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Destroyed buildings and rubble due to a gas explosion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A gas explosion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Destroyed buildings and houses. People watch the wreckage. People take luggage from their houses and walk. Rubble on the ground.

Date: 1941, February 13
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046183
Firemen remove the dead and injured from a chemical laboratory damaged due to a gas explosion in Chicago, Illinois.

Damage due to a gas explosion in Chicago, Illinois. Interior of a chemical laboratory. Shattered exterior walls of the building. Firemen, people and policemen remove the dead and injured from the building. Rubble on the ground. Wrecked vehicles and equipment.

Date: 1941, February 13
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046184
A large crowd gathers to watch a football match between the Navy and Cornell in Baltimore.

A football match between the Navy and Cornell in Baltimore, Maryland. The match in progress. A crowd gathers to watch the match. Navy wins the match 14-0. The crowd applauds.

Date: 1941, October 20
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046191
J. Edgar Hoover gives a speech upon being appointed as Director of the renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation.

J. Edgar Hoover speaks from his new office on the occasion of his appointment as the Director of the newly created Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI. Behind his desk a sailfish is mounted on the wall. Exterior views of the new Department of Justice Building at Pennsylvania Avenue and 9th Street, in Washington, DC. A trolley car and tracks can be seen in the streets.

Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046202
President Franklin D Roosevelt addressing the nation about the Selective Service Act of 1940.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt explains the Peacetime Selective Service Lottery to the nation from a microphone in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC, where members of the government gather to witness the first drawing of numbers under the Selective Service Act 1940.

Date: 1940, October 29
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046217
Heavy seas and waves batter homes along the shoreline at Redondo Beach, California.

Waves are seen threatening homes built along a boardwalk, at the water's edge, in Redondo Beach, california. Closeup of sea water rushing under the boardwalk and a sign on one home reading "danger, Keep Out." Waves carrying debris, crashing against the the structures. Glimpse from next to a partly sunken house, of wave rolling towards it. Waves running underneath pilings. A house that has fallen over and water undermining it and the boardwalk nearby. A man and his wife and baby rescuing belongings from their damaged home. He carries a chair and she carries her baby from the home that is already tilted. Their belongings are piled up in a safe place onshore. Other people are seen in the background, along with some parked 1930s era cars, including a Light colored 1936 Dodge 4-door touring car with rear fender aprons. Other people help the couple to rescue their possessions.

Date: 1940, December
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046230