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Driving down Forsyth Street in Atlanta, Georgia in 1960.

A man enters the Citizen’s Trust Company bank, the first African American-owned bank to join the Federal Reserve Bank, Westside Office (Westside Branch 965 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314). An elderly black man crosses Mitchell St. SW. A Wilson Truck Company truck drives past. A black woman carrying an infant crosses the road with her three young children. Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta as seen from a moving car. Rich’s Department Store (61 Forsyth St SW, Atlanta, GA) and its “Crystal Bridge” over Forsyth Street connecting the 1924 "Store for Fashion" building to the 1946/1948 "Store for Homes" building. Store signs for Fleetwood Coffee and Postal Café. A revolving sign reads “Park”. The Fulton National Bank building (55 Marietta Street NW Atlanta, Georgia), now known as 55 Marietta Street building, as seen from a moving vehicle. Pedestrians cross a street near a Walgreens. Two black men smoking cigarettes pass by a parked John Ruskin Cigar van on a busy street. The Walter R. Thomas Jewelers shop at 28 Broad St is seen nearby. View of the Georgia State Capitol (Capitol Square SW, Atlanta, GA 30334, United States).

Date: 1960, May 23
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079716
Franklin D Roosevelt during his Presidential campaign in United States.

Scene of steam locomotive starting to move. Engineer in the locomotive cab. Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential election campaign. A railroad train pulls up at a station in Kentucky. Governor of New York, Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a public meeting in Topeka, Kansas,about the new deal and its help for farmers. His train arrives in Seattle and a large crowd welcomes him at the rail road station. A train moves over a bridge and Roosevelt arrives in Springfield, Georgia to campaign for the Presidential elections. He receives a warm welcome in Georgia.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049693
The Philippines under Japanese occupation, liberation by allied forces, Philippine Independence ceremony.

The Philippines under Japanese occupation, liberation, and subsequent granting of independence by the United States in World War 2. Bodies of Filipino and United States soldiers killed during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Captured American, Filipino, and Australian soldiers raise their hands after the Fall of Corregidor. United States General Jonathan M. Wainwright negotiating the surrender of The Phillipines with Japanese General Masaharu Homma in 1942. Brigadier General Lewis C. Beebe and Major Thomas Dooley are seen to Wainwright's left. An American warship firing during the United States Pacific campaign to defeat Japanese occupying forces in the Pacific. United States soldiers get off an amphibious landing craft during the U.S. retaking of the Philippines. United States General Douglas MacArthur arrival in Leyte Gulf with a retinue consisting of Philippine President-in-exile Sergio Osmeña, Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland, Philippine Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Major General Courtney Whitney, Philippine Sergeant Francisco Salveron and CBS Radio correspondent William J. Dunn in Palo, Leyte, the Philippines- a fulfillment of his promise to return to the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur speaking at the Independence Day ceremony in Manila on July 4, 1946. “America never wavered in that purpose. America today redeems that pledge.” Says General MacArthur. United States Senator Millard Tydings, the co-sponsor of the Tydings–McDuffie Act (a law that provides independence to the Philippines after a 10-year transition as a Commonwealth) attends the ceremony. Paul V. McNutt, the United States High Commissioner of the Philippine Commonwealth (later the first United States Ambassador to the Philippines), reads the United States President Harry Truman's official proclamation of Philippine Independence. Filipino elites and United States dignitaries watch the ceremony in the Independence Grandstand (a temporary structure built in front of the Rizal Monument). Manuel Roxas being sworn in as the first President of the Philippines after gaining independence from the United States. The Philippine national anthem, Lupang Hinirang, plays in the background. High Commissioner McNutt lowers the United States flag from the flagpole as President Manuel Roxas raises the flag of the new Republic of the Philippines. A celebratory parade following the Independence ceremony takes place, which includes floats from various provinces in the country. A float with signs reading: "Let's Produce and Rebuild,". "Mountain Province" float with women wearing formal Filipino Baro’t Saya gowns. "The City of Manila" float with soldiers. "The University of the Philippines" (UP) float featuring two women dressed as allegorical figures and sign saying, “The University of the Philippines At the Service of the State”. "The Division of City Schools" float features two Filipinos in traditional attire in front of a Statue of Liberty model. A float, likely belonging to the National Library of the Philippines, with children and a huge book model. The Chamber of Commerce Philippines float contains a machine gear model and small models of an aircraft and a ship. American soldiers marching, carrying the United States flag. A military marching band play. Filipino soldiers marching with the Philippine flag. Military aircraft in flight above the Independence Grandstand in Manila.

Date: 1946, July 4
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079150
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
U.S. Naval air cadets receive physical training in Georgia during World War II.

Naval air cadets being trained in Georgia during World War II. Cadets exercise on field during training. Cadets use exercise ball on field. The cadets are trained on how to land on sea of burning oil.

Date: 1942
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074806
Testing African American population for Syphilis, by state health department in Brunswick and other parts of Georgia, United States.

An awareness film about Syphilis by United States Public Health Service, United States. Building of Health department headquarters at Brunswick. Mobile health clinic bus parked outside the building. Medical technicians diagnose serum in the laboratory. Syphilis germs under a microscope. Name plate over door reads 'State department of public health'. Blood test performed on African American citizen population. Technician pours chemical in test tubes. It shows negative and positive signs of Syphilis. Two nurses doing double check. Tube containing milky and transparent content. Tubes with negative and positive samples of Syphilis. Two women sit. Follow up workers doing house to house survey. He asks question from women. Man lectures midwifes in a class. Nurse demonstrate blood test. Grocery man gives pamphlet of 'Free Test' with goods. The pamphlet headline says "Colored People Do you have bad blood?" (During time of prominent Jim Crow racial segregation practices). A woman hangs a poster advertising the blood testing on a board. People see the notice. Men work harvesting at a stand of trees where they are harvesting pine resin for turpentine production. Nurse takes blood sample in turpentine woods. Man takes sample at a river pier or dock. African American men and women dancing in a rural dance hall. During a break they wait in line for testing. African American people sit at a local church. Clergy addresses people in church. Blood testing at church. Mobile clinic on the road. People walk in woods. Ox cart driven in woods. Women walk towards a mobile clinic. Nurses work in the clinic.

Date: 1938
Duration: 8 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047049