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The use of safety glass for better vision and a fashion show in Toledo, Ohio.

Safety glass ensures better vision in Toledo, Ohio. Girls read a book through a safety glass as it makes reading easier. A technician helps them out. Safety glass being removed to demonstrate the difference in original vision and the one through a safety glass. Girls look at a picture through the safety glass. Models display different styles of clothes at a fashion show. Models wearing gowns and swim suits on the stage during the show.

Date: 1939, August 23
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042798
Quist-Bromwich and Marble- Palfrey win the men's and women's doubles at U.S. open tournament in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

U.S. open tennis tournament in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Men's doubles finals where Adrian Quist- John Bromwich take on Hopman-Crawford. Quist and Bromwich win the title. The duo being presented with the trophies. Women's doubles finals where the pair of Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey Fabyan win the title.

Date: 1939, August 23
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042802
Cockatoos perform various stunts similar to the way they used to entertain soldiers in France during World War I.

Cockatoos birds perform stunts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The birds on a miniature giant wheel as one of them operates it to demonstrate the way they used to entertain Allied soldiers in France during World War I. The birds enjoy a merry go round ride. They climb up and down a ladder. A bird hoists an American flag.

Date: 1930, December 24
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042804
A survivor jumps from the eighth story into a net to save his life during a building fire in Chicago, Illinois.

A building on fire in Chicago, Illinois. View from ground of fire and smoke at the eighth story level of the building on fire. Traffic on the street as smoke comes out from the building. A victim jumps from floor eight into a net held by rescuing firemen to save his life. After the man jumps from the burning building, fire fighters are seen around the emergency staircase. A firefighter climbs onto a ladder to get to the eighth floor of the burning building.

Date: 1930, December 24
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042807
Proud Clarion wins the 93rd Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky. People turn out in large numbers with umbrellas on a rainy day to witness the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky. National Guardsmen patrol to curb any racial demonstrations. The horse race gets underway. Proud Clarion at 30-to-1 wins the race.

Date: 1963, May 9
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042829
High rise steel building under construction. Crane swings wrecking ball. Fuel oil tank lowered by crane.

Urban renewal in New York City. A steel frame building under construction with cranes on its top. Steel girders of a new building. A large crane swings a wrecking ball against the wall of a building, as worker directs crane operator. A man stands precariously on the top edge of a brick building and swings sledge hammer, to dislodge bricks. A huge oil tank being lowered,by a crane,into excavation next to building under construction.

Date: 1950, June 6
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042885