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Activities associated with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Pine Mountain Valley project in Georgia.

Citizens in Pine Mountain Valley community bring horses and wagons to a gathering. One settler stands beside his wagon with his wife and two children seated aboard. They are all assembled outside a large community building. Scene shifts to a new, large, community building with 5 large ventilators on the peak of its roof. A herd of cattle are seen at fenced location. A new house is shown, with occupants moving about on its porch. Cattle grazing near the new community buildings built under the WPA during the Great Depression.

Location: Pine Mountain Valley Georgia USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050180
Proclamation on the Selective Service Registration by U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt.

Proclamation by American President Franklin D Roosevelt on the Selective Service Registration, in the lead up to America's entry in World War 2. President Roosevelt delivers a radio message to American citizens from the White House in Washington DC, USA. He says that "There is both the opportunity and the need for many thousands to assist in listing the names and addresses of the millions who will enroll on registration day at school houses, polling places and town halls. The Congress has enacted a law establishing a selective method of augmenting American Armed Forces. Young men should come from the factories and the fields, the cities and the towns, to enroll their names on the registration day. Everyone should renew within their hearts the conception of liberty. Americans should resolve to hold high the torch of freedom in this darkening world so that our children and their children may not be robbed of their rightful inheritance."

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050181
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt talks about the adoption of Selective Service during a speech in United States.

Statement on Peace Time Universal Selective Service by American President Franklin D Roosevelt from White House in Washington DC, USA. President states that America has adopted Selective Service in times of peace and has broadened the basic concept of citizenship. America has clear democratic ideals of equal rights, equal privileges and equal opportunities. America has reasserted an old and accepted principle of democratic government. At the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, nine of the thirteen states explicitly provided for universal service in their basic laws. Behind the armed forces America must have a munitions industry as a part of an economic system capable of providing the fighting man with his full requirements of arms and equipment. (World War II period).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050182
Statement on military service for Americans by U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt from the White House in United States.

Statement on Peace Time Universal Selective Service by American President Franklin D Roosevelt from White House in Washington DC, USA. President states that in the military service, Americans from all walks of life, rich and poor, country-bred and city raised, farmer, student, manual laborer and white collar worker, will learn to live side by side and to appreciate each other's dignity as American citizens. Universal service will provide wider distribution of tolerance and understanding to enjoy the blessings of peace.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050183
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt announces the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.

In a speech from the White House, American President Franklin D Roosevelt announces the signing into law of the Selective Service Registration, the first peacetime draft in United States History. President Roosevelt proclaims that the first registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 shall take place on Wednesday, the sixteenth day of October, 1940 between hours 7 AM and 9 PM.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, September 16
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050184
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses large crowd during 1940 Presidential campaign

Thousands of people gathered in streets of a town to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak during the 1940 Presidential campaign in the United States. Numerous signs carried in the crowd display CIO and AFL letters representing unions.One reads: "Labor wants Roosevelt." One refers to New York truck drivers who support Roosevelt. The President addresses the crowd from a balcony overlooking the street corner. He is surrounded by photograpers and newsmen, and others.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050185
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