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Views of mountain slopes, clouds, trees, children picking flowers in a mountainous area

Narrated feature about human curiosity and basic science. Sunlight glistens on snow-covered mountain edge. Trees on a mountain side. Girl in a hat runs along a mountain slope, beside melting snow fields, picking early spring flowers and putting them in a wicker basket. A boy plucks a flower and examines it with a magnifying glass.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023087
Actors portray discovery of Microscopic lens and rabies vaccine

Narrated feature about scientific discoveries and applications of the microscope. Actors portraying invention of microscope in Delft Holland. Actor grinds and polishes a lens. He looks through the microscopic lens at a drop of water and discovers minute living organisms. Actor portraying French chemist Louis Pasteur studies the microscopic forms of life found in the solution of ferment. He discovers that heat kills germs. Men ferment wine. Discussion of pasteurization, vaccinations, and Pasteur. Herd of sheep grazing. Boy contaminated with rabies comes to Dr Louis Pasteur. Boy bitten by a dog. He discovers a vaccine for the deadly rabies and gives it to the boy.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023088
Lessons from microscopic science lead to advances in antiseptic surgery, pasteurization, and vaccinations.

1930s narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. View of a microscope. Chemist or scientist looks through a microscope in laboratory. Microscopic view of the living organisms. Milk pasteurized by heated coils in large drums. Milk graded with pasteurization label. Boy drinks a glass of milk. Narrator describes milk as "the most valuable of all our foods for health." Sterilization techniques introduced in surgical operations: Doctor Joseph Lister of London (dramatized by an actor) shown with a spray can administering a "poison spray" to kill germs and disinfect a surgical or operating theatre. Surgeon performs antiseptic surgery on patient. Surgeon sterilizes the instruments to be used in an operation by pouring carbolic acid solution over them. View of operating instruments being removed from a heated steam chamber used to kill germs on the instruments. Doctors performing a surgery. Dramatized scenes of a doctor arriving at a home in Berlin to treat a girl suffering from Diphtheria. View of sick girl in a bed, through an outside window with snow falling, and the girl's mother and a nurse assisting her. The doctor gives the girl a diphtheria inoculation. Girl is shown recovered and walks outside of her home and gives a hug to her mother. Public vaccination clinics: Young children, including a young boy and an infant, receiving immunizations in a doctors office.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023089
Animated telescopic view of a Solar Eclipse. Citizens and astronomers preparing to view an eclipse

Animated view of sun and description of a total eclipse. Animated picture of moon passing across the sun. Citizens preparing to watch an eclipse. Astronomers from all over the world watch the sight. Moon covers the image of sun with halo of light around it. (Solar Eclipse). Tongues of flame in the halo of light visible through telescope. Animated view of earth from the moon.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023093
Houses, mountains, and rural people living in the southern Appalachian mountain region of the US

Part of documentary "Below White Top" depicting missions of the Lutheran Church in southern Appalachian areas of the United States. View of rural homes and shacks in amongst the Appalachian mountains of Smyth County Virginia. A man and woman seated on a front porch while three boys in front play with a puppy dog. A young man wearing overalls is busy crafting a fiddle or violin. Parts of the fiddle lay beside him. View of mountains and a stream flowing over rocks.

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023099
Poverty in Appalachian regions after industrialization of early 1900s

Depicts rural families in southern Appalachian regions like Smyth County, Virginia after the industrialization of the early 1900's came to an end and widespread unemployment set in, especially during the Great Depression. A large factory cog coming to a stop. A giant saw blade coming to a stop. Barren areas with tree stumps from a clear cut. Vacant industrial sites. Stream flowing through part of mine works. Men out of work, outside, some carving, some just sitting. Women and children stand outside houses. Woman holds toddler in arms. Men dig grave in cemetery. A rural preacher preaching.

Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023101