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Daredevil drivers perform daring stunts and car demolition in Memphis.

Daredevil driver takes turn at high speed and flips his car. Paramedics rush at the crash. Daredevil biker jumps out of flaming inferno. View of heavily crowed Memphis Stadium. Demolition head on collision between stunt cars at high speeds. Injured driver taken away by paramedics in ambulance. Wrecked cars pulled out of stadium by towing trucks.November 1934.

Location: Memphis Tennessee USA
Date: 1934, November
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028717
American industry focuses on defense and war materiel production during World War II

Film opens showing smoke pouring from industrial smoke stacks in American manufacturing plants, during World War 2. Sparks fly from crucible of molten steel. Steel workers silhouetted against fog as they leave on a shift change. Men tapping an open hearth furnace in a steel mill. Hot steel being poured in Crucibles and then into steel containers on rails. Huge overhead cranes moving in a mill. A Bessemer converter furnace tilted and blowing with flames extended from its mouth. ( A smoke ring leaves the converter.) Various views of activities in steel mills with flaming steel involved and processing such as extrusion and forging taking place. Closeups of hardworking steel workers handling white hot steel ingots. Sheets of aluminum being processed in rolling mills and then inspected. Scene shifts to an oil field with numerous derricks and then to a refinery, with 10 tall smoke stacks, where crude oil is made into gasoline. Views of Grand Coulee Dam, Bonneville, Boulder, and the Tennessee Valley, where hydroelectric power is produced. Churning waters being discharged through dam spillways. Huge number of men and women war factory workers seen in a shift change at a war production plant. Closeup of machines producing small arms and ammunition. A woman assembling an M1 Garand rifle. Others working on Browning 30 caliber M1919 machine guns and Browining Model 1917A1 water-cooled machine guns. Belts of machine gun ammunition being boxed for shipment. Shops where torpedoes, shells and bombs are machined. A worker checking out movement of a 40-mm Automatic Gun M1. Field artillery pieces covered outside a war plant. A 14 inch barrel, for a coastal gun or Navy ship, seen suspended from an overhead crane in a factory. Views of various such barrels including a view through one. Elements of mobile weapons being assembled. Jeeps being assembled and driven out of a factory at the rate of one per minute and temporarily stored in a yard. Special machinery grinding gears and other parts. Arc welders at work on weapons. M4A1 Sherman medium tanks being manufactured. View in factory of M3 Lee medium tanks being assembled. Rear view of one being fitted with its treads. Others are seen suspended from overhead crane.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051747
A parade down Fremont Street in Las Vegas Nevada for the crew of the Memphis Belle.

A parade held on the streets of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The parade held for the crew of the B-17 "Memphis Belle." Men on horses. A man riding a horse holds a U.S. flag. The crew rides in a jeep in the parade. Landmark buildings in Las Vegas before the "glitter gulch" days are seen, including Bank of Nevada; the Jack Pot Casino with a small amount of neon lighting; the Boulder Club with somewhat more neon lighting; the Apache Lounge, Cafe, and Hotel with its art deco signage at the Corner of Fremont and Second, and the El Portal Theatre at 310 Fremont Street which was the city's first movie theater; a directional arrow sign for the Hotel Sal Sagev (Las Vegas spelled backwards). After the parade on Fremont Street, the crew moves on to Las Vegas Army Airfield (today it is Nellis Air Force Base). They gather on a raised speaker's stand near the nose of the B-17 Memphis Belle. Troops assembled on the airfield, B-17, and crew of the Memphis Belle. The crew is introduced and the Memphis Belle crew members address the gathered soldiers. A United States Army Air Force band plays. A crowd around the Memphis Belle after the ceremonies. (World War II period).

Location: Las Vegas Nevada USA
Date: 1943, October
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046288
POV Memphis Belle landing at airport during its victory tour.

Obscured POV view through the lower canopy of the Memphis Belle as it flies over an airport after takeoff. POV through forward canopy of the Memphis Belle B-17 as it taxis towards a waiting crowd and podium during its USA tour. POV large group of civilians seen through gun canopy and side window. People see beyond gun sight of B-17 Memphis Belle.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078324
Twenty millionth Ford automobile parade pass on road as a crowd gather around the car in Tennessee.

Twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford in Tennessee. The band and a crowd around a monument in Lebanon, Tennessee. Police escort the twenty millionth Ford, a black Town Sedan, during a parade. An elderly man in uniform and others in front of the twenty millionth Ford. A group pose in front of the twenty millionth Ford at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Men in front of the car, one of them signs the logbook at Franklin, Tennessee. Spectators watch the motorcade and band pass by at Columbia, Tennessee. A sign over an old car at the roadside reads 'Welcome 20,000,000 Ford my number is 602765, I was born in 1913'. The band play in front of the Ford car. The drum major twirls the baton.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1931, June 25
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071223
Aviator Charles Lindbergh, returning from Europe, on USS Memphis, is welcomed in Washington, DC

'America welcomes Lindbergh' about the welcome of Charles A. Lindbergh in United States after his successful trans Atlantic flight. View of the U.S. Capitol at night. Formations of U.S. military aircraft in flight to welcome aviator Charles Lindbergh to America. View from an airplane, of the U.S. Cruiser Memphis underway in Chesapeake Bay enroute to Potomac River and Washington,DC, as a dirigible escorts it. Views from airplane flying low over the Memphis. Two biwing airplanes can be seen secured to the deck of the Memphis.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051263
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