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Communist Party USA in its ninth National Convention. State Placards. Flags with Hammer and Sickle

Ninth National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in New York City, 1936. State delegates are seated in areas marked by State Name Placards. Huge banner shows likeness of Party leader Earl Browder and words: "Against Hunger Fascism War" Some delegates carry a large floral hammer and sickle display and other flowers through the hall. Massed flags display the hammer and sickle. Bright lights sweep over the hall illuminating sections of delegates as they wave their respective State placards.

Date: 1936, June 24
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028566
Newsreel restrospective produced following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (WW2)

Opening scene shows the White House in Washington, DC. Scene shifts to President Roosevelt seated, ready to address the Nation by radio. View of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. FDR with his entire family posing, in front of the family home "Springwood" at Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt, when Governor of New York, seen in a sail boat, in 1929. FDR in his car at his Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia. He is speaking with a man associated with the Institute, who then greets several polio victims in wheel chairs there. Crowds celebrating Roosevelt's election, in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, in 1932. Roosevelt, at the Democratic Headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel on November 8, 1932. He is standing, supported by his son James, as he remarks: "It looks my friends like a real landslide this time." Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol. FDR taking the oath of office on March 4, 1933. Brief view of New York Stock Exchange trading floor. A man looking at stock market ticker tape. A group of people raising a National Recovery Administration member flag. Glimpse of "Springwood" and then view of President Roosevelt sitting next to his mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. Next, as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt sit in the garden, their grandchildren, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie") come past riding horses, with granddaughter Sara, behind them on a pony. FDR pets the pony and talks with Sara. FDR being nominated for a second term as President, in the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Roosevelt, riding in an inaugural motorcade as he begins an unprecedented 4th term as President in 1941. Glimpse of President and Mrs. Roosevelt in an open car. West point cadets marching in the inaugural parade. Military trucks towing artillery pieces in the parade. President Roosevelt speaking at the dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association at the Willard hotel in Washington, DC, March 15, 1941. He extols the virtues of Winston Churchill and the British people. And he promises that America will supply them with the war materiel they need in World War II (This is known as the Lend Lease Speech.)

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058021
All stores and places of business in the city are closed during a strike of workers of a distilling plant in Pekin, Illinois.

All stores and places of business in the city are closed as labor takes holiday from a distilling plant and general walkout ensues in Pekin, Illinois. A group of workers poses during the strike. The distilling plant in the background. A man in his office. A sign outside all stores reads as 'Closed at 3'O clock'. Dinner Bell restaurant, a barber shop and several other stores are closed. People come out of the stores. Men carry luggage. Men standing beside buses. View of a street.

Date: 1936, February 10
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070939
Max Schmeling after winning 1936 boxing match with Joe Louis in New York.

Max Schmeling, with a swollen eye, smiles at a press conference after defeating Joe Louis in a 1936 boxing match. Boxer Max Schmeling speaks on microphone and talks with a man on his side. He jokingly delivers a light punch to the man's face. From a May 1961 newsreel recounting events 25 years before.

Date: 1936, May
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034145
Children watch as a 1936 Lionel toy train moves on an O gauge model train display in New York.

Several Lionel toy trains on display in New York. Various Lionel locomotives assembled on tracks. Close up of transformer used on 3 rail model train layout. Children watch as a Lionel toy train moves on the track and crosses through a crossing gate.. The train crossing gates close and open as the train passes by. Closeup of a child viewing at track level.

Date: 1936, December 7
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073145
Vendors of New York City, lower east side street markets, businesses and New York Stock Exchange stock market activity

German propaganda film released during World War 2 shows scenes in New York City during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Shows a woman being honored by a group of men in New York as she receives an award. A crowded shopping and market area of New York City, with street vendors and laundry service. An African American shoe shine man wearing a top hat finishes shining a customer's shoes, bows, and then performs a dance on the sidewalk. A busy shopping and market area on Orchard Street in the lower east side of Manahattan, with many stores including Guiradi's Antiques Sol Moscot Optical at address 119, Cohen's Optical at 117 Orchard Street, and others. Street area filled with carts and market activity in a densely populated area of New York City. Workers inside a busy garment factory in New York. Hebrew signs in front of Jewish stores and businesses in New York. View of New York Stock Exchange floor with scenes of frenzied buying and selling as buyers and sellers yell their orders in a trading pit. Hands of a man counting a pile of cash bills. View of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia talking to a man, a group of well dressed business men, and LaGuardia addressing a gathering of people. Clip is from an anti Jewish propaganda segment of a newsreel produced by Nazi Germany during World War 2.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028699