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Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers build 12 foot Bell sewer trench in Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers build a 24 mile long Bell sewer, 12 deep in Los Angeles, California. They dig and brace the sides of the trench using pounded stakes. They add a gravel bed and then lay pipes into the trench. Engineers gather to inspect the pipe, led by LACRA chief engineer Ralph Smith. By hand, workers operate a giant pump handle with a massive hook on the end, which pulls massive timbers from deep buried positions along the line of the trench.

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1935, February
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023042
Industrial development in Appalachian Mountain, United States.

Depicts industry and modernization coming into rural Appalachia in the early 1900s. A steam locomotive pulling a long line of train cars moves along the mountain side, leaving a trail of smoke in the Appalachian Mountain, near Smyth County Virginia. Man, woman and children wave at the coming train. Cow grazes in field. A steam shovel excavating a site. Vehicles drive past on a dirt road newly carved into a mountain side. Two men sawing a tree with a two-person saw. The tree falls. Horse carries wooden logs from the forest area. Logs being milled into lumber pieces at a saw mill. Giant saw blade spinning and cutting the wood. Factories with smoke spewing from chimneys. Rural coal mine buildings, some up high on stilts. A man operating an electrically powered, belt-driven lathe to turn lumber into round handles for tools. A rural preacher with a bible at an outdoor site, preaching in front of a corn field. Slates indicate that he is preaching against worldly education, and in favor of biblical learning only. reaches to people. A stone on a building with the words, "Marion Junior College. 1873." The preacher waving the bible in his hand. A teenage boy seated in a rocking chair on a porch reading a book.

Location: Marion Virginia USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023100
Transportation of sick and injured Appalachian mountain residents to health care facilities near Campbell County Tennessee

Health care services for Appalachian Mountain residents in the area of Campbell County, Tennessee. Woman straps saddle on horse and mounts it. She rides horse on dirt road, carrying a sick or injured child. She arrives at a building and another woman carries the child into the health facility. Another nurse on horseback picks up an infant child from a concerned Appalachian resident to take to the clinic. Group of men carry a child on a stretcher up a long flight of stairs to a health center. 1930s automobiles navigating rough mountain roads to get to patients. Women arriving by car at a white building atop a hill.

Location: Campbell County Tennessee USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023112
The end of WWII and U.S. President Harry Truman's role in immediate postwar actions

Opening scene shows some German infantry surrendering with hands raised. Next scene shows people thronging Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, celebrating VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, on May 8, 1945, when Germany surrendered to end World War II, in Europe. Image of the first atomic explosion (Trinity) on ‎July 16, 1945, in New Mexico, United States. Scene shifts to deck of the U.S. Battleship, USS Missouri, where Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, is seated and signing the instrument of surrender., on September 2, 1945. Closeup profile of General Douglas MacArthur. Another glimpse of Mamoru Shigemitsu signing. Next, MacArthur is seen signing the document. He turns and presents the pen to Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright , who is standing behind him alongside British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival. Brief glimpse of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center with flag appearing to be at half staff and a long awning extending from its entrance to the sidewalk. View of representatives at the first United Nations meeting there . Views of audience in auditorium shows many notables. Closeups of Soviet Ambassador, Andrey Gromyko and Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov.. Next, President Harry S. Truman is seen broadcasting a greeting to the delegates, from the Capitol, Washington, DC, on April 25, 1945. The delegates are seen listening to the broadcast and then applauding.

Location: United States
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023233
Doctors examine Project Mercury astronaut candidate James W. Wood 's pulse and blood pressure at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

NASA Project Mercury candidate Captain James W. Wood, USAF, undergoes psychological and stress test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Doctors measure candidate's pulse and blood pressure before and after a "Flack" test. The subject must blow continuously into a tube to maintain a column of mercury at a specified level for as long as possible.

Location: Ohio United States USA
Date: 1959, February
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023384
Construction of the Panama Canal

Construction of the Panama Canal connecting the Caribbean Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Views of abandoned and failed first attempt by French team led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, with scenes of Panama natives cutting vegetation with machetes. Scene of abandoned canal work area. Scenes of United States work to build the canal beginning in 1903. Steam shovels digging and moving earth. Laborers construct railroad for use in canal building. General Glen Edgerton talks about the construction difficulties from malaria, and the worker prescription of quinine three times daily. Views of British and French workers on the site working and arriving by rail to work. Dynamite explosion removes rumble for railroad construction. View of locks under construction 1000 feet long and 110 feet wide. Excerpt from interview with former Canal Zone Governor and Congressman Maurice Thatcher, who characterizes the project as the greatest liberty that man had ever taken with nature. (Thatcher was honored when the first bridge connecting both sides of the Panama Canal was named after him as "Thatcher Ferry Bridge". In 1979 the name was officially changed to the Bridge of the Americas.) Clip next shows 1970's aerial view of the Panama Canal. Ships moving through the Panama Canal.

Location: Panama
Date: 1903
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023504
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