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Chestertown Maryland USA 1933 stock footage and images

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Scenes of Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair. Gardens, aerial tramway, main concourse, car moving through crowd

A large crowd of visitors walk around a garden in the grounds of the Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair of 1933-34. People move on paths between the gardens. Some sit on benches by hedges. Posts on the paths contain signs pointing to various exhibits at the fair. An aerial tramway called the "Skyway" carries riders above the fairgrounds. Flags fly in background. Extremely dense crowds of visitors move through a main concourse of the fair. A car (1933 Hupmobile?) moves slowly through the crowd. Large umbrellas at outdoor cafe in background.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024283
George Edward Pendray launches The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fueled rocket from Staten Island in New York, United States.

The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )

Location: Staten Island New York USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077065
American economy strengthens after the Great Depression; also growth and prosperity and civil rights reform in 1950s and 1960s.

Chronicles recovery in America after the Great Depression in the United States, from roughly 1933-1967, but with emphasis on the earlier years of that period. Pre-war work programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) help with employment. Farmers work in their fields with tractors. Officials in an office discuss and prepare graphs. Workers drill and work at a construction site. The 1933 Homeowners Loan Corporation sparks new home building. View of new homes being built and new suburban neighborhoods. Brief scene of bombing at Pearl Harbor. American warships launching from shipyards during World War II. Women war production workers work in factories in the United States. Post-war Marshall Plan aid being sent to European countries. Crates of supplies marked for European countries. Industrial output booming again, and scenes of industrial factories and plants with smoke pouring from chimneys and pollution from stacks. Large pool typists room filled with female typists and clerical workers busy at work in government agency. Close up views of hands of women operating typewriters. Reforms for housing projects, African American Civil Rights and measures taken to stabilize unemployment, with scenes of successive Presidents signing reform bills, including Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. A ship departs from a harbor with goods. A convoy of vehicles on a road. Various Federal buildings in Washington DC. The White House building. An aerial view of an American town and of a factory with pollution smoke emitting from stacks. Letters being delivered to elderly women. People enter a medical clinic and wait in the clinic waiting room. Racially integrated classroom of older high school students or university students, with white and African American students, and both young men and women. A young white woman worker and a young African American working in a machine shop or possibly an academic shop class. A white and a African American man share a sandwich and views of white and black people together in integrated classrooms and factories as segregation begins to wane. Elementary school children in a classroom drawing pictures.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044178
African American teachers trained at Maryland State Normal School, Colored, in Bowie Maryland

Training facility for African American teachers in Bowie, Maryland, United States. Houses at a distance on a farmland. Trees and tower in the background. Board on the farmland reads "Maryland State Normal School, Colored, Bowie Maryland, trains elementary teachers." School building with a flag on its top. House behind the trees.

Location: Maryland United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031568
The Maryland Terrapins and the University of Mississippi Rebels play a game of football at College Park, Maryland.

The 2nd place Maryland Terrapins team and the Mississippi Rebels play a game of football at College park in Maryland. Huge crowd gathered to watch the match. Cheerleaders seated next to the field. Maryland team wins by 38-0 over The Rebels from OleMiss.

Location: College Park Maryland USA
Date: 1953, November 16
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023024
Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin appeals for volunteers for the state's Civil Defense Program in Maryland, United States.

Governor of Maryland asks Civil Defense volunteers in Maryland, United States. Governor of Maryland Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin seated at the table in his office. Governor McKeldin appeals for volunteers for the state's Civil Defense Program.

Location: Maryland United States USA
Date: 1951, August 27
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071428
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