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Boulder Dam opened: Water is released from Boulder Dam in Boulder City, Nevada and production of electricity from dam begins.

Boulder Dam in Boulder City, Nevada. Boulder Dam and the interiors of the power plant and generators. Gauges inside the plant. Water gushes at a high speed from the dam. Production of electricity starts. Aerial view of water gushing out from the dam. A TWA airplane flies over Boulder Dam.

Date: 1936, September 12
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059255
Contestants ride horses and dress up as Native American Indians during the Pendleton Round Up rodeo in Pendleton, Oregon.

The Pendleton Round Up rodeo in Pendleton, Oregon. Men dressed as Native American Indians in colorful headgear ride on horses at the rodeo. Men ride horses as one of them falls from a horseback. A bull hits a contestant. The contestant on the ground. The bull hits another contestant.

Date: 1936, September 14
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059256
People pick tobacco leaves and celebrate the National Tobacco Festival in South Boston, Virginia.

National Tobacco Festival in South Boston, Virginia. Women in a tobacco field, including the festival queen wearing a crown and assisting with tobacco picking. Men and women dressed in colorful costumes. A man dressed in native American Indian regalia smokes a pipe. Another man dressed in fancy robes (perhaps the look of an early settler) smokes the pipe and coughs. A parade to mark the National Tobacco Festival runs down Main Street in the town of South Boston, Virginia. Decorated floats with a woman dressed as a queen on a decorated float. Marquee on the Princess Theater on Main Street advertises the move "Suzy" starring Jean Harlow and Cary Grant. The floats drive past as parade attendees look on.

Date: 1936, September 14
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059257
Harness racing, swimming, speedboat races, motorcycle and car stunts at a fair in Canada.

Various aquatic events at a fair in Canada. Harness racing event. A trotter during the race. A female swimmer smiles. Swimmers dive into water and swim. A motorboat underway in the water during a speedboat race. Smoke rises from burning obstacles on race course. Stunt riders and stunt drivers in motorcycles and cars drive through flaming obstacles. A motor bike rider launches over a flatbed truck using a jump ramp and loses control on landing, with the rider taking a spill. A car on the jump ramp stunt jumps over the truck and lands.

Date: 1936, September 14
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059258
Richman and Merill land in Llandilo, Wales after a trans Atlantic flight from New York.

Richman and Merrill land in Llandilo, Wales. Harry Richman and Dick Merrill pose against a Vultee VA1 after their trans Atlantic flight from New York. People gathered around the airplane on a pasture. The aircraft in flight. The airlane on its way to London as it flies over a stream.

Date: 1936, September 14
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059259
Firefighters hose down Cable Piano Co., building after it catches fire in Atlanta, Georgia

Many people sustained injuries and three died as blaze sweeps a building in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Flames break out in the finishing department of the Cable Piano Company, spreading to the conservatory. Firefighters hose down building. Smoke rises from burning building. Crowds gather on the street to watch firefighters. Firemen care for injured man. A dead body being lowered from the building. Men carry out a dead body on stretcher.

Date: 1936, November 23
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060569