"Springwood," the family home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Hyde Park, New York. Views of the mansion during FDR's presidency. An elegant car drives up to the front door. A driver gets out and lets out a man who ascends the steps the house. The car drives away. Views of the house from several angles, with an American flag flying out front.
Shows plastic plane being christened at Bendix Airport, New Jersey. Civilians inspecting the plastic plane. Industrialist Ollie Clark riding in plastic and plywood zodiac aircraft.
A film shows how voice travels over phones, and dramatizes the transmission of a telephone call from San Francisco to Plymouth, England. Functions of telephone system components, including generators, towers, transformers, technicians at circuits, wire lines and the aerial systems at Rocky Point in New York, Cupar in Scotland and Houlton in Maine. Shows switchboard activity at the London Trunk Exchange. Workers, mostly women telephone switchboard workers, answering and routing calls in telephone exchange.
Ohio Senator Warren Harding walks along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City New Jersey. Footage is dated 1920, likely during the run up to the 1920 presidential election in which Harding was elected President. He is interrupted by a young girl while taking a walk on the boardwalk. Then many children surround Mr. Harding to shake his hand and greet him.
People watch Jimmy McLarnin skip rope, dance, and practice footwork in Atlantic City as he trains for his May 28, 1934, boxing match with Barney Ross. Ocean in the background on shore of Atlantic City. Closeup of Mclarnin in boxing gear practicing punches. Next scene shows his challenger, Barney Ross, practicing in the ring with a punching bag as people look on, at Grossinger's Resort in upstate New York. Clip ends with view of Barney Ross in a suit smiling for camera.
A church in residential center of Manhattan, New York City. View of a quiet, tree-lined street with brownstone houses. A family with a man and woman and their child leaving their townhouse. The mother and father waving farewell. Mother and son leave in one direction, father in other. Mother and son stop at another wealthy house to pick up little girl to go to church kindergarten /nursery. Children playing on roof playground. Two young women supervise the young children. Children plant flowers in pots. Boys scooping soil from box. Children playing on tricycles, swings, and playground gym. Older children use hammer and saws. Children on slide and see-saw and climbing frame. A woman reads a story to children. Children take morning naps on mattresses.
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