag. Civilians seated on bleachers. A dignitary shakes hands with the officers.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064836
A graduation ceremony at the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, United States.

The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, United States. Interior of an auditorium with cadets and a huge crowd attending a ceremony. American flags in the background. U.S. Army General George C Marshall, United States Air Force General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg and Miss Anna Rosenberg stand on a platform. General Marshal presents scrolls to the graduating cadets. General Vandenberg sitting with Miss Rosenberg. The cadets receiving diplomas from General Marshall. The cadets rejoicing after the ceremony.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064837
Laura Ingalls non-stop coast-to-coast U.S. record flight; also Margaret Waley found guilty in Weyerhaeuser kidnapping

Aviatrix Laura Ingalls in flight gear. Her aircraft, Lockheed Orion 9D Special, NR14222, takes off from Floyd Bennett field in New York. It sets a new nonstop flight record of eighteen hours and twenty minute flight from east coast to west coast in the United States. Ingalls was the first woman pilot to cross the U.S. non-stop from east to west. Next scenes are unrelated to Ingalls' flight: A group of men and women jurors walking on sidewalk in Tacoma Washington, during trial of Margaret Waley, wife of Harmon Waley, for her involvement in the kidnapping of young George Weyerhaeuser (nine year old heir to thriving Weyerhaeuser Company timber business in Washington state). Kaufman Leonard Company furniture delivery truck seen behind the group as they walk. The group of men and women seen entering a building. Next scene shows 9 year old boy George Weyerhaeuser holding closely to a man and avoiding cameras as he is led on the sidewalk, likely before or after giving testimony. Next scene shows 19 year old Margaret Waley, flanked by a man and a woman as she walks on the sidewalk, likely to or from court. Final scene is a group of men and women, possibly including the jurors in the case, posing on the steps of a building in Tacoma, Washington.

Date: 1935, July 12
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058524
A man explains layout and crops to visitors at a large farm in Morocco

A guide shows farms and gardens to people in Morocco. He points towards areas of the farm using a wooden stick. hills in the background. A mixture of local and Western people watch and listen. The guide walks with the visitors through a garden.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067421
A film about Western life in the United states on a farm and ranch in Texas during World War II

Film begins showing a passenger train moving through landscape, empty except for some cattle grazing. The setting is Texas, the United States, during World War 2. A young boy is on the train, wearing a a British school uniform (or possibly Norwegian school uniform), with short pants. He sits with his knees up, reading a book about the American West. Other books about the West are on his seat. Scenes from movies of the West that are in the boys mind are shown. They show vintage western film reenactments of stage coaches being defended; cowboys riding en masse; cowboys fighting Native American Indians; teams of horses pulling stage coaches; gun fights in various places; exterior of the "Last Chance Saloon"; and a cowboy riding a bucking horse in a saloon. As the train arrives at his destination, the boy readies and leaves the train. A man in a 10 gallon hat meets him and shakes his hand. Camera pans over landscape containing a single ranch or farm house. The boy is seen running all around the property. A tractor pulls a disc cultivator over some of the land. Now dressed in a western hat and long pants, his host takes him to meet one of the ranch hands who is working on an automobile. They walk by a man driving a tractor. Next they visit a man shoeing a horse. They wave at some men using hand tools to cultivate some crop. They walk past a tall windmill. Cattle are seen grazing in a field. After their exploration, the Host sits on a porch as the boy reads more information in a book. Another view of grazing cattle. A lone cowboy on a horse looks over the land.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Norwegian
Clip: 65675032775