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Damaged property and activities in a home reflecting poverty, after a flood in Mississippi River in the United States

The effects of flood in the Mississippi river in the southern United States during the Great Depression. Damaged houses and property caused by the flood water. Top soil being washed away by the flood. Huge mounds of dirt moved and misplaced by flood. The damaged houses and shacks, and poor residents. Farmers and workers in the south hand pick cotton from a field. A child in front of a cotton stack in a house. A person on the cotton stack. A young boy sits on the ground and plays with cans. Inside view of a kitchen area in a simple rural house. Hand of a woman cutting vegetable. A woman holding an infant child as she works in a kitchen. Members of a family in the kitchen. Group of boys playing on the floor while an older boy brings in wood for the stove fire. Children dine at a table. Group of children getting ready for bed, sleeping in close quarters. A woman helps the children get ready to sleep. View of the Mississippi River.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032225
Mule plows, equipment and other techniques in cotton farming in Southern States Texas, Mississippi, Alabama of United States

Cotton farming in the southern states Texas, Mississippi, Alabama in the United States. Houses of cotton farmers among trees on plantations . Cotton plantation area near the houses. Farmers on their horses. A horse deployed on to a plow tills the farm. Another farmer with a pair of horses tilling. Farmers pulverize 4 to 6 inches of soil by using disc harrow along with a spike tooth harrow. Farmer plows with a "middle buster" that throws the earth into rows of beds about three feet apart. A farmer employs four horses in a plow. Farmer takes seeds from a sack and disperses them in the field. An African American boy stands in the field and smiles.

Date: 1922
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036511
Fruit development stages in cotton farming in southern states of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama of United States

Cotton farming in the southern states like Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama in the United States, early in the 20th century. Fruit development stages of the cotton plant. A farmer shows fruit in plant. Next stage is blossom, the developed flowers in cotton plant. A young girl attaches a flower to a boy's collar. The boll in fruit of plant develops. Man shows cotton fibers from the boll.

Date: 1922
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036513
Protection of cotton fruit against boll weevil by farmers in southern states of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama of United States.

U.S. Government film documents cotton farming practices in southern states Texas, Mississippi, Alabama in the United States. Protection of developing cotton fruit from its arch-enemy boll weevil. A boll weevil eating up a cotton fruit. Farmers sprays a protective Calcium Arsenide pesticide in the cotton farms in night hours. Farmer on his mule cart, rides across the farm.

Date: 1922
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036514
United States Army advisors train South Vietnamese, combat and capture Vietcong before Vietnam War.

South Vietnamese soldiers board an armored rail car in a train in 1960 before the Vietnam War. Close view of steam locomotive wheels and piston as it starts up. A silhouette of a soldier with gun on board a train with tracks in the foreground. An explosion on train tracks ahead. A gun firing from a gun turret. A machine gun firing from a slit. Soldiers running up a hill and field. They shoot with guns in the smoke-covered battlefield. Explosion in the field. South Vietnamese soldiers evacuate wounded and carry equipment out of battle. United States officials disembark from United States aircraft. A United States official, possibly retired General Maxwell Taylor, is interviewed by the media. United States and South Vietnamese soldiers inspect a cutaway of an airplane engine and propeller during training. A United States Air Force instructor shows an aircraft model to South Vietnamese pilots. United States and South Vietnamese pilots shake hands. South Vietnamese pilot sits in fighter plane cockpit. The cockpit canopy closes. A United States Army specialist speaks to South Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnamese during weapons training. United States military adviser talks to some soldiers, pointing to a map. Soldiers carrying ammo boxes and weapons, and wearing foliage for camouflage. An African American soldier holding a 60mm M2 mortar. Soldiers shoot guns, including M1919 Browning machine gun, as Vietcong soldiers run away. Camouflaged U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers running towards jungle. A U.S. soldier points as a young Vietcong soldier emerges from brush. Captured Vietcong prisoners sit on the ground and are led away. United States medical specialists treat Vietnamese civilians in village. An army doctor uses a stethoscope on a woman’s chest.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080607
Views of New York City and environs, especially Manhattan, in the United States.

Film begins showing location of New York City on a world globe, at the mouth of the Hudson River on the East Coast of the United States. It transitions to an aerial view of the Southern tip of Manhattan Island at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers and slowly shows views moving Northward along the Hudson River. Piers along the Hudson are visible. Scene shifts to above those piers, looking South at the cluster of Manhattan skyscraper buildings, and beyond to New York Harbor, the borough of Queens, and Brooklyn, and beyond to Long Island in the misty distance. Next the skyscrapers are seen from Queens,across the East River. A large ocean liner is seen underway in New York Harbor, among ferry boats, barges, and tugboats. The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background. An animated map shows regions around New York and traces the Hudson and Mohawk valleys into the Great Lakes. The map is then overlaid with numerous lines representing transportation routes by lend, water, and air. View of Brooklyn Bridge, wharfs, and Manhattan skyline in hazy background. Seagoing freighters loading and unloading at New York's piers. A truck and other cargoes being moved by cranes. Passenger trains moving in the New York city area. View of the famous Beaux-Arts style Penn Station by architects McKim, Mead, and White, at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Manhattan. Train station interior crowded with travelers and commuters. Commercial aircraft taxiing at a New York area airport. Closeup of two young children watching the planes. Passengers deplaning from a large aircraft. Sign for Peruvian International Airways atop an airport building. A Swissair passenger plane being serviced. Passengers boarding a TWA Lockheed Constellation airplane. A family watching airplanes from an airport observation deck. The Lockheed Constellation starting its engines. A Douglas DC-4 aircraft taxis out and takes off, as several boys watch from the observation deck. Closeup of another group of boys watching planes from the observation deck. Aerial view of Manhattan skyscraper buildings from an overflying airplane. Traffic on streets at Times Square. The Astor Hotel at the left and the Times building straight ahead. Several other street scenes in Manhattan, crowded with pedestrians. A view residential apartment houses along Park Avenue. Views of African Americans crowding the sidewalks in Harlem. Views of "Little Italy" in the lower East side of Manhattan, where Italian restaurants and other businesses are seen. Chinatown is seen with some of the business signs in Chinese. A man of Chinese heritage reading a letter. Asian American children playing together in a neighborhood. New high rise apartment buildings are seen replacing older homes in parts of Manhattan. Mothers wheeling their children on sidewalks in one of the new neighborhoods.

Date: 1948
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054422