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Governor Franklin D Roosevelt addresses people at the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

The 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his daughter Anna Roosevelt and granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (sometimes known as Sistie) outside a building circa 1930. Roosevelt holds a cane while leaning against a column and plays with his grandson using the cane. People gather in the convention hall for the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Roosevelt addresses them, speaking of the need to "break foolish traditions" and "to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The people applaud.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076864
Telephone manufacturing at Western Electric Company plant in Chicago,Illinois

Workers work on various machines at Western Electric Company to manufacture telephone in Chicago,Illinois. Presses,planes,drills and mining machines in operation at the plant. Wires being stranded.

Date: 1930
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038285
Assembling of telephone parts at Western Electric Company plant in Chicago,Illinois

Workers assemble telephone parts at Western Electric Company in Chicago,Illinois. Manufactured telephones being inspected by workers at the plant.

Date: 1930
Duration: 7 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038286
A survivor jumps from the eighth story into a net to save his life during a building fire in Chicago, Illinois.

A building on fire in Chicago, Illinois. View from ground of fire and smoke at the eighth story level of the building on fire. Traffic on the street as smoke comes out from the building. A victim jumps from floor eight into a net held by rescuing firemen to save his life. After the man jumps from the burning building, fire fighters are seen around the emergency staircase. A firefighter climbs onto a ladder to get to the eighth floor of the burning building.

Date: 1930, December 24
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042807
Dogs participate in a Mid West Dog show in Chicago, Illinois.

A Mid-West Dog show in Chicago, Illinois. Owners hold leashes of Saint-Bernard and other large dogs. A dog sticking out its tongue. Terriers such as Bull Terriers and Wire Fox Terriers join as contestants. Women with bulldogs. A little girl sits beside a bulldog. Wire Fox Terriers and Chow Chow on leash. A black poodle at the dog show looks up and sticks its tongue.

Date: 1930, April 2
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056182
People leap from 8th floor into firefighter-held nets to save their lives during a fire in a building, Chicago, Illinois.

A skyscraper on fire in Chicago, Illinois. Smoke rises from a skyscraper. Thousands of people gather on the street to look at the rescue operations. Survivors leap from the 8th floor into nets to save their lives.

Date: 1930, February 15
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049605