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Bridgeport Connecticut USA 1949 stock footage and images

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President Warren G. Harding enters a car in Washington DC.

United States President Warren G. Harding in Washington DC. A building, a car on a road and a park. A crowd gathered on the street to greet the President. President Harding with others enter a car. Cars move on a road in front of a building. The British Embassy (1300 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20036, USA). Buildings, statues, and historic houses in Washington DC. Men walk on a street and enter a house.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021535
Major demolition and reconstruction of the White House in Washington, DC.

Wholesale reconstruction of the White House begun in 1949 and continuing during most of the term of President Truman, who used Blair house as the official Presidential residence, during that period. Although the wings continued to function, with White House staff, the main house was completely rebuilt, with new supports, beams, etc.which involved demolition and rebuilding on a monumental scale. Views of the work in progress.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043647
Astronaut Scott Carpenter arrives to receive his pending degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado.

U.S. astronaut Scott Carpenter arrives at the campus of the University of Colorado. Scott Carpenter and his wife Rene Louise Price in a motorcade wave at the civilians as they arrive at the campus of the university. He arrives in Colorado to receive the degree in aeronautical engineering which he failed to take in 1949. A professor presents the brand new degree and a silver plate to commemorate the occasion.

Date: 1962, May 31
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055839
Women participating in the life of their community in Monroe, New York.

A woman named Ann Collins is seen in a vacant lot, where she and others of the community work to clean it up so it can be made into a playground. They pick up trash and deposit it in a wheelbarrow that Ms Collins pushes to a 1947 Dodge pickup truck, parked nearby, where it is unloaded. Views of others working with rakes and shovels to prepare the ground. Some trash falls on Ms. Collins as she hands a bushel basket full to a man standing in the back of the open truck. She smiles and climbs into the cab of the truck, which has "John C. Hunter, Monroe, N.Y. Dial 2371" painted on its door. The truck drives away, with two young men steadying boxes of trash in the back. The truck proceeds along a street in the town, past parked cars of the period, such as a 1949 Pontiac sedan. Ms Collins waves from the truck cab as it drives past a street sign reading "No Littering." They pass people lined up outside a polling place, where election voting is taking place. Scene changes to the interior of a rummage shop run by local women to help the poor. Other women are seen working inside a greenhouse associated with a garden club. Next, a woman is seen handing publications to two girl scouts in uniform. A church choir, with many women, sings during a service. Closeups of the choir as they sing the hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy" by John B. Dykes. Scene shifts to a physician and nurse taking blood from a volunteer blood donor. Closeup of the blood being collected in a glass flask. Next, citizens are seen inside the polling place where volunteers register them to vote. A uniformed police officer stands nearby as the voters make their way to voting booths. Women enter curtained voting booth and vote.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032772
Inflation, labor unrest, and rising unemployment afflict America in decade following World War II.

Part of documentary by the U.S. Labor Department. Opening scene shows tractors pulling disc harrows to condition land at a construction site. The steel framework of a large sports complex under construction. Brick masons working on exterior of a large building. Two prize fighters in a ring being separated by referee as one is knocked to the canvas. Scenes of post-World War II labor strife in America. Police escorting persons to the safety of building entrance. Union protesters holding signs reading "Local 1173," (Machinists Union in California). Cars drive into a factory yard where workers are standing about. Narrator refers to busy schedule in history for the Labor Department Mediation Service. Workers crating completed washing machines for shipment. A parade in which a man on stilts represents high prices and another marching beside him representing low wages. A deserted commercial district in a small rural town, reflecting 1949 resurgence of unemployment problems. A mother and father with two small children, looking at baby carriages in a shop window. Men walking away from a factory office past a sign reading: "No Help Wanted." American soldiers engaged in combat during the Korean War. Narrator alludes to this bringing some relief to unemployment.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063345
U.S.military conducts "Operation Longhorn," the largest domestic exercise ever to involve a civilian community (Lampasas, Texas).

Opening scene shows military police, with jeeps and motorcycles, in front of the Lampasas County Courthouse, where they simulate an occupying enemy force. To distinguish themselves, they wear wear unusual insignia, and helmets (somewhat Adrian-style). They drive away in motorcycles and a jeep, to patrol the "occupied" town. Men read a notice posted on a bulletin board at the Courthouse entrance. Closeup of a sign reading: "Headquarters, Military Government, City of Lampasas, Texas." Three elderly men reading posted notices at the Courthouse, rip them down and are accosted and taken into custody by simulated occupying force soldiers. View of the men tearing down the notices is repeated in closeup. View from the rear of the men being escorted away along a sidewalk past parked cars of the period, including a 1949 Pontiac sedan. Closeup of a man in a Texas style hat perusing the notices posted at the Courthouse. A recruiting poster for U.S. Marines, toppled over on the Courthouse lawn. "Occupying" soldiers patrolling in front of the office of the local newspaper (The Lampasas Dispatch), which they enter. The emerge with a man in custody (the editor?) Closeup of sign reading:"Closed by Order of Military Government." Local citizens walking across the shopping center parking lot. Closeup of clock in Courthouse tower, reading "Two fifteen PM." Some women seen reading notices posted at Courthouse. Several girls reading notices posted on a tree. A boy and his younger sister stop at the steps of a church where sign is posted reading: "Closed by Order of Military Government."

Date: 1952, April
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072672