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Radio news reporter Robert Bob Trout reports on battle of Rhine and General Patton's forces advance in Europe.

(Audio only). Radio news reporter Robert Bob Trout reports on the battle of Rhine and General Patton's forces advancing in Europe. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group overcomes German resistance. Advance of the American 1st Army in Ruhr Valley. He also reports on General Eisenhower's message to German soldiers asking them to surrender. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052701
The operation of an 18th century manual printing press is compared to the making a magazine in a modern printing press.

Making of magazine in modern printing press. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin with his introduction. Dramatization shows a man in Franklin costume, others in 18th century work costumes in print shop. Workers operate manual printing press. Franklin examines a copy. View of Butler Gazette and County Journal of August 10, 1772. A modern printing plant shows machinery and workers in printing plant. View of 'The Dearborn Independent' for July 31, 1926. Editors work in an office. President Calvin Coolidge delivers an address at battery of microphones. Crowd listens to the President. Deck view on sailing vessel 'Irene and May'. Wild geese in a field and in flight. Four women swimmers posed on side of a boat. They dive into water. Detroit Tigers baseball game in progress. Tennis game in progress. Spectators applaud. Football game in progress.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052983
Series of test in which automatic detonator 'mole' is tested for effectiveness in disabling railroad trains.

A research film in which 'mole', an automatic detonator, is tested for effectiveness in disabling railroad trains when a train suddenly enters darkness as in a tunnel. Railroad train approaching camera position near track. Point of view shot from left side of railroad locomotive train as it approaches and enters a tunnel. A train passes through tunnel. Working and components of mole explained. Components include photoelectric cell, amplifier and a detonator. Working of mole explains where to place explosive, why and how to prepare it. Charge is placed on a railroad car. This car is attached at the end of train. A train moves. Train car damaged after detonating mole. Men at railroad car examine. Charge placed by men on train. Explosion and reaction of train is tested. Damage is examined. Next test shows 'linear shaped charge' with explosive and bracket to hold it, demonstrates how to secure charge to bracket, bracket to train car and where to place components of mole. Explosion on train. Damage in detail is examined. World War 2 period.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 8 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053102
Electricity produced by turbine generators in a power plant in the US, and uses for that electricity in cities and homes.

Commuters climbing stairs from subway to street and seen inside the lobby of a New York City office building. An electric utility switch yard. Heavy construction equipment in operation and interior of private home, where electricity is always available. Boy playing with electric railroad toy trains on floor of living room. A woman housewife using an electric mixer in a vintage 1940s kitchen. A man turns on a wall light switch. View of turbine generator deck in a power plant. Use of fuel to produce electricity is explained by animation. Burning of fuel to transform water to steam. The steam is directed towards a windmill which converts heat energy into mechanical energy. This mechanical energy is converted into electric energy by a turbine generator. The working of turbine generator is explained.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053355
President Harry S. Truman announces surrender of Germany in World War II. Crowds celebrate in streets of Manhattan

VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. From the White House, in Washington DC, President Truman announces that Germany has surrendered, bringing World War 2 in Europe to an end. Americans are seen celebrating the good news in the streets of downtown, Manhattan, New York City. Crowds on Wall Street and cheering on steps and in front of statue of George Washington at Federal Hall. Ticker tape falls on Wall Street. View of Trinity Church between tall buildings. Cheering crowd fills Times Square. Many in the crowd are soldiers, sailors and other military servicemen in uniform. American flags are seen on buildings and some carried by people in the crowd.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053386
Animated film shows Private Snafu battling a dragon and explains facts about fear to soldiers in World War II.

Animated film targeted at American soldiers during World War 2 talks about fear and the body's response to fear. shows the cartoon character Private Snafu as a knight. He rides on a horseback. He experiences fear as he battles a dragon. The effect of fear on body functions is explained. In danger the nerve messages from the brain stimulate the body for action. Narrator describes effects of nervous system and adrenaline on the body, including more glucose reaching the muscles from blood, improvements in vision and hearing, enhanced ability to run or fight.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053498
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