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Destroyer Escort USS Frament, DE 677, is built and launched. Destroyer Escorts fitted out, readied for shakedown cruise

U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Brennan, DE-13,underway. U.S. navy crew aboard the ship. View at shipbuilding area of Bethlehem Steel in Quincy, Massachusetts. Keel is laid and shipbuilders busy on day 60 of construction of DE-677, the USS Frament. Scenes of construction. Welding steel plate. DE-677 is christened USS Frament and launched on June 28, 1943. Destroyer Escorts at pier, being fitted out. New ship's crew assembled on pier and boards for shakedown cruise. Supplies and munitions loaded on board the ship, including ammunition, depth charges, and torpedoes ("tin fish").

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022981
Lessons from microscopic science lead to advances in antiseptic surgery, pasteurization, and vaccinations.

1930s narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. View of a microscope. Chemist or scientist looks through a microscope in laboratory. Microscopic view of the living organisms. Milk pasteurized by heated coils in large drums. Milk graded with pasteurization label. Boy drinks a glass of milk. Narrator describes milk as "the most valuable of all our foods for health." Sterilization techniques introduced in surgical operations: Doctor Joseph Lister of London (dramatized by an actor) shown with a spray can administering a "poison spray" to kill germs and disinfect a surgical or operating theatre. Surgeon performs antiseptic surgery on patient. Surgeon sterilizes the instruments to be used in an operation by pouring carbolic acid solution over them. View of operating instruments being removed from a heated steam chamber used to kill germs on the instruments. Doctors performing a surgery. Dramatized scenes of a doctor arriving at a home in Berlin to treat a girl suffering from Diphtheria. View of sick girl in a bed, through an outside window with snow falling, and the girl's mother and a nurse assisting her. The doctor gives the girl a diphtheria inoculation. Girl is shown recovered and walks outside of her home and gives a hug to her mother. Public vaccination clinics: Young children, including a young boy and an infant, receiving immunizations in a doctors office.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023089
Government workers plant saplings in the mountains of Columbia National Forest in Yacolt, Washington.

Government workers on horseback cross a stream in Yacolt, Washington. They plant saplings in the mountains of Columbia National Forest during a giant re-forestation project. They use big log as bridge to cross stream. Pack horses carry the saplings for planting. Men use pickaxes to plant the saplings and work their way in a formation line up a hill as they plant.

Date: 1934, April 9
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023133
President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviews a parade past the White House, following his 2nd inaugural in 1937.

President Franklin Roosevelt's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, is seen standing with her grandaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger, who holds the hand of her daughter, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall. The President's son, Elliot Roosevelt and his wife, Ruth Josephine Googins Roosevelt, stand with them. Next, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, holding a bouquet of flowers, are seen in an open car. Scene shifts to the White House porch, where a protected Presidential reviewing stand has been set up, along with chairs. View of President Roosevelt, in a top hat, receiving congratulations from officials. Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and another admiral (possibly recently retired CNO, William Harrison Standley) are seen in full dress uniforms. The President's son, Elliot Roosevelt is also present, to assist FDR when necessary. Some mounted U.S. Army cavalry ride past the reviewing stand, saluting with swords. An automobile is seen driving along the wet street, accompanied by a formation of motorcycle police officers. President Roosevelt holding onto a built-in railing, reviews various elements and units in the inaugural parade, including several military marching bands. Army Chief of Staff, General Malin Craig, rides past on horseback, and renders a sabre salute to the President. He is followed by a contingent of U.S. Army mounted cavalry. One of the marching bands is seen from another camera location. An open top 1935 Duesenberg SJ Dual-Cowl Phaeton, with exposed exhaust tubes, is seen, displaying a small banner on its door, reading "Pennsylvania." Numerous closed sedans, carrying notables, drive along the wet street, past the President, who waves his hat and smiles at some. Vice President, John Nance Garner IV, shares the reviewing stand with FDR.

Date: 1937, January 20
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023142
Doctor examines child suffering from tuberculosis in crib at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.

Nurse attends to child suffering from tuberculosis in crib at Henry Ford Hospital (2799 West Grand Boulevard Detroit, Michigan 48202, Wayne County, Michigan, United States), in Detroit. The nurse removes the girl’s shoes. She measures the child’s height and weight using a stadiometer. The nurse checks the child’s pulse on the bed. The nurse undresses and covers the child with bed sheet. Mother seated on chair next to the child. Doctor examines child's ear, mouth and chest. He looks at X-Ray pointing to spots in lungs. Doctor examines child's chest and heart with stethoscope. Eye examination of child using chart with animals.

Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023152
Agriculture department officials in conference discuss reading maps in Washington DC.

Agriculture department officials in conference discuss reading maps in Washington DC. Sign over door reads 'AAA Director of Information'. Woman types report. Bundles of AAA checks in the treasury building. Addressograph in process addressing U.S. Government checks to recipients. Piles of U.S. government checks.

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023178