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USAF trucks and men preparing the launch of photographic gondola in U.S.

USAF (United States Air Force) trucks with equipment and people in a desert area. Men preparing the launch of photographic gondola. Aerial view of photographic gondola. An aircraft is seen flying. A helium tank marked - Helium oil free. Plastic balloon inflated with helium.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958, January 15
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032447
B-47, F-94 and T-33 in flight for mission no. 45 of human downward ejection test

Mission No. 45 of human downward ejection test. Three USAF (United States Air Force) planes B-47 Stratojet, F-94 Starfire and T-33 Shooting Star. Test subject and seat ejected from plane. Seat and test subject separates. Parachute opens and parachutist descends. Footage is from U.S. Air Force aero-medical studies.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032461
WPA nurses conduct health check ups in nurseries while men construct roads and build dams in drought areas of the Great Plains.

Drought affected areas of the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression in the United States. A Nursery school in the drought area. Works Progress Administration (WPA) nurses conduct a health checkup physical examination of children. Children seated on benches in the school. A nurse questions a little girl. They administer typhoid serum. A nurse takes a little boy’s temperature while another examines a boy's eyes and throat for signs of problems caused by dust. Farmers with horses and horse carts. They construct roads under the Works Administration Program (WPA). They employ horses and plows for road building to carry crops to market. They cut wide fire lanes in drought damaged farms to prevent the spread of Prairie fire. Construction of assorted small dams to capture rainwater. Men transport dirt and rocks in wheelbarrows, dig in the ground, and work with machinery and equipment. Larger dams are also built. Men at cleared land. They twist strengthening wires into place using pliers. Men wearing gloves and smoking pipes work at the dam site.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032595
Construction of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana and ponds and lakes built by WPA relief workers in the Great Plains.

Drought affected areas of the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in the United States. U.S. Army engineers and WPA (Works Progress Administration) relief workers construct the Fort Peck Dam in Montana. Workers digging. Tunnels and spillways at the construction site. Heavy machinery and equipment. A worker on the tracks leading into a tunnel. The gigantic structure at the headwaters of the Missouri River. Ranchers with their cattle near ponds and lakes built by WPA labor. An old rancher on his horse with a dog alongside. Ranchers with horses as they drink from a pond. A rancher with his son and their dogs look on as cattle graze and bathe.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032596
Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II

Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032614
An instructor demonstrate aiming with sights on the M-16 rifle.

Instructional film about aiming the M-16 rifle, for USAF (United States Air Force). A group of U.S. airmen are seated in a class room. A Sergeant, instructor, demonstrates aiming technique. A series of sighting views is shown to illustrate proper aiming of the M-16.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1967, September 26
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032654
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