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Queen Shenandoah being crowned at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Virginia.

Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Virginia. A girl crowned as Queen Shenandoah being escorted to a podium. Queen Shenandoah seated in a chair as she smiles. Decorated floats at a parade. A sign on a float reads 'Shenandoah Apples for the World'. People lined up along a road to watch the parade.

Location: Winchester Virginia USA
Date: 1937, May 10
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078163
A Consolidated PB-2A airplane crashes during 20th anniversary air show at the Langley Field, Virginia.

People gather for an air show celebrating the 20th anniversary of Langley field, Virginia. B-18s parked on runway. Spectators stand in front of Administration building. Several Consolidated PB-2A airplanes of the 8th Pursuit Group are seen in the air. A flight of Y1B-17 bombers, from the 2nd Bombardment Group, flying low over the crowd. Several PB-2As are also flying low, when one of them suddenly dives towards the ground and crashes in front of the spectators. The pilot, Major Alfred J. Waller, is killed and the observer Sergeant John Johnston is injured. The Crashed aircraft aflame and smoke rising. Crash truck responds. People rush towards the plane.

Location: Langley Field Virginia USA
Date: 1937, December 11
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045789
Fatal airplane crash mars 20th anniversary air show at Langley Field, Virginia.

People gather to watch air show commemorating 20th anniversary of Langley field, Virginia. Long line of P-12s parked with engines running on the air base ready for flight. Crew members rush towards the planes. Y1B-17 bombers, from 2nd Bombardment Group, move slowly along taxi strip toward the runway. One of the B-17B takes off. Nine B-17Bs in flight in echelon formation. PT-6 lays a smoke screen. P3-2As and PB-2As, of the 8th Pursuit Group, fly low over the field. Suddenly, one PB-2A dives and crashes into the ground, and burns. Smoke arises from the crashed plane. (Major Alfred J. Waller is killed in the crash and his observer, Sergeant John Johnston is injured.)

Location: Langley Field Virginia USA
Date: 1937, December 11
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045791
The air-sea search undertaken to find the American aviatrix Amelia Earhart in the Pacific Ocean.

The disappearance of American aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1937. A smiling Amelia Earhart stands with a man, possibly Fred Noonan. Earhart and crew loading up an airplane parked in a hanger. May 20, 1937, Lockheed Model 10-E Electra taking off from Oakland, California bound for Miami, Florida on the first leg of Earhart's second attempt at an around-the-world flight. Earhart and her navigator disappear during the flight and are last heard from on July 2, 1937. A huge air sea search is undertaken to find them. An aircraft carrier underway at sea. Airplane parked on the flight deck. Bi-Planes fly in formation during search.

Location: Oakland California USA
Date: 1937, May 20
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063220
Major events of the 1930s include Wall Street crash, kidnapping of Lindbergh child, Hindenburg disaster, Spanish Civil War, etc.

'Retrospect' about the events that led to the present pattern of life in the United States. Host Douglas Edwards, an American television anchor speaks about the past events in America. Crowd of unemployed men gathering in bread lines after the 1929 crash and subsequent Great Depression. A man near a box of apples. The U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses a gathering. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter who abducted the child during the trial. The congressmen at the formation of the Lindbergh Law. Newspapers describe the apprehension or death of notorious mafia gangster criminals, such as Dutch Schultz and Baby Face Nelson. Huey Pierce Long, Jr. a American politician addresses people. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeals to the League of Nations, after his country is attacked by Italy under Mussolini. Adolf Hitler stands. Troops of the German army parade. Scenes from the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1937 as Spanish national forces battle against fascist rebel forces. Spanish Troops fire 75mm field artillery pieces. Bombs being dropped on the buildings. Spanish soldiers marching during the civil war. The Hindenburg disaster takes place on May 6th 1937: The German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester, New Jersey. Amelia Earhart the first woman aviator to fly solo holds flowers and is surrounded by people. She went missing in 1937. Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers, alone and with U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner and with aviator Wiley Post (who had patch over one eye). King Edward VIII of Great Britain, abdicating the throne for "the woman I love." People at the German-American Bund Nazi sympathizing gathering including the subduing of objectors on stage, in Madison Square Garden, New York. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returning from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. View of Adolf Hitler. German tanks on parade in World War II. an array of artillery guns on display. Railway guns being fired in WW2.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032197
Newly appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Hugo Black returns from Europe on a ship to Norfolk, Virginia

Opening slate reads: "Justice Black back in the U.S. Mum on K.K.K." Camera pans across the bow of the anchored mail steamer "City of Norfolk," on which Justice and Mrs.Black had just returned from a trip to Europe. Men board the ship from a small boat at her side. View from overhead as men form a "bucket brigade" to move luggage along the deck of the smaller boat. American Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black is seen walking along the deck of the mail steamer, surrounded by reporters taking notes and other persons meeting and greeting him. Half a dozen news cinematographers take pictures. Closeup of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette star reporter Ray Sprigle, who broke the story of Hugo Black's past membership in the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). More views of the group mingling on the ship's deck. Closeup of Justice Black, now wearing his hat, surrounded by reporters. He heads down the gangplank, leaving the ship, as others watch from the ship's deck. Mrs. Black follows, walking alone, and waving. On the Norfolk pier, Justice Black prepares to enter a car. View on the pier of the car surrounded by reporters and others. Gangway overhead from the ship to the pier reads, in part: "Baltimore Mail" (probably Baltimore Mail Steamship Company).

Location: Norfolk Virginia USA
Date: 1937, September 29
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046687
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