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Red sandstone mountains seen from low flying aircraft in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, United States

Views of red sandstone mountains and outcroppings from low flying airplane, in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona. Dry rocky terrain. Shadows cast on the ground. Bright sun. Shrubs on the dry land. Big Red Rocks. Monument Valley road through the desert.

Date: 1973
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020984
American Cities in the 1950s

Americans listen to a chamber string quartet playing music on stage. Vintage views of various famous American cities in the 1950s. Sweeping wide views of American wilderness with mountains in distant background. Elevated view of a river in America. A railroad marshaling yard with skyline of Chicago Illinois in the distance. Close view of two railroad trains passing in opposite directions in downtown Chicago with skyscraper in background. A city street in downtown Detroit Michigan with 1950s cars on the road. View of the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis Minnesota and the city skyline in background. View of Saint Paul Minnesota with river, bridge, and some nearby factories. View of Saint Louis Missouri as seen from an anchored position on the Mississippi River. The city skyline of New Orleans from a distance. View of Pittsburgh skyline with the West End Bridge over the Ohio River in the foreground. People walk on the grounds of Liberty Island in New York, with the Statue of Liberty seen towering above. Aerial view of New York city's skyline, skyscrapers and New York harbor. Camera view panning from ground to top of Empire State Building in Manhattan. Aerial view of Washington DC and Potomac River. Ground view of Jefferson Memorial. The Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol seen together. Steps of Lincoln Memorial and view of statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln inside the memorial. An eastern American mountain view, witha lake or river in the foreground. View of Half Dome peak in Yosemite National Park seen from a moving vehicle. Elevated view of a dense forest in the western United States. Pacific coast scene of surf washing onto rocks in a rocky area with nearby cliffs and mountains.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025223
Silver mining and processing in Colorado, United States.

The mining industry in Colorado, United States. Aerial view of snow-covered mountains and other landscape features in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. A freight train carries raw material to a silver processing plant. Molten silver being processed. A stack of silver ingots. A rodeo trophy statue made of silver.

Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065945
Church, home, town, and coal mining scenes, and Roscoe Holcomb singing in a poverty stricken area of Kentucky.

'The High Lonesome Sound: Kentucky Mountain Music' explores the lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky through spiritual and folk music. Shows how the poverty-stricken people maintain their traditions and dignity through their music. A religious evangelical church congregation gathered by a river under railway tracks for a ceremony. Men, women and children among the crowd. The church preacher sings gospel while wading in the water. The congregation joins in. A Christian baptism ceremony, possibly pentecostal or charismatic, takes place as a women is immersed in the river. Several women jumping and flailing in celebration. Sound of rail cars filled with coal moving on tracks. Coal Miners seated in mine cars at a coal mine. People sit outside a building on a street. Cars pass by. The men talk. DAISY, Kentucky: An old house amidst wooded mountains. Hens around the house. Roscoe Holcomb, an unemployed construction worker in Hazard, Kentucky, on a swing at the house. A spider in a large web at the house. Holcomb plays the banjo and sings 'Across the Rocky Mountain'. Clothes hang on the wall by a bed inside the house. A bed side table between twin beds, a lamp in the window, a banjo, wardrobe, and clothes by the window. A single stalk of corn. Clouds over the mountains. Miners at work. They carry small boxes. Coal Miners seated in a coal mine car as it enters a tunnel. Light of the car as it disappears into the tunnel.

Date: 1962
Duration: 6 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032597
A horse driven carriage and a Ford Model-T car

View of rocky mountains and a narrow roadway cut through the rocks. A Ford Model-T car behind a horse driven carriage moving through the narrow roadway in between the rocky mountains. Vehicles moving in zig-zag manner on the narrow roadway.

Date: 1916
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030947
Views of electric locomotives and trains operating through rugged country in the U.S.

A film about electrified railroads in the United States. Slate states: "The electric locomotives on downgrade generate power to help pull trains upgrade." An electrified locomotive is seen moving down a railway track pulling many open rail cars loaded with raw materials. Slate reads: "Another striking example of regeneration is found on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Rocky Mountain electrification." An electric train is seen running through mountainous area. Slate reads: " This eletrification is operated entirely from water power." View from rear of an electric train as it runs alongside a river. View from locomotive cab and of engineer at the simple controls, as train transits a tunnel.

Date: 1928
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050755