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Hollywood movie stars aboard a Lockheed Constellation plane piloted by aviator Howard Hughes in Culver City, California.

Movie stars on board a Lockheed Constellation plane landing at airport on cold winter day with wind blowing and ice on the ramps. Planes parked on a ramp. A crowd warmly dressed against the cold await arrival of the airplane. Lockheed TWA Constellation plane arrives & pulls up. Edward G. Robinson & others get off the plane. Words on side of plane read 'Star of California,Sky Chief'. Howard Hughes in the cockpit. Hughes leaves the airplane. Seen, seated, inside the aircraft, are Movie stars Veronica Lake, Cary Grant, Edward G. Robinson, Janet Blair, Walter Pigeon, William Powell, and Frank Morgan aboard the TWA Constellation flight piloted by Howard Hughes.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047842
USAF training film exhorts AF personnel to pursue physical fitness

Opening scenes are paintings illustrating the physical rigors surmounted by earlier Americans, from the pioneers through World Wars I and II. View of Strategic Air Command B-52 bombers parked on a flight line. Ground crew makes adjustment on advanced cruise missile fastened under a wing. Air Force air traffic controllers in a control tower. An Air Force airman playing with his child. A forklift being employed to move heavy cargo from a flatbed truck. Air Force personnel seated at duty stations with few physical demands. An Airman seated at home passively watching television with a boy (his son) in the family living room. An Air Force Captain, Flight Surgeon, discusses deleterious effects of automation, etc. on physical fitness of service personnel. View of an Air Force male subject being tested on a treadmill, while his vital signs are being constantly monitored. Results from group studies show only 5% in excellent physical condition. The Flight surgeon is seen, again, exhorting Air Force personnel to pursue physical fitness, for themselves, and their country.

Date: 1964
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048114
Reenactment of historic events including the great Chicago fire of 1871

Dramatization showing days of prosperity as a result of post-civil war industrialization in America. A barbershop quartet performing songs of the era. A stage show in a club or dinner theatre environment. Patrons throw streamers and watch the performers on stage. Reenactment as the great Chicago fire of 1871 takes place. Firefighters race to the scene and battle flames with buckets and hoses. Reconstruction takes place in Chicago and much of the city is rebuilt. Actual still photos of the city of Chicago during reconstruction after the fire.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048134
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.

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.

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.

Date: 1947, November 2
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048183