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Scenes before and after boxer Joe Louis defeats Chilean boxer Arturo Godoy in February 1940

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and Chilean boxer Arturo Godoy in New York. Views of the two boxers posing for press photographers. Each boxer takes a turn standing on a podium for the media. Joe Louis and Godoy stand together and shake handh. A close up of Joe Louis. A close up of Arturo Godoy and he smiles. Photographers take pictures. Scene changes to after the fight. A man looks into the bruised eyes of the boxer. Godoy, wearing a suit, is seated on a sofa with his wife, Leda Urbinati, and an interviewer. He has a swollen cheek and eye. Godoy talks to the man and his wife, Leda. He comments on the skill of Joe Louis, speaking in English and then in Spanish. He expresses his desire to box with Louis again. His wife, Leda, also speaks briefly in Spanish.

Date: 1940, February 9
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033948
Long shot Race horse, Sherluck, wins Belmont Stakes with the highest payout recorded for this classic.

In Belmont Park, Elmont, New York, a large crowd is on hand to watch the running of the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel in Racing's Triple Crown. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower arrive with other persons. Horses race on track. Former President Eisenhower laughs with a man. Race horse Sherluck wins Belmont Stakes race defeating favorite Carry Back. Long shot Sherluck paid out $132.10 for a two dollar wager -- the biggest payout in the history of the Belmont Stakes.

Date: 1961, June
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034149
African American people picket the premises protesting against "Jim Crowism" in the Army at the 59th Street, Haaren High School."

African American men and women picket the premises protesting against Jim Crow racial segregation practices in the United States Army, at the 59th Street Haaren High School in New York City. Young white woman seen with the civil rights demonstrators passing out handbills protesting the draft.

Date: 1948, July 30
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034482
A hand holds marijuana cigarette ; views of newspaper articles critical of marijuana use

Text on slates warns about dangers of marijuana or "reefer" and says it is "now rivaling alcohol for popularity among thrill-seeking youth." Shows a marijuana cigarette in a ash tray, smoke comes out of the joint. Slate indicates that marijuana use can "inspire vicious crimes and leads to moral collapse." Newspaper headline is shown that reads "Youth confesses slaying of girl". Words circled in article mention "stranger gave him a 'doped' cigarette." Close-up view of a hand holding a joint. Cutting of "New York Times" newspaper article "Sales of marijuana fought by arrests." Some lines of the newspaper article are underlined including "...200 persons suspected of selling or using the narcotic weed, including several high school boys and girls."

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035678
500,000 American citizens gathered in Central Park saying the Pledge of Allegiance

Newsreel titled 'America's pledge of Allegiance'. A huge crowd of about 500,000 citizens of the United States assemble at Central Park in New York. Among the crowd dignitaries, sailors, military and police officials can also be seen. A person addresses the assembly. U.S. National Flag is hoisted. A speaker at the podium recites the Pledge of Allegiance and the crowd repeats after him.

Date: 1946, May 20
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036128
Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, then scenes of traffic, jams, backups and U.S. roadways featuring 1930's cars

Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, New York City. Instrumental audio begins, accompanying scenes of busy roadways and traffic jams in the United States. Many 1930s automobiles seen from Ford, Chevrolet, Packard, Chrysler, and others. Passenger cars as well as delivery and freight trucks. Scenes of cars driving steadily on the highways and roads in the United States. Number of cars drive steadily on a six lane road. Scenes of cars stuck in long lines of traffic. Exasperated drivers. Drivers get out of their cars in the jam to talk to each other. A mechanic replaces flattened tire of a car on the road side. Many outdoor advertising signs featuring local businesses and services. A boy helps a girl peer over a high stone wall where she sees a "no trespassing" sign. The kids join their parents in a picnic on the roadside. A police officer on a motorcycle shakes his head in disbelief at the traffic. Signs warn drivers about traffic safety. A wooden mannequin of a policeman with arms waving to slow down traffic. A man works on the engine of a car. A crashed car and a crane. View from a valley as a car soars over the edge of the road embankment above and crashes down a mountainside, with pieces flying everywhere.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036994