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King Neptune's court in session during Shellback Initiation ceremony aboard USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Shellback Initiation ceremonies aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean. The USS Indianapolis is on its way to South America, carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt on a "Good neighbor" cruise for state visits. The captain of the ship, Captain Henry Kent Hewitt, walks along with sailors dressed in costumes. Neptune's court in session. A sailor reads from a "subpoena" of the court. The subpoena reads "In the Royal High Court of the Realm of Neptune, In and for the District of Equatorius."

Date: 1936, November 24
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043899
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt is honored at a Shellback during Initiation Ceremony aboard USS Indianapolis (CA-35).

Shellback initiation ceremonies aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship is en route to South America carrying President Roosevelt on "Good Neighbor" state visits. Ambient sound and music is heard periodically during the clip. Sailors dressed in costumes perform on the ship deck. Sailors in uniform salute an officer. Actors perform on a stage. A pirate flag on the mast of the ship. King Neptune speaks to the captain (Captain Henry Kent Hewitt). A group of sailors play a band. Spectators watch the act. In second half of clip President Franklin Roosevelt is seen watching the ceremonies and at the end King Neptune decrees that President Roosevelt, the Commander In Chief of the U.S. Navy is now a Shellback himself (having crossed the equator for the first time with the sailors of the USS Indianapolis.

Date: 1936, November 24
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043900
Sailors perform Shellback initiation ceremonies aboard USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean.

King Neptune shellback initiation ceremonies aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in the Atlantic Ocean. Sailors dressed in costumes perform on the ship deck. Doctors perform mock operation on a patient lying on stretcher. The sailors perform a mock beheading act. A sailor points at a spinning board that decides each initiate's fate. Initiate sailors thrown into a small water pool. They play games aboard the ship. USS Indianapolis underway to South America, carrying President Franklin Roosevelt on a "Good Neighbor" trip for state visits.

Date: 1936, November 24
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043901
Test of rocket airplane for carrying mail. It barely clears end of launch ramp and scoots along ice.

Experimenters place rocket plane (named Gloria), intended to carry postal mail, on a launch ramp. The rocket is ignited and the rocket aircraft rises but quickly falls to the frozen surface of the lake. It scoots along the ice.

Date: 1936, February 9
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044893
Men in tuxedos and white dinner jackets and women in evening gowns enter a hotel ballroom in Havana, Cuba, on New Year's eve

New Year’s Eve celebration at a night club in Havana, Cuba. Many formally dressed men and women enter a night club in Havana, Cuba, to celebrate a New Year’s Eve party. The men wear tuxedos or white dinner jackets, and the women wear evening gowns. Men and women enter the night club in pairs.

Date: 1936, December 31
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045113
Debris & mud being cleaned from streets and water & food being distributed during flood relief operations in Pennsylvania.

Flood relief operations of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Flood relief operations by WPA and flood devastation becomes headlines of newspapers. Flood-damaged goods being shoveled out of stores in Sharpsburg. Debris and mud being cleaned from streets and dumped in the Allegheny River. Safety instructions being pasted on telephone poles in McKees Rocks. Water being distributed by tanker trucks to people who need fresh water. People standing in queue to receive water. Salvation Army units dispense food andhot drinks to WPA workers and to lines of affected homeless and unemployed citizens. Interrupted highway and roads due to flood water. Flood-battered furniture being removed from homes in the New Kensington area.

Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045141