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A large crowd gathers to watch the 1932 Olympic games held in Los Angeles, California.

The 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California. Aerial view of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Olympic Stadium as seen from a blimp. Frank Wykoff wins the men's 400 meter relay. Bob Kiesel, Emmett Toppino, Hector Dyer, and Frank Wykoff stand together. Jean Shiley wins the women's high jump. Wilhelmina Von Bremen wins the 400 meter relay. Crowd cheers and applauds. Yasuji Miyazaki wins the 100 meter men's freestyle swimming event. Mickey Riley wins the men's springboard diving contest. Helene Madison wins the women's 100 meter freestyle swimming event. Men line up for the start of the Marathon race. Juan Carlos Zabala wins the marathon. The Americans take a lead in the Games of the X Olympiad.

Date: 1932, August 4
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063355
Major events of the 1930s include Wall Street crash, kidnapping of Lindbergh child, Hindenburg disaster, Spanish Civil War, etc.

'Retrospect' about the events that led to the present pattern of life in the United States. Host Douglas Edwards, an American television anchor speaks about the past events in America. Crowd of unemployed men gathering in bread lines after the 1929 crash and subsequent Great Depression. A man near a box of apples. The U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses a gathering. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter who abducted the child during the trial. The congressmen at the formation of the Lindbergh Law. Newspapers describe the apprehension or death of notorious mafia gangster criminals, such as Dutch Schultz and Baby Face Nelson. Huey Pierce Long, Jr. a American politician addresses people. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeals to the League of Nations, after his country is attacked by Italy under Mussolini. Adolf Hitler stands. Troops of the German army parade. Scenes from the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1937 as Spanish national forces battle against fascist rebel forces. Spanish Troops fire 75mm field artillery pieces. Bombs being dropped on the buildings. Spanish soldiers marching during the civil war. The Hindenburg disaster takes place on May 6th 1937: The German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester, New Jersey. Amelia Earhart the first woman aviator to fly solo holds flowers and is surrounded by people. She went missing in 1937. Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers, alone and with U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner and with aviator Wiley Post (who had patch over one eye). King Edward VIII of Great Britain, abdicating the throne for "the woman I love." People at the German-American Bund Nazi sympathizing gathering including the subduing of objectors on stage, in Madison Square Garden, New York. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returning from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. View of Adolf Hitler. German tanks on parade in World War II. an array of artillery guns on display. Railway guns being fired in WW2.

Date: 1938
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032197
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt with family, during the Democratic Convention, and during 1933 inaugural address in the U.S.

Life of the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the United States. American flag flying at half staff over the White House after the death of President Franklin Roosevelt. People gathered in front of the White House mourning Franklin D Roosevelt. View inside the Cabinet Room of the White House as Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone administers the oath of office to new President Harry S. Truman. Remainder of clip shows various scenes of Franklin D. Roosevelt from prior years: Franklin D Roosevelt greets people and talks to them as they enter a house in the 1920s. Franklin Roosevelt with family in a sailing yacht or boat. Franklin Roosevelt sits with wife Eleanor Roosevelt in a garden. Son John brings in granddaughter Eleanor (Sistie) Dall, son Elliott carries in Curtis (Buzzie) Dall, son Franklin Jr enters, then daughter Anna and her husband Curtis Dall. Franklin Roosevelt with family members in a swimming pool. Franklin Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy during World War 1 as he walks toward a car, stands beside it, removes his hat and smiles for cameras. Franklin Roosevelt as a nominee for Vice President poses with his wife Eleanor, his daughter, and his mother. A crowd hold banner supporting Franklin Roosevelt as the next President during the Democratic Convention of 1932. Franklin D Roosevelt addresses people. Many banners and signs for Roosevelt for President. Franklin D Roosevelt takes the oath of office as President at the 1933 inaugural ceremony, and is seen speaking during his inaugural address.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068117
The 1930s Great Depression and the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States

Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036812
Yosemite National Park, California. Views of valley,mountains,waterfall, 'El Capitan".

Yosemite National Park in California. Several views of valley and a river below. Men seated near frame buildings near the edge of a valley. A high waterfall in the background. Rock formation ("El Capitan"). Views of valley and a waterfall. Views of forest, mountains and waterfall.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031987
People at a marketplace and beach along with various buildings including the LA Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California

Preparations made for participants and visitors to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Aerial view of a large passenger aircraft in flight. Congested highway traffic scenes: Aerial view of automobile, truck, and bus traffic on 101 freeway east of downtown Los Angeles. Skyscrapers of Los Angeles. A crowded sidewalk. Cars parked in a parking lot. The stewardess or flight attendant announces to people aboard a passenger aircraft. Sketches of the famous personalities of Los Angeles. A trailer truck being driven off in the foreground. Traffic on fly overs and overpass bridges. Houses in the city. Palm trees on a beach area. Cars parked in front of shops. People at a marketplace. A teenage boy dancing in a toprock breakdancing style. People watch the boy perform his break dance. People dance wearing skates. A woman dances. A man plays piano in an open ocean front market. A man performs a stunt and weightlifters workout lifting heavy weights at Venice Beach. Boys play racket sports. People ride bicycles and skate on a beach. An aircraft in flight and the airplane preparing to land at Los Angeles International Airport. People gathered at the 1932 Olympics watching runners leap hurdles in a race. Seats in stadium at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Entrance of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037). Views of the Santa Anita Racetrack facility (285 W Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91007, United States). A man plays a bugle on the racetrack at the start of an event. People in the stadium watch the horse race. Exteriors of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A sign for "UCLA".

Date: 1984
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068135