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Men and women sing in chorus, Kentucky, USA.

Life in Kentucky, USA. A group of men reads from books and sings in chorus. A man wearing a bow and tie leads the group. Men and women take eatables from a table. Two girls smile and eat. One of the girls eats a pastry.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050011
Man and woman work at a farm house in Kentucky, USA.

Farm life in Kentucky, USA. Car parked outside a hut at a farm. Woman comes out of house. Places a wooden board in box type slit on ground. Man drives a tractor on a field.

Date: 1940
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050013
A small boy sits on the lawn at a farm house in Kentucky, USA.

Life in Kentucky, USA. A small boy wearing stripped T-shirt and shorts sits on a lawn. The child puts his fingers in his mouth. He crawls on the ground.

Date: 1940
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050014
Two workers talk at a lumber yard in Kentucky, USA.

Lumbering operations in Kentucky, USA. Two workers talk to each other. Stack of wooden planks in the background.

Date: 1940
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050023
Twenty millionth Ford automobile drives up in front of log cabins and costumed girls gather around the car at Fort Harrod in Kentucky.

Twenty millionth Ford at Fort Harrod in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Spectators watch the band pass by. Costumed girls open the gate of stockade. The twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford, a black Town Sedan, enters through the gate. The car drives up in front of log cabins. The costumed girls gather around the car. The car with its hood up. The costumed girls, several of them carrying yokes with baskets attached, gather around the car.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071219
Scenes of Washington DC, and people working inside various Federal buildings and government offices in Washington DC (WW2)

A World War II documentary titled 'Boomtown DC', a part of 'This is America' series, compares Washington DC to an industrial boomtown where the big business is government. 1930's and 1940's cars parked along a tree-lined street in a Washington DC neighborhood with homes visible. A cat jumps down from a wall behind a neighborhood home, with the U.S. Capitol seen in the background. Scene changes to U.S. Capitol building exterior close up. Close up views of souvenir stand trinkets in Washington DC, including banners, snow globes, and postcards of buildings and monuments of the city. View on the National Mall in Washington DC toward the Lincoln Memorial, interrupted by temporary wartime elevated walkways erected between buildings of the rapidly expanding Navy Department on either side of the National Mall. Smoke stacks from the chimneys of a factory superimposed over various images of buildings in the city. A woman exiting a voting booth, followed by a man entering the same voting booth and closing the curtain. A US Army guard standing outside the White House. Exterior of the newly built Pentagon War Department building in Arlington Virginia. Sign "War Department" on the War Department building at 21st and Virginia Avenues. Exterior view of a Navy Department building, then exterior view of the Treasury Department building. Close up view of hands holding and flipping through a stack of IRS individual tax return documents, then of hands sorting through a stack of U.S. government bonds. View of the Justice Department, and then view of sign on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Scientists in a laboratory operate various equipment and run tests. A scientist near some beakers and test tubes in the lab. Scientists look through microscopes. View of underground rifle range in the FBI building as personnel practice marksmanship. View toward shooters on the range during firing, and toward targets. US Army guard in front of the State Department building. Exterior view of the Department of Labor building and sign. View of the U.S. Office of War Information building (OWI) with sign "US Information" inscribed in large letters on the top of the building (possibly the "Temporary V Building" of the OWI?) Exterior view of the Supreme Court Building. View of Declaration of Independence document on display. Exerior view of U.S. Capitol, then view of House of Representatives in session. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a desk signs a document. Citizens and workers walking on streets of Washington DC. Sopme people enter the Department of Agriculture building. Men and women enter the Office of War Information. Civilian and military hats being hung on a hat rack. Hand reaches for a 1940's era telephone. Women filing papers, views of filing cabinets. Close-up of 1940s era typewriters in use.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076698