History of the Battle of Midway VIDEO

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JUNE 4TH, 1942 - SIX MONTHS AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR - JAPAN ATTEMPTED TO INVADE HAWAII WITH AN ATTACK ON MIDWAY ATOLL.

MIDWAY WOULD GIVE JAPAN ACCESS TO HAWAII, HOME OF U.S. PACIFIC FLEET AND A POSSIBLE OUTPOST TO WATCH ANY FUTURE THREAT BY THE U.S.

JAPAN'S PLAN WAS TO LURE U.S. CARRIERS SOUTH OF MIDWAY, WHILE A JAPANESE CARRIER FORCE SURPRISED THEM FROM THE NORTH.

JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE LED THEM TO BELIEVE ONLY TWO CARRIERS WOULD BE AT MIDWAY AT THE TIME, USS HORNET AND USS ENTERPRISE.

U.S. INTELLIGENCE HAD BROKEN THE JAPANESE NAVAL CODE. INTEL COULD DETERMINE EXACTLY WHEN THE ATTACK WOULD TAKE PLACE, AND PREDICT THE LOCATION OF THE PLANNED ATTACK.

REAR ADMIRAL RAYMOND SPRUANCE COMMANDED TASK FORCE 16, FORMED AROUND HORNET AND ENTERPRISE.

USS YORKTOWN, DAMAGED EARLIER IN BATTLE, WAS RUSHED THROUGH YARD REPAIRS. REAR ADMIRAL FRANK JACK FLETCHER COMMANDED TASK FORCE 17, FORMED AROUND YORKTOWN.

THE THREE-DAY BATTLE BEGAN WITH U.S. ARMY BOMBERS, AND U.S. MARINE CORPS TORPEDO PLANES AND DIVE BOMBERS LEAVING MIDWAY TO ATTACK THE APPROACHING ENEMY.

U.S. CARRIERS AND AIRCRAFT SUNK FOUR OF JAPAN'S CARRIERS, A HEAVY CRUISER, AND THREE DESTROYERS. THEY ALSO SHOT DOWN AN ESTIMATED 291 AIRCRAFT.

THE UNITED STATES LOST USS YORKTOWN, USS HAMMANN AND 145 AIRCRAFT BEFORE THE BATTLE WAS OVER.

THANKS TO AMERICAN SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE, AIRCRAFT CARRIER TACTICS, AND DETERMINATION AND COURAGE OF PILOTS AND CREWS, THE UNITED STATES HANDED JAPAN A DEFEAT.

THE VICTORY OF THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY WAS THE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND THE POWER OF SEA-BORNE AIRCRAFT.

MIDWAY HIGHLIGHTED THE HEROES OF THE U.S. MILITARY, AND SET THE STAGE FOR THE CARRIER-BASED NAVY OF TODAY.

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This movie is part of the collection: Community Video
Producer: U.S. Navy News Service
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Battle of Midway; PEARL HARBOR; USS HORNET; USS ENTERPRISE; RAYMOND SPRUANCE; DIVE BOMBERS; USS YORKTOWN; U.S. Navy.
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Wolves in Glacier National Park VIDEO

Title: Wolves in Glacier National Park. Description: Eight wolves walk past a bear rub tree in Glacier National Park. Location: Glacier National Park, MT, USA. Date Taken: 8/28/2006 Video Producer/Videographer: J.Stetz / A.Macleod , U.S. Geological Survey.

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From the USGS Northern Divide Bear Project, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center.

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Black America Edison Concert Band 1899

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1895 "Black America," by Harry H. Zickel leader of the Zickel Orchestra of Detroit.


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Artist/Composer: Edison Concert Band
Keywords: Edison Concert Band

Frankenstein (1910)

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Frankenstein is the 1910 film made by Edison Studios, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as the Monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée.

Shot in three days, it was filmed at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City.

This is Edison's COMPLETE 1910 silent Frankenstein film.
This movie is part of the collection: Silent Films
Producer: Thomas Edison
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Edison; Silent; Horror; Frankenstein

From The Edison Kinetogram:

Frankenstein, a young student, is seen bidding his sweetheart and father goodbye, as he is leaving home to enter a college in order to study the sciences. Shortly after his arrival at college he becomes absorbed in the mysteries of life and death to the extent of forgetting practically everything else.

His great ambition is to create a human being, and finally one night his dream is realized. He is convinced that he has found a way to create a most perfect human being that the world has ever seen. We see his experiment commence and the development of it. To Frankenstein's horror, instead of creating a marvel of physical beauty and grace, there is unfolded before his eyes and before the audience an awful, ghastly, abhorrent monster.

As he realizes what he has done Frankenstein rushes from the room, only to have the misshapen monster peer at him through the curtains of his bed. He falls fainting to the floor, where he is found by his servant, who revives him.

After a few weeks' illness, he returns home, a broken, weary man, but under the loving care of father and sweetheart he regains his health and strength and begins to take a less morbid view of life. In other words, the story of the film brings out the fact that the creation of the monster was only possible because Frankenstein had allowed his normal mind to be overcome by evil and unnatural thoughts. His marriage is soon to take place. But one evening, while sitting in his library, he chances to glance in the mirror before him and sees the reflection of the monster which has just opened the door of his room. All the terror of the past comes over him and, fearing lest his sweetheart should learn the truth, he bids the monster conceal himself behind the curtain while he hurriedly induces his sweetheart, who then comes in, to stay only a moment. The monster, who is following his creator with the devotion of a dog, is insanely jealous of anyone else. He snatches from Frankenstein's coat the rose which his sweetheart has given him, and in the struggle throws Frankenstein to the floor, here the monster looks up and for the first time confronts his own reflection in the mirror. Appalled and horrified at his own image he flees in terror from the room. Not being able, however to live apart from his creator, he again comes to the house on the wedding night and, searching for the cause of his jealousy, goes into the bride's room. Frankenstein coming into the main room hears a shriek of terror, which is followed a moment after by his bride rushing in and falling in a faint at his feet. The monster then enters and after overpowering Frankenstein's feeble efforts by a slight exercise of his gigantic strength leaves the house.

When Frankenstein's love for his bride shall have attained full strength and freedom from impurity it will have such an effect upon his mind that the monster cannot exist. The monster, broken down by his unsuccessful attempts to be with his creator, enters the room, stands before a large mirror and holds out his arms entreatingly. Gradually, the real monster fades away, leaving only the image in the mirror. A moment later Frankenstein himself enters. As he stands directly before the mirror he see's the image of the monster reflected instead of his own. Gradually, however, under the effect of love and his better nature, the monster's image fades and Frankenstein sees himself in his young manhood in the mirror. His bride joins him, and the film ends with their embrace, Frankenstein's mind now being relieved of the awful horror and weight it has been laboring under for so long.

My Old Kentucky Home by The Edison Concert Band (1909)

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"My Old Kentucky Home" originally titled "Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night!", and sometimes also titled "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" is the state song of Kentucky. It was published by Stephen Foster in 1853 and was adopted by the Kentucky General Assembly as the official state song on March 19, 1928.



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This file is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris), in this caase Stephen Collins Foster July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864, and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31 of that year. Performance Licence: This recording (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1924, in this case 1909 are now in the public domain.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: Edison Concert Band
Keywords: My Old Kentucky Home; Edison Concert Band; 1909
Creative Commons license: Public Domain