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Steam engine operates machine with the help of electricity at a barn in the United States.

Farm scene. Man caries a pole on his shoulders. Officials and workers converse with each other on the field. Steam engine and threshing machine arrives on horse drawn wagon carriages. Steam engine operates a threshing pulley machine at barn. Workers put wheat into threshing machine using pitchforks.

Date: 1920
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063939
General Electric producing the first American jet airplane engine. Bell Aircraft building first U.S. jet powered airplane.

General Electric Company engineers work on designs for America's first jet aircraft engine during World War 2. In the company's plant, at Lynn, Massachusetts, machinists make parts for the engine and others assemble it. Company executives conversing about the enterprise. On April 18, 1942, the first engine produced is rolled into a test cell for operational testing. Engineers pull down the door to the test cell displaying the words: "Fort Knox." Engineers at control panel of the test cell. View into the test cell. GE Project manager, Donald F. Warner, actuates toggle switch to "on" position, and the engine ignites. Flame seen in rear of the engine. Complete change of location. View of Bell Aircraft company buildings. Bell engineers working on design of an airplane designated, XP-59A (Airacomet) to be powered by the new General Electric jet engine (later designated J-31 by the military). Views of the Bell engineering and production activities at secret facilities in Buffalo, New York. Two Bell workers expressing reservations about airplanes without propellers. A main intersection street scene in Schenectady, New York. Pedestrians walking and shopping. An F.W. Woolworth store on the corner. Copy of the Schenectady Gazette Newspaper, with headline about 500 planes raiding Berlin. A man buying a copy of the paper.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063984
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory facilities and activities in the United States

In the context of Unidentifed Flying Object (UFO) research: Narrator describes the sixteen cameras of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) as camera shows one, of atop a multistory building. A map shows several locations in the state of Nebraska. Next, in a closeup, Dr. Richard E. McCrosky, Director of SAO, shows a model of a small building housing aerial mapping cameras. He removes the roof of the model to show how the cameras are installed and turned on by light sensors. He shows a film of a bright object photographed by such a camera installation. Asked about other inputs, Dr. McCrosky mentions the satellite tracking network, and a map shows the 12 stations about the world. McClosky shows a model of a tracking camera contained in those installations. He shows a photograph of the Gemini rendezvous, when the NASA Gemini spacecraft numbers 6 and 7 came close to each other on December 15, 1965. Scene shifts to views of large radar installations and observatories, including equipment inside one. Animated view of Mariner space probe passing the planet Venus. Giant radar antennas rotating. Views of the milky way galaxy and our solar system. Photos of nebulae from the Mount Palomar Telescope. Radio telescope installations, including the one in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Date: 1966
Duration: 5 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064068
Training film 'The SOS A Division' shows operation of supply trains during defense of military position in the United States.

Training film 'The SOS A Division' shows the organization of an area, development and operation of trains in the defense of a position. Animated map shows the train network of Northern and Southern columns. The A Division with a regiment of Medium artillery marches in two columns. The Defense Commander occupies and defends Main Line Resistance and Regimental Reserve Line positions. The advance Guards seize forward ridge to cover development of division and occupation of the position.

Date: 1927
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064141
Film 'Meat Again' shows the canning of by products of meat in a canning industry in the United States.

Film 'Meat Again' shows the by products of meat. Men at table placing pieces of meat in cans. They cover the can and weld it. Workers working at large round machines. Man places the cans on machine. Machines capping meat cans. Women workers inspect meat cans kept on the table. Worker operates a vacuum machine. Large soldering iron covering air holes on cans. Men place and remove the meat cans in steam retorts where meat is cooked. The cans move through a labeling machine. A woman wraps cans in paper.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064482
View of lakes, streams, fields,houses and dead trees in water in the United States.

Lakes and streams in the United States. Wooded lake shore. Dead trees in the water. A dam along the river. Streams and lakes. Vehicles on road along the river. Houses and fields close to the river.

Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064523