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Actors portraying bootleggers during prohibition receive liquor from ship offshore, and bring it into the United States.

Dramatized scenes in which actors portray bootleggers receiving liquor from a schooner offshore. They load containers of alchoholic drink into a small boat and bring them ashore. "Oil" written on the containers to disguise contents. They pour liquor from the containers into bottles, at their hideout during prohibition.

Date: 1925
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065222
Movie portrayal of Speakeasy activities during prohibition in the U.S.A.

Actors portray purveyors and consumers of illegal liquor during prohibition in the United States. Sales and consumption in city establishments in the 1920s. Man knocks on a door. He is eyed from inside, slips money through slot and receives bottle of liquor. An innocent-looking package contains bottles of Gordon's gin. A man slips something through a window slot in a speakeasy door and is admitted. Sculpture of the Statue of Liberty at a restaurant where illegal alcohol is served. Men and women in the restaurant. People dance. Men pour liquor in glasses.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065223
Illegal stills, hijackings, bombings, and other mafia or mob violence depicted in movie enactments

Movie portrayal of gangster activities during prohibition, in 1920s in the United States. Illicit liquor trade and gang warfare. Clandestine liquor manufacture. The illicit liquor is loaded onto a truck for transportation. Truck hijacking after truck carrying liquor smashes into a car blocking the road. Metal milk containers filled with liquor being machine gunned by a passing car. Two business establishments being bombed. Gangsters interrogating two men and threatening them while holding handguns. Faceless gangster in 1920s fashions (actor) fires revolver. A policeman with a gun firing at gangsters during a getaway.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065224
Wholesale arrests of mafia members by policemen in Chicago. Al Capone arrives to testify before Federal Grand Jury

Law enforcement officials leaving a building. Wholesale arrests of gangsters. Police load them into police vans. A Police van drives out onto the street. Al Capone arrives by car and ascends steps of courthouse to appear before Federal Grand Jury. Large number of people mill about on sidewalk outside the building. Capone exits the building, descends steps, enters a car and drives away. Mayor William "Big Bill" Thompson exits the building with a woman. He reaches out to another woman who joins them at the top step by the doorway.

Date: 1929, March 20
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065225
Queen Marie of Romania arrives in New York aboard the SS Leviathan ocean liner, to a warm welcome.

Marie of Edinburg, Queen of Romania, chats with ship's officer, as he pets her dog, aboard the deck of the United States Lines flagship, SS Leviathan, as it arrives in New York harbor. A welcoming party, including children dressed in Romanian traditional costumes, carrying welcome signs, and including a brass band, awaits Queen Marie's arrival. The band begins to play as Queen Marie comes down the gangplank to the pier.

Date: 1926
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065227
Charles Lindbergh feted in Washington, DC and New York City, upon return to U.S. after his historic transatlantic flight

American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh arrives aboard USS Memphis (CL-13) at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. upon his return from Europe to the United States following his pioneering trans-Atlantic solo aircraft flight. He comes down the gangplank and is greeted by a phalanx of officials. They drive Lindbergh away in an open car. Two days later, June 13, 1927, the scene shifts to New York harbor, where there is a virtual traffic jam of ships and boats of all sizes and shapes, assembled to greet Lindbergh. Fireboats salute with streams of water as Lindberg arrives (as backseat passenger) in a seaplane from Mitchel Field on Long Island. The seaplane is seen flying over the harbor,and descending to land. The seaplane is seen in the water amongst the flotilla of vessels, as. Lindbergh is picked up by a police launch that takes him to the ship Macom, where he is helped aboard by passengers. (He almost falls into the water while stepping from the launch to the ship.) Lindbergh waves from the deck of the Macom, as they proceed in a parade of vessels toward a Manhattan pier. Upon arriving, Lindbergh is hustled into an open car and driven away surrounded by New york City policemen,including mounted police, who escort the car through mobs of spectators. Police form lines to hold back enthusiastic admirers. The car proceeds along a city street where cheering spectators jam the sidewalks and office workers create a virtual storm of ticker tape and confetti from their windows high above the street.

Date: 1927, June 11
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065239