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Work Progress Administration Federal Theater Project Marionette play for children in Los Angeles California

A line of parents with their children entering the Marionettes: Theater of the Magic Strings in Los Angeles, California. Marionettes depicting characters such as a chef, an old lady, and some clowns, onstage. Work Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theater Project puppeteers control their strings from above the stage. A kangaroo king marionette, wearing a crown and a cape, hops onstage. Children watching the marionette play. Marionettes dance onstage as confetti fall. (Great Depression period)

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079043
Work Progress Administration directors review scripts; performance of "It Can't Happen Here" in Boston; WPA African American actors perform

Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079044
Film executives meeting in Los Angeles; Work Progress Administration staff and actors under WPA Federal Theater Project prepare and perform on stage

View of Paramount Pictures movie studio entrance. Hollywood film executives such as Paramount Picture’s Adolph Zukor in a meeting. View of Motion Picture Daily with news saying “Federal- NBC Units to Use Film Houses”. Two men buy theater tickets for a vaudeville show by the Federal Theater Project of the Great Depression organization called the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Works Progress Administration staff under the Federal Theater Project create props and stage design. A Works Progress Administration carpenter uses a Delta woodworking machinery. Works Progress Administration costume designer shows a design for a dress. Close up shot of Works Progress Administration costume designer. WPA technicians work on stage set design. A Works Progress Administration tailor measures a portly actor’s waistline. Seamstresses working in the costume department of the Federal Theater Project. Artist painting a background for a stage play. A seamstress adjusts a high slit dress of an actress. A milliner arranges a Fascinator, with tulle and pom-poms, on an actress’ head. Two actors and an actress practice a dance number together. Men and women dancers practice a dance. A pair of dancers perform a no-touch tango. Theater marquee saying, “Oh say can you sing WPA Music Comedy”. Newspaperman announcing show business news on newspaper. Orchestra plays inside a theater. Actors and actresses, in different period costumes, perform “Oh Say Can You Sing” as an ensemble after the curtains opened. View of faces of audience members as they clap and smile after watching the performance.

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079045
Junkers G.38 transport aircraft in flight; Fieseler Fi 156 in short takeoff; Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter demonstration

A Junkers G.38 transport aircraft (D-2500) in flight over Germany in the late 1930s, before World War 2. A small, single-place, tailless monoplane with turned down wing tips in flight. A Fieseler Fi 156 Storch making short takeoff and steep climb over control tower of an airfield. The first functional helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter (D-EKRA) (later Focke-Achgelis Fa 61), demonstrating its hovering ability.

Location: Germany
Date: 1936
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080515
Various pre-WW2 Lufthansa German aircraft taking off and in flight over Germany

A Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 (“Albert Dossenbach”) taking off overhead and in flight over Germany, pre World War 2. A Heinkel He 111 transport airliner (D-ABYE) with Nazi Swastika empennage in flight to left. A Lufthansa Junkers Ju-86 in flight. Lufthansa Focke-Wulf Condor transport plane (“Brandenburg”) in flight to right. Aerial view of airfield showing rows of Ju 52 transport planes and Focke-Wulf Fw-56 Stösser trainer aircraft.

Location: Germany
Date: 1936
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080516
Interior of main cabin, and some occupants, on Air Force One, in flight from Salzburg Austria to Moscow, Soviet Union

Inside the main cabin of the President Nixon's VC-137C airplane, Spirit of 76 (Air Force One) during flight from Salzburg, Austria, to Moscow Russia, on May 22, 1972. Brief glimpse of National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. Views of Press Secretary, Ronald Ziegler. Airborne Press center. Some members of the White House Press Corps filing reports. One is dictating into a hand-held recording device. Some passengers resting.

Location: Eastern Europe
Date: 1972, May 22
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036395
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