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Models display dresses at a fashion show during an award function in New York, United States.

American Fashion Critics’ Jury Awards in New York, United States. People gather in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) for the function. Awards are given to top United States fashion designers. American Fashion Critics’ Jury official bestows an award and shake hands with a female designer. A woman wears a red velveteen jumpsuit coverall with mink neckband. Models evening display dresses during a fashion show. A woman models a wedding gown designed by Jane Derby. People applaud in the fashion show.

Date: 1951, October 1
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065078
Roosevelt wins 1944 United States Presidential Election during WWII

Newspaper boy peddling newspapers with headline "Nip and Tuck Race." View of Times Square in New York City during WW2. Shops in Times Square with barricades to prevent vandalism by crowds. View of Times Building. An Asian man and a White man standing together while checking for election updates from Times Building. Election officials and staff open a machine processing election returns from the small towns from the Eastern United States. Election official opens a Perfection ballot box. Radio announcer with CBS microphone, possibly Bob Trout, broadcasts updates as votes are tabulated. Volunteers tabulate results. Woman's hand seen turning on radio. United States soldiers based in Italy and France listen to radio to hear that current United States President and Democratic party candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading race. Two United States soldiers smiling as they hear the news. WEAF Radio announcer broadcasts election returns from the west coast. An American family listening to the radio in their living room. An American family, with a picture of a serviceman on top of radio, listens to the news that Roosevelt won. Zipper marquee on Times building announcing election returns. Crowds gathering in Times Square New York. Americans celebrated the victory in New York. View of the Times Square at night. American civilians and soldiers celebrate the victory of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fourth term in office.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079035
Various Allied Generals assume new commands in Italy during December, 1944, World War II.

On 12 December, 1944, at an airport in Naples, Italy, British General Sir Henry Nathan Wilson inspects an honor guard of American Military Policemen in formation. (Narrator states he is en route to replace the late Field Marshal Sir John Dill, in Washington, DC, USA) A contingent of British troops is also present as part of the honor guard, on the wet airport tarmac. (Narrator states that Wilson will head the British Joint Staff Mission and be personal military representative for Prime Minister Winston Churchill.) He approaches a line of U.S. military officers who salute him. Closeup of General Wilson With U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, next to U.S. Vice Admiral Kent Hewitt. Also with them (back to camera) is British Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet. Next, General Wilson and his party are seen boarding a British Avro York four-engine Heavy Transport aircraft. View from the ground, of the aircraft cockpit and the engines running as it taxis out for takeoff. Change of scene shows troops gathered in open air battlefield environment. General Mark Clark, now Commander-in-Chief of the Allied 15th Army Group, decorates some members of the 5th Army, as General Lucian King Truscott Jr. (new 5th Army Commander) stands by his side. General Clark says farewell to members of the 5th Army and shakes hands with many of them. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944, December 12
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044519
Buick Wildcat on display at General Motor's Motorama in New York as the Company officials explain the design of the car

Arthur Godfrey sits in Buick Wildcat being displayed at General Motor's Motorama at Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York,United States. General Motors officials look on. Officials open the car's hood as they explain the design and parts.

Date: 1953
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037643
Girls sit in a car being displayed at General Motor's Motorama in New York,United States.

Two girls get into a car being displayed at General Motor's Motorama, at Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York,United States. The car placed on a platform revolves as the girls sit in the car.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037647
Excerpt from film about national elections in the United States. This segment covers election of November 7, 1944, in World War II

Excerpt from film about national elections in the United States. Opening scene show a banner stretched across a downtown street, reading: "Vote Democratic, vote for full employment. Below that are pictured two local candidates and Franklin D. Roosevelt (running for an unprecedented 4th term as President). Underneath, the banner reads:"Conners for Congress.Glimpses of other political signs are shown, on telephone poles, buildings,and automobile windows. Citizens discuss the elections in various places: A man and woman in their living room; workers in a machine shop; men in a diner restaurant; a man and woman at home; a farmer and a delivery man; a housewife speaks to another homemaker over a back fence; a dentist and his patient; school boys; and politicians. Representative Clare Booth Luce speaking. New York Governor, Thomas E. Dewey, at a podium. Vice Presidential candidate Harry Truman about to speak. People gathered in local forums and other political campaign activities. President Roosevelt driving along a city street, on a rainy day, in an open car with Secret Service agents riding on the running boards of his car. Crowds jamming the sidewalks in spite of the weather. Other gatherings of people waving American flags and showing support for their politcal parties and candidates. Philip Murray, President of the CIO Labor Union and AFL Head, William Green. Radio broadcast antenna shown denoting importance of radio for political communications. Harry S. Truman (Democrat), Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) and incumbent President Roosevelt are seen delivering speeches in front of numerous microphones. Various views of many men, women, children, and families gathered around radios listening to radio campaign speeches, in various places, including American soldiers at the front (This election is during World War 2) and Nurses in a hospital. President Roosevelt speaking at a political dinner. Views of people at political party conventions. Next, people are seen calmly walking in and out of polling places. Three members of an election board begin counting votes. After checking, one member telephones the results from their precinct to headquarters. Views of recorded votes being reported by telephone. People using tabulating machines to compile the results. Views of spectators in vote posting centers awaiting the results. Final results being brought to news media for dissemination to the nation. People gathered in Times square, New York, where news is posted in moving lights on the Times building marquee. Others gathered around their radios. Marquee Lights on the Times Building announce the reelection of President Roosevelt.

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053767