Boatswain's Calls Bosun's Pipe Mess Call

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A boatswain's call is a pipe used on naval ships by a boatswain. It is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "bosun's call".

Historically the boatswain's call was used to pass commands to the crew when a voice could not be heard over the sounds of the sea. Because of its high pitch, it could be heard over the activities of the crew and bad weather.



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Artist/Composer: United States Navy Personnel Command
Keywords: Piping; Bosun's Pipe; boatswain's mate; pipe; navy
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Northern Elephant Seal Video

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Northern Elephant Seal Video, In 2004, the Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center produced a DVD entitled "Science Behind the Scenery."

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While sailing along the Pacific coast in the 1800s, a whale and seal hunter named Charles Scammon reported seeing northern elephant seals from Baja California in Mexico to Point Reyes in California. Sharing the fate of many of the oceans' great whales, the elephant seals were hunted to the brink of extinction for their oil-rich blubber. One bull elephant seal would yield nearly 25 gallons of oil. Though we don't know exactly how many northern elephant seals were alive before the 20th Century, it has been estimated that fewer than 1,000 northern elephant seals existed by 1910. In 1922, the Mexican government banned hunting, followed shortly thereafter by the United States government. Since then, the population of northern elephant seals has recovered at an average rate of six percent per year. Today, thanks to government protection and the seals' distant lives at sea, the worldwide population has grown to an estimated 150,000 seals.

After being absent for more than 150 years, elephant seals returned to the sandy beaches on the rocky Point Reyes Headlands in the early 1970s. In 1981, the first breeding pair was discovered near Chimney Rock. Since then, researchers have found that the colony is growing at a dramatic annual average rate of 16 percent. When severe storms occurred in 1992, 1994, and 1998, many pups were killed. During the El Niño winter of 1998, storms and high tides washed away approximately 85% of the 350 young pups before they had learned to swim. Nevertheless, the Point Reyes elephant seal population is between 1,500 and 2,000. Fanning out from their initial secluded spot, the seals have expanded to popular beaches, causing concern for both their safety and that of their human visitors.

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Producer: National Park Service
Audio/Visual: sound
Keywords: Elephant Seals; National Park Service; Point Reyes
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Funeral March by Frédéric Chopin

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Frédéric Chopin March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849, was a Polish composer and pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw.

Chopin composed his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 mainly in 1839 at Nohant near Chateauroux in France, the third movement, which comprises the funeral march may have been composed as early as 1837.



Recorded by The Edison Concert Band in 1906

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Artist/Composer: The Edison Concert Band
Keywords: Chopin; Funeral March; Edison Concert Band; 1906
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

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Take Me Out To The Ball Game sung by Edward Meeker in 1908 on a phonograph cylinder by Edison recordings.

The words were written in 1908 by vaudeville star Jack Norworth, who while riding a subway train, was inspired by a sign that said "Baseball Today — Polo Grounds". The words were set to music by Albert Von Tilzer.

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Katie Casey was baseball mad,
Had the fever and had it bad.
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev'ry sou1
Katie blew.
On a Saturday her young beau
Called to see if she'd like to go
To see a show, but Miss Kate said "No,
I'll tell you what you can do:"

[Chorus]

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win, it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.

Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names.
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along,
Good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song:

[repeat Chorus]

1 The term "sou", now obscure, was at the time common slang for a low-denomination coin.

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Artist/Composer: Ed Meeker
Keywords: ed meeker; baseball
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Rollin' and Tumblin' Hambone Willie Newbern

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Ripped from the original 78 (mono). Beautifully remastered! This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio. Keywords: opensource audio; blues; delta blues; roots; 78; mono. Creative Commons license: Public Domain Hambone Willie Newburn - "Roll And Tumble Blues"

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Hambone Willie Newbern (1899-1947) Blues musician from the Brownsville, Tennessee area along Tennessee State Route 19. He is said to have played with Yank Rachell and Sleepy John Estes in the 1920s and '30s. He recorded one of the earliest known versions of the blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin'" in 1929. Newbern was beaten to death in a prison brawl, around 1947 Hambone Willie Newbern

Recorded in 1929, this is the earliest recorded version of the blues classic. Unfortunately Hambone Willie Newburn was known more for his temper then guitar playing. He died in a prison riot in 1947. Hambone Willie Newburn – “Roll And Tumble Blues”

Alice in Wonderland (1903)

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Alice in Wonderland (1903), is a British silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, it was the first movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The film is memorable for its use of special effects, including Alice's shrinking in the Hall of Many Doors, and in her large size, stuck inside of White Rabbit's home, reaching for help through a window.

Only one copy of the film is known to exist with a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive). The British Film Institute has partially restored the movie and its original film tinting on February 24, 2010.

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Directed by: Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow
Written by: Lewis Carroll (book), Cecil M. Hepworth
Starring: May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth, Mrs. Cecil Hepworth, Norman Whitten
Cinematography: Cecil M. Hepworth
Distributed by: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Edison Manufacturing Company, Kleine Optical Company
Release date(s): October 17, 1903
Running time: approx. 8:19 minutes
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language: Silent film

This movie is part of the collection: Short Format Films
Director: Cecil Hepworth
Producer: Cecil Hepworth
Production Company: Hepworth Manufacturing Co.
Audio/Visual: silent, b/w
Keywords: Alice in Wonderland, silents, BFI, British Film Institute, Lewis Carroll, Tim Burton, Disney, Silent Movie, Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Hole Queen of Hearts, Frog Footman, Mad Hatter, March Hare.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No. 14

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The String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387, nicknamed the "Spring" quartet, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 while in Vienna.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music.



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Performance Licence: The first movement of Mozart's String Quartet No. 14.

It was converted from Image: String Quartet No. 14, movement 1.mid, which is itself from the Mutopia project, number 245, specifically k387-score-1.mid from k387-mids.zip. Mutopia credits "Breitkopf und Härtel (1882)" as their source.

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Artist/Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keywords: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; String Quartet No. 14; Classical
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Toreador Song from Carmen by Georges Bizet

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Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) French composer and pianist of the Romantic era, best known for the opera Carmen.

The Toreador Song by the Damrosch (New York Symphony) Orchestra. Orchestral arrangement of the Toreador Song from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, played by the Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.



Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845. Adapted from the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.

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Artist/Composer: New York Symphony Orchestra
Keywords: Toreador Song; Carmen; Opera; Georges Bizet
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Airliner Crash

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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) flight video montage. Movie Number: EM-0004-02. Movie Date: 01 Dec 1984.

Description: The Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) was a joint research project by NASA and the FAA to test a survivable aircraft impact using a remotely piloted Boeing 720 aircraft.

The tail camera movie is one shot running 27 seconds. It shows the impact from the perspective of a camera mounted high on the vertical stabilizer, looking forward over the fuselage and wings.

Keywords: Controlled Impact Demonstration; CID; Boeing 720; Edwards Air Force Base; Rogers Dry Lake; Dryden Flight Research Facility; NASA; FAA; anti-misting kerosene; AMK; impact survivability; Fitzhugh (Fitz) Fulton

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If the NASA material is to be used for commercial purposes, especially including advertisements, it must not explicitly or implicitly convey NASA's endorsement of commercial goods or services.

Credit is requested by NASA. Where a photographer is noted, please credit the photographer and his/her affiliated organization as well.

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Producer: NASA
Audio/Visual: silent
Keywords: Airliner Crash; Boeing; NASA
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Gray noise

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An attempt at 10 seconds of inverse A-weighted "gray noise". Generated by Adobe Audition, by plugging in values from the weighting filter equations in the FFT filter. Normalized to −1 dB.

Possibly not mathematically perfect due to Audition or encoding. Source: Created by User: Omegatron using Adobe Audition.



This sound file is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

Image Summary: Spectrum analysis of uncompressed source for 10 seconds of gray noise file. Note the logarithmic frequency scale. The analysis was done using Audacity, and plotting with gnuplot. Transparency was touched up in GIMP to make the graph background pure white.

Image Licensing: I Omegatron, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible: I Omegatron grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Artist/Composer: Omegatron
Keywords: Gray noise
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)

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Tune: Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca. A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580.

Lyrics: What Child Is This? is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865 by hymm writer William Chatterton Dix, at the age of twenty-nine. It was later set to the traditional English tune "Greensleeves"



Since its formation in March 1946, the Field Band has appeared in all fifty states and in more than thirty countries on four continents. The organization's four performing components, the Concert Band, the Soldiers' Chorus, the Jazz Ambassadors, and The Volunteers, each travel over 100 days annually. Tours include formal public concerts, school assemblies, educational outreach programs, festivals, and radio and television appearances.

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Artist/Composer: The United States Army Field Band
Keywords: Greensleeves; hymn; Christmas carol
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Giuseppe Verdi Overture to Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc)

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Giuseppe Verdi Overture to Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc February 15, 1845) an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The opera, Verdi's seventh, had its first performance at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 15, 1845.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera.

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Artist/Composer: U.S. Marine Corps Band
Keywords: Overture, Giovanna d’Arco, Giuseppe Verdi, opera, Joan of Arc
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Allegro in C Major by Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti

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Allegro in C Major by Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848). Donizetti was a prolific composer. He composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, 193 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and other chamber pieces.

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Artist/Composer: USAF Band
Keywords: Gaetano Donizetti
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Day The Earth Stood Still - trailer (1951)

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Many, most, trailers for movies released before 1964 are in the Public Domain because they were never separately copyrighted. The law at the time granted the owner 28 years to file a copyright registration.

The trailer is published (run in a theater) before the movie itself is published. Thus, the trailer requires a separate copyright, and the scenes contained in the trailer are in Public Domain.

Directed by: Robert Wise
Produced by: Julian Blaustein
Written by: Edmund H. North, Harry Bates (story)
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Frances Bavier
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography: Leo Tover
Editing by: William H. Reynolds
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date(s): September 28, 1951
Running time: 92 min.
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $1,200,000
Gross revenue: $1,850,000

This movie is part of the collection: SabuCat Movie Trailers
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w

Hallelujah Chorus Messiah Handel

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Hallelujah chorus - Messiah, Performed by: Oratorio Chorus, Composed by: George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759). Record format: Edison Diamond Disc, Matrix number: 4433-A-1-1 (6-1). Recording date: 1916, Release number: 80292-R, Release date: May 1916. NPS object catalog number: EDIS 43552.





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Messiah (HWV 56) is an English oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel, The libretto by Charles Jennens is drawn entirely from the King James and Great Bibles, and interprets the Christian doctrine of the Messiah, Composed in London during the summer of 1741 and premiered in Dublin, Ireland on 13 April 1742,

George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759), was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England. Born in Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg, he settled in England in 1712, becoming a naturalised subject of the British crown on 20 February 1727.

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Artist/Composer: National Park Service (NPS)
Keywords: Hallelujah Chorus; Messiah; George Frideric Handel; Edison
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

What band is this?

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What band is this? Performed by: Hann's Emperors of Song. Record format: Edison Diamond Disc test pressing. Matrix number: 10748-C-1-1, Recording date: January 04, 1926. NPS object catalog number: EDIS 78332





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The archive at Edison National Historic Site includes approximately 48,000 disc and cylinder records produced by Edison in West Orange, New Jersey, between 1888 and 1929. Many of these, including unreleased and experimental recordings, have been at the Laboratory since Edison's lifetime. Some of the earliest examples of recorded sound in existence are preserved within this unique collection.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: National Park Service (NPS)
Keywords: Negro Spirituals; Christian; hymn; Edison; Gospel; Edison
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Winter Clouds VIDEO

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Fair weather cumulus clouds travel left to right on the screen against a blue sky. Part of a winter landscape shows at the bottom of the frame.

This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies
Producer: C.E. Price
Keywords: Timelapse; clouds; winter; fair weather cumulus
Creative Commons license: Public Domain.

Sun Flower Slow Drag Scott Joplin and Scott Hayden

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Sun Flower Slow Drag, was copyright registered March 18, 1901, it is a ragtime composition by Scott Joplin and Scott Hayden. It has been described as full of gaiety and sunshine.

Scott Joplin Born: Nov. 24, 1868, Texarhana, Texas (near Linden), Died: April 1, 1917, New York City. Scott Hayden Born: March 31, 1882 in Sedalia, Missouri, Died: September 16, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Artist/Composer: United States Marine Band
Keywords: Rag Time; Scott Joplin
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

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Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Leon Jessel (1871-1942) published in Germany 1905. Date of Birth: 22 January 1871, Stettin, Pomerania, Germany, Date of Death: He was tortured by the Gestapo in a basement of the Police Bureau at Alexanderplatz, and subsequently died on January 4, 1942 in the Berlin Jewish Hospital, Berlin, Germany.



"Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" Leon Jessel/ orch. Gould/ trans. Patterson* Col Michael J. Colburn, conducting. Recorded in August 2009 by the Marine Band in the John Philip Sousa Band Hall at the Marine Barracks Annex in Washington, D.C.

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Artist/Composer: United States Marine Band
Keywords: Wooden Soldiers; Christmas; toys
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Christmas Brings Joy To Everyone 1945/12/10 VIDEO

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(1) Christmas trees from state of Washington, shoppers in cities, children look at dolls and hobby horses, puppets, model trains, Santa Claus; (2) Gen. "Ike" New Chief of Staff - Ike speaks (3) Gen. Stilwell Gives DSC to Hero's Sister - Matsuta was Japanese-American (4) Archbishop Speaks For War Relief - Spellman speaks for donation of canned goods, 15,000 Catholic parishes in the nation will act as receiving stations (5) Aviation in the News - Mixmaster nonstop flight by Douglas bomber, Boeing tandem prop fighter plane for Navy to go 450 mph. (partial newsreel)

Universal-International Newsreel. In 1976, the films' owner, MCA, made the decision to turn over ownership of all of these newsreels to the National Archives. The decision effectively ended Universal's copyright claim, releasing the films into the public domain.

This movie is part of the collection: Universal Newsreels
Production Company: Universal Studios
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow

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Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. This hymn's first verse words were written in 1674 by Thomas Ken (July 1637 – 19 March 1711). The lyrics are the last stanza of a longer hymn, by Ken, "Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun." that was set to a different melody. A priest in the Church of England and later Bishop of Bath and Wells, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to sign King James II's "Declaration of Indulgence," which was to restore Roman Catholicism in England, he was acquitted.



Isaac Watts credited with the 2d and 3d verses (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns. Many of which remain in active use today. Besides being a famous hymn-writer, Isaac Watts was also a renowned theologian and logician, writing many books and essays on these subjects.

Music: "Old 100th" from Fourscore and Seven Psalms of David (Geneva Switzerland: 1551); attributed to Louis Bourgeois (1510 - 1561) who was a follower of John Calvin. He edited the Geneva Psalter and was jailed for altering the melodies. The "Old 100th" got its name from association with lyrics called, "All People that on Earth Do Dwell" a reflection on Psalm 100.

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Praise God from whom all bless-ings flow;
Praise Him all crea-tures here be-low;
Praise Him a-bove ye heav’n-ly host;
Praise Fa-ther, Son and Ho-ly Ghost.

Verse 2

From all that dwell be-low the skies;
Let the Cre-a-tor’s praise a-rise!
Let the Re-deem-er’s name be sung;
Through ev-‘ry land by ev-‘ry tongue.

Verse 3

E-ter-nal are Thy mer-cies Lord;
And Truth E-ter-nal is Thy Word;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore;
Till suns shall rise and set no more.

Verse 4

Praise God from whom all bless-ings flow;
Praise Him all crea-tures here be-low;
Praise Him a-bove ye heav’n-ly host;
Praise Fa-ther, Son and Ho-ly Ghost.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: Sookietex
Keywords: Jesus; Christian; hymn; Gospel; Sacred; Inspirational
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Duck and Cover (1951)

Duck and Cover MPEG2 245 mb Duck and Cover MPEG4 55 mb. Duck and Cover 512Kb MPEG4 37 mb, Duck and Cover OGV format 36 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGV format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. animated gif, 19 frames

Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures.

Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.

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This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Archer Productions, Inc.
Sponsor: U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Animation
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

I'll Be a Sunbeam Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

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"I'll Be a Sunbeam" often called "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" is a popular children's Christian hymn composed by Ellen Winnifred [Nellie] Talbot (Oct 1871 - 31 Mar 1959); it is sung to music composed in 1900 by Ed­win Othello. Ex­cell (December 13, 1851 – June 10, 1921) who ded­i­cat­ed it to his grand­son, Ed­win O. Excell, Jr.



Excell, was a prominent American publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings.

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1. Jesus wants me for a sunbeam,
To shine for Him each day;
In every way try to please Him,
At home, at school, at play.
* Refrain:
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam;
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
I’ll be a sunbeam for Him.

2. Jesus wants me to be loving,
And kind to all I see;
Showing how pleasant and happy,
His little one can be.

3. I will ask Jesus to help me
To keep my heart from sin;
Ever reflecting His goodness,
And always shine for Him.

4. I’ll be a sunbeam for Jesus,
I can if I but try;
Serving Him moment by moment,
Then live for Him on high.

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Artist/Composer: Sookietex
Keywords: Jesus; Christian; hymn; Gospel; Sacred; Inspirational
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Four Seasons Winter Antonio Vivaldi

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The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741). Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music.



The concertos were first published in 1725 as part of a set of twelve concerti, Vivaldi's Op. 8, entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione

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Artist/Composer: The United States Air Force Band
Keywords: The Four Seasons; Winter; Antonio Vivaldi
Creative Commons license: Public Domain