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U.S. troops, armored vehicles, tanks and helicopters transported by U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command aircraft.

Major Glen E Daniels of the Army Desert Training Centre in California. He stands in front of U.S. tanks and talks about movement of large units to combat zones by C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command. Soldiers load Cobra helicopters into a C-5. MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft Interior of a C-5 showing two rows of M113 armored personnel carriers stowed inside. The troops accompanying them are seen climbing stairs to an upper deck of the C-5 where they will travel. Quick closeup view of a C-5 headed toward the camera during landing. Paratroopers jumping from MAC C-141 and C-130 aircraft. First Sergeant William Lawrence Jr, of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, stands in front of a camouflaged C-130 aircraft and talks about his experience in 20 years of parachute jumping. He extols MAC's efficiency in transporting paratroopers and comments on resulting improvement of drop zone times.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021078
Walter Widegren wins Lipton Cup Classic Trophy for speed boat race at New Smyrna Beach in Volusian Country, Florida.

Speed boat racing at New Smyrna Beach in Volusian Country, Florida. Different views of boats racing and spectators cheering. Walter Widegren of Glen Cove, New York wins the race. Trophy presented to the winner.

Date: 1932, October 25
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032520
Boy Scouts present certificate and medallions and membership cards to President Nixon in the Oval Office in Washington DC.

U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC. President Nixon with National Youth Representatives of 1974 for the Boy Scouts of America. Attendees include Boy Scouts, Explorers, Cub Scout Thomas Caughey, and scouting leaders Robert Reneker, President of the BSA, and Alden Barber, Chief Scout Executive. President Nixon shakes hands and talks with the Scouts. Close-up view of some patches and name tag on the shirt of Eagle Scout Arthur E. Justice Jr. of Culowhee, North Carolina. The Boy Scouts present certificate and medallions and membership cards to Nixon. Photographers take photos. Scouts and Explorers in attendance are: Thomas Caughey, Arthur Justice Jr., John S. Jordan, Mark Guthrie, Kevin Hyde, Phillip Klawuhn, Richard Ohendalski, Bruce Ragan, Michael Snyder, Gregory Dyekman, Marc Franson, William Lee, Gilbert Melson, Glen Patton, Lois Saruwatari. Additional leaders present include Dr. Carl Marchetti (delegation advisor), George Freeman (Washington representative for BSA), advising and PR staff Charles Wetter, Les Coleman, and Mark Clayton.

Date: 1974, February 21
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071003
Travelogue of Mid West regions of America.

A travelogue of Mid West regions of the United States in the mid 1980s. Map highlights Mid West regions. Montage of small images followed by full screen footage. Close up of corn plant stalk and corn field with bright sun behind. Elevated sweeping pan of a farm with corn and wheat fields, barns, and a river behind. Point of view shot in a wheat field at tops of wheat stalks looking far across the field and then focusing on individual wheat stalks. Combine harvester moving in field and harvesting wheat. Next scene shows group of two canoes on a river. A fly fisherman casting with his fly fishing rod and reel into fast moving rapids of a river. A man and a woman hiking; the man helps the woman step over a shallow stream. Two young men playing on a moving water wheel. They stand atop it and try to balance as it spins, and one falls in the water. Flock of white birds ascending from a lake, with a farm and barns in the background. Aerial view of a recreational vehicle camper on a road surrounded by trees with colored leaves in autumn. Aerial view of many lakes surrounded by trees in autumn. Next scene shows airport worker guiding a large TWA jumbo passenger airplane as it taxis into a gate at an airport. Scenes inside an airport. Customers at ticket desks and information desks talking to airline agents and workers. A woman speaks in Spanish and provides guidance to a Spanish-speaking family as they look at a map inside the airport. Point of view shot from moving car at night on a highway of the midwest. Street lights illuminating the roadway. Pedestrians and cars in a town or city at night. Cooks wearing white chef hats prepare food in a casual restaurant. A full glass of beer slides across a bar to a patron, from a bartender. Batter Chet Lemon, number 34, hits a ball at a Detroit Tigers baseball game. A young boy in the stands wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball hat. Aerial view of Detoit Tigers baseball stadium lit up at night. View on field a Detroit Lions quarterback dropping back to deliver a pass in a football game. Kent Benson making a shot at a Detroit Pistons basketball game. Brief scene from a professional hockey game. Scenes from a high speed motor boat race as fans watch the race. Track level view of a pit stop underway during a Formula One car race. Scene of a Formula One car losing control during the race an swinging around backward with smoke coming up from tires. Front view of a red sports car (possibly a Pontiac Fiero) in front of a garage turning on its lights. Automatic pop up lights open and shine at the camera position. View of assembly line operations at an automobile factory in the midwest. Work being done by both automated welding machines and men working on the assembly line. Sunrise or sunset view of city of Detroit skyline with skyscrapers, as seen from a boat on the Detroit River. A large cargo vessel then is seen in the foreground as the camera position continues moving . Sunrise or sunset view of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis Missouri. Aerial wide view of downtown Chicago skyline as seen from a low flying aircraft over Lake Michigan. Young people in swimsuits jumping into a large swimming pool in Chicago Illinois, with view of skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago in the background. Two small motor boats underway in a lake cove. A local civic band playing in a small town as the director conducts them. Children march in a small town parade in a midwest American town. More children riding on a float covered with bunting and American flags, likely in an Independence Day parade. View of a tractor driving on a rural midwest road beside farm fields, as seen from a low-flying aircraft. The farmer on the tractor waves. Low flying aerial view of a Greyhound bus driving on a roadway with farm fields on either side.

Date: 1986
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039836
35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight. Advances in travel due to rail and airplane. Howard Hughes' round the world flight.

Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.

Date: 1938, July 14
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027429
Finalized 1946 Ford V8 cars being transported out of Ford Rouge River plant

Two finalized Ford automobiles, a 1938 deluxe coupe type 720 and a 1938 deluxe sedan type 700B on a moving car transport truck, out of the Ford River Rouge plant Aerial view of automobile plant and marks on the aerial map for different areas of the Ford River Rouge plant facility including Power, Materials, Men, iron, steel, Mills, Parts, Bodies, Glass,Assembly. The Ford V-8 logo appears at the end.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031010