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An inventor tries to fly his foot propelled plane in the Baltimore, Maryland.

Inventors in Baltimore show their foot propelled plane to the cameras. One sits in the cockpit while his two companions stand on either side. Close up of rudder in action. The pilot attempts to fly the foot propelled plane, taking off from a long ramp built in front of a farm house. The plane crashes.

Date: 1936, October 12
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069255
Scenes in life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the national election of 1936

Opening scene shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt driving his personal Ford Phaeton hand-controlled car along a tree-lined drive at his family residence in Hyde Park, New York. Riding with him are his daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, and her children, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie"). Next, Roosevelt is seen in car, parked in a cornfield, near the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, while his grandchlldren, “Sistie” and “Buzzie” visit with farm hands who are clearing old plants from the field. Very good close-up of President Roosevelt sitting in the driver’s seat of his car. Scene changes to the lawn at "Springwood," the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, where President and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are sitting in wicker lawn chairs. She is knitting, and FDR is paying attention to the grandchildren, Anna and Curtis, who are riding horses, and granddaughter, Sara, on a pony. He talks with Sara. Close-up of Sara. Change of scene shows Republican Presidential Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas, and his family in their home. Voters are seen lined up along the sidewalk to cast their ballots in the election. View inside the polling place of voters entering and leaving individual voting booths. Another view shows voters in a long line snaking back and forth across a sidewalk. A Jewish Rabbi is seen registering and being directed to a voting booth at one polling place. On election night, President Roosevelt stands outside his Hyde Park home, assisted by his son Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., as he acknowledges his reelection victory. View of Times Square in New York City, crowded with people celebrating FDR’s reelection. President Roosevelt drives in an open on his return to Washington to resume his duties in the White House. He holds a large bouquet of flowers aloft and waves it to the crowds of spectators who fill the sidewalks. Later, he waves his hat. View of the Presidential motorcade lining Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Capitol in the background. The crowds spill partway into the streets, in places where police are not keeping cordoned off. A crowd of thousands of people packs the area immediately in front of the White House as President Roosevelt, assisted by his son, stands and waves from a portico. Clip is from a 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069260
Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Montage of pictures and scenes, mostly around turn of the 20th century, but some 1950s.

U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen in American Red Cross uniform speaking to an audience (unseen) during World War 2. She tells a joke about an American soldier fighting in in the Pacific, against the Japanese. Montage of unconnected scenes. Eleanor Roosevelt entering a building displaying a large American Flag; conversing with Vice President Richard Nixon;in a gathering outdoors with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru;meeting with children in a school; speaking at a Democratic National Convention. Pictures of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, as a child, circa 1891; with her father in 1892; At the home of her Grandmother, with a pony; Visiting the home of her Uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, at Sagamore Hill, Long Island. Theodore Roosevelt rowing a boat. Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1902. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (her 5th cousin) in a top hat. The two of them courting. Picture of Sara Roosevelt, Franklin's mother, with Franklin and Eleanor in 1904, the year of their engagement. The couple's formal wedding picture. President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, at their wedding in 1905. Scenes of Eleanor Roosevelt with her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, in the early years of Eleanor's marriage to Franklin Roosevelt.

Date: 1900
Duration: 5 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069292
33 Squadron fliers lower bomb under the wing of Hurricane and camouflage an intelligence truck in Tunisia, North Africa.

Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. British fliers move furniture and drink outside a building. The fliers sit outside British Headquarters. A truck filled with fliers drive up. All jump out of the truck and go inside. A British flier puts a sign on a door. The sign reads "33 Sqd OPD". The fliers lower long-range fuel tank attached under a wing of a British fighter aircraft Hawker Hurricane. They carry the fuel tank away. The fliers camouflaging a intelligence truck. A dog at the entrance. Fliers work on roof and sides of the truck. A flier camouflages a truck with branches and twigs.

Date: 1942, January 7
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069410
U.S. Army training film entitled: "Barrage Balloon, Low Altitude, Cable Armament."

Behind opening slate, is a closeup of Barrage Balloon with cables attached. Next, a formation of German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers peels off and begins diving attack against Allied target in Europe during World War 2. Closeup of bombs dropping. A formation of German Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. A German Dornier Do-215 long range bomber in flight (notable features: twin tail and tail wheel). A German Messerschmitt Bf-109 rolling over to attack a ground target. Low flying German warplanes attacking bases and supply depots. German planes strafing an Allied air base. A fire raging from bombing somewhere in England. Scene shifts to a formation of American barrage balloons creating a maze of wire cables to prevent low flying enemy aircraft from striking important ground targets.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069447
Army soldiers in training at a base in the U.S. during World War I

U.S. soldiers training in the United States during World War 1. Several soldiers run across a field, towards the camera. Two of them carry light machine guns. A bugler leads a group of soldiers towards a mess tent where they are served food,into their mess kits. They eat standing, at long tables. Army Post Brass band marches and plays. Horses and mules in a corral at Army post.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069494