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Scatter Radar experimentation with Dr. Kenneth Bowles and his team, and their efforts in Lima Peru

Space research from the ground with a Scatter Radar. National Bureau of Standards laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. The Central Radio Propogation Laboratory. Cars parked outside. Hills in the background. Dr. Kenneth Bowles and a colleague work on a formula. Animation: Incoherent scatter of radio waves by electrons in the ionosphere. Transmission of powerful pulsed radio signal in a narrow beam. The beam penetrates the ionosphere and excites the free electrons. The scatter a weak signal which is detected by a sensitive antenna, and the signal comes back to Earth. Remaining portions of a sensitive antenna at the pioneering field site in Havana, Illinois. Dr. Ken Bowles and other scientists decide on a site. Animation: The magnetic equator and lines of the magnetic field. Pulsed radar signals and lines of force on the monitor. Animation: Chemical composition of the Earth's atmospheric gases. The scientists decide on Lima in Peru, due to its proximity to the magnetic equator and U.S. Lima, Peru: Buildings, guards, churches, plazas and boulevards in Lima including the Government Palace in Lima with guards in front, the Catedral de Lima (Catheral of Lima) and the Plaza Mayor de Lima . Construction work in Lima. Cars on a market street. People on the sidewalk. Shipping and port facilities in Callao, Peru. Workers unload goods. People board a Braniff International aircraft. Housing facility in the Lima suburb of Miraflores.

Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031239
Riders fall down from motorbikes in an attempt to climb up a dirt hill during a contest in Redlands, California.

A motorbike hill climb stunt contest in Redlands, California. A rider rides a motorbike up a hill. The rider falls down from the motorbike. Motorcycle riders fall in an attempt to climb up the hill.

Date: 1930, May 21
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075544
A simulated booby trap and Marines carrying a wounded Marine during Operation Alligator Hide at Camp Pendleton, U.S.

Training maneuvers during Operation Alligator Hide at the White Beach Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, United States. Simulation: Several Marines walking over a dirt road beside a barbed wire fence. The Marines move through an open wooden gate in the wire fence. A small explosion occurs next to the fence simulating a booby trap. A U.S. Navy Corpsman kneels on the ground examining a medical tag on the jacket of a wounded Marine lying on the ground. Other Marines in the background. The corpsman unravels a tape as he prepares to place a bandage while sitting beside the wounded Marine. The Marines in the grassy area beside the wounded Marine. Other Marines stand atop a small hill. A Marine kneeling on the ground pushing dirt away from the booby trap. The wounded Marine with the face bandaged lying on the ground. A Marine standing aiming a pistol. A Marine kneeling on the ground probing in the dirt area with a bayonet. Another Marine holding an M-14 rifle looks on. The Marines carry the wounded Marine up a small hill. Mountains in the far background. The Marines lift the wounded Marine on a stretcher and move through a barbed wire gate. A Marine lying on the ground and with a wooden replica of rifle looking down into a cave in ground. The Marine looking down into the cave entrance. The Marines with M-14 rifles carrying the wounded Marine over a small hill. They place the Marine on the ground. The Marines lifting the wounded Marine and moving down the small hill followed by the other Marines.

Date: 1967, May 3
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066251
Airman signals F-14 Tomcat aircraft after landing on flight deck of USS Ranger in Alameda, California.

Activities aboard USS Ranger in Alameda, California.Navy VF-1 Wolfpack Squadron F-14 lands on flight deck of USS Ranger. Airman signals pilot to stop aircraft. F-14 taxis along flight deck. F-14s parked on flight deck. Airman chains the landing gear of plane.

Date: 1980, September 16
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052138
Recruits attend photography, engineering and radio and signal training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California.

Young recruits undergo training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. An instructor takes a class explaining the operation of an engine order telegraph and a compass. The recruits attend a photography class. They practice boxing. A recruit learns to repair engines and machinery. Radio and signal instructions given to the class. A dramatization shows two recruits conversing with each other. New recruits Potter, Benson and Dan salute a naval officer. A recruit goes to a library and looks for a particular book. The librarian assists him.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064965
Aerial view of hills and houses in Hollywood Hills. Sign on hill reads "HOLLYWOODLAND"

Scenic view of tree covered hills. Large sign on Mount Lee of the Santa Monica Mountains reads "HOLLYWOODLAND" advertising the Hollywoodland housing development (Later it became the famed Hollywood sign). Aerial view of residential buildings on the hilly terrain of Hollywood Hills. Roads on the hilly terrain. Camera pans right taking in the view of Hollywood Hills in the 1930s. View of Hollywood at night. Lights in the valley.

Date: 1938
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041904