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Georgetown Washington DC USA 1936 stock footage and images

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Sights including Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal, Mount Vernon and Christ Church in Washington DC.

Film on Sesquicentennial of Washington DC, released in 1950. Film segments created for presentation by Treasury Department at meeting on April 25, 1929. A portrait of the first President of the United States George Washington. Animated maps of the original 13 colonies and the 10 square mile Federal District of Columbia. View of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. George Washington's landmark plantation home, Mount Vernon. Christ Church in Alexandria. Old houses on a street and a hill in Georgetown. Sketch of Suter's Tavern. Animated map shows the L'Enfant development plan and the location of principal buildings. The first section of the U.S. Capitol built on Jenkins Hill. The U.S. Capitol building designed by William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Sketch of the White House designed by James Hoban. Sketch of Capitol Building in 1827 with dome constructed by Charles Bullfinch.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073215
Messages are transmitted from an airplane to Signal Corps cadets in Washington DC, United States.

Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) students engage in a sham battle at Georgetown University in Washington DC, United States. A wireless telephone station. Signal Corps cadets receive information on telephone. An aircraft in flight overhead. A man talks over a radio and receives information.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050995
Aerial views of buildings, landmarks, and monuments along the Potomac River from Rosslyn to National Airport

Aerial views of Washington DC in United States. Flying down the Potomac River. Development on either side of the river including Georgetown University and Rosslyn. Views of the Key Bridge over the Potomac River and the old pilings from the removed Aqueduct Bridge, and the Memorial Bridge leading to the Lincoln Memorial. The Munitions Building and Main Navy Building visible on the National Mall beyond the Lincoln Memorial. Roosevelt Island visible. The 14th Street Bridge and the railroad bridges adjacent. View of the Jefferson Memorial. The U.S. Capitol can be seen in the far background. View of the National Airport and the Bolling Air Force Base. Taxied plane on the airstrips and views of the hangars and terminal at Washington National Airport.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1954
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050411
Views of various Universities near Washington DC and military recreation facilities in the area

Exterior building views of University of Maryland, Georgetown University, George Washington University and American University. United State military personnel go through a rifle drill. Man on diving board doing backward somersault into a swimming pool. Group of U.S. military soldiers play billiards and also watch a movie. Couples dancing in the early 1950s, including some swing dancing moves. Football game being played between Bolling Air Force base and Quantico Marine base teams.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022812
Front of Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown U.S.

Front gate of Dumbarton Oaks with a car driving inside. A plaque outside inscribed with "Dumbarton Oaks" is there. Front of the building where men with military police walking inside. Exterior of State department building. September 1944.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1944, September
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032329
Great flood of the Potomac River near Washington DC after heavy rains add to melting of ice and snow

The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936, March
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062895
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