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J.Edgar Hoover describes the problem of enemy agents and Nazi sympathizers in the United States in 1940.

Director of the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J.Edgar Hoover, addresses Americans in military service in 1940. He speaks about enemy agents sent to the United States to undermine the war effort. Scene shifts to a 1940 nighttime view of New York City with lights on in its buildings. Sound of Benny Goodman's orchestra in background. Glimpse of water displays at the New York World's Fair. Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball team playing a game at Ebbets Field. A large field of wheat being harvested by a mechanical reaper, in an American western state. American soldiers putting on civilian clothes for weekend passes. Views of various American cities and towns with cars driving on parkways, shoppers and pedestrians walking in business districts. Closeup of a German agent, ostensibly being apprehended while beaming information to Germany via shortwave radio. German documents are on his desk. A submarine periscope tracks across surface of water. A torpedo races through the water leaving a trail of bubbles. An American ship, ostensibly being torpedoed in the Caribbean. Letters being mailed to so-called "mail drops" in Spain and South America. An intercepted letter with military information being highlighted. A brick house, outside Los Angeles, where an unidentified man is seen, whom narrator (J.Edgar Hoover) describes as " This self-appointed Dictator, who set himself up in the business of promoting Nazism." A picture of Adolf Hitler is seen on his wall. Near Chicago, a wooden sign reads, "Camp Hindenburg., Two miles." American Nazi youth are seen parading there. A newspaper shows a picture of Nazi youth at Camp Nordland, in New Jersey where young American Nazi girls are seen parading. In Yaphank, on long Island, New York, American Nazis are seen parading. The head of the German-American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, is seen at an outdoor podium giving a speech, while surrounded and guarded by uniformed Bund members. He is enthusiastically applauded by members of the audience. Several women with babies in carriages, cross at a corner in New York City. Some receive notices being passed out by a young man, announcing a "Mass Demonstration for true Americans" (to be held at Madison Square Garden). A swastika appears on each notice. View from a high point overlooking a crowd of 22 thousand American Nazis gathered in Madison Square Garden, on Feb. 20, 1939. An honor guard parades as drummers play from the stage. A mass of men holding American flags, and one holding a banner showing a swastika and words in German. Audience members all render the Nazi salute and shout "Heil." Files in the FBI offices labeled "German Agents." The file of Walter Kappe, one of the leaders of the Chicago Free Society of Teutonia and German American Bund is shown. Narrator, Hoover, says, " he was a Lieutenant in the German Army and the Leader of German sabotage in the United States." View of a vast array of desks and files in the FBI where men and women work on fingerprints. A man projects fingerprints on a screen, as Hoover speaks of the files revealing that "innocent appearing persons, applying for work in United States war plants, had been convicted of espionage in the last world war."Two men look over an FBI chart showing the location of every key spy and mail drop in North and South America

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054485
Window cleaners clean windows of skyscrapers like the Empire State of Building and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Life of a Manhattan window cleaner working on skyscrapers in New York City, United States. The New York skyline. Views of landmark buildings and skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York City. Skyscrapers showing dirty windows. A window cleaner walks on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. He enters the Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). He enters an office in the building. He attaches a safety belt and steps out of a window. The window cleaner cleans the exterior of the window. Another window cleaner cleans a shop window and wipes the glass. Views of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States). A window cleaner places a ladder and climbs it up to reach a window. He cleans the window. A window cleaner cleans windowpanes. The window cleaner cleans exterior of the window and gets into office. He goes away after completing his work.

Date: 1945
Duration: 6 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072164
Funeral of Cardinal Patrick Joseph Hayes at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City

Funeral of Archbishop of New York Cardinal Patrick Joseph Hayes at St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in New York, United States. Priests and dignitaries enter the Cathedral. New York residents walk in line to pay their last respects to the late cardinal. Catholic nuns praying inside the cathedral. Engraved writing inside the cathedral reads 'The Archbishops of New York'. An empty crypt inside the cathedral. Cardinal Hayes’ body lies in the state before burial in a special crypt.

Date: 1938, September 7
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022386
Documentary tilted 'History of Aviation' depicts benefits to mankind brought by development of means of travel, United States.

Documentary tilted 'History of Aviation' depicts benefits to mankind brought by discovery of aviation. A group of travelers on horses and bullock carts, in hot and dusty deserts travels from California to New York. A railroad train runs on railroad between California and New York. An airplane flies in sky above skyscraper tall buildings of New York City, over Manhattan Island. Animated map shows ship sail towards Europe. A cruise ship liner underway in the ocean towards Europe. Howard Hughes airplane takes off in New York, bound for Paris, France. It is Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973) seen in aerial views over Manhattan Island New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City visible. (Filmed on July 14, 1938).

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036818
Japanese Prime Minister,Nobusuke Kishi visits United Nations in New York, United States

Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi being greeted by UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld in New York, United States. The two dignitaries talk to each other. Little flags of UN member states are displayed behind Hammarskjöld. The Empire State Building and other New York City buildings are seen. Flags of various countries including that of Japan are seen flying in the breeze on flag poles in front of the UN building. Dignitaries arrive in a Cadillac limousine and exit the car. Prime Minister Kishi enters the United Nations Secretariat Building (760 United Nations Plaza, Manhattan, New York City, (10017-6818) United States) where he looks at a miniature irimoya roof structure.

Date: 1957
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038000
Views of Statue of Liberty and New York harbor, United States. Festivities in New York harbor. Exercises in Ebbets Field.

Views of the Statue of Liberty and New York harbor. An aircraft carrier moving slowly in New York harbor, past lower Manhattan. The Statue of Liberty, with many visitors walking across Liberty Island, is at base of the statue. An ocean liner billowing smoke in the distance. Passengers on deck of an excursion boat headed toward the Statue of Liberty. They are wearing warm coats. Two girls are eating ice cream cones. Views from the pilot house of the boat. Another view of passengers on the boat, with Statue of Liberty in background. Woman holds her hat against the wind. Views from stern of rapidly moving boat in the harbor. Navy boats and U.S. H-5 helicopters maneuver all around Liberty Island. New York City fire boats shooting torrents of water into the air in salute. Unrelated -- Near end of clip there is a brief view of men in white athletic clothes, possibly sailors or soldiers, performing bayonet drill exercise activities using rifles with fixed bayonets, at Ebbets Field (55 Sullivan Place; Brooklyn, New York) in Brooklyn, New York (home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team). Spectators are in the stadium. Advertisements posted on the baseball field fences, including one for Abe Stark's clothing store.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030575