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Fashionable family at home shows a 1950's American family lifestyle

Vintage suburban American family and fashions in 1950s. Man by the fireplace in a room. His wife seated, wearing a white top and dark colored skirt. Man's sister chats. Woman wearing new dress lights up a cigarette. Husband shows a new jacket whose lining matches the wearer's tie. Mother plays with his baby. Family in the United States relaxes.

Date: 1954, December 9
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040177
Working American Women at home in the 1950s; housewife and homemaker in the United States

Working American women at home using modern conveniences in the post war era. American woman puts meat loaf in oven. Man screws a towel rack into place. Housewife at oven as daughter comes in kitchen, talks to mother, then leaves. Girl and boy children in 1950s era family set dinner table. Sign 'Fellowship House YWCA'. Girl walks up path towards house. Girl irons dress. Other girl enters and she crosses room and sits on sofa. A man’s photograph is displayed behind the girl ironing clothes. College banners from Columbia, NYU and Fordham decorate the living room. Girl files her nails. A framed college graduation photo on display. Woman walks up path into house. Father sits in easy chair as she walks in and kisses him on forehead. Woman enters kitchen and takes cookie from jar. She walks to mother at sink and kisses her. Woman inserts eggbeater attachment to Mixmaster mixer, pushes button and eggbeater spins. A woman sits on her desk. Woman reads her family’s monthly bills before writing checks. A music appreciation group comprised of young people listen to music in a living room. A man talks to a woman knitting. Music record spins on vinyl LP phonograph record player. Couple sits on couch. Girl strokes a kitten in lap. Kitten jumps up. View of a living room console radio and a man seated in the same room reading the newspaper. Woman knits. View of a Movie theater marquee. Girl and boy in front of theater ticket box office. Boy steps to movie theater box office ticket window then takes the girl’s hand as they walk in. Girl reads in bed, puts book away, turns out radio, light and goes to sleep. Husband and wife are asleep. Wife turns in her sleep.

Date: 1950
Duration: 6 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025320
Montage of images chronicling the settlement and development of the United States of America over many years.

The last portion of Emma Lazarus’sonnet,"The New Colossus," is shown as engraved on a tablet inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrations of immigrants arriving and felling trees to build dwellings in America. Reenactments of early English, Scottish, and Dutch settlers building houses and working at crafts in New England. Italian sulphur mine workers in Louisiana. Immigrants, from France and Switzerland, planting vineyards in California and New York State. Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, sowing seed and cultivating crops in the Midwest. Polish and Welsh immigrants in American coal mines. African Americans harvesting cotton on farm fields in the United States south, including a woman picking cotton with her baby riding on her long collecting bag. A Spaniard on horseback in the Southwest. Mexicans working in Texas oil fields and on ranches of New Mexico. Greek and Portuguese fishermen with huge catches of fish. A German technician working with fine instruments. Hungarian and Russian immigrants working in steel mills. Irish, Slavs, and Chinese, building railroads. Closeup of lumberjack's axes and saws cutting trees. A forge and a blacksmith shoeing a horse with horseshoes. A woman at work with a spinning wheel. Railroad ties and rails being placed. An antique railroad workman's locomotive and car. Men installing telegraph wire on rough poles. A early historic railroad 0-4-0 steam locomotive (appears to be one of the few replicas of "The Atlantic" which had been built in the 1830s) pulling a single small passenger train car. Cowboys on horseback rounding up steers. Herds of cattle,sheep, and pigs, bound to market. Farmers tilling soil with horse-drawn cultivators, preparing tobacco leaves for drying, and loading cotton bales. Machines spinning thread in a textile mill or factory. Fabric weaving machines at work. An early steam boat underway in a river. Early model automobile driving on dirt road. Wright Brothers' Wright Flyer airplane in flight with several persons on board. Early tractors and harvester machinery working on a farm. Glimpses of American industrial plants and transportation in rapid succession (some of it showing building of Hoover Dam and building of the Chrysler Building in New York City). Oil well drilling and a "gusher" oil well spouting oil upward. Steel mills, locomotive trains, and then a scientist in a laboratory working with beakers and a solution. Dynamite charges blasting away sides of mountains and gorges, and scenes of dam construction and dams opening to allow water gushing. Large electrical control levers being thrown to run electricity, and scenes of electric transmission towers and facilities. Natural gas storage areas. Golden Gate bridge under construction and high rise skyscraper buildings being constructed, including the Chrysler Building circa 1930 while still under construction in New York City. Aerial view of New York City. Camera panning over the gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046104
Colonel Joseph Kittinger puts on a suit and enters the gondola of a balloon while working on Project Excelsior in New Mexico.

United States Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger makes the longest jump during Project Excelsior in New Mexico. Colonel Kittinger puts on a suit for the jump and enters a balloon gondola. Men help him. The balloon rises from New Mexico. An automatic camera in the gondola records the whole event. The colonel jumps out of the gondola and descends towards the land. People watch the colonel descending. He is helped out of the suit as he lands.

Date: 1960, August 18
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061726
Importance of interstate highways in United States; Point of view shots of American highway system from a moving vehicle

Shining glass panels of a building on a road side. A road construction site. View of Interstate 91 (I-91) construction in Hartford Connecticut. Traffic moving on an interstate highway. A 36 story apartment in New York, above the Freeway leading from the George Washington Bridge. A highway with bridges. View of commuter bus terminal and George Washington bridge over the Hudson River in New York City. Many views of American highways as seen from a moving vehicle. Speaking about the new interstate highway system, narrator says, "Soon, traffic will flow smoothly, in, around, and between every major city and town in America. There will be no traffic tie-ups where the interstate goes. Driving time will become minutes for local trips, and city to city travel will be shorter by hours. The complete network will make it possible to drive coast to coast, city to city, without a stop light and without delays caused by heavy traffic." Many 1950s era cars and trucks are seen moving on the highway roads. View of interstate highway in Atlanta Georgia of southern United States, with exits to Interstate 75 and Interstate 85. Sign on interstate highway 580 near Hayward California. Traffic moving under a bridge. Road signs on highway for exit to Route 21 in North Carolina between Charlotte and Statesville. Cars moving on roads. Back of a truck moving on a highway. A restaurant on the side of a road. Children fishing in a body of water on the side of a road. A family sitting in shade enjoying a picnic during a road trip. People eating at a picnic table. Two young children drink from glasses.

Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023855
Robert H. Goddard tests rockets in Roswell, New Mexico

American scientist Robert H. Goddard tests a rocket in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1930s. Title card “United States Marine Corps”. Program host, Dennis James, introduces. Early rocket launchpad built in 1927 by American scientist Robert H. Goddard. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants unload a rocket at their test site located in Roswell, New Mexico. Robert H. Goddard demonstrates an early gyroscope used for automatic stabilization. Assistants securing the rocket into the launchpad. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants watch the rocket from the observation shed during ignition. Distant view of rocket as it shoots straight up to 7500 feet in the 1930s. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants examine rocket and parachute after landing.

Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078919