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New U.S. Navy recruits arrive at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Chicago, Illinois

New recruits for the U.S. Navy line up on a train platform after arriving in Chicago. Sailors in uniform organize the recruits into groups. The next scene shows the recruits, carrying personal belongings, being escorted through the gates of the Great lakes Naval Training Center. Several U.S. Navy officers step from an official staff car and are seen posing in front of a flag pole at the Navy Station. The senior officer is Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center, flanked by a Lieutenant Commander and a Lieutenant, and two other officers in the background. Captain Moffett is later seen observing the new recruits as they are escorted on the base. Next, the recruits are seen carrying white towels as they march to a building where they will be issued personal clothing and uniforms. Later they are seen marching in their new summer uniforms, carrying their original civilian luggage. Under the watchful eyes of the officers, the new sailors use their new mess kits to get food from a chow line. Captain Moffett watches and converses with other officers (not seen). The recruits are next seen, in winter blues, exiting a building carrying their bedding, and presumably headed toward their billets. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031676
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at Airmail Service Dedication in Washington DC. and Lieutenant Webb takes off from New York.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at Airmail Service Dedication between Washington DC and New York. The new aerial mail service is launched by the Post Office between Washington DC and New York. President talks to the pilot at Washington DC before the take off. The Curtis JN-4 airmail airplane takes off from the Polo field in Washington DC.. At the same time Lieutenant Webb takes off from New York. The airplane halts for six minutes at Philadelphia to collect more mail. The airplane lands New York with the mail after a three hour flight. A man takes out the mail baggage from the airplane.

Date: 1918, May 15
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065340
Post-war economy of Britain; start of Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe; New York City auto show scenes

"Get your new ration books and identity cards here" seen written on a sign. British civilians line up to obtain new post-war ration books, after the end of World War 2. Women shopping for rationed food. British ships idle in ports as exports wane. View of New York harbor with tugs and barges and Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers in background. Woman holding poster advertising First International Auto Show (held from February 5-10, 1949, at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Twenty-fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, in New York City), including European cars to be shown in New York City. British cars in their first car show. One of the cars shown is the 1948 Ghost Minx with two women seated inside it. A 1948 Jaguar convertible is also shown. Communist parades in Europe and Asia. Start of Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild after the war. Newspaper shows President Truman signing Foreign Aid Bill (led to Marshall Plan).

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065563
USS Pueblo Lt. Commander Lloyd Bucher reads speech during news conference for Western and Asian reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea

USS Pueblo Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher (USS Pueblo Skipper) reads a speech during a news conference hosted by North Korea, saying that "those that sit before you, and the remainder of the Pueblo crew, are criminals who committed espionage and hostile acts after having intruded deep into" the territorial waters of North Korea. Western and Asian reporters with cameras listen to Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher’s speech. Man standing during news conference. Reporters during news conference. Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher ends his speech with a birthday greeting for his son Mark in the United States. News anchor Chet Huntley reports on the USS Pueblo crewmen news conference in North Korea.

Date: 1968, August 13
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078877
Animated map shows phototheodolites, tracking radars Stations near Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico

Sign reads "Holloman Air Force Base Alamogordo New Mexico”. An animated map of New Mexico showing the location of cities such as Alamogordo New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Map of New Mexico showing Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo and Mockingbird Gap. Then the animated map shows the various positions of phototheodolites and tracking radars between Holloman Air Force Base and Mockingbird Gap. Positions of the Beacon Triangulation Stations in New Mexico are also shown on the map.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079930
Newspaper printing process in the early 1970s for The Detroit News. Shows early use of computers in newspaper production.

Overview of steps in the writing, production, packaging, and delivery of the daily Detroit News newspaper, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Reporters and writers in a newspaper press room work on early Cathode Ray Terminals or CRT computers. A reporter writes and edits a story on a cathode ray terminal computer. The completed copy is sent at the speed of light through a computer to an automated composing room. The electronic signals are being converted into coded tapes. The hole punched tapes are seen being printed by machines and then the tapes are fed into an automated type setting machine. A man at the newspaper printing press lifts prepared typeset from a tray. A stereotype man makes a final cardboard mat of each completed page proof, which is seen being pressed through a large roller and then fed into a press plate machine for final casting. 60 tons of lead is used to stamp out the cylindrical press plates. Close up view of the cylindrical press plates being fed through machines. Men in the press room collect the final plates that are transported to them on a moving conveyor belt system. A man oils and inks the plates and loads them into a machine where they are ready to roll. View of the newspaper printing underway. Close up view of newspaper printing press operating at high speed with newspapers rolling. View of giant paper rolls being moved into position on a conveyor system providing raw paper for the newspaper, used at a rate of 500 tons per day. The press men read the news and relax, as the paper continues to roll through the presses on a non stop computerized control track. Final stacking of newspapers is performed by machines, making them ready for delivery. The newspaper is ready and is on the way to be delivered to the citizens. The news papers are loaded into a shipment van bearing a sign that reads "The Detroit News."

Date: 1974
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021551