Refine Your Search

Greek-Civil-War stock footage and images

- Showing 18271 to 18276 of 27588 results
U.S. Labor strife - strikes and lockouts in the clothing industry in the 1920s

Post-World War 1 United States marked by labor-management strife and strikes, especially in the garment industry. Clothing workers are seen busy at their jobs in a factory in New York City. A man is seen symbolically closing and locking a steel door (narrative refers to a company "lockout.") Footage of police officers and crowd of laborers on New York City street. Police try to maintain order as crowds fill garment district streets in protest. Montage of persons awaiting a June 1921 decision by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County. Narrator announces that Justice James C. Van Siclen, has granted an injunction (against all picketing by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America). Narrator quotes Van Siclen's opening statement in the decision: "The court must stand at all times as the representative of capital, of the captains of industry..." View of Sidney Hillman, leader of the Amalgamated union (ACWA) sitting with other union members. View of a bustling New York City street lined with tenements and pushcarts in the lower east side of Manhattan. A man washing his face at a sink. A woman preparing a meal over a stove. Four children sharing a large bed. A gathering of idled clothing workers in a school room setting. Some in art classes. Dancers entertaining locked out workers. Young people presenting a puppet show. Narrator states that the lockout lasted 6 months, but the union prevailed. View of pleased union members.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036809
The 1930s Great Depression and the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States

Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop

Location: United States USA
Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036812
United States Military prepares a new base at Aleutian Islands in Alaska for its bombers on Japanese mission, during WW II.

United States Military lands at Aleutian Islands in Alaska to prepare a new base for its bombers to bomb Japanese positions, during World War II. U.S. soldiers in ships, boats and landing tractors land on the Aleutians. Soldiers unload materials from the boats. Soldiers try and put up tents fighting chill winds. General Lloyd E. Jones, in charge of the operation. Soldiers from a post watch the sea.

Location: Aleutian Islands Alaska USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036893
Sandbagged look up tower, building material and landing of armored helicopters at a post of United States Military in Vietnam

Post of the United States Military in Vietnam during Vietnam War. A sandbagged look up tower and a helicopter landing area nearside. Barracks and aprons for helicopters. Building material stacked in ground near the tower. A UH-1B helicopter approaches and lands over parking area. Two helicopters parked in the area. "Navy" painted on fuselage of the helicopter. Mini guns and rocket pods on port side of a helicopter. M-60 machine gun and cartridge roll loaded and inside the helicopter. Control levers and indicators in its empty cockpit.

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036896
Mechanics work on engine and rotor and check machine guns of UH-1B helicopters at a post of United States Military in Vietnam.

Post of the United States Military in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Tow mechanics work on top of a UH-1B helicopter around the rotor. Two men work on main rotor of another UH-1B. Mechanic greases various areas around the rotor. A crewman works with machine gun M-60 on port side of the helicopter. Another crewman carries two other machine guns. They check the machine gun and rocket pod on the port side. Mechanics work on exposed engine and rotor. Mechanics work on after part around the rotor.

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036897
Door gunner seated in UH-1B helicopter looks at Mekong delta during a patrol near a post of United States Military in Vietnam.

Post of the United States Military in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Door gunner seated in a UH-1B helicopter looks at the Mekong delta area. The winding river and its tributaries all over the delta. Very large winding river spreads into three legs. Pilot operates the controls inside the helicopter cockpit.

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036898
<< Previous | Page: 1 ... 3046 3047 3048 ... 4598 | Next >>