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Girls enjoy a game of tennis in a pool in Venice in California

A film titled 'Water tennis makes a bow as aquatic sport,' shows girls playing a game of tennis in a pool in Venice, California. One of the girls writes down score on a board, as another one judges the game.

Location: Venice Beach Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1936, November 11
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037733
Construction of Liberty Ships vital to War Effort in World War 2

World War II Liberty Ships that carry war materiel like guns,tanks and planes, in the Marine Shipyard in Sausalito, California, across bay from Richmond California shipyards. View of Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land (retired), speaking about the need for ships, and more ships, for the war effort. Among Liberty ships shown are Billy Mitchell, George Chamberlain, Waslater, Cermak and Charles Summer. Ships with bow numbers 434, 432, and others lined up under construction. View of Senate bill 3500, Merchant Marine Act of 1936 authorizing merchant ship building to support commerce and National Defense. Marine architects and engineers work with blueprints and models to optimize design for fleet of merchantmen that would eventually be called "Liberty Ships." National Posters seen. One shows burly shipyard worker with sledge hammer and reads: "Swing it Brother." Another shows convoy of ships at sea and reads: "You Build ''em. We'll sail 'em." Construction begins. Timbers, plates, anchors , engines, steel blades, and other of the hundred thousand items needed build a ship. Crowds of Shipyard workers leaving after a work shift. A sign on building reads,'It can and will be done', and another, under which workers walk advertises war bonds . Shaping metal with gas torches. Fabricating ribs of steel. Spray painting. A woman welder named Mary Smith, welding with torch. Cutting steel using patterns and torches. Fabricating bulkheads. Riveting. Derricks lift heavy assemblies.

Location: Sausalito California USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031500
U.S. Marine Corps aviation cadets learning to land during a mock landing operation in San Diego, California.

Training of U. S. Marine Corps aviators in San Diego, California. U.S. Marine aircraft in flight during a mock landing operation. The Marines in landing crafts heading towards a beach. Aircraft fly low over the beach. Barges hit the beach and the Marines get off. A 75 mm howitzer is unloaded from a landing barge. The Marines advance inland. Guns and communication equipment being set up. A signal man gives out a signal. A smoke screen is laid out. The Marines continue to advance. The Commander of the Marines looks through a pair of binoculars. Smoke rises as the Marines advance in the foreground.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066978
Various Buildings, Monuments and Landmarks of United States.

Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023512
Carl Laemmle addresses dignitaries present during a dinner at Universal City in California.

1936: Dignitaries paying tribute to movie pioneer Carl Laemmle Sr at Universal City in California. Carl addresses dignitaries present. Dignitaries include Rupert Hughes, Edward Arnold, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Hobart Bosworth, Cecil B DeMille, Jesse Lasky, May Robson, King Baggot, Binnie Barnes and Charlie Murray during a dinner party.

Location: Universal City California USA
Date: 1936, February 23
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055193
27th Marine Regiment Corps with M60 machine guns near the White Beach during Operation Alligator Hide at Camp Pendleton, U.S.

Training maneuvers during Operation Alligator Hide at the White Beach Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, United States. Marines holding M-14 rifles walking on a grassy area. A grassy hill in the background. Two Marines of 27th Marine Regiment in the grassy area with one of them digging a position with an entrenching tool. The other Marine next to an M60 machine gun. Vehicles moving in the far background. The White Beach in view in the background. A bunker in view on the White Beach.

Location: Camp Pendleton California USA
Date: 1967, May 7
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066245
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