Chief of the Office of Personnel Management OPM Knudsen visits Seattle's Boeing manufacturing factory. Knudsen inspects factory accompanied with factory officials. This is probably Plant 2 on the Boeing grounds. Assembly line production of various Boeing planes goes on. Overhead view of 3 Boeing fuselages under construction. This is a few months before the United States' entry into World War 2.
President Franklin Roosevelt along with Vice President Garner and other dignitaries gather for the 77th annual congress in Washington DC. President addresses nation in conference hall full of legislators ,reporters,and photographers. President says 'America must spent billions on weapons to aid the embattled democracies of world'. President promises to send in number, ships,tanks,planes and guns to their aid. All at conference applause President's noble notion. January 1941. (World War II period).
Thousands of mummers parade the streets of Philadelphia on New Year's day. Revelers dressed in amusingly elaborate costumes exhibit a sparkling show. Various decorative displays and movable scenery can also be seen. People gather in number across streets and witness the colorful event. Some men dressed as women (in drag). A costumed pair are announced with a banner that reads 'Marie Antoinette...Louis XVI' while another vignette in which crude dentistry is mimed is identified by a sign on a car that reads, 'Duke and Duchess of Winsores Arrive for Big Yank' Many performers are seen in blackface.
Leading automobile company executives leave the White House after conferring with the President in efforts to restrict "time" sales of automobiles (down payment and then financing, with repercussions for consumer debt, potential over-production, and labor instability) and to seek stabilization of labor relations. Executives pose for photographers. In the front row are: K.T. Keller of Chrysler; Edsel Ford of Ford Motor; Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan; William S. Knudsen of General Motors; and A.E. Duncan, President of Commercial Credit Company. Photographers and journalists follow the auto company executives, including K.T. Keller and William Knudsen seen again near end of clip.
Beautiful models dressed in haute-contours walk on ramp during night fashion show at Biltmore Pool in Miami. Models catwalk and display their attire and high heels as judges and spectators watch in delight. Shows model's sandal being measured. Crowned winner poses with a big smile. January 1938.
Shows William White, a clerk in Treasury department with his wife and 17 children in Washington. White's wife exits car with infant in her arms followed by the other 16 children .The family lines up and poses for the camera with the Capitol Building in the background. January 1938.
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