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Aviators Howard Hughes and Amy Johnson after record-setting flights to Los Angeles, California and Cape town, South Africa, respectively.

American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.

Date: 1936, May
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034143
N.Y.U. New York University wins over University of California by score of 41-26 in game of basketball, New York.

Basketball game being played between N.Y.U. (New York University) and University of California, Madison Square Garden, New York. Basketball game in progress. Spectators watch and cheer the players. N.Y.U. (New York University) wins over University of California by score of 41-26

Date: 1935, December 23
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060559
View from the dock towards USS California (BB-44) departing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Views from a dock at Pearl Harbor toward USS California (BB-44) operating under her own power and departing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bound for Puget Sound Navy Yard for major reconstruction following her damage during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the prior December 7. View of crew on her decks looking out over the dock and harbor area. Views from the dock as the battleship slowly moves out. The USS California had been at drydock number two in Pearl Harbor for repairs until June 7, 1942, and then was moved under her own power to a wharf at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard for reinstallation of guns beginning in July before leaving for the Puget Sound Navy Yard on October 10. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, October 10
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061811
Salvage and repair of the USS California (BB-44) at U.S. Naval Station, Pearl Harbor

The USS California (BB-44) after being refloated at Pearl Harbor, and being readied to move to drydock number 2 for further repairs. Her guns have been removed to lighten her. Her hull shows the effects of submersion. Pumps work steadily to keep her afloat in spite of penetrations in her hull. Views from small boat of various maintenance activities on the California. Tugboats, cranes, derricks, pumps, etc. are being employed. Two sailors row a small dinghy.

Date: 1942, April
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061840
California State Police explains several Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques against terrorists in California.

Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques. Cars are driven through road barricades as narrator explains use of a vehicle as a weapon to push aside cars that are being used to ambush. Cars are hit in the rear or front quarters by the escape vehicles to demonstrate disruption of an ambush. POV driver side of car as gunmen drive alongside and shoot the driver. Wide shots of same ambush on driver as it takes place on road curve. Defensive maneuvers by driver include hitting the brakes hard to throw off the aim of gunmen. View of motorcycle on same curve. View of Molotov cocktail being thrown at a car. Narrator explains that having the window up helps to ward off a Molotov cocktail attack as views of burning car are seen. A chauffeur waits on the street in front of a Cadillac limousine. A man emerges from an office building and gets into the limousine. POV of limousine driver as he drives to evade attackers, and reaches under dashboard to turn on a siren. Woman in 1970s fashions sits on a motorcycle radioing ahead to attackers on her walkie talkie.

Date: 1976
Duration: 12 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053608
Little League baseball: Mexican team wins round-robin finale over La Mesa California team in Williamsport Pennsylvania.

Little League Baseball Series in Williamsport Pennsylvania. Crowd in the stand cheers. Season's round-robin finale in progress. The Monterrey Mexico team wins over the La Mesa California team as Monterrey pitcher Angel Macias has a good game.

Date: 1957, August 26
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040137