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Flooding in Williamsport, Maryland; Point Of Rocks, Maryland; and Washington DC from great Potomac River flood of 1936

Damage caused due to flooding of Potomac River near Williamsport, Maryland. Houses and buildings submerged in water. Destroyed buildings. Remains of a segment of a trestle bridge across the Potomac River at Point Of Rocks Maryland, with flood waters all around. Ticker tape warning of the flood is shown running throw a persons hands. Warnings issued by the weather bureau for the people. Members of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and others build a sandbag barrier to protect Federal buildings against the impending flood. View of the sandbags being put in place and the Washington Monument in the background. View of high flood waters at Great Falls and along other spots on the Potomac River carrying debris including houses and sheds. A trestle bridge over the water. Several people standing on the bridge as flood waters rip a support from the bridge and water is nearly overtaking the bridge. View on March 19 near the time the water crested at 19 and eight tenths feet at the site of the old Aqueduct Bridge or Aquaduct Bridge (near Key Bridge and Fletchers Boathouse) Industrial buildings flooded on the shores of the Potomac River. (Great Depression period)

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1936, March 19
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062897
Newsreel restrospective produced following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (WW2)

Opening scene shows the White House in Washington, DC. Scene shifts to President Roosevelt seated, ready to address the Nation by radio. View of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. FDR with his entire family posing, in front of the family home "Springwood" at Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt, when Governor of New York, seen in a sail boat, in 1929. FDR in his car at his Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia. He is speaking with a man associated with the Institute, who then greets several polio victims in wheel chairs there. Crowds celebrating Roosevelt's election, in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, in 1932. Roosevelt, at the Democratic Headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel on November 8, 1932. He is standing, supported by his son James, as he remarks: "It looks my friends like a real landslide this time." Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol. FDR taking the oath of office on March 4, 1933. Brief view of New York Stock Exchange trading floor. A man looking at stock market ticker tape. A group of people raising a National Recovery Administration member flag. Glimpse of "Springwood" and then view of President Roosevelt sitting next to his mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. Next, as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt sit in the garden, their grandchildren, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie") come past riding horses, with granddaughter Sara, behind them on a pony. FDR pets the pony and talks with Sara. FDR being nominated for a second term as President, in the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Roosevelt, riding in an inaugural motorcade as he begins an unprecedented 4th term as President in 1941. Glimpse of President and Mrs. Roosevelt in an open car. West point cadets marching in the inaugural parade. Military trucks towing artillery pieces in the parade. President Roosevelt speaking at the dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association at the Willard hotel in Washington, DC, March 15, 1941. He extols the virtues of Winston Churchill and the British people. And he promises that America will supply them with the war materiel they need in World War II (This is known as the Lend Lease Speech.)

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058021
Slo MoShun IV wins Gold Cup at Lake Washington, and John Cobb dies as boat explodes at Loch Ness, Scotland.

Water skiers ski in water. Slo MoShun IV wins Gold Cup for its owner Stanley Sayres and racking up a speed boat record mark of 185 mph on Lake Washington in Washington. Scene changes to speed boat racer John Cobb wearing a helmet as his boat "Crusader" is towed out to deeper water. A man talks on telephone. View of boat operated by John Cobb achieving 200 mile per hour speed record, but then the boat appears to explode or destruct completely at the end of the run, and John Cobb dies at Loch Ness, Scotland.

Location: Washington State United States USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035488
Monuments in Washington D.C. as tourists visit the FBI building in Washington D.C., United States.

Tourist visit the FBI building in Washington D.C., United States. United States Capitol building, Lincoln Memorial, Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. Vehicles drive past the U.S. Capitol building. Tourists visit lakes and government buildings in the city. Tourists wait to visit FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington D.C. A FBI Inspector briefs a group of tourists inside the building. 'J Edgar Hoover FBI building' written on the building. FBI agents work inside the building.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1977
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063772
Fifteen children along with the bus driver drown in a lake, Chelan, Washington.

Fifteen children and bus driver drown in a lake, Chelan, Washington. People gather around the place. Crane lifts the wrecked bus from the lake. Divers under water. A child in his home with parents. Woman on bed. A woman reads newspaper. A girl sits. ( Note: Survivors of this tragedy are shown at the end. . In order of appearance, they are: Donnie Mack, Mrs. Glenna Brown, Mari Condon, Peggy Rice, and Ethel Keck. One other survivor, Bobby Watson, is not shown.)

Location: Chelan Washington USA
Date: 1945, December 6
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028531
African American business interests in transportation. Bus line and air charter service.

A bus of the Bison bus lines, in Washington, DC, passes on the street. African American owner, John Nipson, poses in uniform. African American drivers for the company pose. Several chartered buses of the Bison Line drive on a street in Washington DC. Their destination signs read "Blossom Special." Merrill C. Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois. African American pilot and two businessman passengers climb aboard a light airplane of the Lake Air Service. The passenger airplane taxis to a runway and takes off. African American, William Barnett, owner of Lake Air service, is seen, with one of his employees.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045070
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