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Canine vie for honors in a "Debutante Dogs of 1939", take part at a show with their masters in Boston, Massachusetts.

Canine blue bloods, vying for honors at a "Debutante Dogs of 1939", take part in a dog show with their masters, in Boston, Massachusetts. Dogs dressed in brilliant costumes. People with their pets. DP Wilson with his Scottish deer hounds win first prize at the dog show.

Date: 1939
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024549
University of California crew team participants hope to win the 1939 rowing championships and go for practice on Frisco Bay

College students from the University of California Bears crew team begin training in hopes of winning the 1939 rowing championships. California oarsmen in Oakland turnout for the spring training. Ten shells get underway for vigorous practice on Frisco Bay. Crew teams rowing on the bay.

Date: 1939
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024550
United Auto Workers Union (UAW) initiate 1939 Tool and die workers strike against General Motors that spreads to other General Motors workers.

Opening Slate reads: "International Union United Auto Workers (UAW) of America " over-layed on medalion reading: "Affiliated with C.I.O."This is followed by the title of the film: "United Action Means Victory, Story of the General Motors Tool and Die Strike 1939." This is followed by numerous credits, and a foreward signed by UAW President, R. J. Thomas and Secretary-Treasurer, George F. Gaddes. Next, Camera shows Walter Reuther, Director of the General Motors Department of the UAW, seated behind Union President R.J. Thomas, as he speaks to members of the union executive board. Camera pans over the board members. Views of a tool and die makers at work, in measuring and in machine shops, using grinders, drilling machines, welding equipment and other machinery. Walter Reuther is seen meeting with Union officials after they decide to strike. Actors supposedly brawling outside an auto plant. (They all pull their punches.) Newspapers announcing peaceful settlement of labor complaints. Walter Reuther insists on waiting for General Motors response to the Union's demands. Strikers marching outside an auto plant. One carries a sign calling for Fisher Pontiac workers to strike. Most of these are women. View of a Chevrolet plant with picketers marching in a courtyard. Slate reads:"Chevrolet Gear and Experimental." More views of picketers. One wears a hat reading: "UAW-CIO Picket Captain." Building with sign reading: "Chevrolet Engineering Laboratory." Engineers from the Lab shake hands with strikers and join them. More views of pickets. Some receiving drinks from folks supporting the strike. Union members seen paying their dues to union cashiers.

Date: 1939
Duration: 6 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048189
People gather at the New York World's fair of 1939 to 1940, as dances and bands perform at the fair.

The New York world's fair of 1939-1940. View of Manhattan, George Washington bridge. Aerial views of buildings and other skyscrapers of New York City. People gather on the fairgrounds. People outside various buildings. Exhibitions, bands, dances, statues and flags at the fair grounds. Statue of George Washington. The United States Government building and different state buildings in view. Woman and two girls seated on a bench as they eat ice-cream cones.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051606
U.S. Army Air Forces P-36 fighter planes perform demonstration flights at Langley Airfield near Hampton Virginia on Army Day 1939

U.S. Army Air Force Curtiss P-36 Hawk airplanes of the Headquarters Squadron 8th Pursuit Group perform demonstration flights on Army Day, April 6, 1939, at Langley Airfield near Hampton Virginia. A long line of P-36 aircraft in a flight line, with engines running. The first airplane, numbered PH-1, taxis, followed by the next, numbered PH-2, and so on. Several buildings of Langley Airfield can be seen in distance. Planes take off and fly in large formations. Aerial view from above of P-36s in formation over the field. Aerial views from below the formations.

Date: 1939, April 6
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074457
Venezuelan baseball pitcher Alex Carrasquel plays in New York, 1939

This Spanish language newsreel clip highlights Alex Carrasquel -- the first baseball player from Venezuela to play in the U.S. major leagues. He played in New York on July 4, 1939, the day before Venezuela's Independence Day. Title cards read: "Especially for Venezuela. The great pitcher Alejandro Carrasquel plays in New York on the eve of the Venezuelan patriotic day." Shot of Simon Bolivar statue in New York's Central Park with 'Simon Bolivar El Libertador' written under it. Huge crowd at Yankee Stadium in New York to watch July 4 doubleheader between New York Yankees and Carrasquel's team, the Washington Senators. (NOTE: This crowd was mainly there to see the Yankees honor Lou Gehrig, their Hall of Fame first baseman, who had just been diagnosed with ALS.) Carrasquel (#14) pitches to Yankees in second game, gives up run-scoring triple, tags out another runner trying to reach first base. Carrasquel speaks to crowd through microphones in ceremony at home plate. Shot of Venezuelan flag on pole outside a building (Venezuelan embassy?). Men and women gathered at a cafeteria. Sign in large white letters reads 'Venezuela.'

Date: 1939, July 4
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675064538