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Work Progress Administration directors review scripts; performance of "It Can't Happen Here" in Boston; WPA African American actors perform

Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079044
Film executives meeting in Los Angeles; Work Progress Administration staff and actors under WPA Federal Theater Project prepare and perform on stage

View of Paramount Pictures movie studio entrance. Hollywood film executives such as Paramount Picture’s Adolph Zukor in a meeting. View of Motion Picture Daily with news saying “Federal- NBC Units to Use Film Houses”. Two men buy theater tickets for a vaudeville show by the Federal Theater Project of the Great Depression organization called the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Works Progress Administration staff under the Federal Theater Project create props and stage design. A Works Progress Administration carpenter uses a Delta woodworking machinery. Works Progress Administration costume designer shows a design for a dress. Close up shot of Works Progress Administration costume designer. WPA technicians work on stage set design. A Works Progress Administration tailor measures a portly actor’s waistline. Seamstresses working in the costume department of the Federal Theater Project. Artist painting a background for a stage play. A seamstress adjusts a high slit dress of an actress. A milliner arranges a Fascinator, with tulle and pom-poms, on an actress’ head. Two actors and an actress practice a dance number together. Men and women dancers practice a dance. A pair of dancers perform a no-touch tango. Theater marquee saying, “Oh say can you sing WPA Music Comedy”. Newspaperman announcing show business news on newspaper. Orchestra plays inside a theater. Actors and actresses, in different period costumes, perform “Oh Say Can You Sing” as an ensemble after the curtains opened. View of faces of audience members as they clap and smile after watching the performance.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079045
The first American orbital spaceflight carrying astronaut John Glenn, "Friendship 7", before launching to space from Cape Canaveral

NASA logo. A message scrolls from a sign saying, “Glenn ready for orbital flight”. A message scrolls through the black screen “Friendship 7”. View of Times Square across the Hotel Claridge and the iconic “Camel Man” billboard. View of London, United Kingdom across the Big Ben Tower of London. View of Paris, France. Italian vegetable market vendor peels an artichoke and talks about the American astronaut, John Glenn, and his impending take off from Cape Canaveral as the first American to orbit earth. An Arab vendor sells children’s jackets. View of Hong Kong. View of Japanese neon signs in Tokyo- a Japanese kanji character meaning “East”, and “Toshiba”. A Mexican mariachi walks in a park carrying a guitar case. Views of television sets showing news about the launch of Friendship 7- the spaceship carrying John Glenn. Close-up views of various consumer vintage black and white television sets with television screens all showing scenes about Friendship 7 preparing to launch. McDonnell engineers work in Cape Canaveral to prepare Friendship 7 for launch. Engineers jot down notes. A NASA engineer pushed some buttons. An “Astronautics” scientist observes the status of the Friendship 7.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079049
Lord Louis Mountbatten presents medals to Indian and British soldiers of the 5th Indian Division, Indian bagpipe band plays during ceremony in Assam India during WW2

Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia, presents medals to 5th Indian Division soldiers at their camp in Assam, India during World War 2. Lord Louis Mountbatten presents medal to Indian, Sikh and British soldiers individually. 5th Indian Division soldiers stand in formation. Lord Louis Mountbatten addresses British soldier standing in formation. British soldiers in formation, wearing the British Army Jungle Slouch hats. Lord Louis Mountbatten addresses Indian soldiers standing in formation. Lord Louis Mountbatten presents medal to British soldier wearing a Jungle Slouch hat. Soldier takes his turn after his comrade has been presented with a medal. Bagpipe band composed of Indian soldiers plays at the ceremony. Indian soldiers standing in formation, holding their guns, as Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the army. Flag of the United Kingdom. 5th Indian Division soldiers in formation.

Date: 1945, March 9
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078480
FBI forensic investigators sort out fingerprint files and examine forensic evidence recovered from crime scenes

Federal Bureau of Investigation employees sort out files containing fingerprints in the Fingerprint Identification Section of the FBI Headquarters. Two FBI employees look through fingerprint collection in the Identification Section. Fingerprint document being examined. Forensic scientists walk through hallway of the FBI Laboratory on the 6th floor and attic of the Justice Department Building in Washington DC. Forensic investigators examine a firearm....part of a rifle. A forensic scientist looks at evidence under microscope. Forensic investigator of the Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) examines a check sent as an evidence. Forensic scientist uses typewriter. Forensic investigator uses microscope do handwriting analysis on two documents. Forensic scientist examines the weight and thickness of a paper sent as an evidence. A paper thickness gauge is used to measure thickness. Forensic scientist compares rope fiber crime evidence against many samples of ropes. Forensic scientist examines a plaster cast of the sole of a shoe found as evidence in a crime scene.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078864
Lt. Frederick Schumacher explains purpose of USS Pueblo to reporters during news conference by North Korea

News reporter reads from his report about a news conference of the USS Pueblo crew members in North Korea. Asian and European reporters listen to Lieutenant Frederick Schumacher (USS Pueblo Operations Officer) as he explains the purpose and equipment of the USS Pueblo in surveying the area where they were captured. He notes that the "Pueblo was equipped with several types of high powered binoculars, as well as precision cameras with telephoto lenses." USS Pueblo Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher recounts the USS Pueblo crew’s activities before the North Korean navy first confronted them. News reporter narrates. USS Pueblo Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher addressing the assembly while standing on a chair, notes that, "the naval units of the Korean People's army easily my vain efforts to escape...."

Date: 1968, September 12
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078873