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A woman demonstrates a plastic shower curtain and a folding bathtub screen

A woman prepares to take a shower. She demonstrates a plastic shower curtain. Bathroom fittings like taps and shower in view. A bathtub in the background. In another scene, the woman wears a dressing gown and enters a bathtub behind a translucent folding screen.

Date: 1938
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041918
Causes of indicator jamming in military radio sets; also civilian couple listening to1940s console radio

Military training film depicts the causes of indicator jamming on the radio set, SCR-268. A ship underway. Newspaper headlines read about the German battleships which escaped British Army because their radio signals were jammed. Soldiers talk on radio. During Jamming weird pattern start appearing on the monitor screen. Sensitivity knob of the radio. Signs of jamming are seen. Scene changes to a civilian couple in a family living room sitting on a couch beside a console radio. They listen to the radio and talk. The man gets up and adjusts the tuning dial and the volume dial on the radio. The couple switches off radio because of interference in the radio broadcast. An animated diagram explains the jamming. Radio waves bounce back from the target. Target sends radio energy longer then those that bounce back. Jamming takes place. Jamming can be improved by making adjustments. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041929
Hollywood filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock addresses audience in National Press Club

Film maker Alfred Hitchcock in a meeting of National Press Club. Another man stands near him. Microphones are set in front of him. He answers questions asked to him about his movies, his favorite actor and actresses. He adds humor to his answers and makes the audience laugh. Alfred Hitchcock is given a certificate of appreciation. He talks to other people in the room. Several men seated on chairs which are arranged in order. Alfred Hitchcock looks through a document.

Date: 1963
Duration: 5 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041947
Search for survivors after collapse of U.S. Air Force Radar Station (Texas Tower No. 4,TT-4) in the Atlantic ocean, off Long Island.

Search and rescue efforts after the destruction of Texas Tower Number 4, a U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command Offshore Radar station, in 1961. It was located off Long Island (39degrees48'N 72degrees40'W) and operated by airmen of the 646th Radar Squadron. It had experienced structural difficulties including damage from Hurricane Donna, on September 12, 1960 and was being scheduled for repair or dismantling. The USNS New Bedford and the USS Wasp were in the vicinity, on January 15, 1961, when the storm caused the Tower to collapse and sink.But they were unable to save anyone. In subsequent search and rescue operations, after the storm, The USS Sunbird (ASR-15) submarine rescue ship is seen at the site, along with sailors in a motor whaleboat from the USS Blandy (DD-943). A helicopter from the USS Wasp (CV-18)flies overhead. A scuba diver surfaces near the whaleboat and is taken aboard. A motor whaleboat from the USS Sunbird maneuvers in rough water. Whaleboats seen returning sailors and divers to the Sunbird.

Date: 1961, February 18
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042036
NASA Freedom Seven mission. Alan B Shepard on deck of aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain.

NASA Freedom Seven, America's first sub-orbital flight. Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain underway. Marine helicopter HUS-1 above the capsule as it descends down after the flight. Capsule near surface of water. HUS-1 lifts the capsule. Another HUS-1 in flight. Mercury capsule lowers. Crowd on aircraft carrier. Capsule lowered on special pad on carrier. Landing bag collapsed and tied-down. Landing on aircraft carrier deck. Commander Alan B Shepard assisted by copilot in the helicopter. Commander Alan B Shepard and others on flight deck. Commander Shepard retrieves his helmet from capsule and walks in Admiral's cabin. He gets out of his space suit. Doctor Robert Laning and Jerome Strong beside him. President Kennedy congratulates him on phone. He talks to other officers. He drinks from a glass. He climbs aboard a Grumman S2F/TF aircraft on deck. Personnel on super structure of carrier. The plane takes off.

Date: 1961, May 5
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042042
Ornithopter aircraft of various designs demonstrated including Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter.

Several attempts to fly ornithopters, intended to fly by flapping of wings. They manage to move their wings but fail in attempts to fly. The largest of them might be Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter, which was demonstrated in Germany and had a 3 horse power motor.

Date: 1920
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042054