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Coal mining operations for the Ford Motor Company in ‌Kentucky.

Open rail hopper cars of coal at a mine in Kentucky. (Ford coal was mined at the Banner Fork Coal Corporation at Wallins Creek, Kentucky and the Pond Creek Coal Company at Stone, Kentucky.) View inside the mine, where a miner is riding a bucket as it slides down a slope. Next, a miner is seen at a coal cutting machine in operation. Miners riding atop rail cars full of coal as they arrive at the surface. Mining cars being emptied at a tipple, where the coal is moved on a conveyor and loaded into open hopper cars. A steam locomotive pulling a long train of coal hopper cars, each displaying the Ford Company Logo. A train of coal cars arriving at the River Rouge Plant.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078279
Mayor of Louisville Wilson Wyatt gives a speech on providing Temporary War Housing in Silver Spring, Maryland.

A meeting of the Public Housing Council Committee in Silver Spring, Maryland. Mayor of Louisville Wilson Wyatt comes up on a stage and gives a brief speech. He speaks about Temporary War Housing problems and their solutions. He talks about building houses for citizens regardless of creed and color. He also talks about residential and office housing. The committee members are seated on the stage. Immediate post-war era.

Date: 1946
Duration: 8 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044132
The initial World War II Memorial at Baugnez, Malmedy, Belgium 1945, honoring U.S. POWs executed there by German forces.

The first memorial erected to commemorate U.S.prisoners of war executed by the Nazis during the battle of the bulge (mostly elements of the American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion (FAOB), executed by the Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division). This was also known as the Massacre at Baugnez, or the Malmedy Massacre. A wooden cross and a sign reading 'USA - Belgium. To the prisoners of war of overseas who liberated the East districts and were the victims of Nazis cruelty." The wooden cross at the monument to commemorate the massacre of 115 American prisoners at Baugnez on December 17th 1944 during the Battle of Bulge, in World War 2.

Date: 1945, September 7
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065707
General George C. Marshall testifies before the Joint Congressional Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack

General George C. Marshall and JCC members gathered in investigating the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. General Marshall taking the oath and testifying before the Senators and Representatives. View of the committee members including the Chairman, Kentucky Senator Alben Barkley. The members of the meeting listen carefully to him. The press take notes of his address. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, December 6
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035908
Lumbering operations in Kentucky, USA.

Lumber activities in Kentucky, USA. Man climbs on a tree and ties a cable around the trunk. Full track tractor drives along forest path. Workers fall a large tree. Workers chop a tree truck with axes. Men peel off the bark of the tree. Tree log timber is pulled by yoked oxen along the path in the woods.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049999
A group of workers carrying rifles in hands walk down a village road in Kentucky, USA

The rural electrification project in Kentucky, USA. A group of workers moves down a path. Some of them carry rifles in hands. One of the workers carries a flag in his hand.

Date: 1921
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050005