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A Ford Motor Company iron ore mine. And various operations at the Rouge plant in Michigan.

View of a Ford Motor Company iron ore mine during winter. Snow covers the ground. Closeup of a ore car running up the Tiple. View from up on the Tiple as a iron ore car reaches reaches the top. Scene shifts to a bulk carrier freighter docked at pier. High above are a line of railroad open hopper cars. the next scene shows a large bulk carrier ship steaming away. Scene shifts to the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where huge cranes and clamshell buckets are raising iron ore raw material into the plant. Closeup of an operator inside a compartment low in the crane, controlling the bucket. Another view of the cranes at work. A huge pile of iron ore at the River Rouge Plant. A dragline bucket being moved through an ore pile. Iron ore in a container moving along a conveyor. Hot Molten slag being poured into a special crucible on rails, beneath a steel furnace. A long line (a train) of slag-filled crucibles. Slag being dumped from a crucible onto the slag heap for use in road building and making cement. A steam shovel being used to load slag into a large railroad car. Men with shovels cleaning up areas of the plant. Tractors pulling wagons in the yard. More piles of raw materials for making cement are seen next to factory and railroad tracks where 2,000 barrels of cement are made daily.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078280
African-American WACS pass in review before Major Charity Adams and General John C H Lee during World War II.

During World War 2, African American women soldiers of the Women's Army Corps (WACS) stand in formation at a parade ground in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, during a formal military review on February 15, 1945. The women are from the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed “Six Triple Eight, which had just arrived in Birmingham. The WACS' commanding officer, Major Charity Adams, stands beside General John C.H. Lee. The African-American female soldiers of the WACS march in a column, eight deep, passing by General John CH Lee and Major Charity Adams, who salute the soldiers. Other male officers stand on the review stand behind officers Lee and Adams. Note: Major Charity Adams (Charity Edna Adams; later Charity Adams Earley) was the first African-American woman officer in the WACS, and, at the end of the war, then Lieutenant Colonel Adams was the highest ranking African-American woman in the United States military.

Location: Birmingham England United Kingdom
Date: 1945, February 15
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078786
Air base runway crew gets up from and looks at the sky.

Several military runway ground crew members resting outside. They get get up together and look at the sky. One crew member counts on his hand as he looks at the sky. Another picks up wheel chocks as the crew moves off camera.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1943
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078330
View of a B-17 bomber dubbed the "Thunderbird."

Propeller starting up on a B-17 bomber. Pilot in cockpit as propeller spins up on B-17 named "Thunderbird." The Thunderbird B-17 taxiing towards the runway. View of building on military air base. Close up of "Thunderbird" nose art and pilot flashing the V for victory sign during start up. "Marnita No. 1" and many mission symbols painted on B-17. Propeller starting to spin for engine start. Ground crewman saluting and clasping his hands above head in victory symbol. Pilot of Thunderbird B-17 patting a propeller on the plane and flashing the OK sign.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078334
Prop wash from B-17 blows trees and grass while taxiing for takeoff.

Formation of B-17 bombers fly in formation over buildings at an air base. Trees and grass behind B-17 are blown by prop wash. Taxiing B-17 bomber with flowers and ground crew in foreground. B-17 pivots onto a runway.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078336
Animation of atomic bomb blast shows changes in pressure based on distance and angle of blast.

Animation of an atom bomb blast. Arrows pointing away and down show ground impact along with formation of shock wave. Chalk board drawing shows static over pressure versus dynamic pressure from blast. The overpressure shockwave pattern is shown. Chalk board animation shows a shock wave destroying a house and tree. Animation demonstrating the weight of burst versus the distance affecting shock wave. Animation showing angle of the blast changing and affecting pressure to target. Low angle blast is shown as only 5 psi. The complex shape of a shock wave shown in drawing.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078361
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