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Buildings blaze at Chicago's Union Stockyard.

Buildings blaze at Chicago's Union Stockyard, in Chicago Illinois. Firemen at work. Raging flames consume buildings. Large crowd gather to put off fire. Smoke pours out of buildings. Buildings ruined and people walking about in aftermath of devastating fire.

Date: 1934, May 19
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040109
Colonel Roscoe Turner sets a new aircraft speed record covering a distance between Detroit and New York.

Wedell-Williams Model 44 airplane makes a landing at New York. Colonel Roscoe Turner with his signature mustache looks out from the cockpit of the aircraft at the end of his flight. Then plane has a number 57 on it, representing his marketing partnership with "Heinz 57" food company. He set a new speed record, covering the distance between Detroit and Brooklyn New York in 1 hour and 47 minutes, at an average of 308 miles per hour.

Date: 1934
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040110
Waiters in Nassau Bahamas compete in a tray carrying race through the city.

Waiters start a tray-carry race from the beaches of Nassau and pass through the streets of town. Winner's face covered with a cake or pie that is pushed into his face.

Date: 1934
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040113
Major General Smedley Butler bares plot by 'Fascists' in Newtown Square Pennsylvania

Major General U.S. Marine Corps Smedley Darlington Butler bares 'Business Plot' at Newtown Square in Pennsylvania. He reveals that he had appeared before a congressional committee to reveal what he knew about those who had asked him to head an army of 500,000 men in a 'Fascist' March as part of an attempt to takeover the functions of government and setup a fascist dictatorship in the United States. (This was also sometimes called the failed Wall Street Putsch or The White House Putsch, a coup to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt.)

Date: 1934, November 21
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040409
In Paris, France, French World War I veterans strike to publicize their condemnation of war.

Ex-Servicemen Strike to announce the condemnation of war in Paris, France. Thousands of Ex-Servicemen from World War I march in a stirring of parade with banners. They hold hands as they march with an anti-war, pacifist theme. Several people in the center on tricycles. Also disabled veterans in wheel chairs. Banners state 'Les Croix de Bois'. Ambient sound from the rally is heard.

Date: 1934, November 21
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: French
Clip: 65675040410
Anti Catholic Paramilitary Organization Mexican Red Shirts campaign in Mexico City

Anti Catholic Paramilitary Organization Mexican Red Shirts campaign in Mexico City against God and Religion. Girls in a procession. Members take pledge. Organization's logo visible on shirts of the members. People observe the campaigners. Labor Union Organization march

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040417