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Assorted scenes of World War I, as America enters in 1917

An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042369
American soldiers enjoy recreation, sponsored by charitable organizations during World War I.

American soldiers enjoying recreation during World War I. Cars pull up outside a recreation building, in snow. A church-sponsored facility for soldiers, seen from outside in snow, with several persons at entrance. American soldiers read books at Salvation Army library. Soldiers read with an American flag in the background. Soldiers leaving a Knights of Columbus Hall. Soldiers wave from the balcony of a Masonic Hall. Soldier plays piano as another sings, at a recreational facility. Older persons visiting with them. Soldier converses with two young women on veranda of recreation facility. Inside, volunteers visit with the soldiers. Older woman invites soldier to sit and chat awhile. Young woman and soldier come into room from the veranda.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042438
Women run a food kitchen in Britain, during World War I

A Group of women pose, holding trays and dishes, next to a slate chalk board, containing a menu and pricing for food items on Friday, May 17th, 1918. The items are priced in British pennies. In a change of scene, women customers are seen leaving the building with food purchases.(one has a small dog on a leash.) Several stand and chat while they sip cups of tea. Back inside the building, three women smile as they hold food and empty dishes.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1918, May 17
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042450
Animation shows the launch of Soviet satellite Sputnik 1.

Animation shows the first Soviet satellite Sputnik being launched into space early in the "space race." Animated cartoon shows Sputnik 1 being launched by a rocket booster. Rocket takes off and detaches later on. Satellite being placed in the earth's orbit. Narrator refers to the satellite as a "new moon". Satellite orbiting the earth. Technician in front of IBM computers receives telemetry.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1957, October 4
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042900
John Lomax and Lead Belly reenact events in their relationship

Reenactment of events in relationship between Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), American folk and blues musician, and Musicologist John A. Lomax.. Lomax sits at a typewriter as Lead Belly comes in and asks for a job. Lead Belly says Lomax gave a recording of his songs to the Governor, who pardoned him from prison. In thanks, he says he will work for Lomax for life. Lomax refuses because of Lead Belly having killed two men.. Lead Belly claims that he has changed and promises to sing for him. Lomax relents and provides him a job.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042911
Events in the career of aviator Henry Harley("Hap") Arnold. Scenes from earliest history of heavier-than-air planes.

Sketch of 1909 aircraft that Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel. Progressive views of airplanes from earliest to formations of B-52 bombers in flight. Picture of Air Force Five Star General Henry (Hap) Arnold. Views of Wright Flyer being pulled into a field and readied and launched with Orville Wright at the controls. Two DeHavilland DH4 airplanes in formation as wing walker climbs from wing of one to wing of the other. (Wing walker wears emblem of black cat and number 13, on his shirt.) Drawing of Wright flyer airplane with various parts labeled by Lieutenant Arnold. Letter, dated 13, May, 1911, from 2nd Lieutenant Henry Arnold, of the 24th Infantry, to Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, reporting on his progress at the Wright flying school in Dayton, Ohio. First pilot's badge (wings) earned by Lieutenant Arnold. President Wilson at inauguration of airmail service, from Washington, DC.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1912
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042989
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