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Development of roads, rural school system, camps, and preservation of monuments in Ohio in 1930s

Hogs at a farm in Ohio. Farmer loads pigs into truck in order to transport them to the market. The truck gets stuck in a muddy road and the farmer is unable to free his truck. The hogs get tired and jump out of the truck adding to the farmer's complications. Demonstrates problems with low quality road system for farmers getting from farm to market. Federally financed road construction shows workers during the Great Depression as they reconstruct and level rugged roads under the Farm to Market Roads Program. Various machines used for the purpose of building new roads. A farm truck drives across a smooth road. A school bus approaches a new consolidated school building using the developed roads. View of an older rural school house in Ohio that is no longer used as a school due to school consolidation under the Works Progress Administration or WPA program. Two boys play on a see-saw in front of the school building. Children wearing shorts get off the school bus. View of main entrance of OYO Boy Scout Camp in West Portsmouth, Ohio. Boy Scouts view a knot tying demonstration as they sit outside the newly constructed Block House log cabin, built with federal funds under the Civil Works Administration, at the camp located in the Roosevelt Game Preserve. Views of the camp Headquarters building at Camp OYO. View of buildings of Old Fort Recovery, built by General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne, and restored by WPA.

Location: Ohio United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030502
Pan American Congress of Journalists view development in the automobile and road system in United States.

Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists travel and learn about the United States. A map depicting the route of the group from Washindton DC to New York, then to Detroit and again come back to New York. They observe gradual development in the automobile and road system. Cabs and caravan of buses pass under a bridge. Views of herd of gazing animals,people on horsebacks, a man ploughing the field with his horse,men using tools and men making wooden barrels.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030518
U.S. Coast Guard sailors sight and attack a submarine at sea.

U.S. Coast Guard cutters at sea. U.S. Coast Guard sailors on cutters in heavy seas. A sailor looks through binoculars from the observation deck. Another sailor looks through binoculars, keeps a watch, and informs the crew of a submarine sighting. The cutters attack and drop shells into the water. Massive underwater explosions. The crew mans and fires the deck gun. A pilot readies his plane. Oil from a leaking submarine floats on the water surface. Cutters at sea. A Coast Guard sailor and a SPARS (Coast Guard Women's Reserve) walk along the New York harbor. The Statue of Liberty in the background. The New York skyline as SPARS march. Voice narration in part by James Cagney and Ginger Rogers.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031171
Harry S Truman becomes the Vice President and then takes over as President of the United States.

Harry S Truman and other officials work on some documents. Truman's Vice Presidential campaign. People hold boards reading 'Truman for Vice President' during Democratic National Convention of 1944. Vice President Truman with President Franklin D Roosevelt. View of the exterior of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. Soldiers and horses with Roosevelt's casket during funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A crowd at the Washington Monument. The United States flag at half staff on the White House. Truman addresses the Congress. He talks about cooperation and duty. Nazi German Axis soldiers surrender during World War II in Europe. A large crowd at Broadway celebrates VE Day in New York City. The first atomic bomb mushroom cloud billows into the sky over New Mexico during the Trinity atomic bomb test. Signing of Japanese surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri at the end of World War 2. Japanese official Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs documents, then General Douglas MacArthur signs documents, and presents a pen to General Wainwright standing behind him. An American official takes a seat and goes through some documents. An officer reads documents at a table as soldiers stand by and watch.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948, October 18
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031319
Sailors graduating from Basic training demonstrate marching skills at U.S. Naval training Center in Chicago,United States.

Graduation Day for a class of recruits at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Chicago, Illinois. Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center is on a reviewing stand with his Lieutenant Commander, assistant. A French military officer and two French officials, are also present. Spectators are crowded around the reviewing stand. The new sailors are seen, from atop the administration building, lined up in formation behind the Center's flag pole from which a large American flag flies. Others are marching in review past the stand, which is now filled with high-ranking naval officers. The spectators around the reviewing stand can also be seen better. In next sequence, a huge Navy brass band marches toward the reviewing stand en masse and then executes to the rear march by columns, all while playing their instruments. They remain in place and play during the rest of the activities. More massed sailors march, followed by several contingents pulling French 75 artillery pieces. Spectators can be seen all around the parade grounds. Beginning as a huge single formation covering more than half the parade ground, sailors start marching in maneuvers that create patterns. Then a square formation of sailors marches along the field, enclosing a moving color guard, like a fortress. Closeup of new sailors marching with shouldered arms. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031678
Construction of houses for people involved in defense activities and workers at industrial centers in the United States.

Film 'Homes For Defense' on the construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Houses constructed for soldiers and war production workers through the Federal Defense Housing Program. Houses for the people who construct planes, ships and guns for the protection of America. View of run down tenements and slum housing in a city or town. A car parked outside a house. Children stand near a fence outside the house. A map shows industrial centers. Men move to various industrial centers. Newport News: workers work on machinery for the Battle of Atlantic. Hartford: workers work on machine guns. Detroit: workers in an auto industry. Rock Island: workers in industry make coastal field artillery. Rolla Waynesville: army men at a training center. Corpus Christi: Army men at a new airfield to accommodate the expanding air force. Aircraft in flight. San Diego: workers construct planes in a factory. Signs of the various housing agencies that are doing a special job under the coordinated program.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031935
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