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Hollywood actress Gloria Swanson arrives at Detroit for a stage appearance.

Hollywood actress Gloria Swanson is greeted by a group of admirers at the Detroit railroad train station (Michigan Central Station or also Michigan Central Depot or MCS). She is interviewed by a woman reporter. Then she poses for the camera and gets into the car. Car is driven away.

Date: 1934
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038949
Senator Robert Taft speaks about provisions of the Labor-Management Relations Act

Ohio Senator Robert Taft speaks about the Labor-Management Relations Act, also known as the Taft-Hartley Act. He talks about justice and equality in labor management relations. Further he speaks about provisions of the act regarding employer's relation with Labor Union Leaders and protection of workers to take part in strikes.

Date: 1947
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038950
Labor Leader Walter Reuther speaks out against the Taft-Hartley Act

Labor Leader Walter Reuther, at microphone, denounces the Taft-Harley Act. He speaks about industrial stability in the country and calls Congress to appropriate money to improve economic conditions of people and workers in the country. Further he talks about economic security and social justice for workers and their family and says that government should work to cut down cost of living.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038951
Ceremony at Jewish Agency office in Washington DC, on occasion of United States recognition of Israel as an independent state.

Crowd gathered around 6:00pm on May 14, 1948, outside the Washington DC office of the Jewish Agency, at 2210 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC. View of happy, waving crowd from camera position in an upstairs window. View on building steps of dignitaries including Eliahu Elath (later the first Israeli Ambassador to the United States), Rabbi Novak of the Washington Mizrachi leaders, Sumner Welles, and New York Congressman Sol Bloom. View of a boy (Oren Zinder, son of Zvi and Honda Zinder) standing in the upstairs window, preparing to unfurl the flag of Israel in front of the building. View of the flag in position, and the crowd waving.

Date: 1948, May 14
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038958
Harry Truman, George Marshall, and Congress session in progress at Washington DC.

Cars arrive at Capitol in Washington DC. Session of congress in progress. President Truman, Secretary of State George Marshall, and other dignitaries leaving in cars. Crowd outside Capitol. Congress session in progress.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038962
Story of Cuban missile crisis in the month of October.

Documentary "One Week in October." Aerial views of Russian missiles in Cuba. Columbus day parade with marching bands, Boy Scouts, troops. Brief excerpt from 1962 World Series Baseball game with New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry delivering to Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, who hits a ball to the deep left corner that is caught. March of Dimes annual poster girl. Jackie Kennedy with children of foreign diplomats. Fireworks in Uganda celebrating its independence. View of Vatican Palace and a candlelight vigil. President John Kennedy with Ahmed Ben Bella, Premier of Algeria. Ben Bella is then seen with Cuban leader Castro who receives him in Cuba. U.S. moon rocket launch. Scientists in America reviewing designs for fallout shelters during Cold War, and visiting banks, stores, and municipal buildings and garages to assess them for worthiness as bomb fallout shelters. Views of various types of fallout shelters. Food, water drums, medical and sanitation supplies bound for civic fallout shelters are seen rolling off of assembly lines and being boxed. Radiological monitoring equipment on an assembly line. A woman packages a geiger counter into a box. Then the fallout shelter supplies are seen transported by rail to defense department warehouses for distribution by local authorities to Community Fallout Shelters. View of moving train seen from above and from sideview. View of new fallout shelter signs being mounted at fallout shelters. Forklifts working at Naval Supply Center Oakland in California to arrange supplies for shelters. View of American Legion meeting where former President Harry Truman makes a speech. Former President Eisenhower gives a speech in Connecticut endorsing some candidates. Air Force helicopter flies overhead and then seen landing on White House lawn. Beaches of Cuba. Marches in Cuba. Historic view of soldiers marching beside monument to Battleship Maine in Havana. Crane atop monument as a wing is cut off; scenes of destruction of monument to Battleship Maine in Havana. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara marching into Havana in 1959 with cheering throngs after succeeding in revolt against Batista. Fidel Castro and Soviet leader Khrushchev greeting one another at United Nations in 1961. Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyin greeted by Castro and crowd at Havana airport in 1960. Trade agreement between Cuba and Havana signed. Soviet Russian cargo ships on way to Havana. Cuban refugees in small boats being rescued by U.S. Coast Guard. Views of military specialists examining films of aerial views of suspected missile installations in Cuba. U.S. military mobilization for possible war. Strategic Air Command begins dispersing aircraft to possible needed locations. B-52 Stratofortress aircraft takes off. Badge on plane: "Anywhere. Anytime." Destroyer USS Strong, DD-758, making way in heavy seas. An American Aircraft Carrier underway in the distance. Polaris submarine on surface. Officers of STRAC or Strategic Army Corps seen meeting after being assigned to the new command of U.S. Forces Atlantic. Alerted U.S Army units on training exercise to maintain combat readiness. American Army troops load into rear of transport plane . C-124 Globemaster taking off. Then a C-119 shortly after takeoff flying overhead. Then a MATS C-124 again is seen overhead. 1st Armored division tanks being loaded onto rail for transport from Fort Hood Texas to Fort Stewart Georgia.

Date: 1962
Duration: 11 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038963