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Manitou mountain resort at the base of Pikes Peak and cog railway car ascends mountain in Pikes Peak Colorado.

View of Manitou Mountain Resort at the base of Pikes Peak in Colorado. The Valley from a mountain. View of tourist's cog railroad car being pushed up Pikes Peak by a steam locomotive. Tourists loaded on the railway car with lettering on the side "Manitou and Pikes Peak RY". Steam pouring from locomotive smokestack. Rugged terrain.

Date: 1922
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072892
Republcan Thomas E. Dewey and incumbent Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, compete in 1944 U.S. Presidential election during World War II

The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in 1944, during World War 2. Newspaper boy hawks newspaper extra edition, with headline referring to "Nip and Tuck" race. View of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, at twilight, as lights begin to turn on. Wooden barricades seen set up in front of some establishments to protect against damage from large crowds anticipated as election returns come in. Moving illuminated marquee sign on the Times building reads: "Nearly 45 per cent of Bronx and Manhattan voters said to have cast ballots." Two men look up at the sign. Officials open a voting machine and begin to report information. At another location officials remove paper ballots from their precinct box. A radio announcer reviewing results and reporting them over the air. A woman is seen entering voter returns in chalk, on a national tote board. Citizens gathered to watch results. American soldier listening to results over a radio, in Italy and France. Newscasters reporting on radio as the returns come in. Many people listen to radios. An American family of man, woman, boy and girl children seated in their living room listening to vintage console radio reporting voting returns. A fire is burning in the living room fireplace beside the console radio. Another, different scene is shown with a family gathered around a radio listening to election reports. A framed photograph of a U.S. Army soldier is atop the console radio. Scene is shown of crowds surging in Times Square as returns displayed on Times Building marquee indicate likely victory for FDR (Franklin Roosevelt). Crowd in Times Square including many American military service members in uniform.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072900
Animation depicts Private Snafu undergoing extremes in weather conditions in the Aleutian Islands, Northern Pacific Ocean.

Cartoon character Private Snafu undergoes extremes in weather conditions in the Aleutian Islands, Northern Pacific Ocean during World War II. Animation depicts thunder and rain. Solution about clothing under extreme conditions. Vegetation on islands. Gummy mud. Earthquakes and cold breeze. Transportation by vehicles on sledge. Aircraft in flight covered with snow. Airstrip submerged under water.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072901
U.S. Marine Corps aviation cadets learning to land during a mock landing operation in San Diego, California.

Training of U. S. Marine Corps aviators in San Diego, California. U.S. Marine aircraft in flight during a mock landing operation. The Marines in landing crafts heading towards a beach. Aircraft fly low over the beach. Barges hit the beach and the Marines get off. A 75 mm howitzer is unloaded from a landing barge. The Marines advance inland. Guns and communication equipment being set up. A signal man gives out a signal. A smoke screen is laid out. The Marines continue to advance. The Commander of the Marines looks through a pair of binoculars. Smoke rises as the Marines advance in the foreground.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066978
A speedboat sails through a wooden wall built over Burnham Park lake in Chicago, Illinois.

A speedboat sails through a wall in Chicago, Illinois. The speed boat driver dons his gear. The speedboat underway in Burnham Park lake with a speed of 50 miles per hour. The boat sails through a wooden wall built over the lake.

Date: 1936, September 2
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066981
Children on floats decorated with flowers as they pass in review during a parade in Ocean Park, California.

Decorated floats at a parade in Ocean Park, California. Children dressed in colorful costumes during the parade. Children in prams pushed around by their mothers. Floats decorated with flowers. Children dressed in colorful costumes on the floats as they pass in review. A large number of people gathered on either side of a street to watch the parade.

Date: 1936, September 2
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066982