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Captain Joseph Kittinger gets into the gondola on a truck in United States.

Preparation for flight during Project Excelsior in United States. Captain Joseph Kittinger walks out of transfer van. Other men follow him. Men place oxygen mask on the nose of the Captain. He puts on the equipment and gets into the gondola on a truck. He wears helmet.

Date: 1959
Duration: 4 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045635
Captain Joseph Kittinger steps out of gondola and descends towards land in United States.

Preparation for flight and Captain jumps from balloon during Project Excelsior in United States. Captain seated on the gondola on a truck. Preparations made to attach gondola with balloon. Sign reads: 'This is the highest step in the world'. Balloon inflated. Crane lifts gondola off truck. Balloon releases and lifts off gondola. CH-21B in flight over the launch area. Balloon and gondola rise. Captain Kittinger in gondola. Captain steps out of the gondola. The parachute deployed. Captain descends towards the land with the parachute.

Date: 1959
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045636
Farmer uses tractor for sowing and harvesting crop on the farm in United States (WW2)

Agricultural progress motivated by the demands of World War II in United States. Cattle graze on the farm. Cattle at the waterway. Houses and trees. Farmer works in a farm. Tractor moves on the farm. Men and women work. Farmer harvests the crop with the help of a tractor.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045647
Farm production for war effort in World War 2 with farming and processing of hemp, dried milk and dried eggs in United States

Agricultural progress motivated by the demands of World War II production in the United States. American farmer holding raw hemp for making rope. Farmers in Kentucky or Tennessee harvesting hemp to replace sources lost in the Philippines due to war in the Pacific. Hemp seed harvesting in southern states. A bag of hemp seed. Thick planting of the seeds yields straight, long fiber hemp plants. A boy on a farm stands next to tall hemp plants. A tall harvester attachment is seen cutting the hemp plants at harvest. Workers tie hemp plants in bundles and stack them for breaking. Hands of a man shown tearing and testing strong hemp fibers on a dried hemp plant stalk. Butter and milk bottles stacked closely in a cooler. Large metal bins of eggs are shown. Exterior view of a factory for egg drying. A tank truck parked outside the plant containing broken raw eggs to save space. Large dryers are shown producing a dried golden yellow powder from the eggs. Factory worker sits at a vibrating table that shakes and sifts the dried egg powder and loads it into bags. Scrambled eggs cooked in a pan over a stove. View of raw dozen eggs and packaged box of dried eggs side by side. The small box of one dozen eggs weighs only 5 ounces. View of a wooden barrel that holds the dried equivalent of 5000 eggs. Cows graze on a field. A milk tank truck parked at a drying factory. Cans of dried milk move on a factory assembly line. A machine applies a lid to each can. A wall of 15 gallon barrels of dried milk are shown, each containing the equivalent of 150 gallons of raw milk. Blocks of cheese shown in a dairy case display.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045649
Seeds, crops, farm, and victory gardens worked to support war effort in World War II in the United States.

Agricultural progress motivated by the demands of World War 2, in the United States. Efforts made to develop substitute crops for foreign products now unavailable. Farmer on a tractor in the farm. Crop planted and harvested with the help of tractor. Man takes seeds in hands from a bag. A 100 pound bag of 0-14-14 fertilizer reads: 'AAA for use only in carrying out soil building practices. Agriculture Conservation Program of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency." Farmer Harry Vetch in Mississippi shown in his field of nitrogen rich legumes that he is growing in order to obtain nitrogen fertilizer since nitrogen is needed in the war effort and unavailable to farmers. View of a field of crimson clover also for use in obtaining nitrogen. View of soybean and clover also used for nitrogen in corn fields. Man on tractor spreads manure fertilizer. A sign board reads: "Emergency Rubber Project. Quail Creek Nursery. Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture" outside a building. A man examines a test planting of a Mexican hule rubber plant needed to meet war demand for rubber. Man beside a 'Department of Agriculture' truck bounces a chunk of rubber. Also shown is a test planted row of Kok-saghyz Russian dandelion used to produce rubber. Milkweed and goldenrod plants are shown. Narrator talks about Victory Gardens as images of farmers plowing small fields are shown. Samples of Victory Garden vegetables shown on a table with signs noting the nutrients in each such as calcium, iron and vitamin B. A woman in a home victory garden holds up produce. View of a shelf of canned vegetables from a victory garden. Houses and trees on a farm, as a combine harvester works the fields. Mountains in the background. A row of grain silos. Man plows a field with yoked oxen. A woman works on a farm and drives a tractor. Farmers drive tractors and harvest potatoes or onions in a field.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045651
Men work on the processing of planetary gear in a machine shop, United States.

The processing of planetary gear in a machine shop, United States. Interior of the machine shop. Workers assemble the turbine inside the shop. Machining the lower and upper part of maneuvering valve. Boring end of reduction gear case. Men machining the reduction gear case. Planetary gear forging. Processing of the planetary gear and various stages of the completion of the gear. Cutting teeth of planetary gear, driving pinion and internal gears. Worker machining gear cage which carries planetary gears. They balance the gear cage. Workers work in the planetary gear and cage assembly. Unit of planet gear reduction being assembled into case. Propeller shaft thrust bearing at right hand. A skeleton unit showing the reduction of speed from 8.4 to 1.

Date: 1918
Duration: 8 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045746