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Varying sentiments about war and labor in lead up to World War 2. Roosevelt delivers his war message in the United States.
Disturbances and conflicting views about war versus isolationist approach in the United States prior to World War II. Officials speak about lend lease and officials with anti-war involvement stance advocate protectionism. Speakers include Senator Gerald P. Nye. and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Wendell Willkie speak advocating a unified approach. Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma speaks. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress and delivers his war message. Pacifist student protestors on street in front of the White House with anti-war banners that read 'Peace Mobilization'. Counter demonstrators also picket, including a man with a sign, "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." Vehicles drive past in front of the White House. A group of women anti-war protestors are seen seated at an event, and together they pull down black veils in front of their faces. German Bund officials (German-American Bund) are seen meeting at an outdoor rally, and then again at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1939. A band plays and the leader Fritz Julius Kuhn gives a brief speech during which a protestor leaps the stage and is beaten down by Bund members. Workers on streets protesting for various labor rights. They march and picket on a street. Demonstrators for other causes in American society in the early 1940s, including a woman demonstrator who carries a sign advocating civil rights or equal rights that says "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?" Clip ends with scenes of violence at various labor strikes, including scabs (strike-breakers) being attacked, beaten, and hit by strikers, and authorities directing water hoses on strikers to repel them away from a building gate.
Italian influence on American life. Italian Festival San Gennaro at Mulberry Street, in New York City.
Italian influence on American life, reflected in gastronomy and history. A man selling flags and parade goods for the Feast of San Gennaro (Festa di San Gennaro) in Mulberry Street, New York City. An Italian American woman cooks Italian sausage and meats. Man holding a green parrot. Italian American woman inspects her boyfriend’s necklace. Poster reads “Feast of San Gennaro”. A man pins money on a string of cash attached to the carriage of San Gennaro. A metal effigy of San Gennaro. Italian American brass band. Italian chefs prepare and cook pizza at a restaurant kitchen. Exterior view of Marconi Restaurant signage in Little Italy. Views of Ferris Wheel; . decorative lights; a brass band. A chef rolls and toss a pizza dough by hand. Waiter takes a bottle of Chianti from the restaurant bar. Chef sprinkles cheese on a Pizza Margherita. Customers eating pizza in restaurant. A woman eats pizza while a man pours a glass of Chianti. Man and woman put napkin on dog and feed him pizza. A Casino. View of “Larry’s Bar” sign. View of George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. Heroic sculpture of Italian explorer and navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485-1528) by Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926) in Battery Park, New York City. Home of Giuseppe Garibaldi, on Staten Island, New York. Visitors enter the home, which displays sign reading: (in Italian)" He lived in exile, 1851 to 1853. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Hero of two worlds." View of statue at Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain, Columbus Circle. in front of the Union Station, Washington, DC. Italian Carabinieri march in Columbus Day parade on 5th Avenue, in New York City. Italian and American flags displayed on building. St. Patrick's Cathedral is seen. Italian journalists at work in Washington, DC and New York City. An Italian journalist speaks about his experience as a journalist in New York City.
Aerial feats and fireworks herald 1939 World's Fair
Aerial feats and fireworks herald 1939 World's Fair. Daring aerial stunts by the Slide-for-life D'Arcy girls. Huge crowd watches the stunts. Gigantic display of fireworks announces the 1939 World's Fair. The fireworks thrill a huge crowd of spectators.
Life in Britain on eve of War. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini signing the Munich Agreement during World War II.
An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance shows British soldiers in Great Britain during World War 2. 1938: in the United States New York Yankees win the pennant in baseball; scene of Yankees team members shaking hands. View of aviator Douglas Corrigan nicknamed Wrong Way Corrigan after his accidental flight from New York to Ireland instead of California as planned. View of trains on the 6th Avenue Elevated (or Sixth Avenue El) before that service was halted in Manhattan New York City. British citizens go about their daily life. Derby horse race in a stadium. A British boy and his father shovel dirt for a backyard garden. Players play a football (soccer) game at Wembley Stadium in England as spectators cheer the 1938 FA Cup Final with Preston North End taking the Cup versus Huddersfield Town as George Mutch scores the winning goal. Scenes in Germany: People cheer for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Newspaper headlines about Czech occupation. Graves in a cemetery. British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini sign the Munich Agreement. Despite a peace agreement Hitler invades Czechoslovakia. People read 'Military Training Act, 1939'. British soldiers march along a road. View of Adolf Hitler smiling and laughing. Artillery is fired. A poster reads 'Britain Declares War on Germany'. Airplanes in flight and drop leaflets over Germany. German airplanes in flight. Parachutists jump from the airplanes. Hitler talks to officers and considers the war to be over. Radio news broadcast of the British declaration of war on Germany by Neville Chamberlain. Many different British citizens and families shown in living rooms and work places gathered around radios to hear the so called "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of Winston Churchill on June 4, 1940. Clip includes scenes from 1938 through 1940; from a film produced in 1943.
African American children receive lunch and boys ride scooters at day camp in Harlem, New York City.
Milk and sandwiches distributed to African American children at Harlem Day Camp in Harlem, New York City. The children stand in a line and receive food and drink. Sign on building reads, "Childrens Aid Society of the City of New York." A group of African American boys ride scooters on the street. View of exterior of the Harlem Boys Club building.
Immense rush of pedestrians and vehicles causes traffic jams on roads of New York City, in the United States.
Immense rush of pedestrians, cars and vehicles causes traffic congestions and jams on roads of Manhattan, New York City. Groups of men talk to each other in groups on the sidewalks. Two young women in dresses walk by as group of men look on and admire them. Man in suit drops newspaper in trash can; next man walking behind him takes the newspaper back out and walks on. Rush of 1930's cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles on city streets. A man attempts to cross the street on foot but cannot find a break in the traffic. A man escorts a young child across busy street. Two women run across street toward a Chop Suey restaurant. Pedestrians pause in middle of road and prepare to finish crossing busy street. All vehicles stopped in a traffic jam on city streets. Close view of a taxi cab meter continuing to run during traffic jam. Another taxi meter view (made by Pittsburgh taximeter company). Impatient man in a taxi stands up and looks through open sun roof at jam of cars. Fare continues to escalate in taxi cab. Man exits cab in middle of jammed street and pays driver. Huge masses of pedestrians moving on sidelwalks and crossing streets, and exiting tall office skyscraper buildings. A giant crowd of men in hats beneath an elevated subway track and heading toward subway entrance. Police officer directs traffic on streets. Automated signal light with moving sign arms is seen. Various police officers directing cars and pedestrians. Many street sign messages shown close up. Man smokes cigar as traffic passes by. Another smokes a cigarette. Mass of traffic and pedestrians.
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