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Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) providing combined rail and air service taking passengers across the U.S.A. from coast-to-coast

Operations of the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) Company. Aerial view of New York City's Manhattan Island, below. Camera focuses on Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) seen from above, and then at street level. Travelers purchasing tickets for combined transcontinental rail and air travel at a window in the station. Families seeing travelers off at one of the railroad gates. Temporary sign at gate reads "The Airway Limited, second section." View of passengers on rear car of train as it pulls out. The car displays Pennsylvania Railroad logo sign reading "The Airway Limited, Pennsylvania Railroad." Views of Pennsylvania RR passenger train and closeup of locomotive wheels in motion. Animated relief map shows train proceeding from New York, past Columbus, Ohio, to Port Columbus station in Ohio. Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. billroard at the station shows picture of passengers connecting between a train and an airplane. Billboard reads:"Port Columbus, Eastern Transfer Point, Air-rail Service, Coast-to-Coast." Passengers leaving the train and entering the station waiting rooms. Their baggage being weighed (Narrator says 30 pounds is the allowance.) View from terminal roof, of a Ford 5-AT-B, trimotor passenger airplane ready to accept passengers for the next phase of their travel. A logo on fuselage has "TAT" with small ribbon through it reading, "Transcontinetal Air Transport." View of passengers seated inside the aircraft. The plane taxis and takes off from the Port Columbus airport. Ground is snow-covered, but the runway is plowed. Closeup aerial view of the airplane flying over the city of Columbus, Ohio. Distant view of it flying close to the LeVeque Tower skyscraper (a 47-story Art Deco-style building at 50 West Broad Street). Aerial view of the airplane passing the train, continuing westward, from Port Columbus. Views inside passenger cabin of the plane. Animated map show plane heading to Indiannapolis. Officer hands out TAT illustrated map and points out features to passengers.Closeup of map. Aerial view of the airplane on final approach to land at Indiannapolis airport. Clerk at airport typing arrival message on teletype, and company executives reading it at their headquarters. Animated map show plane moving to St.Louis, Missouri. View from air of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Passengers in cabin. aerial view of the plane on final approach, over snow, to St. Louis. The aircraft taxiing on ramp and parking at terminal building, where passengers enter, under cover of awning-covered walk. Closeup of the aircraft engines. Inserted view of TAT engine overhaul facility, with Charles Lindbergh, the airline's technical adviser, and TAT officials inspecting the operation.

Date: 1928
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026613
A U.S. Navy PV-3 helicopter is being demonstrated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A United States Navy PV-3 helicopter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PV-3 helicopter with a capacity of 10 passengers on a field. Rotor blades rotate. Men and women board the helicopter. The helicopter lifts off and in flight. Twin rotors of the helicopter rotate while it is in the flight.

Date: 1945, August 7
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050683
Spectators and soldiers gathered during V-J Day celebrations at Lafayette Park in Washington DC, United States (WW2)

Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations at Lafayette Park (Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States) in Washington DC, United States during World War II. Spectators in groups standing and sitting in parks and along the streets. A man sitting on bench reads a newspaper. Soldiers and sailors in groups. Two soldiers sit on the grass. Two officers talk with civilians. Spectators are gathered in Lafayette Square across from the White House.

Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067299
People on a sidewalk and in a garden during the V-J Day celebrations at Lafayette Park in Washington DC, United States.

Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations at Lafayette Park (Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States) in Washington DC, United States during World War II. Civilians walk down the sidewalk. Some of the civilians stand on the sidewalk. Soldiers near a vehicle. People sitting in a garden. Cars parked in the background. People sit near the statue of Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau. A man and a woman sitting. People gathered in Lafayette Park.

Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067300
Pennsylvania Avenue and proposed models of its north and south side in Washington DC, United States

View of Pennsylvania Avenue. Cars drive on it. Dome of Capitol building in background. Signs on shops read 'Rooming House' and 'Tattooing'. Model of the South side of Pennsylvania Avenue. Model for the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue. View of the Washington monument

Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025683
President Truman and Hollywood stars promote the sale of war bonds in the United States (WW2)

War bonds being sold in the United States during World War II. U.S. President Harry S. Truman opens a bond drive as he buys a war bond from Secretary of Treasury Fred M. Vinson. U.S. Army General Jonathan Wainwright with Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania during a ceremony to promote the sale of war bonds in Philadelphia. Wainwright's family at the ceremony. A bond rally at former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. In a drive organized by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry, Hollywood stars sell war bonds. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt seated in a chair. Hollywood celebrities including Merle Oberon receives applications to register for the Roosevelt bond.

Date: 1945, November 1
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050693