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TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) member takes a class on health education in Tennessee.

Creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. An ambulance drives in front of hospital at Tennessee River Basin. Wounded man on stretcher is brought to the hospital for medical treatment. Sign board reads 'Anderson County Health Unit'. TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) member takes a class on health education. Children holding cards stand in line. Doctor gives vaccines to them.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023071
New electrified inventions for TVA farmers, including Incubators, electric refrigeration, community cold storage, and grinders

Describes advances in farming and rural life due to rural electrification efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). View of incubators and brooders for chicks to hatch. Farmer pushes down a weighted sand bag that pulls up an umbrella over new chicks. An electric refrigerated drum containing milk to be marketed. Farmer checks thermometer in drum. Farmer places milk cans into an electric refrigerator. A community cold storage unit containing baskets of fruits and vegetables. Farmer wheels a cart into the cold storage and places more baskets inside. Farmers demonstrating new labor saving electrified devices including a separator, a corn kernel peeler, and a belt-driven grain grinder. Animated map shows the Tennessee River Basin with TVA developments. View of a power plant and power transmission towers and lines.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023095
The 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy crosses the Continental Divide in Wyoming

Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy from Washington, DC to San Francisco, California, roll along the dirt road of the Lincoln Highway, crossing the Continental Divide, in Wyoming. Behind them, soldiers walk near a slow moving truck with sign painted on its back reading: "Coast to Coast Machine Shop, Service Park Unit 595." Another truck slowly passes the same point, where there is a downhill grade. A dwelling is at the side of the road, and others are seen in the background. The road is dry hard-packed dirt. Next, trucks of the convoy are seen driving on a road parallel to a railroad on which a steam locomotive is pushing a long train of freight cars in the same direction as the trucks. View of trucks driving past extended snake rail fencing.

Location: Wyoming United States USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025552
Airplane crash on Crystal Mountain within the Rocky Mountain range in Colorado

View of United Air Lines Flight 610 plane crash site on the slopes of Crystal Mountain west of Fort Collins, Larimer County, in Colorado. The Douglas DC-6 airliner “Mainliner Overland Trail” (N37543) was making its way towards Denver, Colorado. The engine of the crashed airplane can be seen. People at the crash site. Dead bodies are put in an ambulance. View of a rabbit killed by the crash. 50 people died in the plane crash.

Location: Colorado United States USA
Date: 1951, June 30
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025742
Demonstration of military free fall parachuting at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.

Recon Marines from 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Test Unit 1 demonstrate free fall parachuting. A sign identifies the Auxiliary Landing Field at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. (Narrator refers to the marines as para-scouts of the 1st Marine Division.) The marines, wearing back and chest parachute packs, board a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft with tail code "RZ" and number 136777. It taxis on the ramp and is next seen taking off from the runway. Two helicopters are parked on the airfield ramp. Next, viewed from the aircraft, a marine is seen in free fall. Soon he appears as only a speck , approaching the ground. Next, he is seen, from the ground, as his chute finally opens, and he lands, and begins to spill air from his billowing chute on the ground.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027978
Use of artificial lightning equipment in Project Thunderstorm, and radar operations supporting project and its aircraft

Tug tows Northrop F-15 Reporter into hangar in Minneapolis, Minnesota to be instrumented for Project Thunderstorm. Various scenes of electrical equipment used in making man-made lightning, including a generator made up of hundreds of transformers, and a connected massive generator for producing high voltage. A large oscillograph is shown along with a smaller oscillograph designed for airborne use. A scientist is seen inside the giant generator. Artificial lightning tests are made on canopy of the F-15 occupied by a scientist, and the canopy remains intact following lightning strike. Lightning rods are attached to lightning-vulnerable nose, tail fin, and wing tip locations of the Project Thunderstorm aircraft. Pilot climbs into canopy of F-15. Airborne F-15 project aircraft seen in flight headed toward area of dark clouds. In Ohio at Clinton County Army Air Field, a project officer (AAF Captain) describes how search procedures of the pilot, weather observer, and radar observer are coordinated and key locations of radar and cooperating facilities at Jamestown and the Clinton County Army Airfield. Large radar antenna revolving on top of large tower, scanning for signs of thunderstorms. Radar antenna scanning vertically, near Quonset huts. Command center inside a quonset hut with project personnel at radar scopes and thunderstorm and aircraft positions plotted on large plexiglass screens. Technician adjust motion picture camera that photographs radar scopes every four seconds. Operator at vertical measuring instrument, showing reflected returns from targets, on July 18, 1947. View of operator at plan position indicator radar scope showing weather returns on June 6, 1947. Ground Control Approach (GCA) truck located near end of airfield to guide landings of Thunderstorm aircraft. Radio operators sitting at radar scopes inside the GCA unit. P-61 makes GCA approach and landing in good weather, to maintain skills needed when weather is bad. Briefing officer at blackboard cites radio channels to be used for various purposes. View of AAF aircrews in audience.

Location: Ohio United States USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 8 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034362
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