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Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II

Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032614
A documentary on the struggle of the Marines from Chosin Reservoir to Hungnam in Korea during Korean War.

A documentary on the struggle of Marines from Chosin Reservoir to Hungnam, Korea. Soldiers chopping logs in a camp in Autumn snow in Korea. Soldiers grouped around fire, some are sleeping on pack. Views of oil pipes laid over uphills. Aerial views of rugged mountainous country. Airplanes in flight, planes drop bombs. American soldiers slowly moving up a snow covered hill with bazookas and rifles. North Korean prisoners come staggering uphill to U.S. soldiers. Prisoners sitting in the snow, U.S. soldier offers a prisoner some coffee. Bare feet of a prisoner in snow.

Location: Chosin reservoir Korea
Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032648
Captured films showing Viet Cong making improvised explosive devices and booby traps in Vietnam

Various views of Viet Cong (VC) shown in captured films. Two U.S. F-105 jet aircraft seen flying overhead. Viet Cong, including a girl, dragging limbs on road for use in hiding positions and camouflaging booby traps. VC wiring artillery rounds for improvised explosive devices and booby traps. Views of Viet Cong crossing a river in dugouts. (Vietnam War period).

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032695
Babe Ruth presents baseball equipment to United States War Secretary George Dern at Griffith Stadium, Washington DC.

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt with newly appointed Cabinet at Griffith Stadium, Washington DC for a game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. Views of parade and army band playing musical instruments. Band plays several songs, opening with part of Hail to the Chief. Many advertising signs seen all over the stadium. Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees presents authographed baseball equipment to the U.S. War Secretary Mr. George Dern and speaks to Secretary Dern telling him he has sent other autographed equipment to the servicemen, and that the ball and bat he's handing over are for Secretary Dern. Secretary Dern thanks Babe Ruth for the autographed equipment which he says will be used by the military service men in training during the summer.

Location: Washington DC Griffith Stadium USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032717
Early Bell Laboratory technology in computer art and computer animation for communication, advertising, motion pictures.

Computer screen showing animation of a silhouette of a man running. Narrator states that the first such image was generated at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey in the early 1960s. More views of the so called "Olympic Runner" graphic design generated by the Bell Laboratories newest digital computer. Colors like pink, blue and red are used in the early, historic computer art and animation technology. Men seated in a control room, interacting with the digital computer and other animation and recording hardware. Views of computer monitor screens and discussion by narrator about various visual forms created by computers. Various computer generated images are shown on the screen. Engineer stands in front of video tape machine where the images are being recorded. More computer and animation hardware is shown including an Animation Aid. Narrator describes process of photographing analog computer art work onto motion picture film and then enhancing it with color choices. Engineer is seen operating camera, and then a close up view of motion picture film running on machines and on reels. Animation and color consultant in discussion as they stand over some frames of the film that they have isolated. Sample work of early computer artists is shown, with moving animated art seen on screen, combining color and motion in new ways that were not possible before the digital computer. Another view of the video tape machine operating. Narrator discusses use of the computer also in development of computer generated music that accompanies the visual images. Animated clock is seen. Different kinds of animations are seen.

Location: New Jersey USA
Date: 1972
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032792
Lou and Eleanor Hamilton from New Jersey with their mobile home and mobile dialysis machine.

Lou and Eleanor Hamilton and family comes out of their house in New Jersey, enter their custom mobile home (a converted bus) and start traveling. While Lou drives, Eleanor sits next to him with their dog on her lap. While they travel, we see their son shaving and their daughter making tea and playing cards. The narrator explains that traveling for them is possible only because Lou created a portable dialysis machine for use by Eleanor, who has kidney disease. Various shots of Lou constructing the machine are seen. He uses a drill press to drill metal. We also see a second bus that Lou has created called the 'Kidney Koach' which he has outfitted with various exhibits explaining kidney disease and the mechanics behind kidney dialysis.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1972
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032793
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