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Illustrates how medical surgery patient in U.S. Navy hospital gets infected from minor error by surgical staff.

Surgery patient in postoperative recovery is visited by U.S. Navy doctor who examines him and concludes he is doing well. (But patient has unrecognized infection, resulting from accidental contamination of an instrument during surgery.) Animated cartoon illustrates how infection progresses into blood poisoning. Shows bacteria awaking inside human body cavity and in a pool of plasma. Shows animated bacteria dividing and multiplying in the plasma. The bacteria talk to each other in the cartoon and refer to each other as poison (voiced by Mel Blanc). The bacteria play and dive in plasma pools as they multiply. Cartoon shows leukocytes coming out of capillary wall and moving through the tissue. It approaches a group of bacteria and devours them, then enlarges. Many leukocytes are seen consuming bacteria. Cartoon shows an abscess beginning to form, and then shows a streptococcus bacteria. It multiplies and plays in pools and slides inside the body, playing and laughing fiendishly. Chains of streptococus bacteria enter a capillary partially blocked with clotted blood, and then into the blood stream of the human body.

Date: 1945
Duration: 10 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077526
Various uses of human hand and its importance for a man.

A U.S. Navy training film titled 'Early care of plastic surgery cases: wounds of hands' about the treatment of hand injuries of American soldiers during World War II. Hands of a conductor as he conducts an orchestra. Hands of various men as they work on machines, typewriter, reads braille, load shells in an artillery. Animation depicts the different parts of a human hand. Blood vessels in the hand.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077547
Protecting harbors against sneak attack craft.

Animation depicts various means of detecting sneak attack craft and protecting harbors. It illustrates ways of detecting a sneak torpedo through means like multi terrain loop and short pulse herald. A man in a control room speaks on a phone. A human torpedo underwater. A torpedo dives under the water. Detection device used to detect the presence of torpedoes in water. A technician works on the control panel of the detection device. A graph being printed. Short pulse herald technique being used to to detect torpedoes underwater. A radar detects the presence of torpedoes in sea. A torpedo underway on the surface and underwater. Effectiveness of torpedo nets. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077691
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus comes to a town in America

As film begins, attendants riding atop elephants are seen from the rear as they parade along a the street of an American town. Front view of a circus wagon pulled by a team of horses and followed by numerous camels tethered behind it. A circus hand escorts a zebra and two other animals. Behind them are two automobiles. Next, local people are seen lined up to enter the fairgrounds where the circus tents are set up.

Date: 1919
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078134
Workers of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus camping at the fair grounds in an American town

The first scene of the film shows a circus hand washing a dog outdoors in a metal wash tub. local people watch him. The next scene shows a worker hanging wash on lines set behind the circus tents where they are camping.

Date: 1919
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078135
Fourth of July parade in Washington State.

Opening scene shows Independence Day parade led by a brass band followed by a number of World War I veterans in their uniforms, and a troop of Boy Scouts. A streetcar number 7768 passes between the parade and the camera. A truck rigged up as a float carries several young people. It is followed by a tractor pulling a pavilion float carrying three young women. Signage on the float indicates it represents the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). IOOF slogans seen on side of float include "Visit the sick. Heal the Sick. Bury the dead. Educate the Orphan." Dates "1819 to 1919" are seen, marking the fraternity's centennial (100th) year. Banner atop float is difficult to read but appears to list lodge numbers 38 and 337 and "Rebekah" and "WA". (Location possibly Spokane Washington?) Other decorated vehicles follow. One is a tractor driven by a woman, who is followed by two soldiers in uniform driving a roadster without a rear body. A man and woman dressed as George and Martha Washington walk along the parade route. They are followed by several cars.

Date: 1919, July 4
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078141