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American General William D Mitchell speaks on importance of air power and demands the construction of airbase in Alaska.

American General William D Mitchell (aka Billy Mitchell) at a desk in his office in Middleburg, Virginia. General Mitchell points out the loopholes in air support at Long Island for New York. He urges that America must build up its strength in building more bomber aircraft. General Mitchell says that air power is the prime strength of any nation for directly attacking the enemy's key installations. The General demands the construction of an air base in Alaska.

Date: 1936, January 3
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049978
Images showing interests, culture, lifestyle and events involving Americans, including World War 1, in the period 1915 -1918

America in the World War 1 years, before and during the U.S. involvement in the war. View of Woodrow Wilson in academic robe and cap, as President of Princeton University. Steel mill with stacks belching smoke. Workers tap an open hearth furnace in steel mill. Children on a city street dancing and being sprayed with a fire hose to keep cool in summer. Boy hopping over the backs of his friends. Boys seated on a bench. Scenes from early motion pictures, interposed with images of Uncle Sam from Army recruiting poster: They are rapid montage comedy and stunt scenes, including Keystone Cops chasing fugitive; cars racing, gangster shootouts from cars; automobile hijinks; men raising barrier at railroad level crossing while a woman is left dangling from the raised crossing gate; car races and crosses railroad track in front of rapidly approaching locomotive; comic car chase down; line of 3 open top cars racing over an edge into a deep ditch, a motorcycle taking flight off of a road and into a river; a man waving warning flag frantically at a blasting site; The Cunard Ocean Liner ship, RMS Lusitania, underway; Newspaper front page about torpedoing of the Lusitania. American soldiers boarding troop ship for France in World War 1; View of the troop ship deck filled with U.S. soldiers. Various scenes of U.S. troops in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France during World War I: amid war torn ruins and destroyed buildings in France; firing French 75s and heavier artillery; soldiers charging across no-man's land; French and American soldiers caring for wounded behind the lines and in trenches of the battlefields; soldiers placing helmets and identification cards of fallen soldiers on rifles that are inverted, bayonet into ground.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036807
United States Marine Corps in a town of Peiping (Beijing) in China.

United States Marine Corps in Beijing (Peiping), in China. Farmlands and Chinese civilians in countryside. A Chinese farmer carries a bamboo carrying pole. Children give the camera a thumbs up. Grave barrows in the countryside. Various tourist attractions in Beijing, including Tiananmen Gate (Dongcheng, China, 100051). Marines stands by an artillery gun. Gate of the United States consulate in Beijing. Marines seated around a large gate. Rickshaws and cars pass by on streets of Peking. Point of view shot traveling down city street in China in a rickshaw with head of rickshaw driver immediately in front. Marines look at handicrafts being display at roadside.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060069
Guests enter the West Point Bullion Depository vaults in West Point, NY., USA

Visitors enter the West Point Bullion Depository (now known as West Point Mint Facility) near the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, United States during its construction. View of a woman wearing a black cartwheel hat. West Point Bullion Depository staff opens bank vault door. Guests enter bank vault. View of bank vault inside. Man closes shut West Point Bullion Depository bank vault door. This building was also referred to as the "Fort Know of Silver."

Date: 1938, June
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078535
Recounting of the criminal careers and death of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and Clyde).

Reenactment of highlights in criminal career of Bonnie & Clyde, with actual scenes of their final demise. Dallas, Texas. Clyde meets waitress Bonnie Parker. External view of Baltimore Dairy Lunch diner. Sign reads, "Open All Night" Bonnie and Clyde sit on running board of a car and drink. Clyde shoots a bird with a gun. Two officers on motorcycles approach them. They kill the officers by shooting them with rifles. Bonnie and Clyde get in their car and drive away. Bodies on the road. Police, determined to end Bonnie and Clyde's continuing crimes, set up an ambush for them on a gravel road in Louisiana. They maintain the stakeout for three days. When Bonnie and Clyde show up the police open fire, killing them both. View of the actual death scene, with the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde seen in their gun shot riddled car. From "The Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker."

Date: 1934, May 23
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033722
Officers Prentiss Oakley, Henderson Jordan, Bob Alcorn,and Ted Hinton who killed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in Louisiana

From "The Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker". Officers Prentiss Oakley, Henderson Jordan, Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton kill Clyde and Bonnie. Sheriff Smooth Schmid fulfills the obligation of apprehending Clyde and Bonnie. He describes their experiences during the pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde.

Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033724