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People take their possessions out of devastated houses due to a tornado in Metropolis, Illinois.

Devastated buildings due to a tornado 25 years back in Metropolis, Illinois. Debris of devastated building on car. Wooden planks. Devastated houses. People take their possessions out of houses.

Date: 1935, March 28
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055175
A 1960 newsreel retrospective shows 1935 demonstration of a combination police revolver and movie camera.

Combination revolver and miniature movie camera invented by O.W. Atkins of Los Angeles. 1935 film opens showing a policeman holding a revolver (unloaded) pointed directly at the camera. A small camera is attached under the gun barrel. A side view of the revolver shows a cutaway of the movie camera attached underneath. The camera's mechanism moves the film. Next, a police officer is seen standing and pointing the gun-camera. Then in an enactment, a round camera view, ostensibly from the gun-camera, shows a man running toward the officer and being shot down by him. Next, a man in civilian clothes examines a strip of motion picture film from the gun-camera.

Date: 1935
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055177
Boy triggers fire alarm and manacle affixes to his arm; fire fighters respond to alarm

As a prank, a teenage boy maliciously convinces a younger boy to trigger a fire alarm. The younger boy reaches into a fire alarm box on a street corner and he triggers the alarm, but a manacle is affixed to his arm as he withdraws it, to mark him as the one who sounded the alarm. Fire fighters respond to the alarm. The manacle device was being employed to discourage false alarms.

Date: 1935
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055178
Engineer tests wind-driven propeller-powered boat on lake Erie in 1935.

Opening scene shows a man holding fast to the mast of a boat that contains a huge rotating two-bladed propeller instead of a sail. The propeller-rotor is geared to a drive shaft (unseen) turning the boat's underwater propeller (screw). Several men are in the boat as one sets the controls. Next, two men are seen in the boat as it speeds over the water with the big rotor turning rapidly.

Date: 1935
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055179
Gar Wood sets a new salt water speed record with his "Miss America Tenth" boat in Miami, Florida.

Inventor and speedboat racer, Gar Wood, shakes hands with two men welcoming him at a boat slip in Biscayne Bay, Florida, in 1935. Scene shifts to Gar Wood and members of his racing team standing by his boat, "Miss America Tenth,"in a slip. Hoisting chains are suspended beside the boat's hull, and its engines are exposed with covers and exhausts removed. Wood talks with boat designer Nap Lissee, who is wearing a cap and white coveralls, with "Packard" written on its back. Lissee is pointing toward the engine compartment. Change of scene shows glimpse of Gar Wood and his mechanic, Orlin Johnson in their racing attire with goggles. Next the "Miss America Tenth" is viewed from a point overlooking Bicayne Bay, as the boat skims over the water at 118 miles per hour. View from an overflying airplane that shows the speeding boat moving faster than another airplane (a Stinson straight wing version) tracking it at lower altitude.

Date: 1935
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055180
Philadelphia Eagles beat Cleveland Browns by 31-29 in an American pro football game in Cleveland, Ohio.

American pro football game between Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. Eagles beat the Browns by 31-29. Large crowd gather to see the game. Long touchdown run by Cleveland's fullback Jim Brown is seen. Several views of fans cheering in the stadium.

Date: 1960, October 27
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055184