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Nevada United States 1936 stock footage and images

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General Curtis Lemay discusses with Rear Admiral Swanson and Vice Admiral Bringle during his fact finding visit to USS America.

General Curtis E. Lemay arrives for a fact finding visit to the United States Ship America (CVA-66). General Lemay, Rear Admiral Leroy V. Swanson and Vice Admiral William F. Bringle in the Chief of Staff cabin. General Lemay holds a coffee and cigar and chats with Swanson. Pictures of naval commanders on cabin wall behind. Plate over door reads 'Chief of Staff Cabin'.

Date: 1968, October 18
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036963
General Lemay discusses with commanding officers and observes radar photos during his fact finding visit to USS America.

General Curtis E. Lemay arrives for a fact finding visit to the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Officers in a cabin with plaque over doorway 'Command Center' written on it. Books in shelves at the cabin. Name plate over door reads 'Flag Room'. Admiral Leroy V. Swanson escorts General Lemay to the Ready Room and introduces officers to General Lemay. Vice Admiral William F. Bringle watches as Commander Wayne Smith of Air Wing 6, talks to General Lemay, who smokes a cigar. General Lemay autographs some issue from Commander. He listens to Commander Charles B. Hunter, Commanding Officer of VA-85, in ready room. Tag on a wall map reads 'Hanoi is defeated'. General Lemay and officers observe a large board containing display of radar photographs. He shakes hands with other officers in ready room.

Date: 1968, October 18
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036964
General Lemay climbs an A-6A and talks to Commander Charles B. Hunter of VA-85, during his fact finding visit to USS America.

General Curtis E. Lemay arrives for a fact finding visit to the United States Ship America (CVA-66). General Lemay in hanger bay climbs up an A-6A aircraft and sits into the cockpit. Commander Charles B. Hunter, Commanding Officer of VA-85 stands up alongside cockpit and briefs him. General Lemay and Rear Admiral Leroy V. Swanson and others walk through hanger bay. Rear Admiral Swanson points out things of interest to him.

Date: 1968, October 18
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036965
American civilians dine and eat at diners, lunch counters, and roadside stands. Kitchen workers and wait staff prepare food.

A horse and a woman eat near a road. Civilians eat and dine at various fast food restaurants, lunch counters, diners, and road side stands in the United States. A woman waitress prepares coffee for people at a public diner. People drink coffee at lunch counter or diner. Examples of early fast food automation, including kitchen worker pushing bread loaves through automatic bread slicing machine. Toast pops up from high capacity restaurant toaster. Cheese or meat drops from automated slicer onto counter. Hands seen preparing sandwich at high speed. Automated system dispenses batter onto hot griddle or pan to make pancakes. Man dispenses coffee from large silver coffee urn. Close view of diners eating sandwiches and drinking coffee. Automated pancake flipping spatula on machine turns pancakes. Rapid fire scenes of food preparation. Hand with cloth wipes counter clean from crumbs. Two women wipe their mouths at same time and rise from seats at lunch counter to leave.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036992
USDA documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast' depicts terracing techniques for soil control and improved farming

From a U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast.' Depicts soil problems in farming and solutions via terracing. Trees near farm land. Withered, irregular plants on poor soil. Healthy crops ready for harvest in a large terraced farmland. Trees and barns at the end of field. A farmer plows field with a tractor. Crops in the farm land. Two men walk on the field. Farmers care for growing plants. A man checks the black soil suitable for the growth of crops. Water flows through a channel to irrigate the crops. Two farmers operate a hand plow. A man plows hardened soil of field standing on a horse-drawn plow. From an H.W. Wilson Company listing in 1940 of its Educational Film holdings: This is a Soil conservation service film. As beautiful scenes of the countryside unfold the commentator tells us that much of America's oldest farming land is in the Northeast. The serious soil erosion situation is frequently taken care of by terracing. We learn how terracing is done, its advantages and see land so cultivated. Terracing is used successfully for growing potatoes, tobacco, truck farming and for fruit culture. Cover crops are planted and when turned under add fertility to the soil. It is necessary to inspect the terraces regularly and to keep the channels of the outlets clear. An informative picture showing construction and uses of terraces and other erosion control measures as applied to northeastern part of United States. New Hampshire.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037168
Farmers practicing terracing in the northeast of the U.S. for improved farming output

On terraced farming in the northeastern United States. Various farming equipment and techniques for improving soil and crop output. Various plows and tractors with disc for improving soil. Preparing a field for new planting. Tractor pulling plow with tines. A plowed field ready for sowing seeds with even furrows. Different tractor on a field. A tractor starting work on an unimproved field. Improved, terraced fields. Men walk on the fields. Road to a farmhouse lined by trees.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037170