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An oil pumping station which serves important fields and a map shows important oil pipe line systems in the United States.

Pumping and transportation of crude oil in the United States. A political map of the U.S. shows oil pipe line systems which are used to transport crude petroleum. The map shows main trunk pipe line systems including a new line under construction from Wyoming, connecting with the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. A pumping station which serves important fields in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming with its chief terminals at East Chicago, Houston, Texas and Salt Creek, Wyoming. Internal combustion engines and machinery at the pumping station.

Date: 1923
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050551
A 'Go devil' which is forced through an oil pipe line to clear it of obstructions is tracked in the United States.

Cleaning of oil pipelines in the United States. Men near a pipe line. A man pushes a 'Go devil' ( a device used to clean oil pipe lines) in the pipe. A man walks near the pipe line to keep track of the 'Go devil'. Animation depicts how the 'Go devil' moves through the pipe line and how its tracking is done. Men near the other end of the pipe line. The 'Go devil' is taken out. Oil flows out the pipe followed by refuse. Men search through the refuse.

Date: 1923
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050552
Pumps near temporary oil pipe lines operate and samples are drawn to determine 'bottom sediment' in the United States.

Oil pipe lines in the United States. Men near temporary pipe lines. Pumps operating in the open. Men near the end of a pipe line in East Chicago. A man takes a sample from a tank to determine the amount of ' bottom sediment'.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050554
Harnessing of different forms of energy and utilization of manpower for the industrial development of the United States.

A documentary depicts events in the development of the United States and shows scenes of commerce, industry and natural resources. Shirtless men in khaki shorts (US Army?) practice calisthenics during an exercise drill. American men and women work in a factories and peace time industries post war, and laboratories (scene of a chemist with test tubes and beakers and burners). A man blowing glass. Harnessing of water, wind, solar and soil energy. Scenes of turbines, generators and motors to use energy. Men working in factories to increase production. Smoke comes out of stacks and chimneys. Iron ore processing and hot conditions. People work in different industries. Mass production in the U.S. Typewriters being assembled in a factory. Kitchen hand mixers on an assembly line at a manufacturing plant. Assembly line of automobile industry. 1940s era cars and trucks moving along assembly line in car manufacturing factory.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050571
Many scenes of mining and processing of natural resources in the 1940s for industrial development in the United States.

Various scenes of industrial development in the United States with focus on industry and natural resources. View of terraced pits of a mine. Men on a scaffold in a stone quarry using picks to. A field of oil derricks with a derrick in the foreground pumping oil from the oil field. Coal is fed into a large rotating drum machine. Bulldozer digging earth at a copper mine. Man using a power tool to shape granite. Many blocks of building stone. A mining worker pushes the handle to trigger a TNT explosion and a large amount of rock and dirt explodes outward at an iron ore mine. A black locomotive engine pulling full coal cars on a railroad beside the largest open pit mine in the world. A hear firing process at a factory for a very large dome of glass. Worker in a factory or plant melting aluminum. Molten copper is poured to be cast in molds. Rolled, drawn, and spun copper is produced. Logging operations are shown. Lumber jacks climb a giant tree and cut the top third off. It crashes to the ground. Two men use axes to cut a deep groove in a giant tree to fell it. The trees shown being harvested are Giant Sequoias or Giant Redwoods. A massive Giant Redwood tips and begins to fall as lumber jacks finish using axes to cut it to its tipping point. Men use a two man saw to cut a felled giant redwood into sections. Large logs of Redwood being rolled off a platform into water to be floated to a sawmill. Men in a lumber sawmill work with a giant saw as it cuts huge slabs of pine lumber. Stacks of finished lumber shown at a mill. A wooden home under construction using lumber. Pulp wood is shown, then a view of a man in a suit observing the loading or unloading of giant paper rolls at a ship harbor, with skyscrapers of the city skyline in the background. Printing press in operation as it applies color and ink to giant rolls of paper. Newspaper workers unload finished newspapers from a newspaper printing press and stack them. (World War II period).

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050573
After a grocery shopping trip to Denver a woman returns to her Colorado home via an aircraft in the United States.

A grocery shopping trip undertaken by a woman in the United States. Shadow of an aircraft on a tarmac. The aircraft in flight. It lands near an isolated house in Colorado. A woman gets off with a grocery bag after a shopping trip to Denver.

Date: 1958
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050581