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Nevada United States 1936 stock footage and images

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Crewmen operate mine sweeping equipment and hand tools aboard a Minesweeping Boat underway off the shore of the U.S.

Characteristics of a Minesweeping Boat (MSB) underway off the shore of the United States. MSB characteristics include: operates on a daily basis, 57 feet long, beam of 15 feet, draft of 5 feet, effective speed, can be lifted by larger ship, crew consists of 7 men and a chief officer, armaments consists of small arms, constructed from wood and non magnetic material, non magnetic engine and gear. A crewman operates mine sweeping equipment and hand tools. Other man at the control device. The United States flag flutters in wind from the mast of the ship.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072323
Training of American draftees before World War II; also Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt's request for declaration of war.

United States soldiers and new recruits at a camp in the U.S. before outbreak of World War II. New recruits and U.S. Army soldiers in training run obstacle course. Soldiers in their uniforms march through the camp area. Tents in the background. Newly drafted U.S Army soldiers learn to fire weapons on firing range using artificial wooden rifles. U.S. soldiers seen training with wooden replica machine guns and using empty Adelphi beer cans as substitute artillery ammunition for training purposes. Teams of soldiers compete in moving a giant ball. They compete in blindfolded boxing on their knees. Lacking adequate war materiel for training, they make do by pretending that trucks are tanks and labeling them with such signs. They pretend with wooden guns and throw flour sacks instead of grenades. Scenes of the Pearl Harbor raid by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941. Views of the USS Arizona being hit and various ships on fire soon after the attack. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen addressing Congress, where he asks for a declaration of war against Japan.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073570
Prior to U.S. Presidential Election of 1968, Nixon recounts his past and tells what he wanted to become when he was a child.

Self-portrait of Republican nominee Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon what he felt like when he was a boy. Childhood pictures of Richard Nixon. Nixon says he never thought of becoming the President of the United States and wanted to become a railroad engineer. He recounts his past and speaks how he got interested in law and politics.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1968, November
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073737
Prior to U.S. Presidential Election of 1968, Richard Nixon recounts his past and tells how he got into politics.

Self-portrait of Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon that how he got into becoming a member of U.S. House of Representatives in 1947. Nixon replies that soon after World War II ended some Whittier Republicans approached him about running for a seat in the United States House of Representatives and he accepted. A picture of Nixon during his campaign in 1946. He says America is a great country because American people are competitive and it does not mean competition in the destructive sense. He considers America a great country in terms of competitive people and says that competitive spirit is a great driving force in any nation. And he says it is the reason why politics appeals to him.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1968, November
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073742
U.S. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) recruits feed a fawn with milk bottle; A cat plays with dog.

United States CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) recruits at a camp during the Great Depression in the United States. A White-Tailed fawn sits. CCC recruits bathe the young deer and feeds it with a bottle of milk. A cat plays with a dog. The cat pounces and rests on top of the dog. Recruits try to catch a bear. The bear runs away from the camp.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074641
Workers remove stencils after spraying on star insignia on B-29 Superfortress bomber plane in an American factory.

Workers work on USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) B-29 Superfortress bomber in an aircraft factory in United States during World War II. Two men remove stencils after spraying on star insignia.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944, April 17
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074658
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