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US Navy sailors are shown training films and they work aboard a ship underway at sea in the United States.

A film on the life of United States Navy sailors aboard ships in the United States. Some sailors talking amongst themselves. Other playing solitaire cards. A ship underway at sea. The ship underway at night. The sailors sleeping in their beds. They wake up early the next morning and get ready. An officer wakes sailors from their beds. They shave. Young sailor with no beard puts on shaving cream anyway. Newspapers on board ship being printed at ship print shop. The sailors read the newspapers. They stand at attention. Officers inspect them. A classroom session for the sailors. Machinists attend a mathematics class. An officer instructs them. The sailors are shown training films. The training films give them information about how to acquire more efficiency in jobs. A sailor welds a metal. Carpenters at work in workshop. Sailors paint railings on deck. Coffee is poured into a mug. Electricians have coffee. Some of the sailors buy things such as pens and perfumes from the ship's store. A sailor collects clothes from a laundry. Other sailors having coffee and soda drinks and refreshments.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077259
Men push 1947 Morris and Wolseley automobiles into place on a dock in United Kingdom

1947 Morris Eight Series E saloon automobile on lift platform dockside is repositioned. More 1947 Morris Eight Series E saloon cars are moved into place to prepare for crane lift. Sign seen on car windshield reads, "Nuffield Exports." Aerial view of dock workers pushing car into place. Workers roll 1947 Wolseley 14-60 Series III automobile onto lift platform and car is lifted into air next to a ship docked in a British harbor.

Date: 1947, April 18
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080092
USCGC Northwind tows USS Sennet in the Ross Sea and penguins walk about on the snow.

United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC ) Northwind pulls USS Sennet in the Ross Sea during Operation High Jump. USCGC Northwind tows USS Sennet. The pontoon of a SOC Seagull seaplane in the foreground. Penguins walk about on the snow.

Date: 1947, January 3
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070796
Operation Sandy, launch of captured German V-2 rocket from USS Midway, after World War II

View from Bridge as forward section of a U.S. Navy Battleship is being lashed by heavy seas and winds. Closeup of sailors bailing water out ot a gun emplacement on deck. Weather instruments being battered by the gale. A Vought OS2U Kingfisher blown partly off its catapult by the severe winds and weather. Complete change of scene. Aerial view of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Midway (CVB-41) in the Atlantic ocean. Closeup of technicians preparing a captured German V-2 rocket for launching from her deck, while she is moving, underway, during Operation Sandy. Closeups of Admiral William H.P. Blandy, Atlantic Fleet Commander, and Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, on deck of the Midway. A large liquid oxygen tank is brought up on an elevator from the hangar deck and the LOX fuel is piped into the V-2 rocket. View of firefighters standing nearby. View of the V-2 rocket standing upright on the Midway's deck. "Sandy"stenciled on the side of the V-2. View of the V-2 rocket being fired and launched from the Midway's flight deck. The Admirals and other officers observing the rocket launch. The rocket disappearing from view.

Date: 1947, September 6
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034464
Scenes of Miami Florida in the late 1940s; animation shows conditions which result in the formation of a hurricane in Miami, Florida.

A documentary on Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Center in Miami, Florida. (Later the National Hurricane Center, part of the U.S. NOAA / National Weather Service). A man instructing students about a hurricane. They discuss about the conditions present when hurricanes develop. Animation shows the process of formation of hurricanes. Large masses of air become warm and moist. It is replaced by air flowing from all directions. Aerial view of a sea. The air starts moving in a circular motion. The progressive motion of the air begins and it becomes a hurricane. Men and women working in the Hurricane Warning Center analyze these conditions. View of traffic and commercial buildings along a busy street in Miami. Three men playing golf. Elevated view of people seated in a stadium watching a horse race. Elevated view of a crowded ocean beach in Miami. Aerial view of a weather station on the eastern tip of Cuba. Men preparing to release a radiosonde weather balloon. They analyze the weather conditions for a daily weather report.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076806
U.S. Army Public affairs film to explain idea of Universal Military Training (UMT) as a Plan for Peace, in 1947

The Universal Military Training Plan for Peace, 1947. A civilian spokesperson stands before a briefing chart entitled "Plan for Peace." He explains the concepts for the program, involving military training for young men immediately after they complete high school.He explains how young men would register and be screened, assigned, and trained under the program. Two college students discuss a requirement to join the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) under the program. Scene shifts to a U.S. Army officer talking with a civilian about the cost of World War 2. As scens of wartime military production are shown, Narrator interjects that "a full year of Universal Military Training will cost less than three days of war." Scene shifts to Separation Center, Fort Douglas, Utah. U.S. soldiers are seen mustering out. One holds his Honorable discharge certificate. View of marching German soldiers is inserted at this point. Contents of the U.S. Constitution are displayed in plain print, higlighting the part: "...provide for the common defense..." View of college students on a campus. Closeup of Dexter Gate at Harvard College, and three men walking through it into Harvard Yard. ROTC cadet talking with acquaintances about studying rockets. ROTC cadet talking with two middle aged men about unique sounds of airplanes. A B-17 bomber in flight. A C-119 (flying boxcar) aircraft in flight. A formation of B-17s viewed from above with clouds beneath. The XP-84 jet in flight. A V2 rocket being test fired at White Sands, New Mexico.

Date: 1947, May
Duration: 6 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034919