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People gathered during the launching ceremony of submarine SS Seawolf at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine.

Launching of submarine SS Seawolf (SS-197) at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine on 15 August, 1939. Clip opens with the submarine in water post launch. Next scenes show the prior events: People look on as workers pound braces away so submarine can slide down skids. Sponsor Mrs. Syria Florence Kalbfus, wife of Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, walks up a flight of stairs beside the submarine ship with a U.S. Navy Officer. She greets another woman. The navy officer near them. The woman talks to another woman. A man standing on a ladder works on a side of the ship. Navy officers and a woman. Mrs. Syria Florence Kalbfus pulls a rope and smashes a bottle against the hull, and the submarine is launched. The submarine sliding into water. People gathered for the World War 2 era launching ceremony.

Date: 1939, August 15
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051085
Submarine USS Searaven (SS-196) moves into water after it is launched at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine.

Launching of US Navy submarine USS Searaven (SS-196) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Mrs. Julianna B. Cole, wife of Cyrus W. Cole, holding a bouquet of flowers prepares to Christen the boat. She is handed a champagne bottle. People cheer. Spectators in a space marked 'Observation Space'. ( In preparation for launch of another submarine, a sign at adjacent ways in shipyard reads "U.S.S. SEAWOLF submarine (SS-197) keel laid 27 Sept. 1938. Launching 15 Aug. 1939".) The submarine SS-196 proceeds down the ways into the water, with many persons on her deck. Tug boats move to her sides.

Date: 1939, June 21
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051086
Exteriors & interiors of Building of dept of agriculture and Capitol, White House & Dept of Commerce in Washington DC U.S.

A bird's eye views of Department of agriculture building, Department of commerce, The U.S. Capitol, Administrative building of department of agriculture and White house. On the front of administrative building of department of agriculture inscription "US department of agriculture" can be clearly seen. Employees' entering the department of agriculture, corridor of the building can be seen. October 1939.

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032326
Interiors of agronomy laboratory of department of agriculture, U.S.

Front of East wing bureau of animal industries. Interiors of Agronomy laboratory of department of agriculture. People at work, grains are cleansed, weighed and graded for tests. Agronomists are shown placing oats into thrasher, then oats going into thrasher. Grains stored in sacks and corns are kept in boxes. A botanist weighing the corn kernel. October 1939.

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 6 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032327
Funeral rites for the sailors who perished in the undersea craft "Phenix", held in Le Havre, France.

Scenes of warship and people on the French Navy ship in Le Havre, France. French submarine "Archimède" is moored beside the ship. The Archimède is then seen underway and submerging in ocean waters. On shore, a funeral ceremony is held to honor French sailors who died in the Redoutable-class submarine "Phenix" lost off Indochina on 15 June, 1939. French Navy sailors and officers offer garlands and officers keeping their caps low and heads down in a ceremony in the Place Gambetta, at the site of the French memorial known as Monuments aux Morts. French political and military leaders stand by. Sailors with rifles on shoulders pass by marching in formation. Large crowd gathered to see the memorial ceremony.

Date: 1939, June
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034121
Military uniform production at Textile Mill in New York.

A textile mill in New York. Women are stitching and sewing the fabric cutouts into military uniforms. Men marking the stitched uniforms and attaching buttons. Man transporting the finished uniforms on a lorry. A military official tries on the uniform for fitting. 1939.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035753