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Grand Detour Illinois USA 1937 stock footage and images

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Major events of the 1930s include Wall Street crash, kidnapping of Lindbergh child, Hindenburg disaster, Spanish Civil War, etc.

'Retrospect' about the events that led to the present pattern of life in the United States. Host Douglas Edwards, an American television anchor speaks about the past events in America. Crowd of unemployed men gathering in bread lines after the 1929 crash and subsequent Great Depression. A man near a box of apples. The U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses a gathering. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter who abducted the child during the trial. The congressmen at the formation of the Lindbergh Law. Newspapers describe the apprehension or death of notorious mafia gangster criminals, such as Dutch Schultz and Baby Face Nelson. Huey Pierce Long, Jr. a American politician addresses people. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeals to the League of Nations, after his country is attacked by Italy under Mussolini. Adolf Hitler stands. Troops of the German army parade. Scenes from the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1937 as Spanish national forces battle against fascist rebel forces. Spanish Troops fire 75mm field artillery pieces. Bombs being dropped on the buildings. Spanish soldiers marching during the civil war. The Hindenburg disaster takes place on May 6th 1937: The German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester, New Jersey. Amelia Earhart the first woman aviator to fly solo holds flowers and is surrounded by people. She went missing in 1937. Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers, alone and with U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner and with aviator Wiley Post (who had patch over one eye). King Edward VIII of Great Britain, abdicating the throne for "the woman I love." People at the German-American Bund Nazi sympathizing gathering including the subduing of objectors on stage, in Madison Square Garden, New York. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returning from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. View of Adolf Hitler. German tanks on parade in World War II. an array of artillery guns on display. Railway guns being fired in WW2.

Date: 1938
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032197
The busy markets, shops and streets of Harlem New York USA.

The busy market, shops and streets with African American population in Harlem New York. Sign at corner of West 127th street. A good number of people prominently African Americans can be seen. The roads, traffic, shops and buildings of the area are shown. Sign for Garcia Grande Cigars and two men smoking pipes and talking in foreground. People talking in groups, young men playing tennis on a street.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035839
Chicago area councilmen condemn the murder of Black Panther Party's Chairman Fred Hampton in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago area councilmen condemn the raid of Black Panther Party's Chairman Fred Hampton's apartment in Chicago, Illinois and his murder. Black Panther Minister of Defense Bobby Rush in his interviews condemns Hampton's murder and says that he was also a target during the day of Fred's murder. Black Panther attorney reads from the Grand Jury of the Federal District Court, which questions testimony given by the police officers.

Date: 1969, December
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029955
Police officers questioned on the raid of Fred Hampton's apartment in Chicago, Illinois.

Police officers questioned on the raid of Black Panther Party's Chairman Fred Hampton's apartment in Chicago, Illinois. Black Panther attorney reads from the Grand Jury of the Federal District Court, which questions testimony given by the police officers.

Date: 1969, December
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029956
Governor L L Emmerson attends the annual reunion ceremony of Union Civil war veterans in Springfield Illinois.

American Civil War veterans pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln in Springfield Illinois in United States. View of decorated tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Thousands of aged veterans in their Civil War Union Army uniforms gather in Oak Ridge Cemetery near the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Governor Louis L Emmerson and other dignitaries attend the event. Governor Emmerson is seen in conversation with one of the aged veterans. Most of the veterans wear hats with the "G.A.R." symbol (Grand Army of the Republic, a Union military veterans and fraternal organization). One of the Union Civil War veterans shown is an African American soldier.

Date: 1932, September 19
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030535
A Motor Boat Show at Grand Central Palace in New York City

A Motor Boat Show in New York City at Grand Central Palace. Rich display of marine craft exhibited at the show. A large brass propeller mounted on a wall and surrounded by fish sculptures turns slowly. Views of a large Sterling Viking engine, and close ups of an attached transmission-differential. A woman model climbs to the top of a ships mast. Another woman poses at the bow of a boat with a harpoon in hand. View of a Chris Craft motor boat at the show. Two women sit at the helm of one of the motor boats. View of several Chris Craft motor yachts.

Date: 1937, January 11
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041418