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Sheriff's deputies and federal agents from Bureau of Prohibition raid an illegal liquor still in Downey, California.

A factory site. Signboard reads 'Kearn Tin Insulation Work' outside the factory. A man stacks tin containers. Two men pull a drum over a plank. Sheriff's men arrive at the site firing handguns (dramatization). Holes in window panes due to firing. Three men from factory come out with their hands-up. Federal prohibition agents and local law enforcement pull down tin siding around the factory. They break hose pipes and smash other machinery used in the illegal liquor still. An agent punctures holes in the piled tin containers filled with bootleg moonshine. Liquor gushes from the punctured tins

Date: 1932, October 24
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023913
A beauty contest watched by a crowd and captured by camera-man in coastal United States.

Contestants of a bathing beauty contest arrive on ramp, perform and retire. The contest is in a coastal beach area. The crowd around the ramp cheers. Contestants wear bathing suits. They also wear tag with a number on it. A motion picture camera-man under an umbrella covers the event. Authorities pose for a photograph. Contestant number 19, 22 and 13 appear on stage. All contestants align near the ramp for a round. Motion picture camera man using hand cranked camera. A man stands with contestant numbers 19, 22 and 13. The contestants arrive on ramp from one end, perform and retire from the other end.

Date: 1926
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023953
Parachute riggers trained to maintain parachute under instructor's guidance in United States.

Airplane in air. Riggers with their parachutes. They jump from the plane and open their parachute. Riggers land on ground. A rigger removes his parachute after landing. Riggers sitting in maintenance shed. An instructor guides them to operate sewing machine through a model. A light duty sewing machine is used to patch canopy of parachute. A part of parachute canopy patched is displayed. Parker, a rigger operates a heavy duty sewing machine to repair harness of the parachute. Suspension lines are sown on a zigzag sewing machine. Hook is attached on a parachute on a hook and eye attachment sewing machine. The rib-cord is reinforced on a bar tacking machine. Holes are darned in the parachute canopy on a darning machine. Riggers darn holes with hands. They also replace hooks and harness assemblies. Parker works in the maintenance shed on a table. He checks canopy and notes on a pad. He also checks the suspension lines and harness assembly.

Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023961
Various weapons of United States Army field artillery

Film opens showing a U.S. Army M115 Field Howitzer 8 inch (Towed) firing in a field. fireball emerges from the gun barrel. Several M101-105mm-howitzers fire in a field. Gun crews firing M114 155 mm Howitzers. Next scene shows numerous black flak clouds over a hilly landscape. Then shells explode on the ground. Glimpse of the breech on a 155mm M1 gun. A soldier holding his ears as he calls a firing command. A crew firing an M115 8-inch Field Howitzer. An Honest John missile in firing position on a mobile launcher. It is launched and rises vertically creating heavy clouds of smoke. Next, several 155mm M109, Self Propelled howitzers are seen proceeding along a dirt road. A gun crew fires a 105mm Howitzer M101A1 (Towed) under direction of a Sergeant. A Warhead (conventional, or nuclear) being assembled to the motor of an Honest John Missile MGR-1B (M50) 762mm Rocket. Next, a soldier installs tail vanes on the missile whick is seen being slowly raised upward on its M386 mobile launcher.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023971
Life of African American farmers in southern United States in the early 1920s.

Rube Collins, African American tenant farmer in the American rural south, at work as he sharpens his tools. Hannah, his wife, draws a bucket of water from well. Obe, one of his sons, is holding a rifle or shotgun which he inspects. A woman feeds poultry. A child sits on stairs and eats. People engaged in farming in the fields. They use a tool, possibly a hoe, clearing space between planted rows of a crop, possibly cotton. They leave the fields. African American children play in front of a simple farmhouse or cabin, with one out building. A man plays violin and a older woman sits next to him in a rocking chair. Children wearing no shoes dance in the dirt in front of the house.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023989
Tuskegee Institute in United States, and training of agricultural extension agents in Alabama.

Buildings of Tuskegee Institution. Exterior views of many buildings of the Tuskegee Institute. Picture of Booker T Washington. Instructors train students in carpentry, farming and dairy farm. A Jessup wagon, used to transport trained extension agents for teaching farming skills to African American farmers in Alabama, is inspected.

Date: 1921
Duration: 4 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023991