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Men play chess along the side of a street and students talk in the UCLA park in Los Angeles, California.

Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California. Men play backgammon in the sand, along the side of a road. Other men watch them play. Men seated in chairs on a beach. Students in the UCLA park interact. A woman smokes a cigarette. A basketball court in the background.

Date: 1968, April
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073332
Kaye Don aboard Miss England II wins the first lap of speedboat racing against Garfield Wood in Detroit, Michigan.

International speedboat racing for the Harmsworth Trophy on the Detroit River in Detroit, Michigan. Aerial view of the Detroit Yacht Club and the Detroit River. Kaye Don and a mechanic aboard speedboat Miss England II. Aerial view of the first lap of the race. Boats underway during the race. View of a bridge in the background. Garfield Wood congratulates Kaye Don after the first lap of the race. The second lap of the race begins. Speedboat Miss England II takes a turn. Other boats pick up Don and crew. Prow of the speedboat above water.

Date: 1931
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073336
Manufacturing operations at Jack & Heintz Company war plant, Bedford Ohio, during World War II

Workers engaged inside the Jack and Heintz war plant in Bedford, Ohio, in 1943, during World War 2. The company designed and manufactured aircraft starters, automatic pilots, motors, and other aircraft parts and accessories for the U.S. Military. Film opens showing a machinist at his work station. Behind him is a bird cage, containing a facsimile of a turkey, a sign reading "Watch and Pray," and a picture of an American flag. Next, a row of other workers is seen. They stand att individual work stations working on small parts. A pinup picture of girl holding a bugle ia on the wall behind one worker. Closeup of the picture. Another worker has decorated his workplace with flowers. He pauses to smell them. He is smoking a cigar and responding rhythmically to music heard faintly in the background. View of employee chewing candy as he works. When another speaks to him, he shoves some of his candy into the other's mouth.. View of three girl pinup pictures on the wall. Another work station with picture of a pinup girl in a swing. Closeup of that picture.

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 3 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064252
Views inside the Jack & Heintz Company war plant, Bedford Ohio, during World War II

The Jack and Heintz war plant in Bedford, Ohio, in 1943, during World War 2, where the company designed and manufactured various aircraft parts and accessories for the U.S. Military. First scene shows signs inside the factory reading : "Time is Short," and "Remember our promise, Delivery of the first automatic pilot March 31." And: "Let's Goo Gang, Its up to us to see that its kept." A picture of a war plant worker and a soldier with a machine gun is below the signs. Worker seen in a lab coat, smoking a pipe as he works at a machine. Behind him are two drawings of reclining pinup girls and a sign reading: "Quiet Please, War worker resting." Closeup of worker's hand machining a very small part.

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064253
Workers engaged in the Jack & Heintz Company war plant, Bedford Ohio, during World War II

The Jack and Heintz war plant in Bedford, Ohio, during World War 2, where the company made various aircraft parts and accessories for the U.S. Military. Opens showing several employees at work with a chalk board behind them displaying box scores up to the last inning of a baseball game between St. Louis and Cleveland. One employee enters a "2" in the last half of the 9th inning, showing a 2-1 win for St. Louis over Cleveland. Local workers nod their satisfaction. This segment is repeated two more times, with the man writing in the "2" again. Closeup of the box score with last half of 9th inning blank. The worker with chalk repeats his entry of "2" in the last box. This time, a worker tunes a radio sitting below the box score and listens. Closeup of a fish bowl atop the radio, containing fish. Closeup of employee holding his ear to the radio as he tunes it. He lights a cigarette. Closeup of fish swimming in the fish bowl. Camera zooms in on fish bowl showing Company Logo and JAHCo. plus "One for All and All for One,"and a flag showing half Navy and half Army, all imprinted on the fish bowl.

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064254
Activity at the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California, during World War II.

Overview from a height of the sprawling Kaiser shipyard in Richmond, California, during World War 2. Cranes moving and workers in hard hats at work. Derricks at the waterfront and large hangar-like structures. Sections of ships' superstructures being assembled in open areas of the yard. Several large cylindrical fuel tanks. Several Victory ships tied up at a pier, being outfitted. One is the "Boulder Victory" which was built by the Permanente Metals Corporation, in Yard 1, and launched on August 31, 1944. It was commissioned October 12, 1944 as the USS Boulder Victory (AK-227).

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064255