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Men working on reclamation of storage batteries in the European Theater.

Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. Men working on damaged storage batteries. Battery cells are replaced. Buildings in the background. Dead cells are lifted from cases. Dead elements are removed from the cells. New elements are prepared and reinserted in the batteries. Totally unusable batteries are sold for scrap. Some of the parts are melted down and reused in other things.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076671
General Laurence Kuter and other official at North American Aerospace Defense Command control room in United States.

Animation shows NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) using SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) directed Bomarc IM-99B missiles to repel an attack by hostile aircraft. Animation shows Bomarc IM-99B missile on launch pad. Civilians walk on streets in Washington DC and New York City. The Texas tower. RC-121 aircraft in flight. Radars move at station. Board reads 'NORAD Operations Center' with names of Officials with their designations. Officials seated inside the NORAD center look at map on screen. They speak over phone and converse with each other. General Laurence Kuter in the NORAD control room. Animation of area defense concept and an attack by enemy bombing force. Bomarc IM-99B missile launched from launch pad.

Date: 1958
Duration: 14 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043620
Montage of scenes depicting U.S. military weapons in the Korean War era.

Segment of U.S. Army public information television program called, "The Big Picture." Army cameraman records firing of a Nike missile. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud. Army troops exit Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. Infantrymen climb a hill while firing rifles in unison. Animated rotating world globe. Sergeant Stuart Queen emphasizes that, in spite of new weapon systems, the individual soldier is the essential element of the Army. Technicians in missile launch control blockhouse observe launch of a missile from steel tower. View from inside the structure of missile rising, and then of smoke as it heads skyward. Radar units and cameras tracking the missile. Views from a missile, of the ground below, as it accelerates upwards. More tracking cameras. A Matador missile being launched. A Viking missile being launched. Test of anti-aircraft missile launched horizontally, striking nearby target with explosion. A thermonuclear weapon test explosion. A Corporal missile being launched. Sophisticated electronic tracking equipment employed at desert test site. Convair experimental XFY Pogo seen in vertical takeoff during trials. Anti-aircraft missile, fired from Navy ship, strikes drone target aircraft, which falls in flames. Technician stands before a virtual wall of electronic equipment. Army Signal Corps television cameraman captures field maneuvers of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) and an M4 Sherman tank. A High-flying warplane fires an air-to-air missile destroying a drone aircraft target that falls in flames. Aerial view of the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. America's top military leaders sit around a table. At the head, is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur William Radford. To his right are: General Nathan F. Twining, USAF, and Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations (back to camera). To Radford's left are General Lyman Lemnitzer, Army chief of Staff, and General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Commandant of the Marine Corps. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing heavy guns. A South Dakota Class Battleship firing her 16-inch guns. Navy aircraft being catapulted from the USS Ranger (CV-61). Gun camera view from aircraft firing guns. A USAF B-52 bomber in flight. Bombs falling from open bomb bay of bomber in flight and carpeting the ground with explosions. Low flying USAF aircraft demonstrating ground-support bombing techniques, dropping napalm and explosive bombs.

Date: 1953
Duration: 5 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043632
Major demolition and reconstruction of the White House in Washington, DC.

Wholesale reconstruction of the White House begun in 1949 and continuing during most of the term of President Truman, who used Blair house as the official Presidential residence, during that period. Although the wings continued to function, with White House staff, the main house was completely rebuilt, with new supports, beams, etc.which involved demolition and rebuilding on a monumental scale. Views of the work in progress.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043647
People eat at restaurants, fairs, Automats, and take frozen foods and TV dinners at home in the United States.

People eat various food stuffs in cities and suburbs in the United States, including new ready to eat foods and convenience foods, fast foods, frozen foods, prepared foods, and food from vending machines. A pigeon eats grains. People seated at a sidewalk cafeteria. Sidewalk vendors include a frankfurters and rolls vendor. A man sells food and drinks in a railway car. A woman takes a beverage in the car. Men eat hamburgers at a restaurant. Girls have cotton candy at a fair, a boy eats ice cream. Sodas, milk, ice cream vending machines. A man fills Coca Cola from a vending machine. People eat at various Automats. A man has corn on the cob. Frozen vegetables emptied in a pot. Reddi whip whipped cream from a can being put on desserts. A turkey "TV dinner". Frozen ices and French fries. Prepared, canned biscuits are placed on a baking sheet. View of hands opening a box of frozen pancakes and putting two pancakes in a toaster. View of pancakes being put on a plate after toasting and covered with maple syrup. a single-serving Raisin Bran cereal box is opened by a child using cut-out lines on the cardboard. Chocolate sauce on a dessert. A boy spreads toothpaste on a toothbrush. Elaborately dressed women eat at a restaurant. Woman sitting at a diner counter as bus boy clears dishes.

Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043723
Following Kristallnacht, former President Hoover and others make nationwide plea for Jews facing Nazi brutality in Europe.

President Franklin D Roosevelt leads the nation's protest against prosecution of Jews in Germany. Roosevelt during a recording of the plea. In Germany, Jewish owned shops with broken windows following Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) depict Nazi brutality in Germany. Palo Alto, California: Former President Herbert Hoover expresses indignation at the brutal intolerance of the Nazis and predicts their 'moral isolation'. He also expresses American support for Jews and Christians in Germany and compares their brutality to the destruction of religious worship by the Bolsheviks in Russia. New York: Reverend RI Gannon of Fordham University and Methodist Bishop Edwin H Hughes raise their voices against the outbreaks of violence and hate against Jews in Europe. They compare the Nazis to the original Huns and make a plea for the Jews.

Date: 1938, November 16
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043734