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Various Buildings, Monuments and Landmarks of United States.

Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.

Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023512
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Richard G. Capen speaks to press about the American prisoners held by North Vietnamese.

A news conference in Washington D.C., United States about the American soldiers held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Richard G. Capen addresses the press at a conference as he stands behind a podium with the Department of Defense insignia on it. A board in the background reads ' United States POWs and missing in action personnel '. A board placed next to Capen with pictures on it. A sign on the board reads ' U.S. POWs released by NVN ' . Pictures of soldiers released by the North Vietnamese. A chart on the board reads ' status '. A picture of a United States Air Force Major General. Another picture of an injured soldier on the board. A title on the board reads ' parading U.S. prisoners '. An officer removes the chart and another one is being displayed before the press at the conference. A chart titled ' Isolation' shows American soldiers behind bars in captivity. Another chart depicts the medical treatment being given to American soldiers captured by North Vietnamese. The Deputy Secretary of Defense Capen speaks from a podium. A picture on the board indicates the diet being given to American soldiers captured by North Vietnamese. A series of pictures on the board titled ' weight loss' shows pictures of emaciated American soldiers. Capen speaks about the condition of American prisoners of war in Vietnam. Officials seated at a desk. Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Havens speaks to the press. Capen speaks to the press. Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State Frank Sieverts at a desk as he answers the press. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1969, May 19
Duration: 19 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042727
1930 Ford Commercial Reliabiity Tour activities at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan

Visitors walking about on the ramp of the Ford Airport, in Dearborn Michigan, during the 1930 Ford Commercial Reliability Tour. Many are lined up by a fence, looking at a squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss P-1 Hawk pursuit airplanes parked in the grass. Scene shifts to closer to terminal building where visitors stroll amongst a variety of planes parked on the ramp. Buildings of the Greenfield Village are seen in the background, especially the Clock Tower. In near background, the squadron of P-1 airplanes have engines running. Camera moves and focuses on those aircraft. A light plane is seen inflight overhead. One of the P-1s taxis on the ramp. Next, woman aviator, Nancy Hopkins is seen in the cockpit of her Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, NC30V. She is wearing helmet and goggles, and appears to have just parked her airplane. Two men greet her (one wearing a cowboy hat, of sorts). She turns and smiles for the camera. Then she removes helmet and goggles and climbs down from the cockpit, to pose next to her airplane, displaying the number “22” on its fuselage. On the plane’s tail, is written,”Kittyhawk” in large letters, followed by “ Kittyhawk Flying Boat Company, New Haven, Conn.” Camera shows formations of U.S. Army P-1s in flights of three, airborne overhead. A solo stunt airplane is seen next.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066167
From Labor Department documentary. Montage of World War II scenes from start to finish,including American home front.

Opening scene shows Adolf Hitler reviewing German troops on parade. German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 aircraft. View from the ground of paratroopers descending from three Ju-52s. The Japanese attack on Pearl harbor, December 7, 1941. Heavy smoke rising from the leaning USS Arizona after she is hit by bombs. Newspaper headline reading "Pearl Harbor Bombed!" American soldiers leaving Camp Stoneman, are seen assembled on a pier at the Pittsburg California waterfront to board one of the ferries that would take them to Piers 15 and 45 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. A sign at pier reading:"Through these portals pass the best damned soldiers in the West." Glimpses of soldiers firing howitzers in World War 2. Glimpses of the civilians supporting the war effort. Auto factory workers walking near a war production plant during shift change. A new army truck leaves a factory. War production workers assembling the turret on a Sherman tank. Guns and turrets being manufactured. Factory floor filled with new pursuit airplanes. A B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft taking off. Aerial view from bomber of its bombs exploding over enemy target below. Freight trains carrying United States military supplies. Supplies being loaded aboard a ship for the U.S. and Allies. The American battleship USS New Mexico firing a gun, and firing guns from triple turrets. Workers assembling aircraft engines in a war plant. A woman at work in a war materiel production plant. Gun camera images from warplane strafing a ground target. World War 2 Victory parade along 5th Avenue, New York City, in 1946. Washington Square triumphal arch in background. Various views of the parade. Laid off war plant workers looking for new jobs. Troops welcomed home: Ship carrying returning United States soldiers back home after the end of World War 2. Disabled soldiers and sailors making their war to a Military Air Transport Service C-54 aircraft. More views of the disabled veterans who were injured during World War II.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063344
Growth of interstate highways and road systems in the United States improving commerce and jobs

Gene Edward, General Manager and President of a truck sales and service company speaks on importance of new roads for his business in Kansas City. Sign board of Interstate Connecticut highway 91 (I-91) in Hartford, Connecticut. Work in progress building an overpass of I-91 in Hartford, with buildings of downtown Hartford, including the Travelers Tower, visible in background of highway construction site. An engineer looking through binoculars, mounted on a tripod stand. A crane moving material to a bridge in construction. Worker moving and working over the bridge in construction.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023854
American people honor sailors of the U.S. Navy; views of towns, cities, people in the United States right after World War 2.

A film intended for U.S. Navy personnel about the return to civilian life after World War 2 and the better life of Americans in the United States as a result of their service. Film created immediately after the end of World War 2. A boy practices baseball, hitting the ball and running. View of the baseball diamond with a New York City bridge in the background. Women with children walk around in a park. A man greets a sailor of the U.S. Navy, shakes his hand and thanks him for his service. A mother talks to a child that is sitting on her lap as they read a book. Fishermen raise up fishing nets at a dock and process a catch of crabs. A man works in a laboratory. Dignitaries salute as soldiers march carrying the American flag. Two boys walk directly behind two U.S. Navy sailors and try to copy exactly how the sailors are walking. An elderly woman prays, kneeling in a church. People stand in a baseball stadium as the U.S. National Anthem begins to play. A sailor raises the American flag as other sailors stand at attention. Aerial view of a field in the U.S. Cattle graze on field. A man rides a bicycle in a small town, and tips his hat to a woman leaving a house. A boy with a manual push lawn mower cuts grass in the background. Automobile traffic in a small American town of the 1940s. Aerial view of the skyscrapers of a city. View of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Houses or businesses and small boats and docks along a waterfront in Essex Connecticut. A board reads 'Here was built the Oliver Cromwell Connecticut warship in the Revolution 1776."

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068537