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U.S. Army Training film about Army Air Forces regulations for pilots training in Boeing Stearman PT-17 "Kaydet" aircraft.

As film opens, a number of U.S. Army Air Forces Stearman Boeing PT-17 “Kaydet” bi-plane trainer aircraft are seen taxiing on an airfield. One takes off and another lands and taxis into position on the flight line. A student pilot leaves the operations building and fastens the leg straps of his seat pack parachute before climbing upon the wing of a PT-17, where he checks the aircraft's Form One record. Closeup of the form. He climbs into the cockpit, fastens his safety belt. Glimpse of magneto switch. Glimpse of fuel gauge. With engine running the pilot activates the flight controls to check proper action. Glimpse of tachometer showing 1550 RPM. View of airplane taxiing in "S" movement because of low visibility with engine in front. Closeup of pilot pausing before takeoff to recheck wind and runway. Views of the aircraft on takeoff, tail wheel rising, and plane becoming airborne. Animated diagram shows precautions for turning out of traffic after takeoff and for avoiding collisions using right of way rule. Glimpse of PT-17 cruising above farmland. Views of the plane flying in vicinity of clouds but carefully avoiding them. Closeup of pilot in cockpit looking all around while in flight. View of cockpit instruments, including compass, airspeed indicator, Needle and ball, and altimeter. Closeup of engine oil temperature gauge. View of the airplane flying close to another and follow rule to prevent collision. Next, the aircraft makes a shallow dive and then executes a spin. Closeup of the pilot signaling everything is OK. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1943
Duration: 7 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057896
People retire from evening entertainment, but trucking activities go on at night in New York City

A film titled 'While The City Sleeps' about the importance of trucking industry for the way of life of a large city like New York City. Automobile traffic on roads at night and neon lights lit up in Times Square, New York City. Neon lights scenes continue, superimposed with other images: People in various clubs and restaurants. People dance. A man plays a trumpet. Hands of a couple overlapped, holding hands. Superimposed images end. View of a bell hop who blows a whistle. A couple enters a taxi cab to go home. A waiter removes a table cloth and a salt shaker from a table. Bell hop takes off his uniform after the day's work. A musician puts a trumpet in a case. Lights are turned off at night. A security guard walks in front of quiet buildings. Trucking activities are shown continuing during the night. Sign for the Port Authority of New York Holland Tunnel entrance. Cars and trucks entering the Holland tunnel. Delivery of fruit, milk, gasoline, newspapers, coal, bread and many other things. Night view of traffic crossing the Queensboro Bridge also called the 59th Street Bridge. Building material is delivered. An Esso gasoline truck delivers fuel to a petrol or service station. Close up view of moving tires on a truck. Stacks of newspapers slide down a chute to a waiting truck. A Canal Coal Company truck delivers coal to a building. The coal trip bed is shown tipping and elevating to dump the coal. Bakery employees load bread into trucks of the Cushman's bakery. A truck dumps sand. Another truck picks up a plant from a nursery. A car carrier truck is shown carrying four new automobiles on a two level flatbed system. View of skyscrapers of Manhattan in early morning after dawn. A hand reaching for an alarm clock to shut it off in the morning. Two feet seen turning off of a bed and into a pair of waiting slippers. Man gets out of his bed.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057913
General Emilio Esteban Infantes talks to Wehrmacht officers and greets them during a Falangist ceremony in Fuenterrabia, Spain.

Spanish General Emilio Esteban Infantes, commander of the Wehrmacht 205th Infantry Division (the "Blue Division"). Infantes seen greeting and speaking to other German Wehrmacht or Spanish Felangist officers. His Blue Division was comprised primarily of Spanish falangist volunteers who fought for the German Army on the eastern front during World War II.

Date: 1943
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057922
A Vichy French official addresses people and reviews a parade at night in Berlin, Germany.

A Vichy French official visits Berlin, Germany during World War II. Houses on a hill along side a water front. Field artillery lined up. The French official arrives in a car. He greets German dignitaries. People wave at the French official. He mounts a podium to speak. The official receives flowers from little girls. Soldiers standing at attention. People gathered. He reviews a parade at night. People cheer.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675057932
Spanish Head of State Regent of the Kingdom Francisco Franco reviews and decorates Spanish troops in Madrid, Spain.

Spanish Head of State Regent of the Kingdom Francisco Franco in Madrid, Spain during World War II. Troops stand at attention in front of a biplane aircraft. People seated during a ceremony. Biplanes in a line in the background. Franco with officers at a table. He decorates Spanish troops. The troops march. Franco with other officers review the troops.

Date: 1942
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675057936
Cultural and religious monuments rubbled by British air raids in Lubeck, Germany.

Damaged buildings in Lubeck, Germany during World War II. A damaged bridge. Damaged cultural and religious monuments. Aerial view of the buildings. Damaged buildings along a water front. Bombed out buildings. Interiors of a bombed church. Ruins of the bombed buildings.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675057943