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Panama Canal Zone 1947 stock footage and images

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United States Army Navy officer's club at Fort Amador in Panama

Canal Zone in Panama. United States Army Navy officer's club building with a palm tree in the foreground. A car pulls up in the lawns of the club.

Date: 1953, July 7
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048570
Army Commissary building at Corrozal Army Post in Panama

Canal Zone in Panama. Cars outside the Food Commissary building at Corrozal Army Post. Sign on the building which reads ' Army Commissary Store ' Bowling alley building at Albrook Air Force Base. Sign on the building reads ' Bowling Alleys'

Date: 1953, July 3
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048565
United States airman plays with a baby Boa Constrictor in Panama

Canal Zone in Panama. United States airman sits under a palm tree with a baby Boa Constrictor around his neck at Albrook Air Force Base. He plays with the baby Boa constrictor and puts it around his fore arm. Boa Constrictor with its fangs bore.

Date: 1953, July 6
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048571
Peacetime activities and contributions by the U.S. Army in the United States.

Scenes from Army Day on April 6, 1934. Secretary of War George Henry Dern, in broadcast to the nation about importance of the Army, in peacetime. Brief glimpses of the Yellowstone River lower falls and Old Faithful and Beehive geysers erupting in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. View amongst log buildings in Reproduction of Army Fort Dearborn, at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. A pioneer wagon; Native American Indians in ceremonial regalia; antique locomotives and trains at the Exposition. Army General Leonard Wood being sworn in as the Governor General of the Philippines. Closeup of General of the Armies, John J. Pershing, America's highest ranking Military officer. Headquarters of Walter Reed Army hospital, in Washington, DC, named for U.S. Army Major Walter Reed, who confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquito. Acting on this, the U.S. was able to complete the Panama Canal. View of French dredging equipment sitting idle in the water after Yellow Fever prevented them from completing the canal. Closeup of U.S. Army General William C. Gorgas, who, in 1904, headed the Sanitary Department that controlled mosquitoes and eradicated Yellow Fever, so the canal could be finished. View of a cayman in swamp near the canal. Photograph of George Washington Goethals, Chief Engineer credited with making the canal happen. Explosives employed in canal construction. Earth and rocks being loaded into open rail cars. A steamship transiting the Panama Canal. The Washington Monument; U.S. Library of Congress; and the Lincoln Memorial, cited as examples of accomplishments by U.S. Army engineers. The Wilson Dam, under construction by Army engineers, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and system of levees being built to control the Mississippi River. The raging Mississippi River during 1927 flood. Flood victims being assisted by U.S. Army soldiers, at a tent camp, receiving food and clothing. An Army airplane flying over a forest fire. Army personnel supervising men in the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. Mail being loaded aboard an Army airplane, as airmail service is being opened between Washington DC and New York City. President Woodrow Wilson talking with Army pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet. Mail being loaded into the nose of an airplane. U.S. Army Douglas World Cruiser airplanes in flight, returning from their trip around the world in 1924. A pilot sitting in front seat of a Douglas O-38 airplane, pulls a fabric hood over his cockpit to practice "blind flying". View of the aircraft in flight, with instructor pilot in the open rear cockpit. Army aviators taking a camera and a rifle aboard their airplane as they prepare to leave on an aerial mapping flight. Aerial view of skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, New York City. Army Signal Corps personnel working on communications devices. A cable laying ship operating at sea, in support of the U.S. Army's Alaskan cable and telegraph system. Men loading chemicals into hoppers on Army crop dusting airplane. Several views of Army airplanes crop dusting. Glimpse of boll weevil, the target of their efforts. Closeup of Karl Connell, who as a major in the AEF, in World War I, invented a superior gas mask known as the “Connell” or “Victory” mask. A group of miners wearing gas masks enter a smoky mine entrance. The Army invented tear gas, which is shown being used to thwart a bank robbery, in a staged demonstration. Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt, as head of the Great Depression era National Recovery Administration, or NRA, is seen about to give a speech. Narrator cites him as an example of U.S. Army officers who also serve the country in civilian life. Scene shifts to cadets on parade at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

Date: 1934
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062506
U.S. Army Medical Corps work in a laboratory and men construct a railway track at the Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal plagued by yellow fever during it's construction. United States Army Medical Corps working in a laboratory. Stagnant water and an alligator in the water in a jungle in Panama. Wreckage of DeLesseps French regime vessel or digging apparatus in a waterway near the canal dig. A portrait of United States Army Medical Corps Major Walter Reed. Men construct a railway track at the Panama Canal.

Date: 1912
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068857
U.S. sailors visit and enjoy in various places of Europe.

A film on the life of sailors aboard United States Navy ships. An officer looks through a telescope. He sees land as the ship approaches Copenhagen, Denmark. He explores a land area. Sailors stand at attention aboard the ship. Officers inspect the sailors. They board a liberty boat to take them to shore. The ship underway at sea. The sailors visit various countries and places in Copenhagen. The sailors talk to Danish women. They eat local delicacies in Europe. United States Navy sailors buy from a street vendor in Copenhagen. View of London, United Kingdom. A sailor asks a British policeman for direction on the street. Greek Army Evzones marching in Athens, Greece. The sailors walk in the streets. Buildings along the sides of the street. The sailors return to the ship. The ship in the Panama Canal. The sailors aboard the ship.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077266