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Huge crowd gathers to see Amelia Earhart depart on round-the-world flight. Earhart and associates load airplane.

Large crowd watches from fenced area at U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, waiting to catch a glimpse of Amelia Earhart departing on her round-the-world flight. . Inside hanger number 3, Amelia Earhart Putnam, husband George Putnam, Fred Noonan, Paul Mantz, and Harry Manning, complete loading of the Lockheed Electra airplane, for the flight.

Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063658
Fire fighters extinguish Christmas Eve fire in Oval Office and West Wing of the White House in Washington D.C.

Fire at the White House in Washington D.C., United States. Fire fighters climb up ladders to get to the roof and high windows of the building to extinguish the blaze. Fire trucks responding, and firemen using hoses to soak the blaze in the Oval Office and West Wing. Firemen bail water from flooded rooms. View of the White House building in the morning. Records, pictures, and furniture piled outside after being saved from the fire.

Date: 1929, December 24
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063697
Federal officials declare war on criminals and gangsters during great depression era in the United States

Two police motorcycles escort a black truck carrying Martin Insull, following his deportation from Canada. The truck displays "Atlas Bro Co" across its top. (Martin is brother of the famous fugitive, Samuel Insull who fled the country following the collapse of his various utility company holding companies, most notably Middle Western Utilities.) Martin Insull is being brought to the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, to answer charges about his involvement in the matter. Scene shifts to Cook County Courthouse where Martin Insull is escorted by various officials. A group of men and women stand in the area. Some exhibit signs of distress. View from above of the Cook County jail. Smoke from stacks obscuring it somewhat. Change of scene shows heavily armed FBI agents escorting handcuffed and chained gangster George Francis Barnes aka “Machine Gun Kelly" at an American Airlines facility in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1933. They escort him past a parked airplane. Closeup of the "Lima News" of Lima, Ohio, with headline reflecting a national federal campaign against gangsters and criminals in the U.S. View of crowded courtroom. View of Alcatraz prison on its rock island in San Francisco Bay, California. Interior view of cell blocks in Alcatraz. Federal officials escorting arrested men in handcuffs who hide their faces as they approach the camera.

Date: 1934
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063714
Flight and aftermath of crash of high altitude hydrogen balloon "Explorer I" in Rapid City, South Dakota.

View of the "Explorer I" Stratosphere Balloon with a Pressurized Capsule as it prepares for take off with three occupants near Rapid City, South Dakota. U.S. Army Air Corps personnel working with the National Geographic Explorers to prepare for launch. View of the balloon during its successful take off from the ground at the "Stratobowl" in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Aerial views from a nearby airplane of the Explorer I balloon in flight over wild natural terrain. Several views of a family in a living room gathered at console radio and other people gathered at radio to listen to reports about the balloon. View of radio announcers in studio during reporting. Next scenes show aftermath of crash. Men sort through wreckage of balloon and gondola. "Army Air Corps" written on part the wrecked pressurized Capsule. Wreckage of the balloon. Officials inspect the capsule and balloon fabric wreckage. (The crew parachuted safely to the ground shortly before the gondola crashed in Loomis, Nebraska.) View of crew members on the ground including Army Air Corps Captain Albert W. Stevens, Flight commander Major William Kepner, and Captain Orville A. Anderson, pilot.

Date: 1934, July 28
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063724
Specialty saw blades being manufactured in the Disston plant at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Workers engaged in the manufacture of saw blades in the factory of Henry Disston and Sons, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A man using large grinder to smooth edges of saw blanks. A worker running sheet steel stock through a roller mill.Close-up shows replaceable crescent shaped insert teeth for circular saw blade. Worker polishing handsaw handles with the help of a powered buffer.

Date: 1920
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063732
United States Army troops drill with rifles and pistols at a training camp in preparation for mission to Veracruz, Mexico

U.S. Army soldiers arrive at a training encampment by train. Soldiers in training each firing a pistol at targets on an open field. Groups of soldiers prone in a line firing rifles, then running across a field. The troops mount a wall obstacle. Again they lie prone and fire across a field. The troops are in training for mission to Veracruz Mexico following the Tampico Affair.

Date: 1914
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063749