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The U.S. Navy films the voices of service men's loved ones in a program in California to cheer the soldiers far from home.

The U.S. Navy films and records the voices of service men's loved ones in California. They conduct a program to bring Christmas cheer to American soldiers far from their homes and families. People arrive at the program. Women with their children. Cameras seen recording a family with a woman and her children on the stage, to send to the husband and father overseas. A clown is on stage behind the family to entertain the children, and a Christmas tree is beside them.

Date: 1952, December 11
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045424
President Eisenhower celebrates his 63rd birthday with a large crowd in Pennsylvania.

20,000 guests gather at a party to celebrate President Dwight D Eisenhower's birthday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Guests enter a tent with signs "The GREATEST TENT on ... to attend the GREATEST BUFFET ... For the GREATEST GUY". President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, arrive at the party in a traditional Pennsylvanian Dutch buggy drawn by a dapple gray mare. Crowd greets him. He arrives with Mrs Eisenhower and cuts a 25 foot cake.

Date: 1953, October 15
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045446
A small home-built bantam biplane makes its first flight in California.

A small biplane parked on the ground in California. John Pontius, the pilot and the manufacturer of the plane pulls the plane. He sits in the cockpit. The plane takes off.

Date: 1953, October 15
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045448
U.S. Navy Lockheed XFV and the Convair XFY Pogo, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are shown to the public

First public films showing the U.S. Navy Lockheed XFV experimental vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. It is seen sitting sideways, on wheels, although it is intended to take off and land vertically, from a tail down position. Next the Convair XFY "Pogo" VTOL aircraft is shown. Convair techinician makes some adjustments to it. The XFY is slowly tilted to a tail down position. Its cockpit canopy is slowly opened and a pilot climbs aboard. Animated film shows image of a VTOL aircraft taking off and landing,vertically, from the deck of a freighter ship. Another view of the Convair XFY standing on its tail.

Date: 1954, March 18
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045461
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes,with others aboard the Presidential Yacht Potomac.

The U.S. Presidential Yacht, Potomac, in Florida. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes along with others, on board. People stand on the pier. Buildings and trees in the background. The President and Interior Secretary pose with others on board. President Franklin D. Roosevelt waves his hat as the Presidential Yacht leaves the harbor.

Date: 1938
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046100
Cargo loaded and stored on a ship at navy terminal port in Oakland, California.

A U.S. Navy training film about loading the cargo at naval terminal port, the Naval supply center at Oakland, California. Ships at the port. Cranes and loading net near the ship. Cargo accumulated to be loaded on the ship. A checker signs the delivery and cargo is delivered by a fork lift. A hatch attender signals and cargo sling is lifted up by gantry cranes at deck sides. The cargo is secured by beam cramps and steel straps on the ship. Pontoons cover the cargo. The ship ready to go to the sea. Last check by stabile guage and engineer computing device. Before going the necessary papers are checked like hatch list, statement of cargo. The captain sees slowage plane which gives the information about quantity, location and type of cargo on the ship. Buffering line and handing before shipment starts.

Date: 1951
Duration: 7 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046358