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Lieutenant Wayer descends from USS Akron (ZRS-4) to a hooked-up N2Y-1 training plane and secures it to the airship

N2Y-1 training plane, with trapeze-hook gear, successfully hooks up to the USS Akron (ZRS-4) airship. Akron crew member, Lieutenant Wayer, descends a ladder from USS Akron. He makes sure airplane is securely fastened to the Akron. He climbs into the airplane, which is then hoisted into the USS Akron.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1932, July 25
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031703
Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes practice hooking and unhooking from USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight

Pilots in Consolidated N2Y-1 trainer airplanes practice hooking onto and releasing from the USS Akron (ZRS-4) USS Akron in flight. Consolidated N2Y-1 trainers are seen maneuvering below the airship to accomplish their hookups and releases. The aircraft are fitted with special trapeze hook equipment.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1932, July 25
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031704
Army troops test amphibious jeeps during World War II

Numerous views of amphibious jeeps racing from land into a river in Army tests of Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. The jeeps carry Army troops with full field packs. After plunging into the water, a group of the jeeps drives through the water in loose formation at a relatively slow speed. Closeups os several jeeps leaving the water and climbing a river bank.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031863
Segment of World War 2 film promoting sales of War Bonds and stamps to aid the war effort and stimulate postwar recovery

Film opens with singer on stage singing that he is a "double-duty dollar." He is backed by showgirls costumed as silver dollars. He explains that American dollars are now purchasing guns ammunition, planes, and tanks, to win the war. He alludes to how dollars will be used to fund the peace, after the war. An illustration shows schools, homes, and similar postwar investments in the country's infrastructure. Another shows futuristic cars, helicopter, and television sets. Scenes of pre-war highways filled with moving automobiles. Men playing golf. Gun club members in an outdoor shooting competition. A factory parking lot filled with automobiles and workers leaving the building at end of shift. (Message is that dollars no longer spent on war will revive private sector industry, again.) Film ends with appeal to "Buy an EXTRA War Bond TODAY!"

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032019
Story of Manhattan Project. Plutonium generated and separated at University of California. Manhattan project undertaken.

Story Camp Hanford during the Manhattan Project in World War II. Scenes of Dr. Glenn Seaborg and colleagues: Arthur Wall, Edward McMillan, and Emilio Segre, who generated and isolated Plutonium at University of California in 1941 A sign on a container reads 'First Pure 94 (239) isolated from chain reaction source'. A model of the atomic pile under the stadium at the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist, demonstrated controlled nuclear fission, on December 2, 1942. A map shows various sites chosen for Manhattan Engineer's District. Views of desert in Southeast Washington State. The Columbia River, for cooling. Electrical towers for power supply. An aerial view of project buildings in Hanford. Construction workers selected for the project in Hanford. Construction sites. Trailer houses for the workers. An aerial view of the plant ready for operation. Inserted view of Camp Hanford abandoned, in later years.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032077
Oil drilling crew in protective clothes with goggles. Plume of water and steam shoots up through drilling derrick

View of oil drilling roughnecks in protective gear, including goggles. View from short distance of an oil drilling derrick, in wetlands, where plume of water and steam is shooting up explosively through the derrick structure. . A person is seen close to the derrick. Building and lake in background.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675032168
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