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Tribesmen use herb brews and make sacrifices to treat epidemics and diseases in Central Africa

Contrasts the methods used by witch doctors with Protestant missionaries in Africa. African tribesmen use herb brews to treat patients suffering from diseases. Witch doctor addresses the tribesmen and performs sacrifices to please the god. Men sit in a group as sacrifices performed. Men, women and children suffer from sleeping sickness. A man with ulcers on his body due to unhygienic conditions. Patients lined up at a mission hospital

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048512
Metals being used in various industries like ship and aircraft manufacturing in United States

Highlights the importance and role of science in business. Application of science in usage of metals to make them more useful for mankind. Metal being melted in a foundry, metal being molded under high pressure. Machining of tungsten to be used in electrical industry. Aircrafts made of Beryllium, a metal lighter than aluminum, take off and in flight. Ship made of steel gets underway in sea.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048645
Ford tractor used to plows a field in United States.

Ford tractor demonstrated in United States. Ford tractor drawn plows used to plow a field as people look on. A tug of war between men and the tractor as men try to pull the tractor with a rope. Tractor wins the tug of war. Tractor draws a plow and a disk in the field. Tractor drawn reaper used to harvest the crops in a field.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048690
Production of U.S. Army uniforms in World War 1: Women pile up army uniforms and pack them in bundles.

Women workers in a textile factory pile up stitched American army uniforms in bundles. Men workers tie strings around bundles of U.S. army uniforms ready for use by American soldiers in World War I. Packed bundles of uniforms are stacked up by men at the factory.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048739
U.S. Sailors sign up double their subscriptions during Victory loan drive in New York City

A U.S. Navy Ensign, enlists sailors to increase their allotments for Victory bonds. Sailors are assembled at a Navy Supply Depot, in New York City. Ensign A D Leveridge calls for volunteers to double their subscriptions during a Victory Bond Drive. They volunteer, en masse. Next, they are seen at the Altar of Liberty, on Fifth Avenue and Madison Square, where Lieutenant Commander WD Loveridge and other U.S. Naval officers and women volunteers process their requests. LCDR Loveridge and Ensign Leveridge, converse in front of the group of sailors. Scene shifts back to the Supply Depot, where sailors stand in formation. a woman Yeoman (F) delivers a report about the bond subscriptions to Ensign Leveridge, who salutes and presents it to LCDR Loveridge. He and the Yeoman (F) present it to a Navy Commander, who reads and returns it. The ensign and Yeoman depart as LCDR Loveridge stands before the formation.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048789
Newly recruited American soldiers arriving in U.S. Army training camps; Dutch steamer Amsterdam seized in New York Harbor

World War I Draft and mobilization activities in 1917-1918. American WWI military recruits get down from a railroad train to get to the training camp. U.S. Military officials board the seized Dutch steamer ship in New York Harbor (seized as a neutral vessel during timeframe that Dutch ships under the modus vivendi agreement with the allies were threatened by German U-boats). The ship appears to be the Nieuw Amsterdam. (Lettering behind officials as they board is clearly "Amsterdam" but there is an obstructed word before that may be "Nieuw". Several Dutch ships were seized by U.S. military officials during this same month, including the Nieuw Amsterdam). Crew on the deck of the steamer ship Amsterdam. Dutch flag flying on the ship.

Date: 1918, March
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048796