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FBI agents rescue millionaire Charles F Urschel from the kidnappers in Oklahoma.

Release of Charles F. Urschel by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Oklahoma, United States. A map locate areas. The map illustrates activities and developments in millionaire Charles F. Urschel' s kidnapping case. Men seated in a court room. A federal judge gives verdict for the kidnapping case. An airplane parked at an air base. 'American Airways' written on the airplane. Exterior of a building. FBI agents walk on the street in front of the building. Guns and rifles placed outside the building to display. Men gather outside the building.

Location: Oklahoma United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062632
American forces prepare for war; ASF Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell addresses officials (WW2)

Continental Army cavalry riding horses and soldiers marching in an American Revolutionary War reenactment. Continental Army soldiers carrying the wounded on their backs under heavy rain. United States Army soldiers marching in New York City during World War II. Views of enormous numbers of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers seen approaching camera position and from above. A soldier with an Army Service Forces (ASF) patch marching. Close up of the Army Service Forces (ASF) patch. Commanding General of the ASF Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell smiling. A notice detailing the War Department Reorganization effective March 9, 1942. Army Ground Forces commander Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair. Army Air Forces Commander General Henry H. Arnold. General Somervell and Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Soldiers advance towards a battlefront. Wounded are evacuated from the area. The soldiers stand in formation. Officials seated at a desk. General Somervell addresses them and speaks on the value of war material. A dead German soldier in tank. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers scattered on the beach in the Pacific. Tires and scraps for use by the army. A newspaper advertisement reads “Your scrap will save some brave boy’s life!”. Ceiling prices listed in grocery store during wartime. Japanese planes bombing Malaya and Singapore. Burned houses after Japanese bombardment in Asia. A burning house in China. An oil tanker explodes and burns after being bombed at sea. Tanks advance towards the front. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and wife Soong Mei-Ling (Madame Chiang). An airplane in flight, bombarding a target area. Prisoners of war standing. Dead bodies lying on the ground. Destroyed area after an enemy attack. The soldiers and the tanks advance towards the battlefront. Barrage balloons in flight overhead. Allied flags on display such as the Soviet Union and England.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062664
Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley reviews troops of 1st Cavalry Division in Texas.

U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley arrives at Fort Bliss in Texas. An airplane lands at Biggs Army Airfield. Secretary Hurley greets his sister and friends at the airfield. He stands with Major General William Booth. Cars parked along the side of a street. Hurley stands with other officials near a car. The officials salute. Troops of U.S. 1st Cavalry Division walk past in front of them. Hurley reviews the troops.

Location: Fort Bliss Texas USA
Date: 1931, May
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062673
People of the Penobscot tribe Native American Indians gather during the feast of Corpus Christi in Old Town, Maine.

Activities of the Native American Indian Penobscot tribe in Old Town, Maine. People gather for the feast of Corpus Christi. People march on a street. Houses and trees along a side of the street. Other people watch them. They march towards a graveyard. Old people standing. Children kneel in front of a building.

Location: Old Town Maine USA
Date: 1937, April 2
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062688
German soldiers operate from defensive positions during Tunisian campaign of North Africa in World War II

Activities of German soldiers on the Tunisian front in North Africa during World War 2. Beginning of film shows several German infantrymen moving along a trench . German soldiers are crouched down in defensive positions in a section of the trench. One soldier is seen using a periscopic binocular to view beyond an earthen berm. At a campsite, one soldier looks through binoculars. a tent is in the background. He appears to have an MG 42 machine gun at his position. Another soldier climbs the steel tower of a windmill, while its rotor is spinning, to get a better look at Allied positions. American forces are raising dust as they maneuver, in the distance. German soldiers roll back coverings from their fox holes and emerge to man their defensive positions. One appears to have a Bren gun at his at his position. German artillerymen raise their field pieces from camouflaged places. One appears to be a 10 cm Kanone 17, and the other a lighter field piece. A soldier firing his MG 42 machine gun. German infantry casually advancing through an orchard. Glimpse of German soldier making annotations in some documents. Captured American prisoners of war, under guard, entering a trench as a temporary holding place. One of them is being assisted by two others. Scene shifts to destroyed British Crusader tanks in a field. German soldiers examine one closely. A white flag is placed next to it. More views of knocked out tanks. A soldier, standing next to one, unsheathes a long bladed knife and proceeds to sharpen it.

Location: Tunisia North Africa
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675062709
ASF Commanding General Brehon Somervell speaking about the problem of substitution and conversion of needed World War 2 supplies

Production of supplies for American soldiers during World War II. Commanding General of Army Service Forces( ASF ) Brehon B. Somervell seated at a desk in his office in the United States. He explains the serious problem of substitution and conversion and what is being done by American science to meet these needs. Somervell states that he is issuing an order: A command to think along new lines regarding every product essential to the war. He asks: 1) Can it be made as well of some less critical material; 2) Can it be made better, faster, or in greater quantity by some other method of production? He calls on viewers to draw on the brains and ingenuity. View of ordnance insignia. Interior of an office. An officer and a draftsman examine a machine gun. Exhibit of mannequins wearing uniforms with supplies for soldiers and nurses. Miniature tents and kitchen equipment. An officer and executives from two rubber production companies check synthetic rubber and collaborate on improvements. Radio engineers at work in front of equipment checking new type equipment. Workers weighing equipment and finding ways to make needed supplies lighter in weight. Chemical warfare officers at work. A soldier with a new plastic gas mask comes out of a room. Medical and other industry leaders around a conference table. Men gathered around tables planning improvements. Workers entering a large aircraft production factory. A man places a paper in a suggestion box labeled "ideas for increasing production."

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076711
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