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Nevada United States 1936 stock footage and images

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Hoover Dam structure including four intake towers, spillways and giant power plant, Nevada.

The construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed as the Hoover Dam. Structure of dam erected into canyon. Equipment in tunnels. Giant cranes in operation. Concrete arch-dam in the Black Canyon. Traffic moves on highway over dam. Boat in Colorado River. People sail in boats. Colorado River view. Four intake towers at Hoover Dam. Spillways at Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam power plant to general power. Man points to the map of United States. Electric power setup for the Hoover Dam shows various electric towers, power house and electric lines across desert. Hoover Dam controls water.

Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052285
Boulder Dam opened: Water is released from Boulder Dam in Boulder City, Nevada and production of electricity from dam begins.

Boulder Dam in Boulder City, Nevada. Boulder Dam and the interiors of the power plant and generators. Gauges inside the plant. Water gushes at a high speed from the dam. Production of electricity starts. Aerial view of water gushing out from the dam. A TWA airplane flies over Boulder Dam.

Date: 1936, September 12
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059255
Photograph transferred through ordinary telephone wires in early turntable wire photo system, 1936.

Wire photo system to send a photo through ordinary telephone wire. Interiors of office show a man working on a turntable-based device. Man speaks into telephone mouthpiece. Photograph revolves on one turntable, the transmission is sent via telephone wires, and a copy of the photograph is developed on another, remote turntable. From a newsreel in 1961 recounting events roughly 25 years earlier.

Date: 1936
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052224
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
Ice Hockey: New York Americans win game 2 of the 1936 Stanley Cup semi-finals against Toronto Maple Leafs

New York Americans and the Toronto Maple Leafs play ice hockey in New York City. The Americans win this game 1-0 to tie the Stanley Cup semi-final series at 1-1. Toronto went on to win this best-of-3 series, two games to one.

Date: 1936, March 31
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043767
Crowds gather to celebrate New Year's eve, 1936, in Times Square, New York City. Vehicles move slowly in single lane.

Large crowd gathers on New Year's Eve, to celebrate in Times Square, New York City. Neon signs on buildings. Vehicle movement is very slow and limited to a single line. Neon signs advertise many products such as "Planters Peanuts" and "Coca-Cola. A large image of James Cagney appears on top ot the Criterion movie theater marquee. An F.W. Woolworth store is seen adjacent to the theater.

Date: 1936, December 31
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045112