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George Carrington and Alvis Ward demonstrate a sound transmission patent model

Men including George Carrington and Alvis Ward of Western Electric (subsequently of All Technical Services, and then Altec Lansing Corporation) demonstrate a patent model for a recording or sound transmission device. The wooden model has a stylus that passes over ridges of varying heights. 1936.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035783
Alvis Ward and a photoradiogram machine (early facsimile or fax)

Alvis Ward of Western Electric (and later of All Technical Services, and then Altec Lansing Corporation), and two other men working in a technical office. Alvis Ward attends to a control panel, observing meter readings and making adjustments while wearing headphones. He turns switches on other machines located away from the control panel. A wireless photoradiogram machine is shown sending or receiving drawings. 1936.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035784
Crowds cheer as former President Hoover addresses them at Republican National Convention,Cleveland Ohio.

Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover greets the crowd at the Republican National Convention, Cleveland Ohio. The supporters express their respect and applaud enthusiastically. 1936.

Date: 1936, June
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035785
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover delivering a speech at Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio

Former United States President Herbert Hoover expressing his views at the Republican National Convention. He speaks about opportunism, emotional economics, greed, and power. He spoke out against the Socialist and Fascist dictatorships in Europe, where "they may not have maimed the bodies of men, but they have maimed their souls." He equates the Roosevelt New Deal to European failings. He expresses negative views about President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his policies. He boosts the morale of his fellow republicans. The NBC, MBS, CBC, networks have labeled microphones present to broadcast his speech. 1936.

Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035786
Enthusiastic speech by President Hoover at Republican National Convention in Cleveland Ohio

Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover delivers an enthusiastic speech to the Republican National Convention, during the Great Depression. Speaking out against Democratic Party New Deal programs under President Roosevelt, former President Hoover says "For the first time in the history of America, we have heard the gospel of class hatred preached from the White House." He goes on to speak against high government spending and the increase in the U.S. national debt. He states that the number unemployed is the same as at the time of the 1932 election. He wonders "what is going to be done after the election with these measures which the Constitution forbids, and the people by their votes have never authorized? What do the New Dealers propose to do with these unstable currencies, these unbalanced budgets, these debts and these taxes?" He goes on to say "our system is a government of laws and not of men. And the Republican party holds to its promises and its laws." Huge applause in the public auditorium. The NBC, MBS, CBS networks broadcast his speech.

Date: 1936, June
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035787
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover addresses his fellow republicans at the Republican National Convention.

At the Republican National Convention held in Cleveland in Ohio, Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover speaks to his fellow republicans. He stresses that the source of economic security is freedom in all forms, and freedom is the source of moral and spiritual progress. He decries liberalism. He states that fundamental American liberties are at stake. The NBC, MBS, and CBS networks have microphones at the lectern to broadcast his speech. RNC Chairman John Hamilton approaches Hoover and the podium at the end of his speech. 1936.

Date: 1936, June
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035788