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Linda Lewis, the youngest golfer at the Clearview Golf Course in Long Island.

Newsreel 'Fore by five '. Linda Lewis, a five-year-old girl is the youngest trick golfer in the world. The golf prodigy is accompanied by her father trick golfer champion Chuck Lewis. She performs her incredible repertoire at the Clearview Golf Course in Long Island. She hits balls after an unconventional trick swing, and then in a daring stunt, she hits a ball off a tee held in her father's mouth. Chuck Lewis and Linda Lewis are touring United States to raise funds for the Babe Zaharias Cancer Fund.

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1956, June 25
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040944
Golf prodigy Linda Lewis practices tricks and stunts with dad Chuck Lewis in Florida, United states.

Linda Lewis, a six year old golf prodigy, in Florida. Linda hits balls with a club one by one. Her father, golf comedian and a trick shot expert Chuck Lewis, helps her practice. She and her father kneel down and hit a ball. Chuck Lewis holds a ball in his mouth as he lies down on the course and Linda hits the ball with a club.

Location: Florida United States USA
Date: 1958, April 10
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042275
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war, after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (WW2)

On December 8, 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addresses the Congress, calling for a declaration of War against Japan in World War II. He calls December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy." Roosevelt notes the United States was at peace and in conversation with Japan's government and Emperor Hirohito, about maintaining peace in the Pacific. Japanese ambassador and statesmen are seen visiting State Department offices to meet with the U.S. Secretary of State. Photographers take pictures of the visiting Japanese statesmen. President Roosevelt asks Congress to affirm that a state of War exists between the United States and the Japanese Empire.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1941, December 8
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038551
President Harry S Truman presenting Medals of Honor at White House, Washington DC.

President Harry S Truman presenting Medals of Honor to Captain Raymond Harvey, Captain Lewis L Millett, Master Sergeant Stanley T Adams, and Sergeant Einer H Ingman at Rose Garden, White House, Washington DC. Relatives and officials talk. General Omar N Bradley and George C Marshall with the men. They are congratulated by both. General J Lawton Collins speaking to one of the awardees, to relatives. Master Sergeant Stanley T Adams. The Sergeant holding a little boy. Sergeant Einer H Ingman. A Captain one of the awardees, congratulated by relatives. The two Captains posing with a woman.

Location: Washington DC White House USA
Date: 1951, July 5
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034421
President Mrs. Warren G. Harding meet two thousand postmasters from all parts of the country, Washington DC.

President Warren G. Harding, and his wife Florence Harding, pose in the White House garden with crowd including U.S. Post Office postmasters from across the country. President Harding tells Mrs. Harding they are being filmed on movie camera. She looks toward camera and raises her right arm with hand in a fist, in an enthusiastic gesture, and smiles. Two bearded postmasters talk in front of the White House. Film slate says they are "from Gopher Prairie," (perhaps a reference to an unnamed small town in the U.S., or to Sauk Centre, Minnesota, after which Sinclair Lewis' fictional town of "Gopher Prairie" was modeled in his then-popular novel "Main Street"). A puppy dog emerges from a mailbox on the ground.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052454
Film illustrating participation of African Americans in U.S. history from Colonial times to after the Civil War

Opening scene shows African American congregation in church, during World War 2, listening to their preacher speak about liberty. Closeup of the Minister speaking. As he refers to the seed of Liberty taking root in Boston, a plaque on the gate of the Granary Burial Ground of 1660 is shown reading: "Within this ground are buried the victims of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770." The gate swings open revealing the cemetery. Next, an illustration of British Redcoats shooting into a crowd on that occasion is shown. Closeup of the illustration shows an African American, named Crispus Attucks, falling as the first victim of the gunfire. A monument to him on Boston Common, is then shown. Closeup of the monument. Excerpt from a film about the Revolutionary War shows reenactment of the battle off Concord. The 221-foot granite obelisk at Bunker Hill, Boston, is seen, marking the site of the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. A musket is seen with a sign attached reading: "Gun belonged to Peter Salem, a colored man who carried it at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, and with it shot Maj. Pitcairn." (Refers to Major John Pitcairn, a Scottish Marine officer, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.) Illustration and painting of Peter Salem with his musket in the company of other patriots, is shown, as well as a glimpse of a mass reenactment of the battle of Bunker Hill. Next is seen the famous 1851 oil-on-canvas painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, by the German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Closeup of one oarsman, identified as African American, Prince Whipple. Film Reenactment of the ragtag American army at Valley Forge in the snow, shows their suffering. Among them is an actor in the role of African American, Salem Poor, who had purchased his freedom from slavery and fought with Washington's army. A bell ringing and the American flag of 13 stars signifying the 1776 Victory. Film reenactments of pioneers including whites and African Americans working together, felling trees and building forts and barns, and the like. Scene shifts to a man of war ship under sail firing a salvo from its cannons. This is followed by illustrations of Commodore Perry in the battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812. In a dory with Perry is a black man named Tyler Thompson. War ships exchange gunfire. Narrator cites Perry's famous words of victory: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Scene shifts to a painting of American general Andrew Jackson and his troops, at the Battle of New Orleans, in 1815. A battle reenactment shows a black American soldier participating. Postwar view of American ship building activity. View of a large sailing vessel. Cannon fire ushers in the Civil War in 1861 as Confederates fire on Fort Sumter. Images of combat are overlaid by the statue of Abraham Lincoln in his memorial at Washington, DC. Next, settlers are seen heading West in a wagon train. Camera focuses on a black couple who are part of the wagon train. White and African American men work side-by-side building a railroad. An early steam locomotive races along the tracks. .

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077350
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