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Laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipeline network between Texas and Illinois in the United States during World War 2.

A map shows pipeline network for the transportation of oil and its by-products in the United States, largely for the war effort during World War 2. Shows the laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipelines in Arkansas, Texas, and other locations. Tractors and explosives being used to clear the ground for laying the pipelines. Oil pipeline being laid across a river bed. A welder welds the joints. Pipelines being laid in trenches. Men operate valves to turn on the flow of oil in the new Big Inch pipeline. High octane aviation gas is filled in an aircraft at an airfield. Soldiers fill gas cans all lined up in a lot. An oil tanker in the background. Troops load gasoline jerrycans on trucks. B-17, B-26, and B-24 Bomber aircraft in refueling operations on various airfields. B-17 taking off and formation of aircraft in flight. Long lines of jerry cans being filled with gasoline by personnel near a railroad track. Close up view of gasoline dispensing nozzle in top of Jerry Can and a hand opening the next jerry can in line. Jerry cans loaded into trucks, transported, and unloaded by U.S. Army soldiers. Motor oil being poured into funnels for use in vehicles. Narrator declares, "Oil for freedom. American oil. The blood of the mechanized legion!" A formation of tanks and military vehicles move along a wide field. Narrator encourages sacrifice of American people giving up home comforts of goods and fuels made from oil so that they can be directed to the war effort.

Location: Texas United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050493
An oil pumping station which serves important fields and a map shows important oil pipe line systems in the United States.

Pumping and transportation of crude oil in the United States. A political map of the U.S. shows oil pipe line systems which are used to transport crude petroleum. The map shows main trunk pipe line systems including a new line under construction from Wyoming, connecting with the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. A pumping station which serves important fields in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming with its chief terminals at East Chicago, Houston, Texas and Salt Creek, Wyoming. Internal combustion engines and machinery at the pumping station.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1923
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050551
Drilling equipment is brought in and set up in a jungle in Mexico.

A documentry 'The Story of a Mexican Gusher' visualizes different stages in oil production in Mexico. A political map of Mexico shows Tampico and the distance between Tampico and New Orleans. Men cut through jungles, cross rivers and make roads to bring equipment into the Mexican oil region. Men cut trees in a jungle using machetes and axes. Men at work in an open area. Smoke rises in the background. A barge goes across a river. A jeep on a road built in a jungle. An oil company's railroad. Men work on the company pipeline near the railroad. A camp hospital in a jungle clearing to the south of the Panuco River. Cable tool method of drilling is practiced. Men do 'spudding in' by drilling a hole. Machinery in operation. After the spudding in a cable is 'hitched on' to a 'walking beam'. Men lower a casing at Ebano to drill out oil. A derrick. Oil is discovered at 800 feet and bubbles up from oil well. Two oil workers completely covered in oil work with the oil well equipment.

Location: Mexico
Date: 1926
Duration: 8 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050555
World War 2 battle scenes; wrecked buildings and masses of displaced persons in Europe after World War II.

'Problems of Peace in Europe' produced in 1948, depicts reconstruction problems in aftermath of World War II and includes footage from during the war and soon after the war. Scene of desperate and hungry civilian people (possibly in Germany but could be elsewhere in Europe) scrambling over each other and trying to find food on the ground among garbage or wreckage, circa 1945 or 1946. European peoples massing to reestablish political order and seek relief in post-war Europe. Montage of images of people from all walks of life. Reminders of war showing aircrews in bombers and bombs falling. Batteries of rockets being fired. A formation of U.S. B-17s and a B-26 aircraft with D-day stripes, in flight. Allied bombing of cities with devastating effect (likely 1944-1945). Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Aerial view of a major U.S. industrial complex, with many smoke stacks and industrial pollution. Mass of workers leaving at end of shift at a U.S. manufacturing plant or factory. Views of two different streamlined locomotives pulling passenger trains at high speed, approaching camera position. Freight trains speeding on railroads. Farmers harvesting and baling hay by machine and cultivating fields with tractor. Multiple wide views of the K-25 building of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, in Oak Ridge Tennessee, the world's largest building in 1944 when it was built, and an instrumental part of the Manhattan Project effort to develop the atomic bomb in World War 2. Huge sprawling industrial sites in America. Map of Europe. Street scene in Germany with destroyed buildings and rubble cleaned from street, but still piled up in places. Desperate, hungry, and poverty stricken German citizens rummaging through garbage piles for anything to eat or anything of value. Two very young German boys standing together on a street, with one boy smoking a cigarette. Children scrambling over trash and rubbish heaps.

Location: Europe
Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050559
American pioneers conquer the west in the 1800s, compared to 1940s workers

The U.S. Capitol dome at night. Montage of U.S. Declaration of Independence with view of U.S. founding fathers at time of American Revolution. Reenacted depiction: 17th century immigrants or pilgrims arriving in the U.S. on large sailing ships. Group of men marching while carrying a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag. Depiction of Betsy Ross with U.S.A. flag. A covered wagon at sunset. 18th century men cutting down trees. 18th century men building a log cabin. Settlers arrive to the remains of their burned out cabin. A stage coach on the U.S. prairie. A covered wagon in the midwest. A stage coach traveling through grass lands. 18th century depiction of a western town in the United States. A white man and a Native American Indian man driving the last spike to complete a railroad as the steam locomotive starts. An 18th century steam locomotive passes by. Actual footage of external view of 1940s factory or production plant. Inside 1940s factory men are building engines. Wide shot of workers entering factory. New York City street scene. Los Angeles street scene. A rancher mends a barbed wire fence. Cowboys-ranchers on their horses. Fisherman pulling in nets on shore. Tobacco farming. Leather worker. Shirtless worker wielding a pick axe. Plant worker turning a large valve. A woman painter with a maritime village scene...perhaps Provincetown. A woman scientist in a laboratory. A 1940s family at the dinner table. Farm laborers harvesting melons. Man drives a tractor with woman riding behind him.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050570
Prime Minister Ben Bella addresses the UN General Assembly and President Kennedy congratulates Algerian people in the U.S.

A documentary depicting Algerians celebrating their independence and developments in Algeria thereafter. Vehicles carrying jubilant people drive past on the roads in different parts of the country. A helicopter in flight. A crowd gathers to watch as dignitaries and deputies arrive to attend the first session of the National Assembly. The session in progress. Ferhat Abbas is elected as the President of the National Assembly. Mohamed Ahmed Ben Bella casts his vote along with other members for the election of the prime minister. The crowd cheers as Mohamed Ahmed Ben Bella is declared the newly appointed Algerian Prime Minister. The Algerian flags are waved. A military procession in the streets. Soldiers parade as the people watch. Helicopters in flight. United States Air Force aircraft fly to aid with medical supplies. Dignitaries get off aircraft and are greeted by Algerian dignitaries. Men carry boxes. Volunteer medical personnel disembark aircraft. The Kabili Mountains (or Kabylie or Kabylia). Men work in fields and water crops. Algerian boys in Constantine for a forestry course. People work in a tent area. A man cooks bread. Sacks of food supplies sent in by other countries. Trees are felled. The United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Algerian Prime Minister addresses the UN General Assembly. Ben Bella in Washington DC. U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Ben Bella review honor guards. President Kennedy congratulates Algerian people on attaining independence. Heavy crowd on the streets of Algeria.

Location: Algeria
Date: 1963
Duration: 8 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050586
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