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Metropolis Illinois USA 1935 stock footage and images

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Blind Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota uses a revolver for target practice, guided by sound as a wand taps the bulls eye

Blind Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota fires a revolver at a target in Berwyn Heights, Maryland. He is guided by the sound of a wand tapped on the bulls-eye by his youngest son Richard. (Note: This newsreel was released December 23, 1935. Senator Schall was killed by a hit and run driver on December 19, 1935 while he was walking across the Baltimore-Washington Parkway within days of this footage being shot, earlier in December 1935 ).

Date: 1935, December
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060566
Leaders of an anti-war movement are put into a police patrol wagon in Chicago, Illinois.

An anti-war parade is dispersed in Chicago, Illinois. Police descend on an unauthorized demonstration by Whites and African Americans against conflict in Ethiopia. Leaders of the movement are put into a patrol wagon. One of the police officers is African American. A sign on a building in the background reads, 'Calumet Loans'

Date: 1935, September 4
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043349
Discovery makes a new record by defeating Omaha during a race in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Horse Discovery wins a race in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Horses on a track. Spectators watch from the stands. The race starts. Discovery wins the race defeating Omaha and breaks its record.

Date: 1935, July 29
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033893
A hippopotamus with his newly born baby in Chicago zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois

Bche, a two ton heavy hippopotamus and his newly born baby swim in a pool at Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois. Bche gave birth to the baby in a pool.

Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058526
Different rail road cars move side by side on tracks in Chicago, Illinois.

Railroad cars on tracks in Chicago, Illinois. A number of different fast moving rail road cars move on tracks side by side. The cars underway on the tracks as smoke rises. Wheels of the rail road cars as they move ahead.

Date: 1935, June 5
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058971
Fashion models exhibit new bar gadgets in Chicago, Illinois.

New bar gadgets being exhibited by models in 1930s clothing and hair style fashions, in Chicago, Illinois. The cocktail bar gadgets being exhibited by models in designer costumes. Two women seated on chairs. A woman arrives and serves them cocktails from a unique cylinder bar cabinet. They sample snacks from a cocktail platter. They drink from small shot glasses. Two models put on heavy mitts on their hands and then shake cocktails in large shakers. One model is wearing an enormous bowtie. Three women seated on floor enjoy beer from a small keg. One model pours them beer and they toast and drink the beer. Models sip wine wearing unusual cocktail dresses.

Date: 1935, March 11
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051632