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Car thief steals car and alters it to match VIN of wrecked junkyard car.

Cartoon drawing of used car lot with words "The Salvage Racket" A speeding 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe. Car after crash with smoke and STOP sign. A smirking man takes down notes as wrecked1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe is towed to a junkyard. A policeman opens a file cabinet to retrieve a file and then says, "the car theft racket is one of major problems facing law enforcement today." A car pulls up near a parked 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe. The man in passenger seat gets out of the car. Man using slim jim to break into car and open door. Man in car uses wires to go under dashboard to hot wire car. Stolen car drives away with another following. Garage door opens and cars drive in to garage. Man wearing gangster hat drives up to junkyard and gets out of car. Junkyard owner walks through junkyard with man looking at cars. The man pays the junkyard owner in cash for wrecked 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe. Man uses pocket nice to cut car VIN trim tag off of car. Man opens car hood to get the car’s motor number. Close up of engine stamp pad containing number. The man closes hood and pulls out notebook and writes notes. The junkyard owner walks through piles of tires and gives the man sale paperwork. 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe in garage with hood open. Mechanic grinding off engine number of stolen car. Gangster throws smoking cigarette to ground and then rubs his hands together. Mechanic tears up and throw out identifying papers found in car, attaches replacement trim tag to door, and removes stickers. Mechanic throwing out papers found in car trunk. Gangster puts paperwork into his suit jacket pocket and watches mechanic work on car with arms akimbo. Police officer explains that "the doctored stolen car is now ready for market." Two cars drive on highway pass sign reading, "state line 1/2 mile". Cars parked with gangster standing by to sell stolen car.

Date: 1956, August
Duration: 7 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078756
Car owner reports suspicious details of car he bought from an auction to the police

Unsuspecting man pays cash to gangster for stolen car and puts temporary license plate on car after examining its title. After signing paperwork, the thief walks away. Car driving out of parking lot. 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe driving into Tom's car lot across from Ben Franklin store and Suburban Trust bank. Exact location unknown but suspect suburban Maryland near D.C. Man examining car paperwork. Man and mechanic open car hood and converse. Close up of motor stamp pad with fake restamped numbers and grind marks with no broach marks. Finger pointing at engine stamp pad. Mechanic closes car hood and owner heads to mechanic’s office. Policeman on call during an FBI agent’s visit. Policeman hangs up phone and says, "looks like a stolen car case." Police car driving into parking lot at Tom's cars. Car lot owner shows his car’s papers to the police and FBI detective. Police and FBI agent reads car title documents. Policeman and FBI agent look under hood of 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe and confer. Finger pointing at motor stamp pad. Policeman and FBI agent examine car trunk, policeman looks for clues under passenger seat. Policeman and FBI agent look at car trim tag. Mechanic drives the car out of parking lot. FBI agent and policeman take notes after examining underside of 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe.

Date: 1956, August
Duration: 5 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078757
FBI agent and policeman investigate a “salvage racket” car theft larceny

FBI agent calls on telephone at police office. FBI agent recites VIN numbers associated with a stolen car. A woman's hands typing on teletype typewriter. Sign reading, “Dept. of Motor Vehicles”. A woman pulls out a document from typewriter. A woman pulls out a folder from file cabinet. FBI agent dials phone and makes a call. View of a copy of the 1956 Manual for the Identification of Automobiles by the National Automobile Theft Bureau. FBI agent comparing notes, meets with a police officer. FBI agent and police officer discuss development of car theft case. FBI agent and policeman questions a woman in an office. FBI agent and policeman visit a junkyard, where they meet the junkyard owner. Junkyard owner shows sales record ledger to FBI agent and police officer. FBI agent flips through sales record pages. Junkyard owner shows car wreckage to police officer and FBI agent. Police officer opens car hood to inspect. Fingers point to motor number in engine. Close up of fingerprint on motor stamp pad. Junkyard owner shows car door post for the car’s serial number. Police car parks in front of a store. Police officer and FBI agent entering shops. FBI agent entering Burnt Mill Barber Shop in Silver Spring Maryland Policeman, at his desk, discusses how this case study follows the right method for investigating car theft, which he describes as “America’s most expensive form of larceny”. Camera pans to FBI agent. FBI agent discusses nature of the car theft suspect in case study. Police cars enter and block a parking lot driveway to inspect a garage. FBI agent in conclusion advises against car theft with “a thorough check of point of sales saves everyone time, trouble and expense”. Closing credit.

Date: 1956, August
Duration: 8 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078758
City scenes, pedestrians shopping, cook, secretaries, machinist, printing press, United airplane

A written introduction by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Aerial view of the 8200 block of Georgia Ave., Silver Spring MD. (Little Tavern at 8230 Georgia Avenue seen left side of street) Pedestrians with shopping bags walking outside the J.C. Penney Co. department store at 8650 Colesville Rd. Silver Spring, MD 20910. Two women typing documents at the offices of Capital Film Laboratories 470 E Street SW Washington, D.C. 20024 A short order cook at a restaurant kitchen window, rings bell after placing food on counter for the server. Waitress places a new order to line cook by placing check on rotating check-minder. A machinist shapes metal using a lathe at D. Ballauf Manufacturing Company ( 619 H Street, N.W. Washington D.C.) View of receipts next to lathe operator. Man picks up newspaper printed from printing machine. Newspaper printing press running, likely at the Washington Post or Washington Star. Mechanic working under the hood of a car. A receipt next mechanic reads, "replace fuel pump." Front end loader scoops soil in construction site. Surveyor looks through transit scope and takes notes at a construction site. A forklift operator moves a Gibson refrigerator, still in box, from a loading dock truck. Man signs a receipt at an appliance wholesaler. A United Airlines Douglas DC-8-11 passenger airlplane taxiing on a runway, likely Washington National Airport, before takeoff. A United Airlines officer checks his watch, takes down notes. A Metropolitan police officer stands behind a counter while listening to a woman as he fills out a missing person report .

Date: 1964, December
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078777
City police on the beat and writing reports.

Brief aerial view of 8200 block of Georgia Ave., Silver Spring MD. Pedestrians cross the street in front of the J.C. Penney Co. department store at 8650 Colesville Rd. Silver Spring, MD 20910. A man parks his 1965 Chevy Bel Air station wagon in front of a building. Close up of keys left in ignition after parking car. An alley filled with trash in an urban slum neighborhood. Trash and a child's tricycle in a vacant lot. Policemen writing reports, papers, and complaints for record keeping. A policeman searches through index cards in the Type of Crime File case file cabinet. View of a Police Beat Location map color-coded according to level of police activity. A policeman uses a spot map. A bar chart depicting types of crimes committed from April to June. Police chief presents during a community group meeting. A man uses a typewriter. A policeman writes a report. Operator pressing a button on an early computer electronic data processing console controlling two IBM 729 Magnetic Tape Units. Policemen leave precinct on L Street in Washington D.C. precinct to begin their patrols. A policeman writes on his notebook while holding a card from the arrest index file. Policeman answers call. A police officer inside a grocery store. Policeman keeps writing notes in a ledger.

Date: 1964, December
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078782
Loudspeaker jeep and tank move across a field; aircraft drop leaflets over soldiers

Psychological warfare operations (PSYOP) and information dissemination demonstration by the United States Army during the Cold War. A loudspeaker jeep hidden distantly behind clump of trees in a grassy field. A tank (likely a Sherman M4 tank) with a loudspeaker moves across a field. Leaflets distantly visible in the sky. A B-26 plane flies past a field. More leaflets fill the sky distantly visible. Leaflets falling on the fields. A United States Army L-16 plane flying low, dropping leaflets over soldiers.

Date: 1951, October 19
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078826