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Opening ceremony of San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge in 1936, San Francisco, California.

View of The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, CA, United States) over San Francisco Bay at the Pacific Ocean. Ceremonies where the bridge was opened to general traffic after completion of construction in 1936. California Governor, Frank Finley Merriam, uses a blowtorch to cut a chain, officially opening the bridge to vehicle traffic. Cars are seen massed, ready to commence the crossing. Cars pass through lane dividers and drive on the bridge. View of the towers and suspension cables from a car passing underneath. Buildings seen from the bridge. Traffic on the bridge. (From a 1961 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.)

Date: 1936, November 12
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052223
Hartford, Connecticut flood of 1936

Aerial view of The Church of the Good Shepherd and its parish house (155 Wyllys St, Hartford, CT 06106, United States) during the 1936 Hartford flood. Aerial view of The Bulkeley Bridge nearly covered by the Connecticut River. Aerial view of men standing on top of gas storage tanks as they fill them with water to keep them from floating away. Women and children eating at a shelter and picking out clothes. A baby in a bed.

Date: 1936, March 11
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079787
Amoskeag Falls during 1936 Manchester New Hampshire flood.

Amoskeag Falls Bridge over the Merrimack River with raging waters during the Great Flood of 1936 (New England) in Manchester New Hampshire. Remnants of a house is seen going over the falls and floating under the Amoskeag Falls Bridge. Workers stacking sandbags at the Amoskeag Falls Dam power house in an effort to save it. View of Amoskeag Falls Dam powerhouse surrounded by flood water. Two Martin B-10 bombers in flight over an overflowing river. View from a Martin B-10 rear cockpit as United States airmen push food supplies out of bomb bay. Package dropping from a B-10 over Pennsylvania.

Date: 1936
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079788
America's 1936 Olympic Team is honored at ceremony in Randall's Island Stadium after conclusion of the Olympic games.

New York City ceremony honoring American Olympic Team on their return to the United States. Olympians march into Randall's Island Stadium in New York City as a band plays, following a celebration parade from The Battery to Randall's Island. Audience claps and cheers them. The members of the team take seats on a stage of the stadium. Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City extends welcome and La Guardia congratulates the Olympic Team. and expresses the sincere gratitude of the seven million people of New York City. He states that the City has cast special medals to be presented to the members of the Team, on this occasion. He begins calling the names of athletes, who come forward as they are called. The medals are arranged on a large table by the microphones. The mayor suddenly calls on Champion runner, Helen Stephens, to speak. She comes to the mike and says Hello and Goodbye, and returns to her seat. Former Heavyweight Champion, Jack Dempsey, assists with the presentations.

Date: 1936, September 3
Duration: 5 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049736
United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Tyrone Power delivering a message in the United States.

A message from United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Tyrone Power (prewar Hollywood movie star actor) in the United States. Tyrone Power delivering a message. (Clip includes opening musical intro but no sound thereafter). U.S. Marines marching in a formation. A large crowd watching sailors in the background. A number of women corps in uniforms march in formation. Several buildings in the background. USMC honor guard marching. The sailors standing in a formation at a side. The Marines firing deck guns. A woman officer speaking into a microphone. U.S. National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (Bethesda Naval Hospital). A wounded Marine being attended by a nurse. Nurses attending to the wounded lying on beds in a hospital ward. Two Marines beside deck guns. Explosions occurring at sea. Several Marines at a beachhead. The Marines attending to the wounded on the beach. View of Lt. Tyrone Power delivering the speech. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, November 6
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066485
Workers fill out applications for social security accounts under the Social Security Act,1935 in the United States.

Applications for social security accounts under the Social Security Act,1935 in the United States. Display of a calendar. After the enactment of the Social Security Act, 1935 on 24 November, 1936, workers sign applications to apply for Old Age Retirement Benefits for the first time. A United States Post Office building. A man fills out an application for a social security card, at the post office. Five ways to return filled applications include handing them to a shop foreman, secretary of labor union, letter carrier or depositing them directly at a post office or dropping in local mail box. After returning the application the workers receive Social Security Account Numbers from the Social Security Board. They receive monthly income for life when they retire at the age of 65 years.

Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056254