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The Berlin Airlift. Allied aircraft transport and unload cargos for the city at Tempelhof Airdrome in Berlin, Germany.

The Berlin Airlift to sustain the city of Berlin during a Soviet blockade in the Cold War, following World War 2. Sign on airport building reads: "U.S. Air Force Station, Tempelhof, European Air Transport Service." A C-47 aircraft is seen being offloaded. A C-47 tazis past the camera. Others are seen parked. Scene shifts to a truck pulled up next to a C-54 transport plane being unloaded. A C-54 aircraft inflight overhead. German workmen unloading a C-54 into a truck. Men inside the aircraft roll sacks of coal down a slide to the men in the truck. Glimpse from inside the aircraft of coal sacks being placed on the chute and sliding to the truck bed. Some loose coal is scattered near the bottom of the chute. View of offloading operations from another C-54 aircraft. In this case, the cargo includes boxes and canvas bags. A truck backed up right against a C-47 aircraft to unload it. View of the terminal building in background. U.S. airmen unloading cargo from the doorway of a C-47. View inside where workers form a chain to pass parcels toward the door for unloading. Interior of a C-54 aircraft where a large pallet of cargo is seen on the floor. Men remove netting from the pallet. Glimpse from the rear of a British 4-engine Handley Page bomber aircraft being unloaded. A truck backing up to a parked C-47 aircraft. Cargo of Cartons and tins. One box contains a label reading: " J. & A. Kraus. Leberwurst." Other cargo includes wooden boxes. Final scene is a truck backing up to a parked British Handley Page bomber.

Date: 1949, March
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032473
Views of the Columbia River in the American northwest, salmon spawning, and men and bears fishing

Views of the river Columbia and surrounding mountains. Woody Guthrie singing the song Roll on Columbia. An outlined map of United States with closer views of the states of Washington and Oregon. A barge can be seen on the Columbia river. Different views of the river flowing. Areas of rapids and waterfalls on the Columbia River with salmon spawning and migrating upstream. A bear catching a salmon fish. A man seen fishing from a rock with a long net. Fishing men on wooden improvised platforms fish for salmon in the river.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032611
Views of a dam and flood ridden areas in United States.

Views of a busy street, railway tracks, port area in United States. An electric power station, men working on the towers. Interior of an industry, men at work. Water flowing out of a dam. Views of the Columbia, a river in United States and flood. Flood relief activities are done. People and livestock trapped in flood, wrecked houses can be seen.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032615
Views of an animated map and the Columbia River in the United States.

An animated map showing course of the river Columbia. Map also locates Bonneville, Grand Coulee, The Dallas, Priest Rapids, John Day, Chief Josef and McNary Dams on the Columbia River and Lower Monumental, Little Goose, Ice Harbor and Lower Granite Dams on the snake river. Views of the river, valleys and mountains surrounding the river. A barge can be seen in the river. Interior of an industry, men at work. Water flowing out of a dam. Views of calm water in the river.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032616
A documentary titled 'Our Union at Work' regarding textile workers union in United States.

Views of an industrial area in United States. Interior of a textile manufacturing or textile mill operation. Machinery, men at work on machines spinning, weaving, knitting. Men working on the machines. Women workers can be seen working on clothes and machines. A woman wears a magnifying glass attachment around her head to perform close detail work. A gathering of textile workers at a meeting of Textile Workers Union of America CIO. Workers at a Union election place ballots into ballot box during a vote.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032617
Elections of U.S. National Labor Relation Board, voting is done.

Interior of the U.S. National Labor Relation Board office, men in suits seated around a giant conference table, discussing. A United States flag in the corner. Man points out southeastern states in the United States on a map where union branches are needed. A car on road and a road sign for route 411 in Georgia. A union organizer man gets out of the car goes to a house, speaks to a worker, already seated, shows him some paper. Woman washing a young child at the house. A gathering of 12-15 people outside a textile mill, beside a railroad yard, as the new union is taking shape. Train goes by on tracks behind the men. Music "union train a coming" plays in background. Union organizers hand out leaflets at the textile mill gates, informing workers of the union idea. Views of campaigning of election. Banners can be seen saying 'Protect your job'. Voting is done, ballet paper is seen with title "National Labor Relations Board." Close up views of hands of workers putting ballots into voting box. Views of a union meeting of wool workers that are planning to negotiate with labor management on behalf of workers.

Date: 1949
Duration: 5 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032618