Christian Endeavor excursion touring through the Yellowstone Park in horse-drawn coaches, under auspices of the Northern Pacific Railway. The first coach is very large, pulled by six horses. The tourists wave as they pass the camera. More coaches pass by, each drawn by a four-horse team. (Filmed by Edison Company, ca. July 19-25, 1897, Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; January 4,1899)
Test film with blue background, includes an instruction to 'Please adjust your sound level and focus picture properly before audience showing'
Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Yachts of all shapes and sizes take off from Los Angeles on a 3-week sail to Hawaii as the Transpacific Yacht Race starts. Yachts underway at sea for 2000 mile run, mountains in the background. Sailors on the yachts. The yachts at sea.
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. , the Director of the Peace Corps in the U.S. Staff members and volunteers of the Peace Corps. The volunteers sitting in a room. A sign: 'Peace Corps Week'. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. and other staff members of the Peace Corps enter a building. Mr. Shriver addresses the crowd. People on streets as Sergeant Shriver speaks.
American soldiers are assembled on outdoor stands on a sand beach in World War 2. Next, soldiers are seen climbing down rope nets on a stand designed to simulate leaving a troop ship. Brief closeup of some of the soldiers descending the nets. Change of scene to a sandy area shows soldiers in a simulated landing craft rushing out of it in a practice drill. Soldiers in wheeled vehicles simulating landing craft armed with machine guns. Troops, in live fire training, crawl over water-filled ditches as a trainer fires a Browning M1917 30cal machine gun across the area. Shells bursting in the area. A soldier stretches himself in prone position across a barbed wire fence. Other soldiers climb over him to cross the fence. Several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for climbing a barbed entanglement.
A radium mine in Slick Rock, Colorado. The entrance of the mine. A sign 'Radium Mine'. Mine workers are wheeling wheel carts filled with ore. The wheel carts are unloaded outside the mine. Workers coming in with wheel carts after unloading. A front end loader loads ore onto a truck. A bucket attached to the loader unloads ore into the truck.
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