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Communist Party USA holds ninth national Convention in New York City. Large Banner portrait of James W. Ford
Lots of delegates involved in typical political convention activities, at the Ninth National Convention of the Communist Party USA in New York City, in 1936. Delegates march and cheer. Large banner portrait of James W. Ford, one of the party leaders, is displayed with Hammer and Sickle behind podium. American flag on podium. Delegates appear weary. Several wave hammer and sickle flags. Balloons drop from ceiling.
1936 New Year celebrations in Times Square, New York City
Large crowd celebrates the arrival of the New Year at midnight on January 1, 1936, in Times Square New York City. Buildings and marquees of Times Square glow with neon signs in the background. Crowd smiling and blowing party horns, yelling, and laughing. Clock in background reads 12:01.
Crowds fill sidewalks in Times Square, New York City, on New Year's Eve (1936). Vehicles move very slowly through the area.
New Year's Eve, 1936, in Times Square, New York City. Crowds gathering to celebrate. Vehicles move cautiously in the area. The scene is illuminated by numerous neon signs advertising all kinds of places and things. The Loews State movie theater marquee advertises the film "Love on the Run" starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, as well as a "girl review." The Criterion theater advertises a James Cagney film. The Times building displays a "Planters Peanuts" sign that shows peanuts pouring from a bag. Numerous other signs are seen.
Scenes in life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the national election of 1936
Opening scene shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt driving his personal Ford Phaeton hand-controlled car along a tree-lined drive at his family residence in Hyde Park, New York. Riding with him are his daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, and her children, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie"). Next, Roosevelt is seen in car, parked in a cornfield, near the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, while his grandchlldren, “Sistie” and “Buzzie” visit with farm hands who are clearing old plants from the field. Very good close-up of President Roosevelt sitting in the driver’s seat of his car. Scene changes to the lawn at "Springwood," the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, where President and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are sitting in wicker lawn chairs. She is knitting, and FDR is paying attention to the grandchildren, Anna and Curtis, who are riding horses, and granddaughter, Sara, on a pony. He talks with Sara. Close-up of Sara. Change of scene shows Republican Presidential Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas, and his family in their home. Voters are seen lined up along the sidewalk to cast their ballots in the election. View inside the polling place of voters entering and leaving individual voting booths. Another view shows voters in a long line snaking back and forth across a sidewalk. A Jewish Rabbi is seen registering and being directed to a voting booth at one polling place. On election night, President Roosevelt stands outside his Hyde Park home, assisted by his son Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., as he acknowledges his reelection victory. View of Times Square in New York City, crowded with people celebrating FDR’s reelection. President Roosevelt drives in an open on his return to Washington to resume his duties in the White House. He holds a large bouquet of flowers aloft and waves it to the crowds of spectators who fill the sidewalks. Later, he waves his hat. View of the Presidential motorcade lining Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Capitol in the background. The crowds spill partway into the streets, in places where police are not keeping cordoned off. A crowd of thousands of people packs the area immediately in front of the White House as President Roosevelt, assisted by his son, stands and waves from a portico. Clip is from a 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.
Laura Ingalls non-stop coast-to-coast U.S. record flight; also Margaret Waley found guilty in Weyerhaeuser kidnapping
Aviatrix Laura Ingalls in flight gear. Her aircraft, Lockheed Orion 9D Special, NR14222, takes off from Floyd Bennett field in New York. It sets a new nonstop flight record of eighteen hours and twenty minute flight from east coast to west coast in the United States. Ingalls was the first woman pilot to cross the U.S. non-stop from east to west. Next scenes are unrelated to Ingalls' flight: A group of men and women jurors walking on sidewalk in Tacoma Washington, during trial of Margaret Waley, wife of Harmon Waley, for her involvement in the kidnapping of young George Weyerhaeuser (nine year old heir to thriving Weyerhaeuser Company timber business in Washington state). Kaufman Leonard Company furniture delivery truck seen behind the group as they walk. The group of men and women seen entering a building. Next scene shows 9 year old boy George Weyerhaeuser holding closely to a man and avoiding cameras as he is led on the sidewalk, likely before or after giving testimony. Next scene shows 19 year old Margaret Waley, flanked by a man and a woman as she walks on the sidewalk, likely to or from court. Final scene is a group of men and women, possibly including the jurors in the case, posing on the steps of a building in Tacoma, Washington.
Ninth National Convention of the Communist Party, New York City. Earl Browder and theme"Against hunger fascism war"
Ninth National Convention of the Communist Party USA in New York City, June 24 -38, 1936. The theme as seen in outsize banners included a huge likeness of Earl Browder displaying the words: "Against Hunger Fascism War" and a banner around the hall reading in part: "forward to Unity..." The activities seen are like any major political party convention, including having placards identifying delegates from all the States of the Union, such as Georgia, Virginia,Iowa,West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, District of Columbia,Oregon, etc. Lights sweep over the darkened arena highlighting the signs of the various states. Several scenes show massed flags of the Communist Party displaying the hammer and Sickle on a solid field.
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