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'Contrasts a community in which business and industry support their schools with another where they do not. Shows how education influences the standard of living in a community.'
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2020-07-10 01:36:07 +0000 UTC
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'This week's THE BIG PICTURE spotlights the modernization of the U.S. Army in terms of firepower, mobility and communications. This modernization is seen not only in up-to-date equipment now on hand, but also in highly promising items under research and development for the future. Logic and imagination are expressed in concrete terms, as the Army continues its effort to prepare ahead...
2020-07-08 19:04:39 +0000 UTC
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'Frightening civil defense procedure film aimed at Cold War-era elementary school students...
Explains steps to take in case of an atomic bomb alert or a bombing without warning at school, in the open or at home. Gives simple explanation of nuclear fusion.'
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2020-07-08 19:03:57 +0000 UTC
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Silent, with title cards.
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2020-07-08 19:03:16 +0000 UTC
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'The NACA/NASA Langley Research Center has conducted and participated in research on a large variety of helicopter and other vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for over 35 years. This video illustrates some associated flight activity. '
NASA Langley Film #1244-VSTOL1
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2020-07-07 20:24:30 +0000 UTC
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'Exercise Arctic Night was designed to provide training in extreme cold weather for paratroopers of the famed 82nd Airborne Division: "THE BIG PICTURE" to tell of "Artic Night;" Army's TV series now in sixth year -- Official weekly TV program of the Department of the Army, THE BIG PICTURE will release its first program of the '56 - '57 season this week. Keynote of the sixth consecuti...
2020-07-07 20:23:24 +0000 UTC
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The Defense Atomic Support Agency presents
Atomic Weapons Support Operations
produced by
Field Command
Atomic Weapons Training Group
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2020-07-07 20:22:19 +0000 UTC
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'Summary: Reel 1: XF-84 -- Scenes at Muroc Air Force Base. 1) F-84 stationary near hangar area. 2) F-84 taxiing. 3) F-84 taking off. 4) AS F-84 banking off to left. XF-85. 5) Several ground shots of the XF-85 stationary. 6) CS Pilot putting wings up into position, B-29 in bg (Scenes taken at Muroc). 7) Good coverage of the XF-85 being moved down into pit for loading into B-29. 8) Goo...
2020-07-06 20:37:00 +0000 UTC
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'Provides a re-enactment in which Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address. Pictures a discussion of the ceremony days later by the president's contemporaries.'
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2020-07-06 20:35:34 +0000 UTC
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'What is an Infantryman? For two centuries he has been in the bulwark of our country's defense. From the hardships at Valley Forge, to the 38th Parallel of Korea, the Infantryman has been a fighter--a frontrunner--a man of courage unafraid to meet the enemy head-on, face-to-face in hand to hand combat. At the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, the Infantryman is trained to be ...
2020-07-05 19:01:26 +0000 UTC
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'Careers in photography and cinematography.'
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2020-07-05 19:00:44 +0000 UTC
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'Astronauts: Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton
Launch date: March 22, 1982
Recaps the third flight of Columbia; a flight that brought the Orbital Flight Test Program one step closer to completion. This includes the move of landing equipment to Northrup Strip, NM (alternate landing site), launch, major crew activities on-orbit, sandstorm at landi...
2020-07-05 19:00:02 +0000 UTC
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SURVEYS THE REGIONS'S GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES & PRESENT DAY CULTURAL RESOURCES. NOTES THE FAR WEST'S ENORMOUS GROWTH & COMMERCIAL EXPANSION IN RECENT DECADES.
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2020-07-04 22:59:34 +0000 UTC
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Ryan XV-5 Vertifan VTOL aircraft overview.
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2020-07-04 22:58:23 +0000 UTC
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DISCUSSES HOW CLOUD PATTERNS SHOW UP IN METEOROLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IDENTIFYING THEM FROM SATELLITE STILL PICTURES TAKEN 23,000 MILES IN SPACE.
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2020-07-04 22:56:38 +0000 UTC
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'A study of the plant and animal life found in a jar of ordinary pond water. Illustrates and explains the difference between microscopic plants and animals; between one-celled and many-celled organisms; the meaning of colonial organization; and the various processes of food-gathering, digestion and reproduction.'
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2020-07-03 20:05:35 +0000 UTC
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Originally a public domain film from the National Archives or Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
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2020-07-03 20:04:37 +0000 UTC
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'On civil defense precautions against gas attacks and first aid measures to be used after exposure to gas. Illustrates how a house can be sealed against gas and cautions occupants to go upstairs to escape fumes. First aid measures include blotting exposed skin areas with a household bleach solution, gargling and rinsing the eyes with a 2 percent baking soda solution, and showering th...
2020-07-03 20:03:30 +0000 UTC
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'This film examines the pathfinder team mission -- to furnish navigational guidance to operational units.'
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2020-07-02 20:29:46 +0000 UTC
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Originally a public domain film from the US Navy, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
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2020-07-02 20:28:57 +0000 UTC
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Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
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2020-07-02 20:28:06 +0000 UTC
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SM-65 Atlas ICBM: Project Atlas contractor's report, 1st Quarter 1957. Covers all areas of Atlas missile development.
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2020-07-01 20:53:27 +0000 UTC
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The Bell X-1 (XS-1) at Muroc, California, where Edwards AFB and Dryden [now Armstrong] Flight Research Center are located.
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2020-07-01 20:52:17 +0000 UTC
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'Stop-motion animation showing a day and night in the life of a model town and especially the railroads that serve it.'
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2020-07-01 20:51:31 +0000 UTC
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2020-06-30 22:14:19 +0000 UTC
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2020-06-30 22:13:17 +0000 UTC
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more at http://quickfound.net/Produced by Audio Productions.'Tribute to the strengths of the American system of free enterprise, funded by a large manufacturers' association. Young Jerry, who stops to observe a rowdy labor action at a local factory, is almost drawn into a brawl but for a policeman who takes him into "protective custody" and drives him home. There, Gramp explains how every man, woman and child in town has a...
2020-06-30 22:12:03 +0000 UTC
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Originally a public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
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2020-06-29 20:37:26 +0000 UTC
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'An African-American family in Georgia works to save money for a power saw. Includes depictions of timber harvest techniques and process. Film made in 1952 by the United States Information Service and intended for foreign audiences.'
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2020-06-29 20:36:31 +0000 UTC
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Project Apollo Moon mobility testing. 'Test conducted in 1963 at NASA Langley Research Center's Lunar Landing Research Facility. The test was part of the so called Studies of Man's Self-Locomotion in Lunar Environment.' Silent.
Langley Film #L-812.
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2020-06-29 20:35:45 +0000 UTC
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