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A biker bikes down a dirt road in Idaho as a storm approaches
A biker bikes down a dirt road in Idaho as a storm approaches
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Car Symbol made by Orange Butterflies - Alpha
Car Symbol made by Flying Orange Butterflies + Alpha Channel
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Bright Idea Lamp made by Blue Butterflies - Alpha
Bright Idea Lamp made by Flying Blue Butterflies + Alpha Channel
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Bright Idea Lamp made by Orange Butterflies - Alpha
Bright Idea Lamp made by Flying Orange Butterflies + Alpha Channel
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Eco car driving on the road in winter
Car made of wood driving on the road. Flowers are flying out from the exhaust. Seamless loop.
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A rocket airplane glides across ice and takes off, then crashes in the snow.
A rocket airplane glides across ice and takes off, then crashes in the snow.
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Pilot Igor Sikorsky takes a flight in the first successful helicopter.
Pilot Igor Sikorsky takes a flight in the first successful helicopter.
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Inventors demonstrate an early, though bouncy helicopter.
Inventors demonstrate an early, though bouncy helicopter.
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Sail-powered contraption takes to the air
VS craft resembling monoplane with sails is pushed to beach / the sails are unfurled and they flap in wind / it speeds on seashore and gradually takes flight over the water / Note: exact month/day not known
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Montage of transportation and industry in the 1930s
Large room in factory / water flows through dam / electric lines and transformer / train approaches / steam shovel drops load of dirt / Union Pacific Railroad's M-10000 train approaches, passes / airplane flies in sky, with landing gear...
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In 1948 on Toluca Lake, policeman and actresses demonstrate three Motorboards designed by Joe Gilpin
MS LAPD policeman in uniform and Warner Brothers actresses Phyllis Coates and Patricia Northrup in halter top bathing suits ride three different Motorboards (motorized surfboards) across the lake / MS policemen pulls up between Coates...
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Man shoots film from moving Motorboard in a demonstration of a motorized surfboard designed by Joe Gilpin 1948
VS man, 50s (possibly cameraman Willard Van der Veer) with a movie camera shoots film as he sits on moving Motorboard designed by Hollywood inventor Joe Gilpin; docks and houses stand in bkgd as the motorboard moves on Toluca Lake / CU...
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Man invents butt kicking machine
/ man (Tom Haywood) winding crank of a butt kicking machine comprised of several shoes on a wheel attached to a fence / man allows himself to be kicked by machine over and over / crowd surrounds kicking machine as young woman tries it...
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Inflatable Windshield Demonstration in Paris
Car with broken windshield pulls over to the side of the road / CU view of car interior through broken glass / driver gets out of car with protective gloves on / begins to remove the broken glass from the window frame / driver begins to...
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Test flight of wingless aircraft
Pilot is secured inside wingless aircraft / regular plane flies overhead carrying the wingless plane / CU Air Force logo on plane / plane drops test plane / parachuted appears in sky / lands on runway and slides through mass of steam...
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Sam Heron improves airplane engines
Sam Heron adjusting airplane engine / Older Heron seated and talking importance of air cooled cylinders on plane engines / views of engines and cylinders / discusses octane gasoline. Sam Heron improves airplane engines on January 01,...
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Lieutenant Foulois discusses early aviation
Lieutenant Benjamin Delahauf Foulois sitting behind desk talking about early aviation. Lieutenant Foulois discusses early aviation on January 01, 1953 (Footage by Getty Images)
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Kindelberger and Donald Douglas discuss changes in plane innovations
James 'Dutch' Kindelberger seated behind desk talking / discusses how Donald Douglas began his own plane manufacturing company and how much technical information about planes has increased / Donald Douglas perched on table talking and...
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Early aviation inventors
Two men turn plane propellers by hand to get it started / C-plane flies with automatic pilot / CU of the plane's mechanicals / Various early bi-planes taking off / men running after plane skidding along the ground / narrator mentions:...
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B/W 1933 2 men on beach preparing for launch of world's first liquid-fueled rocket / newsreel
B/W 1933 2 men on beach preparing for launch of world's first liquid-fueled rocket / newsreel
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Early movie film set
people on a film set with director and actors Early movie film set on January 01, 1920 (Footage by Getty Images)
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Canadian Navy demonstrates new helicopter landing aid Bear Trap
Helicopter begins to land on deck of ship / CU plate reading 'CONTROL CONSOLE A unit of Hauldown system' / CU main panel of the Bear Trap / cable from helicopter connects with Bear Trap on ship deck and helicopter lands carefully in place.
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Seattle teenager builds home-made car
Teenage boy, Edward Floyd, pours gasoline into a hand made small car / uses foot pump to get car started / teenager climbs in with newspapers and drives his paper route. Seattle teenager builds home-made car on November 09, 1933 in...