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Croydon London England United Kingdom 1932 stock footage and images

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Navajo people's lifestyle

Older boy of a Navajo Native American Indian family plays with his dog as he looks after the sheep and the goats. He brings sheep towards the house as other family members returns from the fields. Father asks the boy to tightly tie legs of the sheep before shearing. The daughter watches to learn as her mother shears the sheep wool with sheep shears. Both have pile of wool to make yarn. They weave the sheared wool to make rugs. They use colored wool to weave Navajo Design. The father praises the daughter for her design of the rug. The little child plays with his brother. The older boy keeps a watch on the sheep and the goats from an elevated hill.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023688
Work Progress Administration help in development of various aspects of fine arts in United States.

Many people are drawing and painting near the bank of a river. A theater backdrop is being painted by artists, depicting a Native American Indian chief in a long white robe in front of a closed hatch. Students entering the mess hall at West Point. Wall of the mess hall of West Point Military Academy covered by mural painting depicting warriors of various times, a project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the Great Depression. Students move towards entrance of a building. Final refining touch is given to a work of stained glass. Men and women artists working on sculptures in an art class or studio. Two men do a work of restoration at a museum. A man and a woman prepare fossil and animal skeletons for a museum exhibit.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023749
Various Federal Theatre presentations by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States.

Posters of various Federal Theatre presentations by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States during the Great Depression. Posters of dramatic theater productions like Macbeth, Battle Hymn, Jefferson Davis, Taking the Air and The Mikado, at various theatres in New York and New Jersey. A painted truck of the Portable Theatre. A puppet show at the "Theatre of the Magic Strings". Children lined up at the theater entrance with the marquee seen announcing "Marionettes" and the box office area. Children laugh during the show with the marionette puppets. A performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan popular operetta Pinafore with actors singing on stage the song "For He Is An Englishman". Actors seen on stage for Sinclair Lewis play 'It Can't Happen Here'. A presentation of the William Shakespeare play "Macbeth" presented by an all African American cast (also termed "Voodoo" Macbeth).

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023750
Women register to vote as full suffrage is granted to women in United States.

Women are seen happily register to vote at the Boulevard Hair Cutter following passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in the United States. Women are handed registration forms as they enter. The new women voters smile as they come out of the shop. Men are also smiling, standing outside the shop. A policeman stands guard while the women register to vote.

Date: 1920, August 26
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023751
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt speaks about the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified on August 18, 1920)

Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt speaks after ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, is seated in a chair in an office or library and reads from a prepared script. She traces the roots of the struggle, for the rights of women in America, back to an 1848 convention in Seneca Falls, New York. She notes that grievances related to woman suffrage were the same in number as grievances enumerated by male colonists in America against the British crown. She notes that it took George Washington 6 years to resolve those grievances via war, but it took 72 years for women to resolve their suffrage grievances via the law.

Date: 1920, August 26
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023752
George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser discuss on census of various regions in United States,1960.

George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census. George is asking questions to Dr Philip. In his answer he takes George to a picture of Incas. He then picks threads lying on a table and shows him a drawing of the threads. They move to a next painting of Chinese people. Dr Philip picks a Chinese script from a table and shows it to George who explains the script. Then he shows a script formed out of animals and signs. Dr Philip then shows a painting of Moses, the prophet of the Old Testament. George is given a copy of the Holy Bible in which page tags are inserted . George reads the census during Moses' era from the Bible which is then kept back on the table. Dr Philip then brings George to a painting of Christ's nativity. Finally they come to a picture of a colonial home and discuss the use of census during colonial reign.

Date: 1960
Duration: 9 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023754