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Road building in the United States during the 1920s

Men, with horse drawn leveling tools, prepare ground for road construction. Workers with wheelbarrows put concrete into chute of road building machine. Road building machine constructs concrete road along side a railroad track. Road machine moves on chained wheels. Workers with the help of machines build road. Views of automobiles moving along new concrete roads, wide enough to allow cars to pass.

Date: 1920
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025339
President William McKinley's death at Milburn Residence in Buffalo, New York. McKinley's casket and funeral procession

Standing in front of a statue honoring William McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio, in 1920, two United States Civil War veterans in uniform read the 'New York Times' dated September 19, 1901. The headline reads 'Mr McKinley's body in his old home'. Cut to footage from shortly after President McKinley's death in 1901, with citizens, police and constabularies on horse back gathered outside the Milburn Residence in Buffalo, New York, where McKinley died. President William Mc Kinley's body is carried out of the house in a coffin. McKinley's funeral procession leaving the Milburn residence. Cut back to 1920 and the men standing beside the statue of President McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio.

Date: 1901, September
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030450
The U.S. Navy battles the enemy and animation of enemy air power attacking the United States.

The need to develop air power in the United States. Battleships underway at sea. Eleven bi winged single engine aircraft fly in a V formation. A line of 6 battleships in water off the coast of New England, U.S. A 1920 vintage battleship fires a salvo from its guns at the enemy. The battleships fire guns. Shore batteries fire large guns. Sailors load a deck gun. An early model submarine. The submarine submerges. Its periscope visible above water surface. Naval crafts set their depth charges and fire them. Depth charges going off in the background. A ship sinks. A United States Army Air Service ( USAAS ) Curtiss PW-8 aircraft in flight. 4 bombs fall away from the aircraft. The bombs hit and explode on USS Alabama. Smoke rises as explosions occur on the ship. A ship rolls over and sinks. A USAAS Curtiss-Martin NBS-1 bomber in flight. Two bombs fall away from the aircraft. Explosions in water. Aerial and ground shots of a ship sinking. Large guns of a battleship fire. Animation of enemy airships and aircraft flying over water towards New York. Release of the aircraft from the airships. Aircraft flying over New York City. Aerial view of skyscrapers of the city. A Curtiss- Martin NBS-1 bomber in flight. Two bombs fall toward the ground. Animation of explosions against the New York skyline. A USAAS Curtiss JN-4 aircraft in flight. A bomb falls towards the ground. Animation of bombs hitting New York City. A machine gunner in a fighter aircraft fires at another aircraft. The aircraft falls and burns. Bomb explosions in the city. An observation balloon catches fire and falls. A man in a parachute descends near the balloon. Animation of a burning city. An early model submarine cruising. A bi winged twin pontooned aircraft in flight over a group of battleships and destroyers. A group of aircraft in flight. A Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight. Animation of an airship flying over a city and tying up to a mast located on the top of a tall building. A flag of the U.S. flutters in breeze.

Date: 1921
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051110
Cars checked by Mexican inspectors at Immigration Office of the USA-Mexico international border at Tijuana

The international border between United States and Mexico at Tijuana. The check point of Immigration and Custom Department of Mexico. First scene shot from the Mexican side shows cars entering Mexico from USA, motioned on by Mexican inspectors, the building with arches is the Mexican Customs office, The two story building behind Mexican inspector is the USA Customs office, Scene with cars shot from behind was taken from the USA side of the border and shows cars entering Tijuana. ( Note: The USA Customs office shown here still exists today but no longer functions as such, the Mexican customs office building was demolished.)

Date: 1939, January
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035920
LSD tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and drug addicts by the CIA in the United States.

A documentary depicts administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. A part time chemist for CIA, Dr. James Moore. A mushroom expert is asked to get a magic mushroom and turn it into a drug. He talks about how they got the mushroom. Local shaman or magical priests perform rituals. Dr. James helps CIA in producing new chemicals. Dr. James along with Wilson went to Mexico to get the mushroom. Mexicans prepare food. News correspondent Paul Atmeyer questions Dr. James about the kind of mushroom they are looking for and the effects of the drug. Testing of the drug. A statement of the CIA officers who worked on the experiments describes how the decision was made. The decisions was made and tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. CIA took help of a high ranking narcotics official George White. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, talks about White. Traffic on streets. Safe houses set up by White for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and clubs. Exterior of a Motel Hotel in San Fransisco and a view of San Fransisco bay from an apartment. The former CIA official who worked in the safe houses studies sexual behavior and how it is used to manipulate people. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Effects of LSD. LSD research is done in American Universities. LSD researcher Dr. Timothy Leary talks about the consciousness movement in the 60s.

Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 7 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047228
Effects of Ford Model T automobiles on American life; scenes of early road and highway development and sightseeing trips

A man driving a 1917 Ford model T roadster along a severely rutted mud-filled street. A 1917 Ford Model T, one ton truck, trapped in mud. Frustrated driver gets out and kicks a rear tire. Road building crews at work with horse-drawn equipment. Road construction with large steam powered machinery. A 1917 model T roadster driving along a new smooth concrete road. Women making purchases at a sidewalk stand and placing them into their Ford Model T sedan. A doctor arrives at house of a patient, in a Ford Model T roadster. Americans driving Ford Model T cars in the National Parks circa 1920s. Cars driving past a giant redwood tree. Man in a Ford Model T stopped beside woods and feeding a bear in a National Park, as a Park Ranger stands nearby. Ford Model T driving through the tunnel cut in the "Wawona" giant sequoia tree, in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias at Yosemite National Park. A 1918 Ford Model T touring car parked at a picnic site, with family sitting at picnic table nearby. Families with Ford Model T cars, engaged in outdoor activities, picnicking, and gathering wild flowers. Two men making their Model T into a shelter for overnight camping. Family picnicking at a beach; their Model T parked on road above. A man in a 1920s era swim suit carries a basket for a picnic to others in his family seated near rocks. 1920s or 1930s boy and girl children playing on a beach; picking up seaweed; and wading in the surf, near large rocks.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068821