A pillow fight in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Turkeys in a garden. Girls run behind the turkeys. They fight with pillows full of turkey feathers. A girl on the ground with turkey feathers all over her face. (World War II period).
Launch of USS Hornet (CV-8) at Newport News Shipyard, Virginia. The flag of the U.S. flag hangs from the hull of the ship. U.S. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox's wife, Mrs. Annie Reid Knox, at the christening. Women stand holding umbrellas. The Aircraft Carrer ship slides into the water.
The first Selective Service lottery conducted in Washington, DC, on October 29, 1940, in the United States. An American Legion member, in uniform, poses with Mrs. Robert Bell and her son and a young woman (her daughter?) after her son's draft number (158) had been the first one drawn in the Washington DC Lottery. Dr. Baxter talks with Mrs. Bell and asks why she exclaimed out loud when the first number was drawn. Dr. Baxter gives her the capsule in which her son's draft number was contained. Views of the audience at the The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, where the lottery was being conducted.
Some 1940 U.S. football highlights. Scenes of a long touchdown run and an interception and touchdown run from the 1940 National Football League Championship Game that the Chicago Bears won 73-0, on December 8, 1940. Scenes from the Dartmouth-Cornell "Fifth-Down" game of November 16, 1940, with Cornell quarterback "Pop" Scholl throwing a "winning" touchdown pass to William Murphy.
From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.
View from moving car traveling down Irvine Ave in Fourth Ward towards downtown Atlanta. A road as seen from a moving car as it approaches intersection of Irvine St. and Fort St. NE. Bridge abutments for Interstate 85 under construction seen in background. View shifts to buildings in downtown Atlanta along Houston St. (now John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.) A sign reads “Dunlop Tires”. Hotel Hampton, Pathway Bookstore and Avon Hotel are seen on the left side of the street while The Candler Building and The Rhodes-Haverty Building are in background. The English-American Building, commonly referenced as the Flatiron Building (84 Peachtree St, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA), in downtown Atlanta. Two taxis follow a truck as they turn onto Luckie St NW. Taxi rear advertisement reads “Visit Lake Spivey”.
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