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Aerial feats and fireworks herald 1939 World's Fair

Aerial feats and fireworks herald 1939 World's Fair. Daring aerial stunts by the Slide-for-life D'Arcy girls. Huge crowd watches the stunts. Gigantic display of fireworks announces the 1939 World's Fair. The fireworks thrill a huge crowd of spectators.

Date: 1938, May 11
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041315
Scenes aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan: Ambassador William Dodd interviewed in 1938 and passengers fleeing war in Europe in 1939.

A large number of passengers aboard the ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield) in the United States. Scene from January 10,1938 as the USS Manhattan returns from her Europe trip. A large number of passengers aboard the ship. U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany, William E. Dodd, is interviewed by media persons about his Europe trip. He declares that living in Europe at the time is discouraging and there is crisis in Europe as German Nazism and Fascism are gaining ground everywhere. In next shot, from 1939, the ship is underway and arriving at New York Harbor on September 30, 1939, carrying 1837 persons, its largest passenger count ever. The passengers include many Americans from overseas fleeing war-torn Europe early in World War 2. A sign on the ship: 'Manhattan United States Lines'. The passengers in mass numbers at a harbor. The Statue of Liberty in the background.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070726
144 students of the University of Washington practice rowing in Seattle, Washington.

The crew rowing team of the University of Washington practices in Seattle, Washington. 144 students of the university lined up with oars as coach Ulbrickson walks past them. The students take to rowing. They row boats past a few ships.

Date: 1939, January 23
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059011
Rescuers working to bring back the dead bodies after a snow slide at Mount Baker in Washington in Washington.

People killed in a snow slide at Mount Baker in Washington. The rescuers working to bring back the dead bodies. Men walking up the mountain. Men wearing earphones working to find out the missing dead bodies. A dead body loaded on a mule.

Date: 1939, July 26
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076322
New York Yankees play baseball against New York Giants in 1936 World Series; also Grover Whalen showing 1939 Worlds Fair plans.

Crowd cheers and waves during New York Yankees and New York Giants game in the 1936 World Series at Polo Grounds IV in Manhattan, New york. Yankee manager, Joe McCarthy and Giants manager, Bill Terry on the field and they shake hands. Governor of New York State Herbert H. Lehman throws out first pitch, with Mayor La Guardia beside him. Babe Ruth, guest of honor, watches the match. Crowd cheer as the game proceeds. In next segment: Grover Whalen, President of New York World's Fair Corporation points out highlights of 1939 New York World's Fair on a preliminary model with the help of a stick, for visiting dignitaries. Footage from a September 1961 newsreel hightlighting stories from 25 years earlier.

Date: 1936, October
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034206
A man and a woman present a Ford convertible to their daughter, as a graduation gift.

A commercial advertisement in technicolor promoting the good style of 1939 Ford automobiles. A 1939 Ford convertible and sedan both parked at a curb in front of a school with a sign "Martin School for Girls". A mother and father escort their newly-graduated daughter down the steps. The daughter carries a bouquet of flowers. The father gives the daughter keys to the new Ford convertible. She invites two friends to join her and they all sit in the front seat and drive away. .

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051553