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Great flood of the Potomac River near Washington DC after heavy rains add to melting of ice and snow

The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936, March
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062895
A nuclear bomb test on houses and cars during Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada,United States.

Operation Cue United States military nuclear testing conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada, United States. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic bomb explosion on buildings and houses. Dummy cars parked outside houses. Two cars drive up in front of a house. The houses explodes after the nuclear bomb detonates. Shows the impact of the explosion on the houses and cars.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1955, May 5
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063891
Effect of nuclear blast on electrical tower during atomic testing conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada,United States.

Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada, United States. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic bomb explosion on buildings and houses and infrastructure. The members of the United States Civil Defense Administration prepare for the nuclear test. A large electrical transmission tower with cars moving in the background. Nuclear bomb explodes and blast wave hits the electrical power transmission tower and wires causing significant damage. The interior of the control room.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1955, May 5
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063897
Aviators Howard Hughes and Amy Johnson after record-setting flights to Los Angeles, California and Cape town, South Africa, respectively.

American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1936, May
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034143
A group of scientists aboard an airplane performs secret tests on atomic bomb effects in Nevada, United States.

Secret atomic researches and tests by United States Atomic Energy Commission, in Nevada. A group of scientists aboard an air plane performs secret research about atomic bomb explosions. The scientists put on gas masks and goggles for eye protection, and security equipment aboard the plane. An atomic explosion is seen below and the plane passes above near the atomic mushroom as volunteers test their eye protection. On the ground, cameras in the blast wave record damage incurred to parked airplanes on the ground by the force of the explosion blast wave. An airplane tail section burns while it traverses the explosion cloud. A giant Boeing B-50 Superfortress bomber codenamed Rosebud is seen on an atomic bombing run in an actual atomic test. The pilot and bombardier are shown in the plane, the target sight is seen on the ground, and the atomic blast is seen from the B-50 flying overhead. Massive explosion and mushroom cloud seen forming. The atomic cloud rises up in sky.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1953, March 16
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056673
An atom bomb test in Nevada, United States causes a massive explosion.

Operation Plumbbob atomic bomb testing in Nevada, United States. A plastic balloon carries an atom bomb at the Yucca Flats proving ground. A technician at the controls with a monitor showing the image of the balloon. Engineers and newsmen wear dark glasses. An atomic explosion occurs, and a mushroom cloud is formed. Marines huddle in a trench. Helicopters in flight as they carry the marines to the site of the explosion.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1957, July 8
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058822
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