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Nevada United States 1936 stock footage and images

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Astronaut John Herschel Glenn orbits the earth in Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft which took off from the U.S.

A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. Unmanned experimental flights. Launch of a spacecraft. Astronauts at work. Training of the astronauts. American astronaut Alan Shepard in a spacecraft. The Mercury-Atlas 6 mission underway. Men work on a spacecraft. Preparation for the launch of the spacecraft at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft on a launch pad. Astronauts prepare for the spaceflight. Men at work in a building. The Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft is ready to be launched. John Glenn prepares for the flight. The spacecraft on a launch pad. A U.S. flag on the spacecraft. Glenn takes his position in Friendship 7. The countdown begins. People gather and look at the spacecraft. Glenn in the spacecraft. The spacecraft is launched. Vapors rise from the bottom of the spacecraft at liftoff. It ascends towards the sky. Technicians establish contact with Glenn. Views of mission control stations and countdown clocks. United States Air Force missile range instrumentation ship Rose Knot underway as it follows the course of the spacecraft.

Date: 1963
Duration: 6 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070448
Modern harvesting tools used at Tulare Lake Farm in California, and Seabrook Farms in New Jersey

New methods of industrial farming in the United States. An animated map depicts wheat combines operating on the Tulare Lake Farm in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Few skilled men operate farm machinery harvesting wheat. A plow is used on the farm to till the soil to sow seeds. Farmers look at wheat grains. Mechanized harvesting tools are used on the farm for harvesting. An animated map shows Seabrook Farms in the south of New Jersey. Vegetables are harvested and processed on the farm. Seabrook Farm employees move around the quarters on street. The owner of the Seabrook Farm and his two sons in an office. The father (owner of farm) seated at a table and they all look at a map. Women employees work in the office. Workers' living quarters. The workers take coffee in a cafeteria.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070531
The operation of a family-sized farm and electrical benefits given by the Rural Electrification Administration in the U.S.

Average family size farms struggle for existence while big-scale operations turn agriculture into a profitable assembly line in the United States. Cattle graze in a farm. A man milks a cow. Small farmers sitting on a street ideally. A Rural Electrification Administration member presides a conference to support small farmers. A sign : 'Dairymen's Cooperative Assn'. A milkman unloads milk containers from a truck. A sign : 'Hunterdon Cooperative G.L.F. Service Inc.'. Exterior of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) office. The manager of the REA and a small farmer seated at a table. Various posters in the office. An animated map of a lightening power project by REA. An official delivers a speech on a power project installed by the REA. People cheer for him. Huts on a farm. A man loads a hay stack on a cart. A man pours wheat grains in a wheat grinding mill. A woman cooks food in a modern kitchen. Hay stacks on the farm. A woman uses a hand pump. A woman feed hens. Two horses on the farm.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070533
Soviet flyers who flew from Moscow, Russia, to Vancover Washington, begin journey back to Russia

United Airlines DC-3 Mainliner aircraft lands and taxis to the airfield ramp,at Oakland, California. U.S. military and civilian officials, and newsmen gather around the airplane as its doors open. A crowd of spectators and well-wishers fill an area at the airfield terminal. Closeup of three Soviet flyers, standing and waving from the top of stairs at the plane's door. They are Pilot Valery Chkalov; Co-pilot Georgy Baydukov and Navigator Alexander Belyakov. They left Moscow, Russia, June 18, 1937 in a single-engine Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft on a flight over the North Pole and finally landed after 63 hours and 25 minutes, at. the U.S. Army Pearson Field in Fort Vancouver Barracks (Washington State, USA). Scene shifts to Pearson Field, where their airplane is being prepared for shipment back to Russia. U.S. Army soldiers package up recording instruments preserving evidence of the flight necessary to document their accomplishment. They remove and package loose articles, such as parachutes. View of the airplane being completely covered in protective tarp wrappings.

Date: 1937, June
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070572
A notice of 'Farms for Sale in lower prices' and farm machinery used for wheat production in the Great Plains of the U.S.

A homestead on a farm in the Great Plains of the United States. Wheat grown on farms. Farm machinery is used with plows in farms. A notice of 'Farms for Sale in lower prices'. Farm machinery used on the farms. The sun rises in the background. A notice of 'Own a farm away from home'. Overproduction of wheat is shown in lead up to great depression. Smoke from a chimney. Farm equipment used. African American jazz drummer playing drums, hitting cymbal and smiling, and stock ticker tape running out of ticker tape machine reflecting over exuberant stock market.

Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070603
U.S. Army officers discuss treatment for combat exhaustion cases among World War II Army soldiers

Reenactment dealing with treatment for World War 2 combat exhaustion cases among U.S. soldiers. Army personnel receive training to know the reasons for exhaustion and the methods to rehabilitate the soldiers. The flag of the United States on a wall. U.S. Army officers seated at a table. The army personnel and an officer are in discussion about combat exhaustion. Personnel receive answers of their questions in the discussion. (Note: Clips deals with treatment for Combat Exahaustion, also later termed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD)

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070657