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United States President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) signs one law after another on his desk, American farmers harvest produce such as onions

Calendar shows March 1933, some days are encircled. United States President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk after signing a law during the Great Depression. Narrator notes that with regard to Prohibition, "the end of the long drought was in sight." Farmers harvest vegetables. Turnips in crates after being harvested. Farmers pour turnips from crates. Farm workers sort out white onions. Farm workers arrange sacks of onions.

Date: 1933, March 16
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079102
United States Army soldiers play billiards with woman soldier while another soldier steals a wallet to search for personal information.

Cue ball falls into the side pocket of a billiard table after being struck. United States Army soldiers play billiards. African_American soldiers watch game play. Confident older soldier asks who will play him next, saying "Who's next...what's the matter with you hot shots...any of you feel lucky tonight?" A young female sergeant places her handbag and beret on a metal shelf. The female sergeant joins in to play billiards. In making fun of the woman sergeant's billiard skills, the older sergeant whispers to the officer, "she'll probably put that fancy contraption of hers right through the felt." The female sergeant hits the rack of billiard balls skillfully. Female sergeant plays billiards. Close up shot of mustached soldier lighting and smoking a cigarette. Officers cheer at the female sergeant for playing billiards well. Close up view cigarette being stubbed out in an ashtray. Soldier unbuttons his shirt. Wallet being stolen from purse and put into soldier's shirt. Soldier going into restroom stall. Hands rifling through a wallet to look for identification, stopping on an Approved Identification card. Female sergeants jokes at the older sergeant as she hits billiard balls after another, saying, "if I should happen to miss one, sarge, then you can show me how you got your reputation...but I wouldn't bet on it." Wallet put into purse on a shelf by man. Close up soldier lighting a cigarette. Feet of soldier turning as he leaves room. Soldiers applaud as billiard game finishes. Female sergeant says to older male sergeant, "well sergeant, it's been nice playing with you."

Date: 1977
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078435
United States Army soldiers cut oversized bread baguette in half

Two United States soldiers slice a giant oversized baguette bread in half during World War 1.

Date: 1916
Duration: 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078728
Apollo astronauts hopping, singing, exploring, planting the United States flag on moon

View of Apollo astronaut (probably Gene Cernan) bunny hopping on the moon while Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmitt sings a few bars of "The Fountain in the Park" but with alternate words "I Was Strolling on the Moon One Day" as Gene Cernan joins in. On April 23, 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke approach a house rock at the edge of North Ray crater. Charlie Duke exclaims, "Look at the size of that rock!" Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt holds a moon rock while Gene Cernan says, “We hope that this will be a symbol of what our feelings are, what the feelings of the Apollo Program are, and a symbol of mankind; that we can live in peace and harmony in the future.” Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard and Ed Mitchell setting up the United States flag on the moon. View of the earth from space, on the the moon, as astronaut Harrison Schmitt comments, "This glow represented to all of us, I think, not only home but a very fragile place that we have come back and felt that needed not only protection but understanding"

Date: 1972
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078861
The significance of radar in civilian use in the United States during WW2

Civilian use of radar in the United States post World War 2. View of New York Municipal Airport, later La Guardia, control tower and terminal. A TWA Lockheed C-69 Constellation taxiing as another plane descends. Ships sailing in harbor. Speeding train pulled by Pennsylvania Railroad class GG1 electric locomotive. A circular crt display showing radar activity and approaching storm front. A hurricane in America. Scientists study radar in Evans Signal Laboratory, located in Camp Evans, New Jersey. Entrance of the Evans Signal Laboratory. A large radar antenna. Radar oscilloscope display shows signal received from the moon.

Date: 1945
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079147
Healthy farmland in the United States.

Views of well maintained farmland throughout the United States. Narrator emphasizes the importance of "conservation farming" to protect land.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079780