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Airplane flight endurance record set by U.S. Army Air Service Fokker trimotor aircraft using inflight refueling

The U.S. Army Air Service modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A, named the 'Question Mark,' taxis and takes off. Refueling operation between the Question Mark and a Douglas C-1 aircraft. Question Mark in flight over the coast of California. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1refueling plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above the Question Mark. Crew member can be seen disconnecting the 3 inch fuel hose and throwing it off the Question Mark. After being aloft continuously for 6 days, the Question Mark landed at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929. Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Captain Ira C. Eaker and Major Carl A. Spatz, stand beside their airplane. (Spatz later changed spelling of his name to Spaatz.)

Date: 1929, January 7
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033872
President Coolidge present pilots with citations after the successful goodwill mission.

Brief scenes from the U.S. Army Air Service Pan American good will flight that covered 22,000 miles on a goodwill mission to 21 Central and South American nations, during 1926-1927. A view of the hangar area and flight line of Kelly Air Field in Texas, as one of the five Loening OA-1 Amphibious aircraft, on the mission, takes off from the runway on Dec. 21, 1926. Five of the aircraft in formation over a large city. U.S.President Calvin Coolidge presents the aircrews with citations for the Distinguished Flying Cross, at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1927.

Date: 1926
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033874
U.S. Army Air Service Lt. Cyrus Bettis wins the Pulitzer Trophy at the International Air Races, Mitchel Field, New York

U.S. Army pilot Lieutenant Cyrus Bettis gets out of his Curtiss R3C-1 racer airplane after winning the Pulitzer Trophy Race and setting a new world speed record of 249.3 miles per hour in the International Air Races at Mitchel Field, New York. He is congratulated by U.S. Army Air Service Major T. G. Lanphier.

Date: 1925, October 12
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033879
Seabiscuit 'Wonder Horse' is taken to his owner's farm after the retirement from Santa Anita Race Track in California.

Seabiscuit 'Wonder Horse' retires from the Santa Anita Race Track in California. Seabiscuit with a jockey. He gets in a van. A sign on the van reads ' Caution Horse Van'. He is taken to his owner's farm.

Date: 1940, April 15
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033957
A woman on a train sits and looks through window of moving train. Man joins her. River beside passenger train.

A woman sits on a chair of a Amtrak passenger train and looks through the window. Other people sitting nearby her. Man arrives and sits beside her. The train passes beside a river, viewed from just outside the train.

Date: 1985, November 13
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027208
Dramatization: Formation of Ku Klux Klan

Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A house in South Carolina. A woman meets another in a boarding. Gus, the renegade stands and watches them. The two ladies meet in a garden. They hug each other. A house situated in background. The woman shakes hands with a man. She talks to him. The Little Colonel arrives. He stands on the street. Both of the ladies talk. The woman leaves after sometime. A chair present outside the house. The little colonel orders Gus to keep away from the girl. Gus talks to another man. The little colonel sits nearby a river. He smokes cigar. Some children arrive near the river. They put a white covering on them and hide in the field. Other children arrive and watch them. The Ku Klux Klan,or KKK, is formed.

Date: 1916
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027385