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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.
Farm machinery is used and postwar (WWI) decline of the wheat market results in overproduction in the Great Plains in the U.S.
A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near a plow. The homesteaders look towards the sky in hope of rain. An explosion on the land. News headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar (WWI) decline of the wheat market results in overproduction and spurs dust bowl conditions: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground. Overproduction of wheat shown. Farmers celebrate the production of wheat. Tractors driven in the Great Plains.
African American recruits in U.S. Army are issued uniforms and begin basic training in World War II
African American recruit sits in a chair with feet on a measuring device. A sergeant gives him a pair of shoes. But before he wears them the Sergeant tells him to stand, in the measuring device, holding two 20 pound weights. He then tells him to put on the shoes and go into the next room, where other African American recruits are lined up. They are instructed to remove all civilian clothes and begin dressing in army clothing. Next, completely dressed in their army uniforms, the recruits carrying duffel bags as they leave the snow-covered camp to board a train. Views of steam locomotives pulling trains in various places in the country. A convoy of army trucks carrying the new soldiers into a military base. The trucks park side-by-side in a line and the soldiers jump out with their gear to begin their basic training. A sergeant instructing the new soldiers on how to make a bed and other responsibilities. The new African American soldiers assembled in formation outside their barracks, on the snow, practicing close order drill, and making mistakes in the process. Next they are seen in a cross country march, carrying rifles. they take a 10-minute break. Soldiers in an infirmary, being visited by army doctors and African American nurses. Newly recruited soldiers being tended in an army dental clinic by African American dentists and hygienists. Soldiers shooting rifles on a firing range. Targets moving up and down on the range. Soldiers participating in sports, including football, baseball, boxing, and ping pong. A woman in the base library reading poetry aloud from a book entitled: "An Anthology of American African American Literature." African American members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) are seen at another base, engaged in close order drill. Next these WACs are seen driving and riding in jeeps over rough terrain. A soldier shines his shoes, on Saturday night. African American soldiers and women dancing to music from an orchestra. The soldiers performing calisthenics in the open air. Rifles are held in some of the exercises. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Manhattan, NY, viewed from U.S. Navy C-class Airship
U.S. Navy C-class AIrship takes off from snow-covered ramp in front of hangar at Fort Tilden, Rockaway,Queens, New york City. A cinematographer is aboard the gondola and takes most of the pictures shown, from above New York City. Aerial view of New York City skyline, office buildings, and rooftops of residential areas. Many ships in New York harbor, some sailboats. Occasional views of a C-class sister Airship. Statue of Liberty as seen from the airship circling it in flight.
Marilyn Rich performs stunt on rings attached to helicopter, to promote Clothes For Korea campaign
American acrobat Marilyn Rich performs stunts while hanging from a helicopter to promote the ‘Clothes For Korea’ campaign during the Korean War. Marilyn Rich hands bundle of donated clothes to helicopter pilot. The Hess’s Department Store-sponsored helicopter takes off from Palisades Park, New Jersey, with Marilyn Rich riding under the helicopter, holding onto rings attached to ropes beneath it. The helicopter in flight over the New York skyline. Another helicopter equipped with pontoon flies nearby. The female stunt artist shows stunts on the rings, passing by various New York City skyscrapers of the New York City skyline. The helicopter and Marilyn Rich passes near the Statue of Liberty.
Giovanna Ferrara (Winner of Italian game show “Lascia o raddoppia?”) is interviewed for an Italian TV show on WATV 13
Italian celebrity Giovanna Ferrara is interviewed for an Italian TV show on WATV 13 in Newark, New Jersey. A television show for the Italian American community in New York is aired on WATV 13 (now known as WNET – THIRTEEN). A cameraman moves his camera. Camera is labeled with “WATV 13”. A production sound mixer prepares before taping. A boom microphone rotates. Front view of a studio color camera. A male host interviews Giovanna Ferrara, a celebrity and winner of a popular game show in Italy (“Lascia o raddoppia?”, the Italian version of “The $64,000 Question”), in Italian. The Italian host speaks to Giovanna Ferrara talk during the show. Both the host and Ferrara are seated behind a table with a sign that reads “WATV NEWS”. The Italian host asks Signora Ferrara, who won 5 million lire (approximately $ 8,000 in 1957), her motives in joining the game show. Giovanna Ferrara expressed feelings of gratitude and generosity after winning “Lascia o raddoppia?”. The host thanked Giovanna Ferrara for her time and congratulated her in her new career. The host shakes hands with the Italian celebrity after the end of her interview.
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