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Warren Harding assumes office of the President and changes in the life of American people from the early to modern times.
The life of people during 1920s in the United States. Sketch of Warren Gamaliel Harding taking oath of office of the President of U.S. Sketches of the U.S. President Warren G. Harding. People in the factories. Sketches of the people in the various towns of America. The President addresses the people. Horse drawn wagons on the streets. Modern cars on the street. Women in houses as they perform various activities. Sketches depict the revolution brought about due to the invention of cars. People enjoy at various occasions in a car. Cars on streets. People listen to radio. Sketches depicts the motion pictures of the times. A family posing for a picture, each with one leg kicked out. Sketches of American writers like Fitzgerald and Hemingway who chose to live abroad. Footage of Moulin Rouge night club in Paris France and neon lights of other Paris night clubs seen at night. Women dance on a Paris night club stage. Sketches of famous writers and their view of modern America. Brief scene of people at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York sliding down a slide and riding on the "Human Pool Table" ride.
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
Models compete in Miss Modern Venus Beauty Contest at Steeplechase park on Coney Island.
Miss Modern Venus peagant undergoes at Steeplechase park. Glamorous models parade in swimsuits. First shots of girls filmed in distortion mirrors. Girls parade round ramp built on pool. Cameraman pulls on dolly along line. Girls are measured and judges mark them. Winner Anne Gervis of Brooklyn poses with cup for camera. July 1941.
A New York City Police airplane in flight over Liberty Island. New York Harbor, Manhattan Island, as seen from another aircraft
Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay. Aerial view of ships in New York Harbor. An airplane in flight. Airplane is flying over the New York Bay and the skyscrapers and tall buildings of the Manhattan skyline. Aerial view of New York harbor. 'Police' can be seen written on the aircraft.
35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight. Advances in travel due to rail and airplane. Howard Hughes' round the world flight.
Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.
Dr. Albert Einstein's letter concerning atomic bomb to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt being typed in Long Island, New York.
A 1946 re-enactment showing Dr. Albert Einstein's letter to U.S. President being typed on August 2, 1939, in Long Island, New York. A typist types Einstein's letter concerning atomic bomb to U.S. President Roosevelt. The letter references recent work by doctors Fermi and Szilard on producing a nuclear chain reaction, and its possible use as a weapon in an atomic bomb. He urges that the administration be watchful and ready for quick action on the subject.
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