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Navajo Indian family reaches their summer house after long journey.

Navajo Native American Indian family gather around the previous night's camp fire for breakfast. They have Navajo bread in breakfast. Other Navajo boys call the older son of the family for a game. They play with bow and arrow. The father calls the boy to start their journey again. They reach their summer home safely. The Navajo family unload first the baby followed by pets and then the rest of the articles from the cart. The father asks the older boy to take the horses. The mother and daughter sow some squash seeds near the house. The father plows the sandy land with a horse-driven plow.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023687
Navajo people's lifestyle

Older boy of a Navajo Native American Indian family plays with his dog as he looks after the sheep and the goats. He brings sheep towards the house as other family members returns from the fields. Father asks the boy to tightly tie legs of the sheep before shearing. The daughter watches to learn as her mother shears the sheep wool with sheep shears. Both have pile of wool to make yarn. They weave the sheared wool to make rugs. They use colored wool to weave Navajo Design. The father praises the daughter for her design of the rug. The little child plays with his brother. The older boy keeps a watch on the sheep and the goats from an elevated hill.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023688
Circus comes to town. Preparations for the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus show in various cities

Arrival of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus in Nashville Tennessee. Documentary show host speaks in Spanish as he walks down a sidewalk, describing the circus. Preparations for the circus show. A train arrives carrying the circus. Elephants, clowns, circus performers, and handlers unloading equipment and animals from the train. Scenes in Waterloo, Iowa: Elephants linked trunk-to-trunk walking down the city street. Automobile traffic moves on the streets followed by elephants and horses. The elephants pass by bank building with sign "Waterloo Savings Bank". Exterior and interior views of a stadium or arena and preparations. Workmen setting up the circus stage inside the arena.

Date: 1977
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675023770
History of the circus in North America, and scenes of early circus circa 1920s and early 1930s arriving and performing in a town

History of the circus in North America. Scenes of drawings, sketches, still photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding the circus. Cites George Washington donating a horse to the circus. Discussion of18th Century English circus organizer, John Bill Ricketts, and a newspaper clipping promoting his circus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sketch of his circus hall in Philadelphia. Scenes and information about P.T. Barnum and the famous elephant Jumbo, and singer Jenny Lind, known as "the Swedish Nightingale." Drawing of men with rings standing on stools. Drawing of a cab in front of a building. Promotional sign for the Central Park Menagerie and International Circus Company. Vintage footage with scenes of a Ringling Brother Barnum and Bailey circus train arriving in a city circa late 1920s, pulled by a steam locomotive. Circus performers. Crowds of circus visitors milling near a Side Shows entrance sign. A clown inflating the clothes of another clown to a giant size. Chimpanzee rides an elephant and a donkey stands near its foal. Lions, hippos, giraffes, dogs in the circus. Large crowd present during the circus viewing elephant, horse and lion show of the circus. Scenes of the circus parade processing around the big top tent. A tamer handling a female lion (tamer appears to be Clyde Beatty). A male lion walking on high wire parallel tightrope.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675023773
Use of radioactive chemicals in experiments leading to use of fluoride in dentistry.

Testing procedures that led to advent of fluoride treatment in dentistry for prevention of cavities. A boy brushing his teeth. In a laboratory, teeth that had been made radioactive at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, are subjected to mechanical brushing with stannous fluoride. A technician places a tooth in a Petri dish. He drops acid (akin to that produced by the human mouth which causes tooth decay) over the tooth, via a pipette. A woman technician using a Geiger counter, measures the amount of radioactive tooth dissolved by the acid. Experiment showed that the stannous fluoride reduced damage to the tooth caused by the acid.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023832
U.S. military activities to assure safe landing of aircraft in landing-zones

U.S. military training film excerpt about planning landing zones. Detachment Commander in meeting with officials. He wraps the map and men exit from the hut located in forest. A coded message carrying specifications required by Special Forces for air operations is written on a page. Map of landing-zone (LZ) is created on ground with various marks. Detachment Commander along with soldiers surrounds the map. Detachment Commander explains the landing operations to be carried out. Red chips are used to mark the stations on runway. Detachment Commander uses a stick to indicate these. RCL (Reception Committee Leader) is shown with blue chips. A soldier submits a document to an officer. Two other soldiers come to him. The officer gives the document. Detachment Commander receives a document brought by a soldier. Soldiers move on LZ and check the security. Men move on LZ. An aircraft approaches LZ. Two enemy soldiers see the air craft. One of them talks on phone. In an enemy base a soldier looks at a map. Another soldier notes down on a pad. Soldier at LZ see his watch. RCL burns a marker light lasting 4 minutes to signal the plane. The aircraft lands. Animation shows the pathway of landing taken by the aircraft on LZ. RCL man moving on runway signals approaching aircraft to parking area. Soldiers move to the parked aircraft. A signal is blown off as the aircraft takes off.

Date: 1969
Duration: 8 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023967