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Chester Pennsylvania USA 1940 stock footage and images

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President Franklin D Roosevelt campaigning for reelection from a train in 1940

Presidential train parked in a train station at a city in Pennsylvania,during President Roosevelt's reelection campaign in 1940. It is surrounded by a phalanx of officials and police. View from rear of the train reveals a huge crowd jamming the train station, outside. A banner reads: "Lavery for Congress,"and another announces AFL support 500,000 strong for Franklin D. Roosevelt. The President speaks from the train's rear platform, and waves as the train pulls out of the station. Interesting side profile view of the President waving to the crowd as his railroad train car starts moving away.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050188
President Franklin D. Roosevelt welcomed by crowd at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A poster of the President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. United States flags on both the sides of the poster. Scenes of the crowded Convention Hall, in Philadelphia, where a crowd has gathered to hear a campaign speech from Roosevelt during the 1940 presidential campaign. (Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt running again, for a third term). The crowd applauds and cheers and throws confetti as President Roosevelt, seen left of the speaker at the podium, prepares to speak.

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046214
Workers in Chester, Pa. Ford Motor final assembly plant gather around final V8 passenger car completed before switch to war production in World War II

Workers in Ford Motor final assembly plant gather around a car coming off assembly line. Sign on its windshield reads: :'This is the last V-8. Watch out Japs. Here comes the little Jeep next. 'V for Victory.' " Final Ford V8 passenger car leaves th assembly line, as the plant switches full time to production of jeeps, during World War 2. Group of workers holding the same sign gathers around a Ford GPW Jeep.

Date: 1942, February 20
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030124
The education and professional journey of naval officer Chester W Nimitz, with views of early U.S. Navy ships and submarines.

Army film 'The Big Picture' . View of U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Buchanan (DD-484), at rain-soaked pier. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, wearing rain coat, steps to shore. Naval ships in convoy. Battleship fires 16 inch guns. Heavy nighttime U.S. Navy ship gun barrages light up the dark in an unidentified battle. Landing craft race toward shore carrying U.S. Marines. Animation of earth with satellite circling it. U.S. Army narrator talks about the naval officer, Fleet Admiral Chester W Nimitz. Setting stage for Nimitz' upbringing, view of cowboys or cattle men herding cattle on great western plains of the United States with distant views of mountains behind. Narrator refers to Admiral Nimitz' birthplace, Fredericksburg, Texas. Still image of Chester W. Nimitz as a young boy. View of the old U.S. Navy ship USS Constitution -- a tall masted sailing vessel in full sail during the era of the Spanish American war. View of a U.S. Navy armored steam cruiser or battleship firing guns in battle. Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech, then seen close up talking and smiling, and then again Theodore Roosevelt seen on a flag draped podium giving an speech with animated hand gestures. Late childhood picture of young Chester W Nimitz around the time he entered the U.S. Naval Academy. Nimitz in a sailor uniform. U.S. Navy sailors participate in a boxing match during training, as their classmates look on and cheer the bout. Procession of U.S. Navy officers and cadets march on grounds of U.S. Navy Academy circa 1905, during a commencement exercise or other ceremony. View of one of the U.S. Navy's first submarines being loaded at a port. U.S. Navy sailors atop a small submarine as it cruises in a waterway. View of the small submarine as it dives under water. View circa 1918 of four U.S. Navy submarines at port, side-by-side. View of U.S. Navy sailors at work inside submarine. Fleet of warships and submarines underway during World War 1 era. View of USS Zeilin (DD-313) underway at sea. Navy biplane aircraft lands on U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.

Date: 1905
Duration: 6 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042982
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt gives a strong defensive political speech during 1940 presidential campaign

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1940 presidential campaign, speaking in Philadelphia, United States. The President stands at the podium addressing the crowd. The President vigorously defends his administration against what he characterizes as false charges by political opponents.

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 5 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046216
Passengers at a Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City.

Pennsylvania railroad station (Penn Station) in New York City. Passengers at train station. A woman buys from a book shop. A woman checks time on her wrist watch. A woman uses a locker and goes away. A man kisses an elderly woman and goes away. Sign on counters reads 'Coach Tickets Pennsylvania R. R. Points Only'. Passengers walk down stairs.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053167