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500,000 American citizens gathered in Central Park saying the Pledge of Allegiance

Newsreel titled 'America's pledge of Allegiance'. A huge crowd of about 500,000 citizens of the United States assemble at Central Park in New York. Among the crowd dignitaries, sailors, military and police officials can also be seen. A person addresses the assembly. U.S. National Flag is hoisted. A speaker at the podium recites the Pledge of Allegiance and the crowd repeats after him.

Date: 1946, May 20
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036128
Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, then scenes of traffic, jams, backups and U.S. roadways featuring 1930's cars

Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, New York City. Instrumental audio begins, accompanying scenes of busy roadways and traffic jams in the United States. Many 1930s automobiles seen from Ford, Chevrolet, Packard, Chrysler, and others. Passenger cars as well as delivery and freight trucks. Scenes of cars driving steadily on the highways and roads in the United States. Number of cars drive steadily on a six lane road. Scenes of cars stuck in long lines of traffic. Exasperated drivers. Drivers get out of their cars in the jam to talk to each other. A mechanic replaces flattened tire of a car on the road side. Many outdoor advertising signs featuring local businesses and services. A boy helps a girl peer over a high stone wall where she sees a "no trespassing" sign. The kids join their parents in a picnic on the roadside. A police officer on a motorcycle shakes his head in disbelief at the traffic. Signs warn drivers about traffic safety. A wooden mannequin of a policeman with arms waving to slow down traffic. A man works on the engine of a car. A crashed car and a crane. View from a valley as a car soars over the edge of the road embankment above and crashes down a mountainside, with pieces flying everywhere.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036994
A Ford Trimotor aircraft of TAT-Maddux lands in Kingman Arizona after taking off from Albuquergue.

Passengers board a Ford Trimotor plane in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A map shows route of the plane from Albuquerque to Winslow, Arizona. Plane flies over mountains and deserts. Plane being refueled. A map shows route from Winslow to Kingman, Arizona. Aerial view as plane flies over meteor crater and reaches Kingman.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038421
Baseball player Babe Ruth honored at Yankee Stadium, 1947

Newsreel clip of a ceremony held at Yankee Stadium in New York to honor ailing Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth. View of 58,000 fans who turned out to see Ruth and the game between the Yankees and visiting Washington Senators. Announcer notes Ruth recently had "serious throat operation" for what turned out to be cancer. Ruth, wearing overcoat, walks toward microphone and waves to cheering fans. View of large crowd of baseball players and dignitaries around home plate. Effects of cancer treatment evident in Ruth's thinned-out hair, stooped posture, and weak, raspy voice. Speaking into microphone, he thanks everyone for their kind words. Yankees and Senators players stand and cheer, fans give Ruth a standing ovation.

Date: 1947, April 27
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038810
Crowd marching from Union Square with banners against unemployment during the Great Depression.

Crowd marching from Union Square to City Hall in New York City, to demand trucks for trip to Washington DC. People marching with banners seeking relief from unemployment during the Great Depression. Police can be seen on horseback controlling crowd. Close view of a banner which reads "Answer Bank Holiday with Rent Holiday." Women and young workers walking. Other placards, signs, and posters like, "Brighton Beach Unemployed Council" and "We want relief not military training" and "We demand hot lunches."

Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038955
Opening of Hollywood movie 'The Birds' by Alfred Hitchcock at Broadway.

View of marquee sign for movie 'The Birds' at RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Palace Theater at 1564 Broadway, New York City Times Square. 'The Birds' opens on Broadway and the Director with his actress, Tippi Hedren opens the cage for 1000 pigeons. View of pigeons in sky and some of the signs and other buildings nearby in Times Square. Sign with picture of Hitchcock and words,"And remember, the next scream you hear may be your own" is seen above a sign showing an image of a screaming woman.

Date: 1963, March 28
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039099