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Farmers operate well drilling farm machinery at a farm in Kentucky.
Farm life in Kentucky, United States. Farmers operate mechanized farm equipment to dig a water well. The farmers wear dungarees and hats and are seen holding a rope attached to the well drilling machine as it operates.
Iron Liege wins the Kentucky Derby and Sundew wins the Grand National Steeplechase.
The Kentucky Derby in the United States, and the Grand National Steeplechase in the United Kingdom. The spectators seated in a stand to watch the Kentucky Derby horse race. A weapon trainer, James E. Fitzsimmons. The horses run in the Kentucky Derby horse race. America Jockey William Lee Shoemaker on horse Gallant Man during the race. Iron Liege competing against Gallant Man. Iron Liege wins the race. Iron Liege with jockey as they receive the prize. Change of scene to Liverpool, England. The horses jump the famous fences in the England Grand National Steeplechase. The horses fall while jumping. Sundew wins the race in Liverpool, England.
"Decidedly", the American Thoroughbred racehorse, wins the 88th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky.
The 88th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky. Many people gathered at Churchill Downs racecourse (700 Central Ave, Louisville, KY 40208, United States) to witness the 88th running of the Kentucky Derby. Women seated in chairs. Jockey, Willie Hartack, who will ride "Decidedly" stands on a porch, smoking a cigarette. Former champion jockey, Eddie Arcaro, signs autographs. Horses and the jockeys take their positions, and the race gets underway. Horses run on the track. A man looks through binoculars. Decidedly, the American Thoroughbred racehorse, wins the race. The winner being presented a blanket of roses.
Lucky Debonair wins the Kentucky Derby horse race in Kentucky, United States.
The Kentucky Derby horse race in Kentucky, United States. A fire on the ground before the race. Smokes rises due to the fire. Spectators in the stands. Traffic on streets. Eleven horses at a gate. The horse race starts. The spectators watch the race. A woman looks through binoculars. The horses run on the track. People in the stands cheer. Lucky Debonair wins the race. The results on a board. The winner horse in the center and people around the horse.
Patriotic parade floats during the 1940 Portland Rose Festival
The city of Portland holds the annual Portland Rose Festival with a patriotic flair in June 1940. Two United States flags are hanging from a building. The parade route is marked by banners that read "For You A Rose In Portland Grows." Parade floats made of roses in the 1940 Grand Floral Parade. Portland Rose Festival girls on a “Constitution” float wave at crowds as their float round the corner in front of the New Heathman Hotel (now the Heathman Hotel) at 712 SW Salmon Street. Two men dressed as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln sit on the “Portland Dist. No. 2 Mantle Club” "America First" float, which features an Eagle on its front. Portland Rose Festival “queens” and “princesses” on a “Peacock” themed float wave at crowds. Boy scouts flank the “Peacock” float as passes the Alisky Building and the Harry Semler Dentist and Optical offices. A “Treasure Island Exposition 1940” float. Women and a man on the “Portland Realtors” float, traveling down SW Morrison St. The Portland Hotel is seen in the background at the corner of SW 6th Ave. and SW Morrison St. A “Pasadena” float with an effigy of the bald eagle and the United States flag made of roses is flanked by marching boy scouts.
J.Edgar Hoover describes the problem of enemy agents and Nazi sympathizers in the United States in 1940.
Director of the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J.Edgar Hoover, addresses Americans in military service in 1940. He speaks about enemy agents sent to the United States to undermine the war effort. Scene shifts to a 1940 nighttime view of New York City with lights on in its buildings. Sound of Benny Goodman's orchestra in background. Glimpse of water displays at the New York World's Fair. Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball team playing a game at Ebbets Field. A large field of wheat being harvested by a mechanical reaper, in an American western state. American soldiers putting on civilian clothes for weekend passes. Views of various American cities and towns with cars driving on parkways, shoppers and pedestrians walking in business districts. Closeup of a German agent, ostensibly being apprehended while beaming information to Germany via shortwave radio. German documents are on his desk. A submarine periscope tracks across surface of water. A torpedo races through the water leaving a trail of bubbles. An American ship, ostensibly being torpedoed in the Caribbean. Letters being mailed to so-called "mail drops" in Spain and South America. An intercepted letter with military information being highlighted. A brick house, outside Los Angeles, where an unidentified man is seen, whom narrator (J.Edgar Hoover) describes as " This self-appointed Dictator, who set himself up in the business of promoting Nazism." A picture of Adolf Hitler is seen on his wall. Near Chicago, a wooden sign reads, "Camp Hindenburg., Two miles." American Nazi youth are seen parading there. A newspaper shows a picture of Nazi youth at Camp Nordland, in New Jersey where young American Nazi girls are seen parading. In Yaphank, on long Island, New York, American Nazis are seen parading. The head of the German-American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, is seen at an outdoor podium giving a speech, while surrounded and guarded by uniformed Bund members. He is enthusiastically applauded by members of the audience. Several women with babies in carriages, cross at a corner in New York City. Some receive notices being passed out by a young man, announcing a "Mass Demonstration for true Americans" (to be held at Madison Square Garden). A swastika appears on each notice. View from a high point overlooking a crowd of 22 thousand American Nazis gathered in Madison Square Garden, on Feb. 20, 1939. An honor guard parades as drummers play from the stage. A mass of men holding American flags, and one holding a banner showing a swastika and words in German. Audience members all render the Nazi salute and shout "Heil." Files in the FBI offices labeled "German Agents." The file of Walter Kappe, one of the leaders of the Chicago Free Society of Teutonia and German American Bund is shown. Narrator, Hoover, says, " he was a Lieutenant in the German Army and the Leader of German sabotage in the United States." View of a vast array of desks and files in the FBI where men and women work on fingerprints. A man projects fingerprints on a screen, as Hoover speaks of the files revealing that "innocent appearing persons, applying for work in United States war plants, had been convicted of espionage in the last world war."Two men look over an FBI chart showing the location of every key spy and mail drop in North and South America
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