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American soldiers trained to maintain their fitness in United States

U.S. Army soldiers trained at unit level to maintain their fitness in the United States. Soldiers march, play team sports like rugby, run cross country, workout. At a swimming pool, they undergo water survival test and swim with a rifle for 15 meters in a pool. Soldiers learn hand to hand combat tactics. Soldiers and paratroopers in simulated combat situations.

Date: 1967
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048113
Rise of Capitalism and the growing concern for worker's rights during 20th Century in United States

Industrialization and the rise of capitalism and organized labor in 20th Century United States. Stockyards, factories and farms in Chicago area. Elevated view over Chicago stockyards as cattle move through the stockyards. Mass production takes place in factories leading to rise of capitalism in United States. Views inside a rubber goods factory as rubber is shaped, heated, formed, nad then passed on to a sewing room. A room full of mostly young men is seen at belt-driven mechanical sewing machines working on the rubber goods which resemble rubber hats. A more advanced mechanized reaper or wheat processing machine in use on a farm. Scene changes to a man standing in front of giant tall chalk boards, perhaps at an commodity exchange or shipment scheduling and tracking company of some kind. Boards are marked "Liverpool" and "New Orleans Jobs" and "New Orleans" and "New York." Formation of American Federation of Labor by Samuel Gompers and efforts of Jack London to safeguard the rights of laborers in America. Two labor workers hold picket signs and protest.

Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048135
Inventions lead to better living conditions in United States

Mix of dramatized and actual footage. Invention of telephone leads to an era of urbanization, industrialization, mass production, capitalism and more employment in United States. Dynamite explosion at a hillside making way for telephone wire network expansion in America. Workers employed in electric bulb and telephone manufacturing plants. Views of networks of telephone polls. Early telephone switchboard operators in an operations center. People in homes using early two piece telephones.

Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048138
United States destroyers, heavy cruiser, and light cruiser bombard Tarawa Island in Pacific Theater

U.S. Navy World War II battleship, destroyers, heavy cruiser and light cruiser bombard the Island of Tarawa in Pacific Theater, in November 1943. Smoke rises from the beach. A 16" gun on board USS Maryland (BB-46) bombards Tarawa. Shells burst in air and island obscured by smoke. Depth charges explode in water as light cruiser continues to bombard the island. Ship at timecode 2:34 and 3:10 is a heavy cruiser of the Portland or Northhampton class, based on catapults with sea planes located at mid ship. Based on ship assignments and locations at that time, this would make it either the USS Chester (CA-27), the USS Portland (CA-33), or the USS Indianapolis (CA-35).

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048156
American marines clean mortar on board a ship in Pacific Theater

Equipment on deck of APA (transport ship) United States marine walk between small craft on the deck of a ship while on their way to invade Tarawa in Pacific Theater. APA ship sends blinker message as the sky is overcast. Several transport ships underway in the sea. United States Navy Arthur Middleton, a transport ship. Marines clean mortar on board a transport ship using ramrods.

Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048161
King Paul I and Queen Frederica of Greece, and their children, receive formal welcome in Athens

U.S. Generals greet Greek counterparts.Officials gather outside Athens Cathedral, including Prime Minister Themistoklis Sophoulis. King Paul I of the Hellenes and Queen Consort Frederica of Hanover arrive by open motorcar, accompanied by their children, Prince Constantine, Princess Sophia, and Princess Irene. Greek troops are assembled in formation across the street, in front of the Legislature building. King Paul and Queen Frederica are greeted by the Prime Minister and the Archbishop, and other officials, as they enter the Cathedral.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048176