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J.Edgar Hoover describes the problem of enemy agents and Nazi sympathizers in the United States in 1940.

Director of the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J.Edgar Hoover, addresses Americans in military service in 1940. He speaks about enemy agents sent to the United States to undermine the war effort. Scene shifts to a 1940 nighttime view of New York City with lights on in its buildings. Sound of Benny Goodman's orchestra in background. Glimpse of water displays at the New York World's Fair. Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball team playing a game at Ebbets Field. A large field of wheat being harvested by a mechanical reaper, in an American western state. American soldiers putting on civilian clothes for weekend passes. Views of various American cities and towns with cars driving on parkways, shoppers and pedestrians walking in business districts. Closeup of a German agent, ostensibly being apprehended while beaming information to Germany via shortwave radio. German documents are on his desk. A submarine periscope tracks across surface of water. A torpedo races through the water leaving a trail of bubbles. An American ship, ostensibly being torpedoed in the Caribbean. Letters being mailed to so-called "mail drops" in Spain and South America. An intercepted letter with military information being highlighted. A brick house, outside Los Angeles, where an unidentified man is seen, whom narrator (J.Edgar Hoover) describes as " This self-appointed Dictator, who set himself up in the business of promoting Nazism." A picture of Adolf Hitler is seen on his wall. Near Chicago, a wooden sign reads, "Camp Hindenburg., Two miles." American Nazi youth are seen parading there. A newspaper shows a picture of Nazi youth at Camp Nordland, in New Jersey where young American Nazi girls are seen parading. In Yaphank, on long Island, New York, American Nazis are seen parading. The head of the German-American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, is seen at an outdoor podium giving a speech, while surrounded and guarded by uniformed Bund members. He is enthusiastically applauded by members of the audience. Several women with babies in carriages, cross at a corner in New York City. Some receive notices being passed out by a young man, announcing a "Mass Demonstration for true Americans" (to be held at Madison Square Garden). A swastika appears on each notice. View from a high point overlooking a crowd of 22 thousand American Nazis gathered in Madison Square Garden, on Feb. 20, 1939. An honor guard parades as drummers play from the stage. A mass of men holding American flags, and one holding a banner showing a swastika and words in German. Audience members all render the Nazi salute and shout "Heil." Files in the FBI offices labeled "German Agents." The file of Walter Kappe, one of the leaders of the Chicago Free Society of Teutonia and German American Bund is shown. Narrator, Hoover, says, " he was a Lieutenant in the German Army and the Leader of German sabotage in the United States." View of a vast array of desks and files in the FBI where men and women work on fingerprints. A man projects fingerprints on a screen, as Hoover speaks of the files revealing that "innocent appearing persons, applying for work in United States war plants, had been convicted of espionage in the last world war."Two men look over an FBI chart showing the location of every key spy and mail drop in North and South America

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054485
Pedestrians walk on sidewalks, girls talking, buildings, church and monuments of Hyde Park and University of Chicago

Buildings of the University of Chicago with students and pedestrians walking on paths, streets, and roads in the Hyde Park and University of Chicago areas of Chicago, Illinois. The Harper Memorial Library (1116 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637, United States) and its Gothic stone arches. Girls wearing fur trimmed coats talk to each other. Crowd of pedestrians on sidewalks. Sculptures on display in the park. Buildings, church and monuments of Chicago.

Date: 1965
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036786
Buildings of Stateville Correctional Center; Prisoners are released from their cells in groups and move about the facility.

Stateville Correctional Center buildings and prisoners, in Crest Hill, Illinois, near Chicago. Prisoners come out of their prison cells, as they are unlocked sequentially in tiers starting with the upper and working down the cellblock of the penetentiary. Prisoners moving about the prison facility, along an external hallway and into landscaped area of lawn, flowers, and hedges. View inside a large roundhouse circular cellblock. Several prisoners are escorted singly to their cells. The center of the unit appears to be a large atrium. Overview of the entire facility shows several circular cellblocks and other buildings.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043403
Campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) in Chicago, Illinois.

The modern campus of the University of Illinois, in Chicago. Film opens showing architectural model of the proposed new campus designed by Architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). Camera pans over the campus features, zooming in on the Circle Forum, a Greek-styled amphitheater built for plays, assemblies and concerts. Film shifts to students, and others, walking on a circular pavement. The University Hall is seen in background, flanked by two construction derricks. Views of various features of the spread out campus areas and buildings showing the concrete roofs forming the so-called "Great Court." Closeup vertical view of University Hall. More views of the extant campus. (construction is still underway.) Students walking along the Great Court with the multilevel construction visible. Closeups of students and others riding an escalator and conversing. Students in large classroom lecture hall where the Professor has written notes in chalk on a blackboard for the class, referring to revenue bills originating in the U.S. House of Representatives. Closeups of the Professor and students. Candid shots of a student's resting and relaxing in various places on the campus.

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036795
Shops and public places, men having a haircut at barber's shop and old people talking, in Chicago, Illinois United States.

Shops and public places in Chicago, Illinois United States. People enter the L. Fish Furniture company, established 1858, with a fish-shaped sign at the entrance. Men having hair cut at the La Estrella barber shop. A man reads a Spanish language newspaper. One man in waiting line plays with his dog. View of the entrance way and shop windows at the Sajewski Music Store "since 1897" in a Polish neighborhood and streets of Chicago. An older man and a young boy look in the windows at guitars and a drumset on display. Signs in a Polish neighborhood of Chicago advertising goods with both English and Polish signs. Old women walk on sidewalks. A close-up of an elderly man. Old citizens of Chicago talk to each other. Public buses drive on roads. The elevated train arrives, pulling into a station stop.

Date: 1965
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036784
Demonstrators crowd at a park and outside Conrad Hilton hotel during Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Lincoln Park demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Hippies walk through park. People walk with banners. Crowd of demonstrations with signs at Conrad Hilton hotel (720 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, United States). Sign: 'Welcome To Chicago', Stop the War', and Resist in Prague Saigon Chicago'. Paper on road.

Date: 1968, August 25
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045045