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Commercial fishing boats leaving Boston harbor heading seaward.

Boston harbor, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A commercial fishing trawler is seen departing Boston harbor headed out to sea. It is followed by a smaller fishing boat, also leaving the harbor.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046894
Boston Symphony Orchestra rehearses in hall and Director Serge Koussevitzky instructs players in Boston, Massachusetts

Notice of Rehearsal call on Bulletin board of Boston Symphony Orchestra. Interiors of Boston Symphony Hall. Orchestra play 'Sheherazade' by Rimsky Korsakov. Director Serge Koussevitzky stands in front of orchestra and instructs. Director corrects Instrumentalist's mistakes and instructs them for synchronization.

Location: Massachusetts United States USA
Date: 1943, November
Duration: 5 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026225
Work Progress Administration directors review scripts; performance of "It Can't Happen Here" in Boston; WPA African American actors perform

Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079044
Men prepare bait fish at the Boston Fish Pier in Boston, Massachusetts.

A man cuts pieces of fish with a knife to use as bait. Another man removes fish heads and trims the fish. A man pushes a cart full of fish. Men walk on the pier. A box full of fish at the pier.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046915
USS Bear with members of a South Pole expedition gets underway from Boston, Massachusetts.

The U.S. Navy survey ship USS Bear (AG-29) departing Boston, Massachusetts. Dogs and men aboard the ship at a dock in Boston. As well-wishers wave from the pier, the USS Bear gets underway with members of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (AKA Admiral Byrd’s third Antarctic Expedition) aboard.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1939, November 22
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075699
Crew working on a ship covered with ice at the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts.

Trawlers at the Boston harbor during winter in Boston, Massachusetts. The temperature of the harbor is below zero. Men standing near a trawler. A trawler covered in ice. A man crosses the ice-covered railings. A man catches a swinging pail of fish. Men removing ice on the mast of a ship.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1954, January 18
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076332
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