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Development of culture, arts, and education in America in the early 1900s.

Film opens with illustrations showing development of culture and the arts as America developed from earliest centuries. A crowded theatre scene and a lead woman opera singer on stage in a long dress during her performance, with sympony in the background. The audience applauds. Images of writers James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldoe Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Mark Twain are shown. Children in a school yard, some wearing straw hats, are seen returning to the school house. Boy and girl children entering a one room school house in a rural area of America in the early 1900s. Views of early school rooms, students, and teachers.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048136
America enters the 20th Century

Opening scene shows early morning mist and transitions to 20th Century industrial sites with many smoke stacks and steam rising. Next a textile machine rotates as it weaves a product. Men sing around a piano as a woman plays it in an early 20th Century parlor. A person is seen filling out a paper ballot and dropping it into a ballot box at a voting station. A woman doing needle work and a man winding a clock above a mantel. A girl paging through a coloring book. Children in a school room. Many people attending a political convention. Outdoor view of hills and sea. Exterior and interior of a town church. A court being called to order. The inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, as America's 28th President on March 4, 1913. View of the crowd attending the event. Closeup of President Wilson delivering his inaugural address. Bronze bust of Woodrow Wilson.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1913
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048143
Hughes H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose") being towed back to its berth after completing a short maiden flight.

Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat (nick-named "Spruce Goose") being towed back to its berth, after a short maiden flight. Small boats surround it . Many spectators on shore.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1947, November 2
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048183
Howard Hughes and Retired Major General Oliver Echols testify before Senate committee chaired by Senator Brewster

Howard Hughes and retired Major General Oliver P. Echols ( former Air Force Chief Material Officer, responsible for all Air Force wartime procurement) testify before the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee, chaired by Senator Owen Brewster.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1947, August
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048186
A Colt Model 1911 sidearm is assembled

A Colt Model 1911 and its various parts. The semi-automatic pistol including magazine spring, slide, magazine catch, trigger assembly, and barrel are shown being assembled in an animated sequence, part by part.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048402
U.S. Army ordnance department soldier preparing to test fire a rifle in World War I

An American soldier is shown, among buildings at a military base, kneeling beside a rifle set on a stand for test firing into an earthen berm nearby. He places a round into the chamber and closes the bolt. He then opens the bolt and retrieves the round (which slips from his hand and drops to the ground). Next, two different size rounds of ammunition are shown.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048406
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