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The wire team members put the wire under the rail-road and bridge and tag the wires.

A documentary depicts the laying of field wire. Field wire line placed under a bridge. Field wire team on a truck. A man gets off from the truck. He pulls a wire to make the crossing. The lines being cut and tagged. The line is taken to the other side of the road. A man tags the line. Another man puts the equipment in the truck. The line is completed. Men get in the truck and the truck moves on. A rail road crossing. Men tag the line and place it under the rail road track. A man digs a trench and the wire being placed in the trench. The trucks moves. The extra wire is tied to a tree. The extra wire is reeled off. Men dig a trench and the wire is placed in the trench. The team members check the wire lines. A man puts a tape on the wire. Another man tags the wires. A man bury the wire. Two team members climb up the tree and ties the wire line. They come down. A truck comes. The line men dig a trench on the road and put the wire. A wire tied on a tree. Two men work on the switch board. The lines are checked with the help of the telephone. The tag wire being attached to the switch board. Men in the end check all the wires.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 10 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047392
Men wash the contaminated bridge and buildings with chlorinated lime to decontaminate the area (WW2)

A World War II documentary depicts the methods of decontamination after the usage of chemicals during a combat. A bridge with liquid agent . Men place a sign which reads 'Danger war Gas'. The men being given instructions about the procedure to be used. Men fill buckets with water. A concrete bridge is washed with water. The water changes into a white vesicant solid after it reacts with the chemical. Chlorinated lime being put in the water and is spread on the bridge. Men spray oil on the contaminated grass and then burnt. A man uses flame to burn the grass. Men use shovels during the burning. Lime paste being used to wash buildings. The troops march in decontaminated area.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047394
Some news highlights of 1958 including launch of American Explorer I satellite and of an Atlas Missile.

America's first satellite, the Explorer I. It is seen on the launch pad atop the Redstone Juno I rocket that will carry it into orbit on January 31, 1958. The rocket engine fires and the Juno I speeds upward. Next an American Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen being launched 0n 18 December 1958, to steer itself into orbit as a satellite, orbiting the Earth.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047396
News stories of 1958 including polar cruise of USS Nautilus and statehood of Alaska

Aerial view of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, underway on the surface and then submerging. View of helmsman below in the Nautilus. Aerial view of frozen arctic ocean with deep crevasses, as narrator mentions the Nautilus traveling submerged, beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958. The boat's Captain, Commander William R. Anderson, is seen in uniform. More views of the Nautilus moving on the surface, including one with crew members standing on deck. Next, a newspaper headline is shown, announcing Alaska's statehood. Small boy and girl sitting in the grass holding a flag displaying map of Alaska and reading: "Alaska 49th State." Automobile traffic driving into Anchorage, Alaska. Banner stretched across the road reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Pedestrians jam the sidewalks as the city celebrates its new statehood. A float displaying a huge moose has sign on its side reading: "49th. Hey Texas. Now I'm the biggest Bull..." Young Alaskans ride in a convertible automobile. A huge 48-star American flag covers the front of a building. It has a large extra star appended to it. Closeup of the flag.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047397
B-52 Stratofortress aircraft drops an X-24 lifting body aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

A B-52, modified as a mother ship, is seen in flight, with an X-24 lifting body aircraft suspended beneath it. (A slot was cut in the right wing which was fitted with a special pylon for carrying research aircraft.) No significant movements are seen, as the B-52 cruises smoothly at altitude for much of the beginning of the film. Commencing at TC: 01:26, Rear paddle-style flight controls are moved and and adjusted on the X-24. At TC: 04:53, the X-24 emits smoke and again, at TC: 05:27. At TC :05:36, the engine of the X-24 is running and the lifting body aircraft drops vertically away from the B-52, which then continues its cruise at altitude. (Note: the film is reversed so the right wing appears as the left one.)

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1970, October 27
Duration: 6 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047491
A B-52 Stratofortress releases an X-24A aircraft after taking off from Edwards Air Force Base, California.

A B-52 Stratofortress and an X-24A aircraft in flight. The Stratofortress and another aircraft in flight after taking off from Edwards AFB, California. The X-24A is released from the wing of the B-52. The X-24A aircraft in flight. It approaches Edwards AFB runway.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1970, October 27
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047493
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