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Work Progress Administration directors review scripts; performance of "It Can't Happen Here" in Boston; WPA African American actors perform

Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079044
Lord Louis Mountbatten presents medals to Indian and British soldiers of the 5th Indian Division, Indian bagpipe band plays during ceremony in Assam India during WW2

Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia, presents medals to 5th Indian Division soldiers at their camp in Assam, India during World War 2. Lord Louis Mountbatten presents medal to Indian, Sikh and British soldiers individually. 5th Indian Division soldiers stand in formation. Lord Louis Mountbatten addresses British soldier standing in formation. British soldiers in formation, wearing the British Army Jungle Slouch hats. Lord Louis Mountbatten addresses Indian soldiers standing in formation. Lord Louis Mountbatten presents medal to British soldier wearing a Jungle Slouch hat. Soldier takes his turn after his comrade has been presented with a medal. Bagpipe band composed of Indian soldiers plays at the ceremony. Indian soldiers standing in formation, holding their guns, as Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the army. Flag of the United Kingdom. 5th Indian Division soldiers in formation.

Date: 1945, March 9
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078480
FBI forensic investigators sort out fingerprint files and examine forensic evidence recovered from crime scenes

Federal Bureau of Investigation employees sort out files containing fingerprints in the Fingerprint Identification Section of the FBI Headquarters. Two FBI employees look through fingerprint collection in the Identification Section. Fingerprint document being examined. Forensic scientists walk through hallway of the FBI Laboratory on the 6th floor and attic of the Justice Department Building in Washington DC. Forensic investigators examine a firearm....part of a rifle. A forensic scientist looks at evidence under microscope. Forensic investigator of the Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) examines a check sent as an evidence. Forensic scientist uses typewriter. Forensic investigator uses microscope do handwriting analysis on two documents. Forensic scientist examines the weight and thickness of a paper sent as an evidence. A paper thickness gauge is used to measure thickness. Forensic scientist compares rope fiber crime evidence against many samples of ropes. Forensic scientist examines a plaster cast of the sole of a shoe found as evidence in a crime scene.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078864
City police on the beat and writing reports.

Brief aerial view of 8200 block of Georgia Ave., Silver Spring MD. Pedestrians cross the street in front of the J.C. Penney Co. department store at 8650 Colesville Rd. Silver Spring, MD 20910. A man parks his 1965 Chevy Bel Air station wagon in front of a building. Close up of keys left in ignition after parking car. An alley filled with trash in an urban slum neighborhood. Trash and a child's tricycle in a vacant lot. Policemen writing reports, papers, and complaints for record keeping. A policeman searches through index cards in the Type of Crime File case file cabinet. View of a Police Beat Location map color-coded according to level of police activity. A policeman uses a spot map. A bar chart depicting types of crimes committed from April to June. Police chief presents during a community group meeting. A man uses a typewriter. A policeman writes a report. Operator pressing a button on an early computer electronic data processing console controlling two IBM 729 Magnetic Tape Units. Policemen leave precinct on L Street in Washington D.C. precinct to begin their patrols. A policeman writes on his notebook while holding a card from the arrest index file. Policeman answers call. A police officer inside a grocery store. Policeman keeps writing notes in a ledger.

Date: 1964, December
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078782
Chindit soldiers cross a jungle, sail on the Chindwin river in Burma during WW2

The Chindits, a Long Range Penetration Group of British and Indian soldiers, return to India from their ill fated mission cross the jungles of Assam and Burma during World War 2. A Chindit soldier pets a dog. Chindit soldiers take baths in small metal tubs. Mythical chinthe statues in Burma. Orde Wingate, British brigadier and leader of the Chindit units, speaks with military officials. Chindit column crosses a jungle. Chindit soldiers on boats on the Chindwin River the largest tributary of the Irrawaddy river. Chindit soldiers pushes small boat. One of the Chindit soldiers appears to be naked, and thus might be Wingate himself, given the Wingate was known to even greet visitors to his tent while naked. Chindit soldiers carry supplies in the jungle

Date: 1943
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078823
Animation depicting parts of a WW2 V-1 rocket missile in German

Title card saying “Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe Karlshagen” (“Test site of the Air Force Karlshagen” in English). “Flakzielgerät 76 Trick 3.1. 1944” (“Anti-aircraft target device 76 trick 3.1.1944” in English). Animation demonstrating the parts- such as the engine (Triebwerk), tail unit (Leitwerk), wings (Tragflächen) and odometer (Wegmesser)- of a V-1 rocket, an early cruise missile developed in Germany during World War 2. Animation demonstrating cut away parts and the inside parts of a V-1 rocket in German.

Date: 1944, January 3
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079126