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Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) carrying passengers from St. Louis to Waynoka, Oklahoma, on coast-to-coast trip from New York

Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company's coast-to-coast passengers proceed on their flight legs from Saint Louis, Missouri to Waynoka, Oklahoma. TAT employee closes door on Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor passenger airplane, at St. Louis airport. Ground crewman plugs in compressed air hose to assist start of engine number three. TAT logo seen on side of the airplane. Next, the airplane taxis and takes off on plowed runway of snow-covered field. Animated map shows airplane heading to Kansas City, Missouri. View of cockpit as co-pilot shows weather report to pilot. Shift to a TAT weather station where meteorologists launch a weather balloon to check winds aloft. Closeup of the pilot's weather report being prepared. TAT officer serving lunch food to passengers in the aircraft. View from airplane of Kansas City, and then aerial view as it descends to Wichita, Kansas. Pilots in cockpit. Copilot radios Wichita. View of TAT radio operator responding and saying they should lookout for Lindbergh who is flying the route today. Next, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is seen flying past the Ford Tri-motor in his Curtiss Falcon biplane. Passengers look out to see him. View from the passenger plane descending over the city of Wichita, Kansas. Animated map shows next stop as Waynoka, Oklahoma. View from the air of numerous oil derricks in Oklahoma. Passengers leaving the airplane and boarding a trailer-bus at Waynoka. Closeup of flowers and sign on restaurant table, reading, "TAT, Reserved for TAT travelers." Passengers dining.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026614
The Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument in Washington DC.

Monuments in Washington DC. Jefferson Memorial (16 E Basin Dr SW, Washington, DC 20242, United States) with the Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, USA) on its right. View of the Washington Monument. Snow covered ground and trees in front of the monument. Officer in uniform.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1966, January 27
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043630
Baseball player Babe Ruth exercises during the 1931-32 offseason

Newsreel clip showing baseball great Babe Ruth exercising indoors during the winter of 1932. Title card says he is demanding $80,000 contract -- he would receive a reported $75,000 instead. Ruth, wearing shorts and sweatshirt, climbs on stationary cycle and begins pedaling as a man rides another cycle beside him. Camera pans down to Ruth's well-known skinny legs. Ruth looks at clock on wall, wipes sweat from his face. Next, Ruth sits in 1930s-style sauna box and takes a sauna with a towel over his head. Other man playfully shoves his head while he is inside the box. Same man later seen wearing boxing gloves and throwing several punches at Ruth's stomach. Ruth takes a few, then delivers a left-handed punch to the head that pushes the much smaller man away.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1932, January 7
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026479
Bruce Dicky and CY Thomas speak on importance of Interstate highways in Kansas City, Kansas.

Bruce Dicky, of Farmer's State Bank in Lenexa, Kansas, speaks on importance of roads for prosperous growth of people. He comments about the growth of housing and industry in Lenexa since the I-35 interstate highway came to town. Scenes of a road, on a side of a lake. Traffic moving on roads. Houses in newly built suburbs are seen along sides of highways. View of industries and suburban shopping centers of the 1950's near Kansas City, with many 1950's cars parked in parking lots, made possible by expanding roads and highway systems in America. Building of a cancer research center. C Y Thomas, a doctor speaks on how I-35 highway access influenced the location of a new research center in Kansas City. Various manufacturing and light industry businesses are seen along American highways. Sign visible on one says "Electronic Specialty Co." Interstate 287 with traffic moving on it. Industries and buildings linked with roads.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023853
Park for couples in love urged by a judge in Kansas City, Kansas.

A judge seeks to have a park set aside for dating couples in love (a park for spooners, per the slate), in Kansas City, Kansas. Exteriors of Wyandotte County Courthouse building in Kansas City; and 1930's cars on the roads. Judge seated at his desk. Scene of a young man and young woman romantic couple in a park walking and sitting on a park bench together. Next scene shows a dating couple seated on a couch. The boy's young brother is seated in a chair beside them granting them no privacy. The older brother reaches in his pocket for money and pays his little brother so he will get up and leave the room. The dating couple hugs on the sofa.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1935, September 23
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060556
Animation shows evolution of skyscrapers including Empire State building nearing completion in New York City.

Empire State Building under construction in New York. Animation shows the evolution of skyscrapers in New York. Buildings in hierarchical order. Arrow shows its name and dates of completion. World 1890, Park Row 1900, Singer 1905, Metropolitan life 1910, Woolworth 1915, Chrysler 1929 and Empire State 1931. View of Empire State Building still under construction in 1931, rising above other nearby buildings. The top of the building is not yet complete.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026651
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