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Brooks Walter invents a new device to parallel park vehicles into spaces along the curb in Piedmont, California.

Car parallel parking challenge is solved by new fifth wheel-equipped car in Piedmont, California. New device invented by Brooks Walter that facilitates the task of nosing automobiles into spaces along the curb. Car demonstrates parking along the curb between vehicles. Driver positions car front into space and then activates use of a spare wheel attached to rear of car that lowers to the ground, raises vehicle end, and allows driver to direct the rear of the automobile horizontally into the parallel parking space.

Date: 1933, June 5
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044359
Fire fighters try to extinguish fire at an oil refinery in Long Beach, California.

Oil Refinery blast in Long Beach, California. Black smoke rises after the blast in an oil refinery. Fire fighters spray water on the blazing fire. Huge towers burn. Explosion at the Oil Refinery. Workers lift tin shades and clear debris.

Date: 1933, June 5
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044362
World's Fair Queen, Lillian Anderson along with her fifty attendants participate in a parade in Racine, Wisconsin

American throngs pay tribute to Lillian Anderson in Racine, Wisconsin. Women dressed in hats and costumes. World's Fair Queen, Lillian Anderson being escorted on the throne. Anderson being paraded with her court of fifty attendants into the fair on opening day. The attendants wearing white and cream dresses and broad rimmed hats. Lillian Anderson smiles at reviewing stand. Convoy of cars drives past the crowd.

Date: 1933, June 5
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044364
Damaged houses and vehicles due to tornado in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Tornado sweeps the city in New Orleans, Louisiana. Civilians clear debris. Mass of wreckage, scattered houses, damaged automobiles and furniture in the city. People repairing houses. Civilians standing on streets with debris all around them.

Date: 1934, March 28
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044367
Workers on strike at New York Shipbuilding Company Plant in Camden, New Jersey.

Police fight strike pickets in Camden, New Jersey. Three thousand men walk outside the New York Shipbuilding company plant. A dispute between officers and strikers marks labor difficulties at the Worsted Mill in Cleveland. View of smokestacks of industrial factory with smoke coming out. Men entering factory and standing in line to punch their time cards at the start of a a work shift. Men at work inside automobile plants, assembling cars in Detroit, after U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt settled the dispute between laborers and manufactures in the motor industry.

Date: 1934, March 28
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044368
Kittens sit in a box with a hen laying an egg

Film begins showing a hen with four kittens in a wooden box. A young girl reaches into the box and removes one of the kittens, placing it into an everready battery cardboard box. She removes a second kitten. She reaches in again and the hen, who is sitting on an egg (unseen) reaches out to peck her. But the girl persists and pulls another kitten from behind the hen. The girl removes the last kitten from the box, as the hen stands up revealing the egg she is sitting on. She moves about in the barnyard. Meanwhile the mother cat gathers up her kittens in the barnyard

Date: 1934, March 28
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044370