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Franklin Delano Roosevelt sworn in as the President of the U.S. and addresses the gathering at Capitol in Washington D.C.

Swearing in of Franklin D Roosevelt as the President of the United States in Washington D.C. in1933. Large crowd of civilians gathered in front of the Capitol for the inauguration ceremony. Former President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover leaves the White House. He gets into a car with Roosevelt and arrive at the Capitol for inauguration ceremony. Franklin Delano Roosevelt sworn in as the President of the United States and addresses the gathering with famous words, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (From a newsreel retrospective released 25 years later.)

Date: 1933, March 4
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072513
Man exchanges guitar for basket of fruits in the barter system after inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt in Washington DC.

Great Depression footage after the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt as the President of the U.S. in Washington D.C. in 1933. During a bank holiday two day after the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt as the President of the US, vehicles move on the streets. Long lines of civilians move on the streets. Man makes a genuine hand made "depression dollar." which is made out of rubber. He demonstrates how it can grow for inflation by stretching. He displays the dollar designed for inflation. Other man stretches the dollar. Man approaches a merchant. He exchanges his guitar for basket of fruits under the barter system which was common in the depression. Footage is from a 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933, March 6
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072514
President Roosevelt's emergency bank bill is presented and passed in a meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC, U.S.

A meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC, United States during the Great Depression. Elected officials and dignitaries seated inside the U.S. Capitol House chamber. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's emergency bank bill is passed, following a four day banking holiday. The bank bill being read. Speaker reading the President's words, "the causes of this failure of our banking system is unnecessary," and, "the government has been compelled to step in for the protection of depositors and the business of the nation." He further says that the first task is to open all sound banks. Immediate changes in banking legislation are made: The Banking Act of 1933 and the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC.

Date: 1933, March 3
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076862
Tucson Mountain Men at the Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC

People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. Man with colorful mountain man clothing marches. A man carries a slate on which is written Tucson Mountain Men. Dogs with small carts. Men in decorative mountain man clothing sit on horses on the ground. People watch the whole event.

Date: 1976, July
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027397
Franklin D. Roosevelt helps Americans to recover from the Great Depression in the United States.

Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Jobless American men wait in unemployment relief lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the United States, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps and tenement dwellings during migration (usually migration west). Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol Building framed by tree limbs. Men in an office empty heavy mailbags filled with letters (presumably to congress and senate). Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting trees with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker as they are put to work in a variety of projects. Women and men, including white and African American men are seen getting assigned to work projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a suspension bridge work project of the Works Progress Administration in Los Angeles, California. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Close up views of railroad train locomotive wheels as they start moving and the train on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks, groups of workers entering factory for work shift and closeup view of a steam whistle blowing to mark the start or end of a work shift. A coal mining operation. Automated tools dig coal in shaft. Two coal miners take a break and eat. Crane hoists material at mine. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.

Date: 1933
Duration: 6 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044176
Face of U.S. President George Washington appears on Mount Rushmore as workers blast the mountain in South Dakota.

Work in progress at the famous mountain memorial, Mount Rushmore. Blasting takes place with emergence of large amount of smoke and dust. Face of George Washington appears on the mountain. Workers with safety ropes giving a finishing touch to the face. People at a distance discuss the progress of the work. Huts are seen over top of the mountain.

Date: 1931, November 9
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023804