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Amelia Earhart takes off on her flight around the world. Preparations prior to the flight.

Amelia Earhart takes off from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland, California in her Lockheed Electra aircraft, to begin her round-the-world flight. The runway and ramp contain small puddles of water from a recent rain shower. Aerial views from another airplane of the Lockheed Electra as it flies over the Oakland area of California. View of Oakland Bay Bridge.(These were probably shot on March 13th during their checkout flight.) In separate scenes, prior to departure, on the ground, Amelia talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.

Location: Oakland California United States USA
Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063654
Auto workers union sit-down strike at the General Motors Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan, 1937

Union workers gathered in Flint Michigan, 1937, with a sign reading: "We've just begun to fight!" View of an Army truck, with a uniformed National Guardsman atop, manning a Browning M1917 machine gun mounted on a tripod. It drives past the Fisher Body factory, where striking workers, who have occupied the plant are seen looking out the windows. View from factory of National Guardsmen setting up machine guns outside. View from behind two Guardsmen, in battle gear, directing a machine gun from a high point along the factory roadway. Closeup of a machine gun crew setting up. Camera view looking directly into muzzle of the machine gun. Women and children watching the troops. Crowd of supporters waving at the strikers. Several women pass a basket of food to the strikers through a window. Strikers receiving cigarettes and one talking with his wife through a window. A striker lowers his child back down to his wife, after a visit with Daddy. Union workers marching along street, carry a banner of the new local 236 of the UAW (CIO) established on March 3, 1937, for workers at the L. A. Young Spring and Wire Corporation. Former sit-in strikers at the Fisher Body plant are seen outside,with family and friends, celebrating a contract after the 44-day ordeal. A crowd with banner reading: "GM Today, Ford Tomorrow." Several views of union workers from different industries, marching. In one, workers carry a coffin labeled "The Open Shop." Workers walking and waving in front of Chrysler's Desoto plant on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. More views of C.I.O. union workers in gatherings.

Location: Michigan United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036815
1937 Ohio Valley flood scenes, with major loss of property and life in the United States.

Damage caused by 1937 flood in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. A heavy loss of property due to a flood. Supplies being unloaded from trucks for the people. People being rescued from the areas affected by flood. Men aboard boats moving through buildings on the edge of the Ohio River that are submerged in water. Men moving a wooden casket. Destroyed houses and buildings in the areas. Flooded streets. A weather vane blowing briskly in wind. Narrator details how the weather bureau forecasts the weather and offers the information to help prevent losses from such disasters. Automatic typing machine records weather instrument readings. View of newspapers being printed at a printing press. A radio tower. People gather near injured flood victims. People lined up on the street to get supplies. Scenes of floodwaters below Memphis where flooding was effectively contained. Water rushing under the then new Bonnet Carre spillway of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Man opens a book published in Lisbon in 1605, now in the Library of Congress, written by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, reporting on the exploration team of De Soto on leaf 300 of the book. De Soto's group, in 1543, reported on the flood they saw below current day Memphis, extending over 20 leagues of land, covering the tops of trees, but not overrunning the homes of the Native Americans who build shelter atop high poles. A view of submerged homes in the 1937 flood are shown as the narrator laments that more modern people did worse than the Native American Indians.

Location: Ohio River Valley United States USA
Date: 1937, January
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062901
Divers compete at series of events during National Aquatic Meet in Los Angeles, California.

Divers participate in National Aquatic Meet in Los Angeles, California. Divers compete in various events at the Olympic Swimming Stadium. They exhibit various styles of diving. A diver dives to entertain the spectators. The divers dive from a dive board into the pool. Outstanding contestants include Marjorie Gestring, Katherine Rawls, Johnny Riley, and Norman Sper, Jr.

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1937, June 7
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033983
600 strikers at Douglas Air Craft Company surrender in Santa Monica,California

Nearly 600 strikers during labor dispute at Douglas AirCraft Company surrender to police in Santa Monica, California. Several emerge from company building and get in Black Maria paddy wagon and are taken to Los Angeles jail.

Location: Santa Monica California USA
Date: 1937, March 2
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038364
An Arrowbile (Aerobile) plane, a flying car, runs on road and flies in sky in Santa Monica, California

Newsreel titled 'Auto plane for road and skyway is demonstrated' shows an Arrowbile flying car (sometimes spelled aerobile) running on the road in Santa Monica,California. The tail-less machine invented by Waldo Waterman (Waterman's Aerobile) being attached with wings and then it takes off as an aircraft.

Location: Santa Monica California USA
Date: 1937, March 2
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038371
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