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Airmen inspect aircraft aboard USS Ranger in Alameda, California.

Activities aboard USS Ranger in Alameda, California. Clouds hide sun, as seen from flight deck of USS Ranger. Carrier's Island on right side. Airmen work on instrument panel in cockpit of aircraft. Pilot performs preflight walk-around inspection. Air-to-air missiles visible on aircraft.

Date: 1980, September 18
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052142
Airmen converse with each other along flight deck of USS Ranger in Alameda, California.

Activities aboard USS Ranger in Alameda, California. Airman talks with a man in red shirt along flight deck of USS Ranger. F-14 Tomcat aircraft parked along flight deck in the background. An airman walks along deck and joins other airmen. Airmen converse with each other. Airmen on plane with opened canopy. Carrier's Island as seen from flight deck with aircraft taxiing in the foreground.

Date: 1980, September 18
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052143
Pentagon officials witness a demonstration of water shoes that would enable soldiers to cross streams too deep to wade.

The U.S. military officers and crowd gathered on the banks of the Potomac River near Columbia Island Marina in Arlington across from Washington DC. Soldiers enter water wearing water shoes that allow them to walk on water and aim with their rifles. Officers watch. Women wearing bathing suits walk on water wearing the water shoes.

Date: 1962, June 28
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052198
Aircraft designer and pilot, George Fernic, with his Fernic T-9 airplane at Roosevelt Field, New York

The Fernic T-9 airplane, featuring canard,and tricycle gear, parked at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, with engines running. It shuts down. Ground crewman pulls propeller through on left engine. Pilot,designer, George Fernic, seen at controls in cockpit. Ground crewmen at each wing, rotate the airplane with its engines running. George Fernic posing in front of the aircraft. Another view of the airplane parked on grass. Camera pans upward from nosewheel. (Note:Fernic hoped to fly the T-9 in a record flight from the U.S. to Bucharest, Romania.)

Date: 1929, September 11
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052210
Bustling commerce on crowded street in Chinese district of British Crown Colony, Hong Kong

Daily life in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. A narrow street in Hong Kong Island, jammed with commercial activity. Street musicians play bamboo instruments and sing. Chinese men with queues seen on the street. A girl sits on sidewalk, picking lice from the hair of a little boy. A girl carries a squirming baby on her back. Chinese pedestrians crowd the street. Signs and clothes hang from almost every store front on the street. A woman carries two children, one in front and one on her back. A Western civilian talking with an old Chinese shopkeeper. Chinese men sit on a bench and smoke. A young woman splits wood into kindling. A British sailor, carrying a large camera, walks through crowd. The Western civilian, now holding a camera at his side, poses next to a Sikh Hong Kong policeman, as local people gather around them. The Westerner sits with a sidewalk vendor, discussing a purchase. Three Chinese girls wearing Cheongsams walking together. A Chinese woman being carried in a sedan chair holds her hand up to hide her face from the camera ("evil eye"). Customers and merchants discuss fabrics. Countless porters carry goods through the street on poles. The "westerner" rides by on a sedan chair.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052464
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell holds formal meeting with Japanese and British counterparts, aboard USS Isabel (PY-10) in Canton, China

Views from a boat moving in the Pearl River at Port of Canton (Guangzhou), in time frame of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A small island in the river. Many boats of all types: steam ferry boat; small hand-rowed passenger boats; ships and sailing vessels anchored and moored. U.S. sailors form honor guard as visitors arrive and board the USS Isabel (PY-10) serving as flagship of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. Seen walking along the deck, Admiral Yarnell and his Japanese and British Naval counterparts,are in formal dress uniforms. Among those seen, with Admiral Yarnell, are a Japanese Admiral and Army officer, accompanied by a diplomat, and a British Admiral conversing with a diplomat.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052467