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General John J. Perishing and Enoch Herbert Crowder receive LL D degree at University of Missouri, United States.

LL D awarded to U.S. General John J. Pershing and General Crowder at the University of Missouri, United States. During 1920 commencement exercises at the University of Missouri, U.S. Army officer General John J. Perishing receives an honorary degree. President Hill of the University of Missouri awards LLD degree to General Pershing and also to U.S. Military officer Enoch Herbert Crowder who had been instrumental in the draft for World War I. General Pershing wears a cap and gown after receiving his degree. A finger points to Pershing's name on diploma.

Date: 1920
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068721
Decline in industry and jobs, and Stock Market crash and start of Great Depression in the United States.

The film 'The Unfinished Revolution' opens by showing people recovering after the Great Depression in the United States. Most scenes circa 1929 - 1931 (but film produced in 1960s). Landmarks in Washington DC: the United States Capitol building with 1940s and 1950s cars and taxi cabs on roads in foreground. View of exterior of Supreme Court building. Closer view of U.S. Capitol and then of the White House in Washington DC. Also the Washington Monument. Scene changes to the American West and a herd of sheep and of cattle grazes on pastures or ranch. Cowboys on horseback herd cattle on a giant field with snow covered mountains in the background. Farmers work in a field picking cotton. Scene changes to New York City with view of Manhattan skyline including Empire State Building, with new skyscrapers in construction in the foreground. View of market area and tenements; push cart vendors lined up on a street in a lower east side New York City neighborhood, and a Ford sedan on the street. Busy New York City streets filled with cars and pedestrians at end of 1920s. Children standing on fire escape in poor downtown area look down over suspended laundry lines between tenement buildings. An officer looks out from small window of a raised booth traffic light as the lights on the booth change color. A Ford automobile assembly line. Engineers work in a factory with minimum wages. A farmer plows a field of potatoes using four horses. A wheat thresher working a field. Trains at a crossing, on a bridge, and coal cars lined up at a coal yard. Busy New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor filled with people around time of 1929 stock market crash and start of Great Depression. Frenzied stock market scenes. Board outside a factory reads 'No Men Wanted'. Scenes of silent railroad yards and dormant factories. A man plays an accordian and collects coin donations. Jobless people wait in relief lines, soup kitchen lines, unemployment lines or queues and bread lines. Unemployed and homeless men asleep in public areas.

Date: 1929
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044174
Busy city street with 1920's era automobiles; also Kerosene and by-products obtained from distillation of crude petroleum in US

Slate indicates that 200 million gallons of gasoline are used annually in the United States for power (in 1925). View of a busy city street, possibly New York City, circa 1925 with motor vehicle traffic, pedestrians and many tall buildings. Many early automobiles seen. A worker tests flash point of kerosene. Lighted candle in stuck block of paraffin (wax) showing wax or parrafin as a byproduct of petroleum. Slate indicates that petroleum provides motor fuel, common light, a lubricant for machinery and other important by-products.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050488
Early 1920s film transmission of germs through coughing and sneezing, and prevention of illness.

It is illustrated that proper use of handkerchief can prevent bacteria to spread in the United States. A boy and two girl children seated at a table playing a board game of checkers. One of the girls sneezes over the board without covering. The scene is shown again. This time the girl prepares to sneeze and the other girl and the boy each hand her a handkerchief. The girls sneezes into the handkerchief to control spread of germs, illness, and sickness.

Date: 1922
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032296
Highlights in life of Henry Ford from 1863 through circa 1920

A 1950 film depicting highlights in the life of Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, in the United States. The Henry Ford Museum Clock Tower and Greenfield Village. Children enter the museum. Pictures of Henry Ford on a quadricycle. Henry Ford with others working in a workshop. A picture of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison with their spouses. A picture of Henry Ford sitting near a fire place. Sketches depict the Battle of Gettysburg of 1863. A dramatization : Exteriors of the house of William Ford. William Ford runs up a flight of stairs as his wife Mary Litogot Ford gives birth to Henry Ford. Scene shifts to the boy Henry Ford going out of his home to play. Young Henry Ford working with various mechanical gadgets. Henry Ford with William Ford in a horse drawn wagon. Henry Ford runs and climbs on a steam engine. He goes out from the house for work. He works in a jewelry shop. Henry Ford works in the night. A clock on a wall. Henry Ford with his quadricycle. He rides his qudricycle. Farmers work in a field. Workers use various machinery for construction. People assemble parts of Henry Ford quadricycle. Development of faster production methods using specialization. Ford Model T cars on an assembly line.

Date: 1950
Duration: 7 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068464
1920's dramatization of young people drinking illegal liquor and behaving wildly, during the "roaring twenties," in the U.S.

Actors dramatizing people in a city of the United States. Cars parked on a road. Two men in a car. One man drinks from a personal flask of liquor, violating prohibition laws. Next scene shows a man and woman as they kiss in a car. Young men and women, some in flapper styles, crowded into an open car behaving wildly and having fun, portraying the wild "roaring twenties" attitude. Balloons tied on the car.

Date: 1923
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065219