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Crowd celebrating the New Year, 1937, Times Square, New York City. People seen at brief intervals as light sweeps across crowd

The lights of Times Square as seen in the first few minutes of 1937. Neon signs advertise places and products, such as "Coca Cola" and "Planters Peanuts." A klieg light sweeps across the crowd, sporadically illuminating the revelers.

Date: 1937, January 1
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045119
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco under construction.

A 1970 television program hosted by Lee Marvin regarding construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco beginning in 1933 and completing in 1937. View of the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in New York, and the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco built by Joseph Strauss. Newspaper headlines during debate about whether to construct the bridge, such as 'Jobs Loom' and 'Span for Vote', and "The Golden Gate is One of Nature's Perfect Pictures -- Let's Not Disfigure It". View of the north and south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. Boat passes under the bridge during its construction. Stages of Golden Gate Bridge under construction and discussion on the difficulties of setting the towers in the bed of the bay. A blimp passes over the bridge. Engineers work under bad weather conditions. Two men walk on cables connecting the bridge towers. Walter Cathey, construction supervisor, talks about the difficulties during construction and an incident where two bridge builders died during construction. Seagulls on shore. Painting of the bridge using the color known as International Orange. Boat in San Francisco Bay passes under the bridge. Opening ceremonies for the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1937 and traffic crossing the bridge for the first time.

Date: 1937
Duration: 7 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023499
United States President Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt attend Easter church service in the United States.

Church choir seen entering St. Thomas' Parish Episcopal Church (1772 Church Street, NW, Washington, D.C.) President Franklin Roosevelt and and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt arrive in the President's 1937 Packard seven-passenger parade touring car, accompanied Secret Service agents. Views of citizens gathered on streets and sidewalks nearby to see the President arrive. Police monitor the scene. President's motorcade arrives under side awning of stone church. Scene from after service when President Roosevelt stands on church steps together with Rev. Howard S. Wilkinson (Rector of St. Thomas as of 1936) and Reverend Allen O. Miller, Assistant to the rector. . Mrs. Roosevelt is seen behind in a fur coat. The President uses a cane to steady himself. Presidential car departs (bearing license plate with number 101). It is followed by another car carrying Secret Service agents, with license plate "USSS" for U.S. Secret Service. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt attends church service in the United States. Choir members in white robes enter the church from the sidewalk. Men and women watch from the fenced area. President Franklin D Roosevelt arrives in a 1937 Packard 12 convertible automobile. Secret Service accompany him and ride in other cars. After the service, Eleanor Roosevelt stands behind the President. as he speaks with clergymen at the door of the church.

Date: 1937, March 28
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063663
Abilene Texas USA residents celebrate the arrival of the B-1B aircraft at Dyess Airforce Base with a parade, barbecue, and radio address.

A phonograph turntable tone arm with Stanton cartridge rotating on a vinyl record. Lit “ON AIR” pans to Abilene's KEAN-FM 105.1 DJ team Bobby and Bonnie, (possibly John Howard Blackwell and Linda Morgan, one of several Bobby and Bonnie teams.) Sylvia (a country pop singer)’s poster on the wall behind "Bobby" as he announces the arrival of the Rockwell B1-B bomber aircraft to Dyess Airforce Base. DJ "Bonnie" wearing headphones and in before a microphone notes that the radio station wants to send out a "big Texas welcome" to the families arriving at the base as part of the B1 Lancer program. Phonograph turntable tone arm and cartridge lowering to rotating record on as a song begins to play. View of the nose of a B-1 bomber. The B-1 tail from below. A parade crowd gathered on a street adorned with American flags watches cowgirls carrying flags while riding white horses in front of a fire truck. A dilapidated wooden windmill in front of an American flag. A couple wearing cream-colored cowboy hats. A United States Air Force mechanic, wearing a baseball cap, checks the engine of the B-1 bomber. View of the B-1B from under its right wing. A man, wearing a brown cowboy hat, grills meat on a barbecue grill. A man wearing a white cowboy hat and red apron stirs a stew in a pot. Men in cowboy hats slice meat and put hamburger patties on a grill. People enjoying an outdoor barbecue meal together. Cowboys carrying USA and Texas flags ride horses in a parade. United States B1-B bomber flies in the sky. Closeup of windmill spinning. Sunset view of a pumpjack in an oil well pumping. A B-1B bomber parked at sunset.

Date: 1985, July
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078980
Labor Union movement grows significantly, but labor strife also continues during 1930s in the U.S.A.

Men work assembling transmissions on an automobile production line. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers Union, giving a speech supporting formation of the Congress of Industrial organizations (CIO). Group of workers gather to listen to a union speaker. Many wear miners hats. Cheering Union workers march in street carrying posters reading: "Long-Live the C.I.O." and "Forward with C.I.O." Leaders of the early C.I.O., Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA); Philip Murray, Vice President of the C.I.O.; and John L. Lewis, C.I.O. President, circa 1938. David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU); along with Sidney Hillman, and John L. Lewis, are seen mingling with clothing workers. View of a steel mill from workers' residential street on a snowy day. Steel worker in a mill. Deckhand and an engine man aboard a merchant ship. Roustabouts and riggers at an oil well. Nonferris metal miner in rail car. Worker in tire factory. Electrical worker. Union leader speaking to group of workers carrying banner reading: "Shirt workers, Local 128 Allentown, Pennsylvania Joint Board." Labor organizers passing out leaflets to workers leaving a factory. Labor discussions with workers at lunch tables. Draftsman preparing labor organization protest signs calling for "Sanitary Conditions" and "Fair Play." Working women singing a union song. Union workers marching and carrying signs for various causes. Man riding a bicycle displaying sign:"Don't Scab." Car overloaded with people with sign: "Come To Lafollette Labor Rally Monday, July 5, 1937." ACWA workers of Local 95, Atlas Plant. UMWA members of Lafollette, Tennessee. Miners playing cards and playing musical instruments. Miners on strike below in mine for 5 days, cheer leader. Poster encouraging Americans to travel and visit in the USA. Police and military units repel, combat, and arrest striking and protesting workers. Scenes of military uniformed men throwing tear gas grenades into crowds of workers as workers disperse. People assisting injured protesters. Police firing various weapons at protesting workers during labor protests and strikes in San Francisco. U.S. Army soldiers arresting a civilian and throwing tear gas grenades.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036813
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559