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Red Cross War Fund Function at the Madison Square Garden in New York City (WW2)

A function at the Madison Square Garden in New York City to raise funds towards the 1943 War Campaign of the Red Cross in World War II. Young girls exhibit a dance. Shows Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Princess Martha of Norway watching the show. Thousands of spectators present at the venue. Red Cross workers stage a play. Human formation symbolizing Red Cross flag.

Date: 1943, March 19
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029288
Smaranda Braescu sets a new 24,000 foot record for high altitude parachute jumping.

Miss Smaranda Braescu poses near an airplane. She enters the plane and is shown wearing an oxygen mask along with the pilot. The plane takes off from the airfield. Miss Braescu makes a jump from the plane at an altitude of 24,000 feet. She opens her parachute and successfully lands on the airfield. Two officials help her unfasten the parachute harness and shake her hand.

Date: 1932, May 19
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029417
Mother with her newly born triplets in Chicago,Illinois.

Shows a mother with her newly born triplets in Chicago,Illinois. The triplets sleep in bed. Mother carries them in a baby cart. Mother and father poses with their babies.

Date: 1932, May 23
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029419
World's largest bomber (Boeing Y1B-9) is demonstrated for public at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

World's largest bomber (of its day) on first public demonstration flight at airfield in Dayton,Ohio. A Boeing Y1B-9 bomber taxis on ramp at Wright Field. The all-metal aircraft has open cockpits. Pilot in center of aircraft and crew member visible in nose gunner position. Change of scene shows a man standing behind the empennage of the parked bomber and moving its huge metal rudder slightly. The bomber taking off towards the camera over a grassy field, and later, in flight, .being observed and photographed from accompanying airplanes (partially visible).

Date: 1932, June
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029425
A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Amelia Earhart back to New York City.

Harbor craft launch water fountains on the arrival of Amelia Earhart. A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Earhart back to New York. Thousands of New Yorkers gather on streets and join the parade. Ticker tapes being showered in the parade. Earhart with New York Mayor Jimmy Walker. Holding flowers she christens a car.

Date: 1932, June 20
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029428
Amelia Earhart successfully spans a 2400-mile course over the Pacific.

Amelia Earhart's plane lands on an airfield in Oakland,California. She emerges out of the cockpit and welcomed by press, media and public. Earhart gives an interview to the journalists and explains about her flight from Honolulu to the mainland. It took her 18 hours to span a 2400-mile course over the Pacific.

Date: 1935, January 14
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029429