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English racing car driver Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

English racing car driver Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Several men stand near his supercharged MG streamliner EX-135 car . He sits in the car and races it to set a speed record. Mountain ranges in the background.

Date: 1951, August 24
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041351
Sir Malcolm Campbell hits 301 miles per hour in his Bluebird to set speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

Sir Malcolm Campbell sets speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Officials look through binoculars from raised platform. A board under platform reads 'Headquarters Official timing station Contest Board'. Campbell drives his six-ton Bluebird Car at 301 miles per hour. Technicians fix a flat tire during the record attempt. Sir Malcolm seated inside the car after setting the record.

Date: 1935, September 3
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043345
Captain George Eyston's car during its 347 miles per hour runs on a sandy beach, during a trial run in Bonneville, Utah.

Captain George Eyston's car does 347 miles per hour during a trial run in Bonneville, Utah. Spectators and mechanics' team with support staff under shades during the trial run. The car runs on the sandy beach and touches the figure of 347 miles per hour. The failure of electrical timing device makes the record unofficial.

Date: 1938, August 24
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056265
Ab Jenkins drives his Mormon Meteor on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

The last race for Ab Jenkins and his 'Mormon Meteor' car in Bonneville, Utah. Mormon Meteor with people around it. The car races. A man with a sign that reads '197'. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. People around Jenkins as the hood of the car is opened after overheating. Smoke comes out of the engine. Ab Jenkins shakes hands with a man and rubs his eye with a handkerchief.

Date: 1951, July 23
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050617
Montage of images reflecting life in 20th century America up to World War II

Streets of Manhattan New York City crowded with pedestrians prior to World War II. Views of Americans at work: miners; farmers; factory workers; office workers. A drafting room. Montage of inventions in America: lightning rod atop roof; cotton gin in operation; telegrapher using a key; anesthetists in operating theater; rotary newspaper printing press; a telephone; an arc welder; early incandescent lamp; early submarines; steam turbine; 4-engine high wing airliner; early X-ray tube; gyroscope compass; singer sewing machine; early television; farmer hooks cows to mechanical milking machine, cat expresses dismay at not getting milk; architectural draftsmen at work; rows of apartment buildings; automobiles crowding roads; sanitation street sweeper truck at work; eggs and dairy products in refrigerated case; Surgical team in an operating theater; Scenes in a modern U.S. hospital; children being cared for, and in schools and colleges; Soldiers marching during World War I; U.S. soldiers marching in World War II; people relaxing on crowded beach; recreational hunting and fishing activity; A football game in progress; a baseball game; horseracing; track & field events; a rodeo; a basketball game; golfing; Ten pin bowling; boys play marbles; frog jumping contest; skiing; springboard diving; motorboat racing; water skiing;ice skaters with sails; Joe Louis boxing with Max Schmeling in 1938; auto racing with cars crashing; Railroad timetables in a rack; Henry Dreyfuss Commodore Vanderbilt New York Central locomotive and interior of dining car; 1935 Chevrolet sedan pulling a trailer; Road sign "Arizona welcomes you"; Motorcycle policeman pulls driver over; roadside motor hotel; girl serving at drive-in diner; signs for hot dogs, beer, cheesburgers; workers preparing sandwiches, pancakes,bacon and eggs, coffee and coca cola, using some machinery; Customers eating at a lunch counter; Welcome sign at Van Nuys California with symbols for Kiwanis, American Legion, Rotary; a Delta Sigma Phi fraternity building. Scene of a person's hand signing a membership certificate document for the Calibou Lake Mountain Club.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046105
U.S. Navy warships of Task force 51 bombarding Japanese positions on Iwo Jima prior to invasion during World War II

U.S. Navy warships of Task Force 51, Joint Expeditionary Force, commanded by Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, bombard Japanese positions at the start of the campaign against Japanese-held Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Mount Suribachi visible at end of the island. The Eldorado (AGC-11), Vice Admiral Turner's flagship is seen. At time 00:20 to 1:04, the heavy cruiser USS Chester ( CA-27 ) is seen in camouflage Measure 32, design 9d, following another unidentified heavy cruiser, shelling the island of Iwo Jima. Time codes 1:05 to 1:12 show the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43). In time codes 1:14 through 1:31 the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City ( CA-25) and the USS Vicksburg, CL-86, a Cleveland Class light cruiser, in camouflage (measure 33, design 6D), are seen shelling Japanese anti-aircraft gun emplacements around the east side of Motoyama airfield. The battleship, USS Idaho (BB-42) is seen in time codes 1:32 to 1:53. Other, unidentified U.S. warships are also seen bombarding the Island.

Date: 1945, February 18
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040331