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Workers assemble and check operation of Browning Automatic Rifles at Winchester Repeating Arms Company in World War I

Manufacture of M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles (BAR) at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven Connecticut during World War 1. A worker assembles rifles on a bench. Another worker checks their operation by placing them into a mechanical holder and firing them. View of a black circular target showing grouping of hits during firing. View of the factory floor with movable racks containing rifles. Workers move the racks.

Location: New Haven Connecticut USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063745
During World War I, workers manufacture automatic rifles at a factory in the United States.

Manufacturing of Browning Automatic Rifles (BARs) at Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven Connecticut.during World War 1. Machinists perform metal boring and turning operations on lathes. Others work on wooden gun stocks.They place parts of rifles on various pieces of equipment during the construction and assembly process.

Location: New Haven Connecticut. United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063743
Museum Photo portraits of American pioneer settlers of Hawaii, in the 1820s.

Photographic portraits,in a museum, showing with names and travel information about early American pioneer settlers in Hawaii. Includes photographs of the so-called "Pioneer Company" that arrived at Kailua, on the Brigantine Thaddeus, after 164 days at sea, from Boston, Massachusetts, landing at Monolala, April 19, 1820. Likewise, photos of settlers in the "Second Company" are shown. They arrived on the Schooner Aclife, from Tahiti, on February 4, 1823, and other who arrived on the Ship Thames, sailing 158 days from New Haven, Connecticut, arriving at Honolulu. Among pioneers identified are: Samuel Ruggles and his wife, Nancy; Artemas Bishop and Mrs Della (Stone) Bishop; and Mrs Clarissa Richards.

Location: Hawaii USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046030
Volunteers at the Seaside Regional Center help mentally disabled children to prepare for community life.

A map of Connecticut, on which Director Bert Schnikel points regional centers such as Hartford, New Haven and the Seaside Regional Center Waterford, on the Long Island Sound. Mr Fred F Finn, Director of Seaside Center points out the importance of family in a mentally disabled person's life. Volunteers take care of children. A volunteer helps a girl to take medicine. The volunteer strokes the face of the child. And the child makes faces. Children play outside on a tractor ride. People get into a car and the car drives away. Mentally disabled children from Mansfield and Southbury come to "Seaside Regional Center for the Mentally Retarded" to prepare for community life. A boy puts on a television and sits down to watch it. A woman hands things to a girl. Volunteers help children to walk. A mentally disabled girl holds a book in her hands. A postcard sent by a normal sibling of a mentally disabled boy. Children play in snow. A boy sits on a seat while a man bends. A mentally disabled boy plays with his brothers. A couple talks about their mentally disabled child while he sits nearby.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 7 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033424
Operations of early switchboards.

Operation of early switchboards. Pages of book showing early switchboard. Man operating switchboard. The first switchboard for commercial telephone service installed in New Haven, Connecticut. A man operating and talking into telephone and other man listening. Men operating switchboards.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039598
The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in World War II

On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072899
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