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U.S. Navy control room aboard a warship, equipped with radar, circa 1940
U.S. Navy officers and sailors in a control room aboard a warship, circa World War 2 era. The sailors wear headsets and communicate on radios. View of a radar scope equipped with shield to reduce external light. An officer looks into the scope. Scene shifts to view of the radar display on a plan position indicator (PPI) screen. Returns are seen on the scope as the display refreshes with rotations of the antenna.
A U.S. Navy WAVE working in a motion picture projection booth in World War II
A woman of the U.S. Navy WAVES program ("Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service") operating motion picture projectors in a projection booth, during World War 2. She wears a short-sleeve white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie pushed back on each side. she watches the screen (unseen) while monitoring the projectors. The sequence is interrupted. It picks up again as she is seen threading the film on a motion picture film projector and starting it
Vincent Lopez and his big band swing orchestra performing in 1943
Vincent Lopez and his orchestra are on stage ready to perform. He stands by his piano, and begins to conduct. The orchestra starts to play. Mr. Lopez calmly seats himself at the piano and plays along with the jazz orchestra, displaying notable flourishes as he plays. Sequence breaks and picks up with male vocalist now also on stage. Lopez stands, conducting vocalist and orchestra. (Note: Vincent Lopez and his orchestra performed at the Grill Room in the Hotel Taft, New York City, from 1941 to 1961.)
Newspaper headlines relating to World War I.
View of picture of 1908 McLauglin-Buick and 1915 sedan auto. Map of Europe with German Iron Cross superimposed. Newspapers running off presses. Headline on paper reading, 'Arch Duke Assassinated.' Headline reading, 'Germany Declares War; All Europe is in Arms.' Headline reading, 'Germany Invades France', superimposed over German troops marching in background. Headline, 'French Resist at Marne.' Headline, 'Lusitania Sunk' with picture of the ship. Newspaper presses running. Printer reading paper with headlines 'U.S. Declares War.' Paper reading, 'U.S. At War.' Headline, 'U.S. Troops Land in France.' Billboard sign, 'Beat Back the Hun With Liberty Bonds' superimposed over picture of troops marching in background. Ships under construction. Destroyer underway.
Dramatization of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone call.
A man opening pages of a Photo album, with a cover reading 'When Telephone Was Young'. Shows pictures of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; the place where telephone was invented and Thomas A. Watson, who made the first telephone. Then, in a reenactment, by actors, Watson enters a room and gives a prototype model of the telephone to Bell. Bell examines and connects other parts of telephone. Watson goes to a short distance in room. Bell speaks first words over telephone 'Mr. Watson, Come here; I want you!'. Watson hears the words on receiver. Then Bell goes to another room with the phone receiver and Watson speaks over phone. Both in room hug each other.
Operations of early switchboards.
Operation of early switchboards. Pages of book showing early switchboard. Man operating switchboard. The first switchboard for commercial telephone service installed in New Haven, Connecticut. A man operating and talking into telephone and other man listening. Men operating switchboards.
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