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High level concrete mixing plant at Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) construction site, Nevada.

Construction of Hoover Dam shows a large tractor crane operating. Crane shovel picks up a scoop of sand and gravel from ground. Cargo train crosses a bridge over river. Equipment processes raw materials. Raw material is dumped into hopper from where material is conveyed into plant over belts. Equipment operates. Washing of gravel and sand. Sand and gravel loaded into rail car for transportation. Train loaded with raw material moves on track. Concrete mixing plant equipped with heavy machines. Railroad cars used to transfer material. Men work with pneumatic pump. High level concrete mixing plant shows an operator besides equipment which controls the proportion of concrete ingredients and maintains graphic control. Man at control deck of plant operates the equipment. Raw materials on conveyor belt are dumped into rotary motor. Materials transferred by electric trains. High capacity dump trucks are used. Buckets loaded with materials are transferred by electric trains. Aerial cable ways used to transfer material.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052282
Concrete buckets suspended by cables are dropped on ground at Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) construction site, Nevada.

Construction of Hoover Dam in June 1933. A bucket of concrete is lowered on ground from mountain top. Base of structure is prepared. Vehicles move on road on Canyon (Black Canyon) wall. Buckets of concrete suspended by cables are dumped on ground. Material is offloaded from truck and transferred through cable ways. Concrete buckets transferred from cliffs. Bucket descends and received by men on ground. Men shovel concrete and operate equipment. Workers from Canyon rim are transferred on ground. Concrete bucket lowered on to construction site. Construction in progress. Two intake towers on each side of the Canyon wall. Other structures constructed for dam.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052283
Giant pipe units fabricated at Babcock and Wilcox Mill for Boulder Dam construction, Nevada.

The construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed as the Hoover Dam. Exteriors of Babcock and Wilcox Mill near Boulder Dam construction site, Nevada. Steel sheets manufactured. Technicians and workers work with equipment. Pipe units are made from sheets after shaping the sheets. Worker welds sheets. Man work with equipment during laboratory tests. Men work with huge pipe units. High capacity cranes swinging pipe unit. Giant lathe used to join individual sections of pipe units. Pipe section ready for insulation. Tractor trailer carrying a giant pipe unit on road. Pipe unit on Canyon rim, exactly over the dam site. Pipe unit is maneuvered for loading into the Canyon. Man at control tower of the cable way on cliff. Pipe unit transferred through cable ways. Pipe lowers into the canyon. Pipe units taken into tunnel.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 7 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052284
Hoover Dam structure including four intake towers, spillways and giant power plant, Nevada.

The construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed as the Hoover Dam. Structure of dam erected into canyon. Equipment in tunnels. Giant cranes in operation. Concrete arch-dam in the Black Canyon. Traffic moves on highway over dam. Boat in Colorado River. People sail in boats. Colorado River view. Four intake towers at Hoover Dam. Spillways at Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam power plant to general power. Man points to the map of United States. Electric power setup for the Hoover Dam shows various electric towers, power house and electric lines across desert. Hoover Dam controls water.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052285
War production manufacturing workers busy at the Douglas Aircraft Factory in Long Beach, California during World War 2

Factory workers at A-20 (Fighter-Bomber Army plane) engine line in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California during World War 2, supplying aircraft for the war effort. Women factory workers make adjustments to engines in a Pratt-Whitney engine line. Close up of a woman worker at work on an aircraft engine. African American workmen stack plexiglass parts for bomber aircraft gun or bombing sights. Ex-sailor works on wing of aircraft. Shirtless worker removes an aircraft tire from a rack of tires and rolls it by hand. Propaganda cartoon poster above the rack shows a frightened Hideki Tojo up a tree and reads 'Tokio Kid Say' and shows an attack dog below, keeping him in the tree, and wearing a collar that says, "Conservation," encouraging workers to conserve and use factory resources wisely for the war effort in order to beat the Japanese.

Location: Long Beach California USA
Date: 1942, November
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052405
Elderly men do bench work and master mechanist instructs woman to use metal lathe in Douglas Aircraft Factory.

War production workers during World War 2. Two women work on installation for fuel and oil lines in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California. Old men do bench work. They work with various instruments and equipment. Master mechanist instructs a young woman in use of a metal lathe.

Location: Long Beach California USA
Date: 1942, November
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052406
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