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1917 Enfield Rifles in final stages of production during WW I.

1917 Enfield Rifles (U. S. Rifle, Model of 1917) being manufactured in the United States at one of 3 arms plants (Winchester, Remington, or Eddystone) during World War 1 (between the Spring of 1917 and the Spring of 1919). Film shows assemblers hand fitting parts, a worker adjusting the front sight for proper "zero" in a machine vise, and "Proof" firing before final inspection and acceptance. (Note: At the peak of production, the 3 arms plants were turning out 10,000 rifles per day.)

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069497
Madame Chiang Kai-shek with American Red Cross girls, boards C-54 Skymaster and leaves for Chongqing, China.

Soong Mei-ling or Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Chongqing (Chungking), China from the United States. Madame Chiang with American Red Cross girls. She walks and speaks to the girls. Madame Chiang and the girls standing at the shore of a beach. Soong Mei-ling meets the U.S. officers and Generals. She is escorted by a Chinese official. Soong Mei-ling enters a car. She gets out of the car and climbs up a ladder. Soong Mei-ling boards C-54 Skymaster. The C-54 takes off for Chongqing. The aircraft in flight. A pilot and crew at controls. A crew member plotting a graph. The pilot at the controls talks. The crew members and the pilot talking.

Date: 1945, September 8
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069568
Formation of fifty aircraft flying over New York City during American Legion Parade.

American Legion Parade in the United States. The New York harbor. Formation of three P-3As in flight over New York City. The pilot at controls. Formation of fifty aircraft flying over New York City during American Legion Parade.

Date: 1937
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069583
The workers place glass in the car, paint body of the car and assemble different parts of Ford Model 40 Tudor Sedan.

A film depicts parts of Ford Model 40 Tudor Sedan car being assembled at Ford Motor Company in the United States. The workers grinding different parts. Several views of the men operating machine and working on the parts of car. A worker welding parts. The workers making body of the car. A worker painting body of a car. The workers doing glass grinding. The glass on conveyor. A worker placing glass in car. The workers putt upholstery in car. They attach body and fenders to frame. A worker placing tires. The Ford car moving off assembly line. A view in steel mill. A sign 'Production Schedule for To-day 5000, Completed 4996'.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069904
Aviators Edward F Schlee and William S. "Billy" Brock fly their 'Pride of Detroit' aircraft in North America.

The history of famous airplanes. Aviators Edward F Schlee and William S. "Billy" Brock at Curtiss Field in New York, United States. An aircraft parked on the airfield. Brock and Schlee stand beside the aircraft. Pilot Brock's head protrudes from the pilot's compartment of the airplane. 'Miss Wayco' painted on the nose section of the airplane. The pilot waves towards the spectators. Stinson monoplane model, 'Pride of Detroit' aircraft flown by the two men. The aircraft takes off. The two men stand beside their airplane at Harbor Grace in Newfoundland. Men work on their aircraft. A tarpaulin lying over the top of engine for protection. Men pour fuel in the wing tanks from five gallon containers. A man works on the engine. Spectators gather around the airplane. The aircraft takes off from Newfoundland. Spectators perched upon a hill nearby.

Date: 1927, August
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070311
Origin of the U.S. Census and its development and refinement over time.

(Animated cartoons for majority of clip; actual office and early computer scenes near end of clip.) Accompanying narration about the origins of the United States census and establishment of the permanent Census office in 1902. Animation and cartoons illustrate the manner in which the census was taken over its history. A cartoon illustration of census worker, Henry Hollerith, developer of the punch card method of data recording and manipulation. (The 88 column punch cards shown in use in 1950, bear his name.) Equipment illustrated include: punch card sorting machinery; and early digital computer. Actual Images of 1970 era early computer and tape machines and related electronic computer keyboards. A worker mounting a tape on a machine in an office.

Date: 1970
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070322