Streetcar transports passengers in San Francisco, California. People walk on busy streets. Some cross the road. People in streetcars, buses and cars moving on busy streets. People walk past by the shops and stores at the roadside. Several views of the Transamerica Pyramid building (600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111) as streetcar makes a stop on the street.
'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.
Graduation Day for a class of recruits at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Chicago, Illinois. Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center is on a reviewing stand with his Lieutenant Commander, assistant. A French military officer and two French officials, are also present. Spectators are crowded around the reviewing stand. The new sailors are seen, from atop the administration building, lined up in formation behind the Center's flag pole from which a large American flag flies. Others are marching in review past the stand, which is now filled with high-ranking naval officers. The spectators around the reviewing stand can also be seen better. In next sequence, a huge Navy brass band marches toward the reviewing stand en masse and then executes to the rear march by columns, all while playing their instruments. They remain in place and play during the rest of the activities. More massed sailors march, followed by several contingents pulling French 75 artillery pieces. Spectators can be seen all around the parade grounds. Beginning as a huge single formation covering more than half the parade ground, sailors start marching in maneuvers that create patterns. Then a square formation of sailors marches along the field, enclosing a moving color guard, like a fortress. Closeup of new sailors marching with shouldered arms. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Unemployed men in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Disturbance at railroad and dockyard being brought under control by policemen on horseback. Train and ships in background. A sign reads 'No men wanted'. Men sleep on park benches. A man holds a sign reading 'Unemployed'. Men sleep in doorways Sidewalk soup kitchen. View of shacks and an order by the Department of Health declaring them unfit for human habitation and ordering them vacated at once. Order is signed by Charles V. Craster, M,D, D.P.H., Health Officer.
Aaron Douglas is shown working on a painting. Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 - February 3, 1979) was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
33rd U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses a huge gathering at a ground breaking of the Reynolda Campus of Wake Forest College in North Carolina. President is shown arriving in a U.S. Air force C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft. Terminal of the airport can be seen. People have gathered to welcome the president. Clip shows several views of his speech at the ground-breaking ceremony and views of his arrival and departure from the airport. On arrival he is seen shaking hands with North Carolina governor W. Kerr Scott. He also greets College President Harold W. Tribble. During the Wake Forest University ground-breaking ceremony other dignitaries seen include Charles Babcock, Judge Hubert Olive, Odis Mull. Students and citizens seen in audience listening to President, including some students waving confederate flags.
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