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Views of devastation in Kamaishi, Japan following 1933 Sanriku Earthquake which caused great loss of life and property

Damage due to earthquake, tsunami, and fire in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan caused by the 1933 Sanriku Earthquake. People gather in the devastated area. Smoke rises from wrecked and burned homes and boats. Rescuers digging through rubble for survivors. Children looking and picking through rubble on the ground. Damaged houses and buildings. Smoke rising in the area. One large boat washed up against a building. Two smaller boats seen washed ashore.

Date: 1933, March 2
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076532
Flight achievements of 1933 - Wiley Post completing solo journey around the world and Roscoe Turner speed record coast-to-coast

American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York after completing his solo flight around the world in a just under 8 days. People gather in a large number to welcome him. They gather around his aircraft. Scene shifts to streets of New York City where Wiley Post is honored with a ticker tape parade for his Around The World achievement. The aviator seated aboard a jeep passing by. People celebrate and greet him. He is bestowed with the Medal of Valor by New York City Mayor John P. O'Brien. Next segment shows plane of American aviator Roscoe Turner landing, after his record-setting flight from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours and 5 minutes flying his Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft. This won him the 1933 Bendix Trophy. Close view of Roscoe Turner smiling from the cockpit of his aircraft. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933, July 22
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077066
Mexican people in the Central Bank of Mexico in Mexico City during currency mix-up due to Mexican laws on silver

Mexican civilians in a crowded street in front of the Central Bank of Mexico (2, 5 de Mayo Ave. Alc. Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City) called 'Banco de Mexico'. People on bank counters in the Central Bank of Mexico. Silver coins heaped on counters. Bags loaded in Bank vehicles.

Date: 1934
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040418
Elisabeth Morrow, U.S. Ambassador's daughter, teaches English to Mexican children in Mexico City, Mexico.

Elisabeth Morrow teaching English to children in Mexico City, Mexico. The classroom at a school in Mexico City, Mexico. Children in the classroom. U.S. Ambassador's daughter Elizabeth Morrow, the teacher, stands in front of a black board in the classroom. Elisabeth Morrow, holding a book in her hand, teaches English to the Mexican students . Exterior view of the school building. Elizabeth Morrow comes out of the building with the children coming in a line.

Date: 1929, November 13
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054940
Study room of Soviet leader in exile, Leon Trotsky where Ramón Mercader attempted to kill him in Mexico City, Mexico.

Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, Mexico. Fire brigades spray water jets on a building afire in San Francisco, California. Disturbed and broken items in the study room of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, Mexico where death attempt was made on him. The killer Ramón Mercader lay injured in a hospital. Bandages tied all over the body of the killer. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056649
Creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Text of 1933 Act creating TVA and scenes of the project.

Film regarding creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Picture of United States Capitol building. Text of 1933 Congressional Act creating the TVA, appears progressively as background while scenes of the project are shown. Aerial view of power plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. A little girl stands alone, looking over a TVA dam. A utility worker stands on a large electric insulator. View from a barge as it passes under a bridge on the Tennessee River. Bridge under construction over Tennessee River. Aerial view of flooded area. Animated map shows Tennessee River Basin.

Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023069