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Pentagon officials witness a demonstration of water shoes that would enable soldiers to cross streams too deep to wade.

The U.S. military officers and crowd gathered on the banks of the Potomac River near Columbia Island Marina in Arlington across from Washington DC. Soldiers enter water wearing water shoes that allow them to walk on water and aim with their rifles. Officers watch. Women wearing bathing suits walk on water wearing the water shoes.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1962, June 28
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052198
Aircraft designer and pilot, George Fernic, with his Fernic T-9 airplane at Roosevelt Field, New York

The Fernic T-9 airplane, featuring canard,and tricycle gear, parked at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, with engines running. It shuts down. Ground crewman pulls propeller through on left engine. Pilot,designer, George Fernic, seen at controls in cockpit. Ground crewmen at each wing, rotate the airplane with its engines running. George Fernic posing in front of the aircraft. Another view of the airplane parked on grass. Camera pans upward from nosewheel. (Note:Fernic hoped to fly the T-9 in a record flight from the U.S. to Bucharest, Romania.)

Location: Garden City New York USA
Date: 1929, September 11
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052210
Bustling commerce on crowded street in Chinese district of British Crown Colony, Hong Kong

Daily life in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. A narrow street in Hong Kong Island, jammed with commercial activity. Street musicians play bamboo instruments and sing. Chinese men with queues seen on the street. A girl sits on sidewalk, picking lice from the hair of a little boy. A girl carries a squirming baby on her back. Chinese pedestrians crowd the street. Signs and clothes hang from almost every store front on the street. A woman carries two children, one in front and one on her back. A Western civilian talking with an old Chinese shopkeeper. Chinese men sit on a bench and smoke. A young woman splits wood into kindling. A British sailor, carrying a large camera, walks through crowd. The Western civilian, now holding a camera at his side, poses next to a Sikh Hong Kong policeman, as local people gather around them. The Westerner sits with a sidewalk vendor, discussing a purchase. Three Chinese girls wearing Cheongsams walking together. A Chinese woman being carried in a sedan chair holds her hand up to hide her face from the camera ("evil eye"). Customers and merchants discuss fabrics. Countless porters carry goods through the street on poles. The "westerner" rides by on a sedan chair.

Location: Hong Kong
Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052464
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell holds formal meeting with Japanese and British counterparts, aboard USS Isabel (PY-10) in Canton, China

Views from a boat moving in the Pearl River at Port of Canton (Guangzhou), in time frame of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A small island in the river. Many boats of all types: steam ferry boat; small hand-rowed passenger boats; ships and sailing vessels anchored and moored. U.S. sailors form honor guard as visitors arrive and board the USS Isabel (PY-10) serving as flagship of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. Seen walking along the deck, Admiral Yarnell and his Japanese and British Naval counterparts,are in formal dress uniforms. Among those seen, with Admiral Yarnell, are a Japanese Admiral and Army officer, accompanied by a diplomat, and a British Admiral conversing with a diplomat.

Location: Canton China
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052467
Statue of Liberty in New York. and scenes at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, LaRue County, Kentucky.

Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York City. The American flag fluttering in a strong breeze. The Lincoln Memorial monument building in Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, LaRue County, Kentucky. The symbolic log cabin enshrined in the monument at the Park. Statue of Lincoln in town square, Hodgenville, Kentucky

Location: Kentucky USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052557
Patriotic ceremony conducted by the Red Cross and military personnel at the Statue of Liberty in New York City.

A Patriotic Ceremony conducted at the Statue of Liberty during World War 1. Massive flag of Red Cross draped on front of the Statue of Liberty. Members of various veterans' organization, Red Cross nurses, military personnel, and women and girls of Camp Fire Girls organization, dressed in Native American Indian clothing, attend the ceremony. Boys wearing robes in a boys choir lined up to sing. Various children's groups lined up. Crowd on pedestal of statue. Red Cross flags, American flags, and various other flags seen. Ceremony in progress as speakers address the crowd. During part of ceremony a nurse appears to put a white glove on a Navy sailor's hand. Girl holds Red Cross flag. Bi-plane aircraft in flight overhead. Camera men setup with still image cameras and motion picture cameras on tripods. Views of the Statue from vessels in the harbor and views of New York City from Bedloe's Island.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052573
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