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The "Little Rock Nine," 7 years after integrating Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Jefferson Thomas, of the "Little Rock Nine," in a hallway, revisiting Central High School, in Little Rock Arkansas. He looks through a classroom window at a former teacher, Miss Dunn, speaking to a class from a lab table next to an anatomical model. View of Ernest Green sitting with other students in a lab filled with electronic equipment. Much later, as President of the NAACP chapter on campus of Michigan State University, he is seen handing out pamphlets to other students. Views of students congregating on the grounds of the university. One girl holds a poster reading "Give, NAACP Fund Drive." Professor David Gottlieb introduces Ernest Green who steps to a classroom podium to speak to Michigan State students in a lecture room. Green carrying books is seen entering and sitting down in the Michigan State library. In another scene, he enters sociological data into Hollerith punch cards for processing by computer. He walks in the university computer room where tape decks are seen spinning and computer operators are at work. One of the tapes mounted on a drive is labeled: "Ernest Green, Aspirations." Results from his work are seen coming out of a line printer. Green sits in a library and opens the 1960 yearbook of Central High School containing his and Carlotta Walls 'entries. View of Carlotta, in dorm at Denver University, Colorado, where she is a student. Gloria Ray is seen at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she is a senior majoring in chemistry. Terrence Roberts is seen at the City College of Los Angeles, where he is studying Business Administration. Melba Pattillo, who left college to marry, is seen in two views.Scene shifts back to Central High and Jefferson Thomas, looking at the athletic trophies on display. He (who is narrating this film) states that he will take an exam in Spring to become a Certified Public Accountant. He walks down steps of Central High and camera pans over neighborhood to the State Capitol dome in distance.

Date: 1964
Duration: 5 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024014
Process by which pure copper obtained from smelted copper in a Baltimore refinery.

Copper impurities remained after smelting removed by melting and electrolysis. Tank room of electrolytic refinery plant at Baltimore. The anodes placed in empty tank. Thin sheets of pure copper, serving as cathodes inserted between the anodes. The tank then filled with a dilute solution of copper sulphate. An electric current flows from the anode, through the solution, to the cathode on which pure copper is deposited. After removing the cathodes from remnants of anodes a sludge, into which the gold, silver and platinum has fallen, flushed out of the tank. Sludge melted by a worker into a bullion bar. The copper cathodes melted.

Date: 1927
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040281
General George S Patton Junior decorates U.S. soldiers in Gafsa, Tunisia, North Africa.

U.S. soldiers march towards Allied positions in North Africa during World War II. U.S. soldiers march in a single file. A Turkish Military General reviews American Military Police honor guard. Turkish General and aides. The Turkish General salutes. General George S Patton Junior decorates U.S. soldiers. The General pins a Purple Heart on Colonel TTJ Williams, Assistant Chief of Staff. He pins Silver Stars on Major John H. Gruver (middle) and Major (Chaplain) Leon Gorsline, II Corps for "entering areas abandoned by US troops and destroying equipment under heavy fire from the enemy" in the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia (Unternehmen Frühlingswind/Operation Spring Breeze). A soldier records in a notebook.

Date: 1943, April 3
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033486
Horse Kelso named the 'Horse of the Year' in its stable and runs in the Washington D.C. International

Kelso is named the 'Horse of the Year'. Competes in the Washington DC International at Laurel Park in Maryland. Kelso in its stable. Kelso runs in the D.C. International while spectators watch from the stands. A man feeds Kelso.

Date: 1964, December 24
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046614
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Emmons decorates officers and men of the U.S. Submarine Trout (SS-202)

View of trays containing silver stars and other U.S. military decorations. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, commanding general of the Hawaiian department, decorates the officers and men of the submarine USS Trout in ceremonies held at Pearl Harbor, in recognition of their successful performance of a mission for the war department in enemy controlled waters in World War 2. At the left is Lieutenant Commander Frank W. Fenno, captain of the Trout. Assisting the general is Lt. Col. E.B. Whisner, secretary of the general's staff. View of Army band and honor guards on dock. U.S. Navy officers in ranks behind Army Color Guard. Standard bearer carrying General's flag. Scene shifts again to deck of the USS Trout. The General's three-star flag flies from the Trout's mast. (Note: The mission of the Trout was to deliver anti-aircraft ammunition to the U.S. forces defending Corregidor. Fenno's sub was called on to deliver the ammunition because surface ships and aircraft were unable to penetrate the tight Japanese defenses. The mission was classified as "top secret." The USS Trout delivered the munitions and then brought back more than 6 tons of Philippine gold and 630 bags of silver, as ballast. Commander Fenno was awarded the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross, by the United States Army, and the officers and enlisted men of the Trout each received the Silver Star for successfully completing this unusual and dangerous mission. The USS Trout received a Presidential Unit Citation.)

Date: 1942, March 18
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062940
Hollywood actor Cary Grant gets theater award for his movie "That Touch of Mink" at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

American actor Cary Grant receives a theater award in New York. The Radio City Music Hall building. People crowd outside the building. The crowd waits in line to watch the movie 'That Touch of Mink'. The posters of the movie on a wall in the background. President and director of Radio City Music Hall Russell D. Downing presents a silver bowl to Cary Grant in recognition of breaking the record for number of weeks a single movie has run at Radio City. Russell and Grant hold the silver bowl while those gathered applaud. Cary Grant with the silver bowl seated at a desk. A framed photo of The Rockettes is in the background.

Date: 1962, July 9
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069564