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The processing and transportation of iron and coal along the Mississippi river on steamboats in the United States

The activities around the Mississippi river in the United States. Smoke from steel mills and factories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, West Virginia. A crane lifts the iron ore. A crane lifts coal. View of factories spewing smoke and ash. Hot, molten iron being poured, with flames and sparks shooting outward as it is tipped to pour. Cotton bales on a conveyor. Making of cotton thread. Workers work on cotton bales. The cotton bales being loaded onto barges and a steamship. The steamboat in the Mississippi river travels to various places. Brief scenes of various known city views including St Paul and Minneapolis Minnesota; Davenport Iowa; Moline Illinois; Cincinnati; St. Louis; Omaha; Kansas City; New Orleans.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032222
Strategic Air Command B-36 practices bombing mission in United States

Three U.S. Airmen in SAC exercise control room look at map. A Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-36 bomber in flight. Crew member aboard the B-36 views radar scope. Navigator checks position on chart with dividers. Airmen in control room make precise plot of B-36 position. Animation of bomb dropping towards Minneapolis in Minnesota, United States.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951, January
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032414
Workers protest and strikes breakout in U.S. cities; police and state guardsmen clash with strikers

Unrest and violence in the United States by strikers in various cities. Aerial view of San Francisco. General strike in San Francisco. People gather on the streets to protest. A board reads: 'Out of Gasoline Due to Strike conditions' at a Shell gas station. Injured people lying on the street during Truck Drivers strike in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Police battle strikers and use clubs to control them. Strike in Toledo by Auto Accessory Workers shows State guardsmen throwing rocks back at strikers and using tear gas and knockout gas to control the situation. Strikers are grabbed by State Guards forcefully and hauled away. The strikes arise as a result of disputes over the meaning of new labor rules.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051594
Couriers and United States postal service reaching everywhere across the nation by transportation system.

A streamliner locomotive pulling a train and moving quickly toward camera position. Scene change to view of the Masonic Temple building in Alexandria, Virginia. Next scene shows a TWA gate area at Albuquerque New Mexico airport. A TWA Lindbergh Line DC-3 airplane taxis to a stop. A frozen park scene in Minneapolis Minnesota. An aerial view of Miami. A tall white tower in San Francisco (Ferry Building?). Wide pan view of skyline and skyscrapers of New York City. Exterior of U.S. Post Office Building in New York City.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051771
35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight. Advances in travel due to rail and airplane. Howard Hughes' round the world flight.

Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1938, July 14
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027429
Views of Minneapolis-Honeywell factory area during dusk.

Views of Minneapolis-Honeywell factory area during dusk. Lights in building and automobiles driving through streets.

Location: Minnesota United States USA
Date: 1951, January
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032421
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