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Roads, bars, and restaurants in the Tennessee Valley

The efforts of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) to improve the lives of rural communities in the Tennessee Valley. Newly laid road in a rural area, with a 1930s era car driving on it. City "problems" being brought to rural areas due to electrification and new infrastructure: Car parked in front of a log cabin with a sign beside the stone chimney that advertises offerings including fast food, reading "Dix's Cabin. Beer on tap. Wines. Liquors. Hot Dogs & Hamburgers." A different store with sign "Brown's Parkside Bar & Grill. Wines. Liquors." Another sign there reads "Parkside Grill Comfort Station."

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023096
Summer work camps in Flint, Michigan, coordinated by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers)

Summer work camps in Flint, Michigan organized by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). College student volunteers clean in Oak Knoll Park. Two men dig around a tree and uproot it. Man chopping a tree with an axe. Two men reaping tall grass with a scythe. Men uproot and dig out stumps, and carry cut trees and branches to a pile. Black smoke rises from a heap of burning brush. Children play in the park, coordinated by American Friends Service Committee members in Community Planning and City Planning roles. Families with boys and girls attend United Auto Workers (UAW) picnic.

Location: Flint Michigan USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023121
Flame sweeps Metropolis of Hakodate, Japan, during storm with 70 mile per hour winds.

Strong winds fan flames that sweep city of Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Flames rise from a house located within the Sumiyoshi area, Hakodate. Japanese firemen attempt to extinguish fire during the Great Fire of Hakodate. Fireman climbs up a ladder to rescue people. In the aftermath, men and women walk around burned houses and streets. View of homes, offices and stores reduced to a mass of blackened ruins.

Location: Hakodate Japan
Date: 1934, March 21
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023127
A dramatization about a young physician's training in obstetrics at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois

Film 'The Fight for Life' dramatizes experience of a physician in obstetric practice at a Chicago hospital. View of engraved stone reading: City Hospital, 1932, over archway, at entrance to a Chicago hospital. Medical staff walk in hallway. A nurse enters maternity center where doctors stand beside a woman in labor on a table.The principal doctor monitors the fetus heartbeat. The mother becomes stressed and the anesthesiolgist helps her. Physician places newborn infant on cart and nurse rolls it away. View of baby. Nurse and doctors attending the mother express alarm over her blood pressure.They administer oxygen and several doses of medicine by hypodermic. But the patient dies. One of the attending physicians (Dr. O'Donnell) is clearly moved by the event, and seems deep in thought as he leaves the hospital, not even noticing the receptionist who bids him good evening as he passes her.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 6 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023140
Dramatization about a young physician's reaction to death of a mother in childbirth at hospital in Chicago

Following the death of a mother during childbirth, one of the attending physicians (Dr. O'Donnell) walks along rainy Chicago streets at night mulling over the event. He walks past numerous decorated shop windows highlighting the good life, and thinks aloud about the details of the event. Traffic moves along the streets as life goes on in the city. Dr. O'Connell wonders whether the mother's life could have been saved. He speculates about the event comprising an exchange of the mother's life for that of her child. He discusses the matter philosophically with a senior colleague, who encourages him to take up obstetrics and to practice in the slums of Chicago, where there are great needs for such services.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023141
Franklin Delano Roosevelt names Solicitor General Stanley Reed for Supreme Court in Washington DC.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt names Solicitor General Stanley Reed of Kentucky for Supreme Court in Washington DC. View of appointment document signed by the President. Mr. Stanley Reed entering federal building in Washington DC. Cars and city bus in background. Reed poses shaking hands with his wife. Close view of his wife, Winifred Elgin Reed, also an attorney. Stanley Reed gives a brief speech indicating, "Naturally, I am grateful for the nomination."

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1938, January 18
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023166
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