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President Woodrow Wilson and other dignitaries draw draft slips at New York Herald's office in New York, during World War I.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson talks at New York Herald's office in New York, United States, in World War 1. Headlines of the newspaper 'The New York Herald'. Draft slips enclosed in gelatin capsules are put into a glass bowl. Woodrow Wilson's eyes are covered with a blindfold. Wilson draws a draft number from the bowl. Other dignitaries also draw draft numbers one by one in the same fashion. The draft slips read and result declared. Man writes results on a New York Herald's Bulletin Board. People gather in large numbers to see the results. Men raise their hats and cheer after knowing the results. U.S. flags hung outside New York Herald's building. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917, May
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030402
Thousands of inductees march on 5th Avenue in New York City, during World War I.

Theodore Roosevelt and other dignitaries watch new inductees, in civilian clothes, march in a parade on 5th Avenue, New York City during World War 1. Thousands of inductees march from the recruit draft center carrying the U.S. flags. Men on rooftops watch the parade. U.S. flags hand from several buildings. Back at the recruiting center, new recruits, with their baggage, are escorted to curbside by an official. Several young women well-wishers speak to them. Other recruits are directed by Army soldiers, at a railroad yard, where a train waits to carry them to camp. Some passing railroad workers taunt the recruits and an Army soldier has to step in to quell the start of a fight. Another quick view of recruits leaving the center. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030403
American women workers punch mica into strips and washers.

Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map of India is shown. Women workers in America punch mica into strips and washers that insulates a telephone's transmitter. Animation shows the use of mica inside a telephone's transmitter.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030434
Cotton is picked and bailed in United States.

Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. Women pick cotton at a cotton farm in United States. Bales of cotton taken on hand carts. Animation shows the use of cotton thread inside a telephone's transmitter.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030435
Silk worms taken from mulberry trees, sorted and placed on thorns to weave cocoons in China.

Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows location of China. Silk worms are taken from mulberry trees in China. Worms are sorted and placed in a nest of thorns to weave cocoons. Cocoons are picked up from the nest. Man shows a box containing various samples of silk. Animation shows the use of silk as an insulator inside a telephone.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030436
Platinum is mined and mixed with silver and gold to produce alloy, Russia.

Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of Russia. Platinum mined in the dredges of Ural Mountain streams. Hand examines crushed platinum ore in a bowl. Mixture of silver, gold and platinum is melted and poured into mold. The resultant alloy bar is placed between samples of gold, silver and platinum on a table. Animation shows use of the alloy in a telephone instrument.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030439