Aerial views from aircraft flying low over and around red sandstone mountains in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, United States. View of long straight Monument valley road leading from the Park.
Gold panning in Arizona, United States. View of mountains. Two men pan for gold in a small stream. One man pours water in shallow pan with shovel. Another man shakes the pan and sort gold from gravel. Trees in the background.
Americans express their views about United States entering into World War II after the Pearl Harbor attack. Isolationist and interventionist views are presented. Senator Gerald P. Nye advocates in favor of an arms embargo. Urging against American involvement in war, Senator Burton K. Wheeler cautions that war mongers and interventioners or intervention advocates control most of the avenues of propaganda. Wendell Willkie speaks advocating unity of purpose in America and importance of assisting the threatened democracies of Europe with war materiel and supplies. Next, Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma strongly urges support for lend-lease and "setting in motion an industrial blitzkrieg (of war materiel) that will make it possible for England to blast Hitlarism from the face of the earth." View of Congress meeting in the U.S. Capitol chamber. Anti-war college aged students protests against involvement in war and picket at the White House in Washington D.C.,United States. Adjacent to them are other protestors picketing against the peace advocates, with signs like "Americans are against subversive organizations picketing the White House" and "We Americans protest Communists picketing the White House. A women's organization advocating peace or protectionism or isolationism is seen wearing all black. They pull down black veils over their faces in a show of unity against war and the possible loss of American boys to war. An outdoor rally of a fascist organization meeting in America. Also scenes from a German American Bund meeting in 1939 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Speaker at the meeting is Fritz Julius Kuhn who watches as a protestor leaps on the stage and is subdued by guards. Scenes shown from various other protests in the United States during the same era, including labor strikes and lockouts, and a group holding a rally in favor of equal rights or civil rights, with a woman holding a sign "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?"
The First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt arrives in Tucson, Arizona. An aircraft taxis after landing. Mrs. Roosevelt and others get off the aircraft. Mrs. Roosevelt smiles as she stands against the aircraft. A large number of people gathered around the aircraft.
The funeral of Philip Kerr, the 11th Marquess of Lothian, and British Ambassador to the United States, from 1939 until his death in 1940. Spectators stand on the sidewalk across from the British Embassy in Washington, DC. British flag flying over the Embassy. Leaving the front gates of the Embassy is a coffin draped with the British flag resting on a caisson, drawn by a team of matched white horses. High-ranking British military officers walk behind followed by civilian mourners. A squad of cavalry on horseback escort the funeral procession. View of the Washington National Cathedral, still under construction, with derrick and scaffolding visible. A crucifer heads about 30 clergy in white robes, leading the funeral cortege up the front steps of the Washington National Cathedral. Military pallbearers in uniform carry the coffin up the steps. U.S. first lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrives and steps from a black limousine. Brief view inside the Cathedral sanctuary. Pallbearers carry the coffin down the steps. Official mourners follow. A large group of mourners stand on upper steps of Cathedral as the immediate funeral party departs.
The beginning of the construction of Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River in the United States. Rocks on the side of the river. A boat in the river. A map shows the course of the Colorado River through different states of the country. The river causes floods in towns and farming districts of California. The dam site in the Black Canyon, where the river forms a boundary between Nevada and Arizona. A map shows the dam site. Materials at the dam site. Trains bring supplies. Power lines to the dam site. Men assemble materials for construction work. Men at a survey. Workmen come to the dam site in trucks from other states.
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