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Pumps near temporary oil pipe lines operate and samples are drawn to determine 'bottom sediment' in the United States.

Oil pipe lines in the United States. Men near temporary pipe lines. Pumps operating in the open. Men near the end of a pipe line in East Chicago. A man takes a sample from a tank to determine the amount of ' bottom sediment'.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050554
Harnessing of different forms of energy and utilization of manpower for the industrial development of the United States.

A documentary depicts events in the development of the United States and shows scenes of commerce, industry and natural resources. Shirtless men in khaki shorts (US Army?) practice calisthenics during an exercise drill. American men and women work in a factories and peace time industries post war, and laboratories (scene of a chemist with test tubes and beakers and burners). A man blowing glass. Harnessing of water, wind, solar and soil energy. Scenes of turbines, generators and motors to use energy. Men working in factories to increase production. Smoke comes out of stacks and chimneys. Iron ore processing and hot conditions. People work in different industries. Mass production in the U.S. Typewriters being assembled in a factory. Kitchen hand mixers on an assembly line at a manufacturing plant. Assembly line of automobile industry. 1940s era cars and trucks moving along assembly line in car manufacturing factory.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050571
Coal which is drilled out and transported to industries forms the backbone for the industrial development in the U.S.

A documentary depicts industrial development in the United States and shows scenes of commerce, industry and natural resources. Red hot iron sheets on a conveyor belt in a factory. An industry. Men at work in factories. A small waterfall depicting natural resources. Miner in blue denim shirt in a wagon. A goods train carries coal. A coal cutter in operation. Coal is drilled out and transported to industries. A woman at work in a factory. Smoke comes of chimneys and stacks. Miners come out of a mine.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050572
Many scenes of mining and processing of natural resources in the 1940s for industrial development in the United States.

Various scenes of industrial development in the United States with focus on industry and natural resources. View of terraced pits of a mine. Men on a scaffold in a stone quarry using picks to. Oil drilling operations with a field of oil derricks and a derrick in the foreground pumping oil from the oil field. Coal is fed into a large rotating drum machine. Bulldozer digging earth at a copper mine. Man using a power tool to shape granite. Many blocks of building stone. A mining worker pushes the handle to trigger a TNT explosion and a large amount of rock and dirt explodes outward at an iron ore mine. A black locomotive engine pulling full coal cars on a railroad beside the largest open pit mine in the world. A hear firing process at a factory for a very large dome of glass. Worker in a factory or plant melting aluminum. Molten copper is poured to be cast in molds. Rolled, drawn, and spun copper is produced. Logging operations are shown. Lumber jacks climb a giant tree and cut the top third off. It crashes to the ground. Two men use axes to cut a deep groove in a giant tree to fell it. The trees shown being harvested are Giant Sequoias or Giant Redwoods. A massive Giant Redwood tips and begins to fall as lumber jacks finish using axes to cut it to its tipping point. Men use a two man saw to cut a felled giant redwood into sections. Large logs of Redwood being rolled off a platform into water to be floated to a sawmill. Men in a lumber sawmill work with a giant saw as it cuts huge slabs of pine lumber. Stacks of finished lumber shown at a mill. A wooden home under construction using lumber. Pulp wood is shown, then a view of a man in a suit observing the loading or unloading of giant paper rolls at a ship harbor, with skyscrapers of the city skyline in the background. Printing press in operation as it applies color and ink to giant rolls of paper. Newspaper workers unload finished newspapers from a newspaper printing press and stack them. (World War II period).

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050573
Aspects of U.S. industry including public information, agriculture, transportation, and water power.

Excerpt from film entitled "Power Behind the Nation." It opens showing glimpse of two men on a park bench, discussing a newspaper article, followed by views of men at work in a radio broadcasting studio. Next is shown a Western theme film set being constructed for a motion picture, at a Hollywood film studio back lot. Closeup of Director and crew filming a western movie with an actor on horseback as he rides up to a wooden building on the film set displaying a Dance Hall sign. Next, a director and film crew are seen working on an elaborate set with a chorus of women in white gowns. Scene shifts to film makers watching a finished movie production dealing with colonial era America (ostensibly an educational film). Another film is seen being made at a set resembling a European town. Next, views of American farms are shown with various crops under cultivation, including fruit orchards. Farm machinery is seen in use, including tractors, harvesters, and combines. Grain is shown being harvested and processed in the field, and cotton being picked. Closeup of cotton bolls on the plants. Men are shown collecting sap from sugar maple trees in the northeast U.S. for making maple syrup. In the U.S. Northwest, a flock of sheep is seen grazing in a field. A herd of cattle are shown in the Southwest, U.S. A field of grain is shown and then a section of crops irrigated by small ditches. Then a large man-made irrigation canal is seen. View of a ramshackle building and yard in a desert. Women harvesting vegetables from irrigated plants. Apples being sorted by machine. A pair of steam locomotives pulling a railroad train and a diesel locomotive pulling freight cars, all ostensibly carrying fresh produce to market. Several shots of railroad freight trains in different settings. A truck moving along a country road. A tugboat working beside a large ocean-going cargo ship on a river in the U.S. More shots of ships and inland canals. A ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in California. An aircraft under construction. Passengers deplaning from a Continental Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane parked on a ramp. A prototype U.S. Navy Lockheed XR6O-1 Constitution aircraft taking off. (Only two R6V aircraft were made, Bureau Numbers 85163 and 85164.) A Sikorsky helicopter in flight. Closeup of Captain in cockpit of a TWA Boeing Stratoliner airplane as it taxis out of parking place. Industrial buildings close to a river with water flowing below a dam. The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050574
Promotion to buy U.S. Saving Bonds in the United States to contribute towards the development of the country.

A public service announcement (PSA) depicts industrial development in the United States and urges the purchase of savings bonds to preserve American heritage and way of life. Water flows through the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia river between Oregon and Washington for hydroelectric production of electricity. A power house for power transmission. Views of transmission towers and electricity is supplied to houses and industries. A glass tumbler factory. Robot machines using electricity in operation to make drinking glasses. A line of finished articles and items being made in factories using new materials like plastics. A man mixes a color in an industrial mixer. A scene with lightning flashing. A worker moves a large breaker handle in a power transmission facility. Neon lights of Times Square, New York City, at night, with many lit sign boards using electricity. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol on a clear day. View of traffic and pedestrians in front of New York Public Library. View of exterior of Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City. A boy with a dog on a long driveway in front of a nice house. Farmers harvesting crops, a mechanic operating a large wrench, a professor in front of a chalk board in a class room, overhead view of a surgical operation underway by doctors, a business man at work in an office typing a paper. Hands of a banker spinning large wheel to open a bank vault. Scenes of busy traffic on streets of New York City. View of Empire State building skyscraper panning from ground to top of building. Welders working at a job site. Women shoppers or office workers in 1940s fashions walking on sidewalks of a city with a double decker bus in background. View of streets of a small town. A line of people to buy U.S. Saving Bonds. View of United States Savings bonds of various denominations being placed on a table. Overhead view of women office workers filing items in a business office. View of a skyscraper in New York City. Wide view of Manhattan New York City skyline from water. A view of Mount Rushmore. Two women serve food and drink to young children seated in chairs. View of Bill of Rights document. Statue of Abraham Lincoln inside Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. View of a U.S. flag being raised on a flag pole and fluttering in breeze.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050575