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U.S. President Roosevelt campaigns during the Presidential elections and officiates ground-breaking for Brooklyn-Battery tunnel
United States President Franklin Roosevelt campaigns in New York City during 1940 presidential election. A large crowd gathered to greet him in Newark, New Jersey. He arrives in the Presidential motorcade. Views of the motorcade driving past the crowd, as seen from a moving vehicle. Roosevelt seated in car beside New York Governor Herbert Lehman, and New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Roosevelt addresses the people as the Presidential election campaign enters its final phase. Policemen control the large crowd. People seated to hear his speech. He addresses the gathering. The President officiates at the ground breaking for the $57,000,000 Brooklyn-Battery tunnel to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Busy street scenes in Manhattan, New York City; also views inside a power plant and operating an electric draw bridge.
An electric power generating plant in the United States. Various views of 1940s New York City: The city at dawn, with Manhattan skyscraper buildings and the sun rising in the background. River traffic moving under the Brooklyn Bridge and buildings in the background. Manhattan streets with no traffic because it is dawn. Lion in front of the New York Public Library on 5th avenue, in silhouette. East River with Manhattan skyline behind. Shows people in houses busy with their morning routine. A milkman delivering by horse and wagon, to homes. Morning newspaper on door step. Man using electric shaver. Children leaving for school. A commuter train arrives at a railroad station. Trams, trolleys, buses, traffic and pedestrians along a street of New York City. Elevated view of Times Square filled with morning traffic of cars, trucks, buses and pedestrians. Turbine deck of an electric power plant. Men in a control room. A ship in a river. A man operates a bascule bridge (draw bridge), allowing ship to pass without delay. Operators, at controls of electric power plant, increase output to meet extra demands. Numerous dials, needles and gauges. View of turbine generator in power plant.
Spectators watch eagerly as horse Bimelech and jockey Fred A Smith win the 1940 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park
940 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park, New York (2150 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont, NY 11003, United States). Huge crowds watch the Belmont Stakes horse race. Two horses trotting before the race. A man uses binoculars and another man pointing during the race. Horses come out of the starting gates to run on a turf track. Spectators eagerly watch the race. A man chews gum while fashionable women behind him watch the horse race. A horse named Bimelech and ridden by jockey Fred A Smith wins the 1940 Belmont Stakes.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses large crowd during 1940 Presidential campaign
Thousands of people gathered in streets of a town to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak during the 1940 Presidential campaign in the United States. Numerous signs carried in the crowd display CIO and AFL letters representing unions.One reads: "Labor wants Roosevelt." One refers to New York truck drivers who support Roosevelt. The President addresses the crowd from a balcony overlooking the street corner. He is surrounded by photograpers and newsmen, and others.
16 million men register themselves in United States for the WWII draft, and President Roosevelt addresses from White House.
As World War II heats up, 16,500,000 men between ages 21 to 36 register themselves throughout the United States, signing up during the first peacetime conscription in U.S. history. (This was triggered by passage of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, the genesis of "Selective Service.") Opening scene shows men lining up to register for the draft before the United States entered World War 2. Views of men filing out their registration forms. At TC:00:22 famous prize fighter, Barney Ross, is being registered. .(He jokes that the registrar shaking his hand has too strong a grip.) At TC: 00:34 Hollywood cowboy Gene Autry is seen registering. Close up view of street signs at Chinatown intersection of Bayard Street and Mott Street in New York City. Sign below it notes "School Street. Drive Slowly. Make no unnecessary noise." Line of many registrants of Chinese-American descent waiting in line, and processing paperwork. Scene changes to another area of the city, where a line of mostly African American men wait outside a registration building. Some cheer and wave for the camera. A police officer at the entrance hustles them inside, pulling some of them along. View of the exterior of the White House in Washington DC. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the nation's men of draft age, telling them that the call up of 800,000 men for training in year one, and less than one million men in each subsequent year, is a program of defensive preparation only. Roosevelt says to the registrants that "Democracy is your cause. The cause of youth." ( Note: silent except for President Roosevelt speaking at the end.)
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.
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