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New York Yankees play baseball against New York Giants in 1936 World Series; also Grover Whalen showing 1939 Worlds Fair plans.
Crowd cheers and waves during New York Yankees and New York Giants game in the 1936 World Series at Polo Grounds IV in Manhattan, New york. Yankee manager, Joe McCarthy and Giants manager, Bill Terry on the field and they shake hands. Governor of New York State Herbert H. Lehman throws out first pitch, with Mayor La Guardia beside him. Babe Ruth, guest of honor, watches the match. Crowd cheer as the game proceeds. In next segment: Grover Whalen, President of New York World's Fair Corporation points out highlights of 1939 New York World's Fair on a preliminary model with the help of a stick, for visiting dignitaries. Footage from a September 1961 newsreel hightlighting stories from 25 years earlier.
A man and a woman present a Ford convertible to their daughter, as a graduation gift.
A commercial advertisement in technicolor promoting the good style of 1939 Ford automobiles. A 1939 Ford convertible and sedan both parked at a curb in front of a school with a sign "Martin School for Girls". A mother and father escort their newly-graduated daughter down the steps. The daughter carries a bouquet of flowers. The father gives the daughter keys to the new Ford convertible. She invites two friends to join her and they all sit in the front seat and drive away. .
Forks of Cypress plantation home and other sites, likely in Alabama, circa 1939; African American man tending a large bell.
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary "The Land." A seemingly abandoned, dilapidated house at an unidentified farm or former plantation location, possibly in Alabama, during the Great Depression. Spanish moss hanging from nearby trees. Views of a different, wooden, rundown house with a front porch, possibly at a different location. Scene changes again to a third different house, this one made of brick. A lone African American man emerges from double doors of the house. He walks up to a bell, cleans it, and rings it. Distant open view in front of the bell includes a valley and river (possibly the Tennessee River in western Lauderdale County, but not confirmed.) Scene changes again to show the first house and the trees with Spanish Moss. View returns to the location with the man tending the bell. Next scene shows the Forks of Cypress plantation house in Florence Alabama, (Lauderdale County). View of the old main Greek Revival Forks of Cypress house built in 1830 for James Jackson. View of the west elevation of the house. The smokehouse is seen behind and to the side of the main house. A clothes line with clothes on it is beside the smokehouse. Chickens walk on the porch of the house, past its tall colonnade of 24 ionic columns. (Note: The house burned completely in a 1966 fire). Next scene is again the elderly African American man at the brick house location. He looks around, mumbling to himself, walks back towards the house, and pauses on the front steps. The first wooden house with Spanish moss in nearby trees is shown again. Scene returns to the elderly African American man who enters the brick house and closes the doors behind him. Film directed and narrated by Robert Flaherty.
A model demonstrates nylon stockings during 1939 New York World's Fair in New York City, United States.
New York World's Fair held at Dupont Building in New York City, United States. A model sits on stairs under an artificial tree. She stands and pulls up her dress above her knees to display nylon stockings. The model displays jewels made of Lucite. Several articles made of Lucite on display.
Union-sponsored film about the 1939 Tool and Die Makers Union strike against General Motors in Detroit, Saginaw, and Cleveland.
Union members march beside a building singing about "solidarity." Slate reads "Fleetwood" superimposed on "Detroit." Closeup of flag reading: "Fleetwood Local 15, U.A.W. Detroit." Marcher carries American flag. One carries sign calling for: "Time and a half for overtime, and double time for Sunday and Holidays." Among other signs, one reads: "Equal Pay for Equal Work." Bronze plaque on building reads: "Frederick Coleman and Sons, Inc." Yard filled with striking workers. Trucks sent by General Motors Company (GM), to remove tool and die shops, from a factory, are prevented from moving by the mass of strikers from the unionized Frederick Coleman plant, who refuse to become "Scabs" (strike breakers). Meeting inside their own factory building, Coleman workers promise George F. Addes, Secretary Treasurer of the U.A.W. (Union of Auto Workers) that not a GM tool or die will leave their shop. They pose near auto parts waving their hats. A new slate appears reading: "Fisher" overlaying "Cleveland." A picket line is seen in a Fisher Body Factory yard, guarded by uniformed policemen, including some on horseback. One striker walks to a building identified by a sign as Strike Headquarters. Narrator says he can get a meal there. Inside, a strikers women's auxilliary has set up a Strike Kitchen, where he receives a cup of coffee and converses with a woman of the auxilliary. Next, he is seen reading a Cleveland newspaper with headline: "Police and Pickets clash at Fisher Plant." He is then seen at his home, having supper as his wife reads the newspaper. (Narrator notes that strike has lasted 19 days.) The man and his wife argue about the wisdom of striking. Their little girl runs to her father. The three of them hug and the man then goes to join the picketing. Scene reverts to earlier conversation with the womens' auxilliary person. She sympathizes with the man's concerns. Next, three union auxilliary women visit the man's wife. They try to assuage her fears about the labor strife. (In background, voice of a union auxilliary woman speaks about the Wagner Labor Act.) More views of the Fisher Plant factory yard, with police and strikers struggling. Still photograph of men running as shots ring out. Closeup of hand holding a tear gas shell. Still photograph of police using tear gas to disburse strikers. The women visiting the wife convince her of the soundness of the strike and she joins them as a union auxilliary worker in their Strike Kitchen. View of the film's protagonist man and his wife conversing amicably in their kitchen. Final scene shows the wife with her husband on a picket line holding a sign reading: " Women's Auxilliary Stands Behind Local No. 45 in this Fight." Camera focuses on one striker riding a horse bearing two signs. One points to the front of his horse and reads: "This is the C.I.O end." The other points to the horse's rear and reads: "This is the Company end."
British royalty visit Washington DC in June, 1939, at the invitation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Opening scene shows a military parade along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, in honor of the visit of British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The parade is led by a contingent of mounted Army cavalry. Spectators line the sidewalks. The Capitol building is clearly visible in the background. Closeup of Cavalry passing the camera. Closeup of King George VI with President Roosevelt conversing in an open automobile. Both are formally dressed. The President wears a top hat. Riding in the back of a car are First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth, together with a Navy officer. Next, seen posing on the porch of the Roosevelt family home, Springwood, at Hyde Park, New York, are: First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt; King George VI; the President's mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt; Queen Elizabeth; and President Roosevelt. Camera pans in closeup across the group, as they engage in friendly conversation.
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