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Brooks Walter invents a new device to parallel park vehicles into spaces along the curb in Piedmont, California.

Car parallel parking challenge is solved by new fifth wheel-equipped car in Piedmont, California. New device invented by Brooks Walter that facilitates the task of nosing automobiles into spaces along the curb. Car demonstrates parking along the curb between vehicles. Driver positions car front into space and then activates use of a spare wheel attached to rear of car that lowers to the ground, raises vehicle end, and allows driver to direct the rear of the automobile horizontally into the parallel parking space.

Date: 1933, June 5
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044359
Franklin D. Roosevelt helps Americans to recover from the Great Depression in the United States.

Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Jobless American men wait in unemployment relief lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the United States, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps and tenement dwellings during migration (usually migration west). Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol Building framed by tree limbs. Men in an office empty heavy mailbags filled with letters (presumably to congress and senate). Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting trees with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker as they are put to work in a variety of projects. Women and men, including white and African American men are seen getting assigned to work projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a suspension bridge work project of the Works Progress Administration in Los Angeles, California. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Close up views of railroad train locomotive wheels as they start moving and the train on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks, groups of workers entering factory for work shift and closeup view of a steam whistle blowing to mark the start or end of a work shift. A coal mining operation. Automated tools dig coal in shaft. Two coal miners take a break and eat. Crane hoists material at mine. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.

Date: 1933
Duration: 6 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044176
Dramatization: African Americans gather and capture the Cameron Estate in Piedmont, United States.

Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A Pro-Southern dramatization on the effect of the civil war in Piedmont region of the United States. Pre-war conditions on the Cameron Estate in Piedmont. African Americans gather in the area. Buildings in the background. Character Elsie Stoneman abducted by African Americans in a house. She shouts and looks out of the window. Ku Klux Klan or KKK members on horseback racing toward the town. African American throws a stone on the window. An African American woman takes Elsie Stoneman inside.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028230
Elliott Roosevelt marries Ruth Googins, July 22nd and Jack Dempsey marries Hannah Williams, July 18th, 1933

Elliott Roosevelt, son of U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and his wife Ruth Josephine Googins of Fort Worth Texas marry at an outdoor ceremony, at the home of George Swiller, in Burlington, Iowa, on July 22, 1933. The couple is seen walking with members of the wedding party, to the ceremony. Many guests and others watch. Scene changes to Jack Dempsey and his wife Hannah Williams, at their wedding reception on July 18, 1933. They are at a table with friends. Scene shifts to Jack and Hannah preparing a meal in kitchen of their home at Lake Tahoe, California.

Date: 1933, July 22
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025706
Dramatization: members of Ku Klux Klan arrive to help the Whites in Piedmont, United States.

Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A Pro-Southern dramatization on the effect of the civil war in Piedmont, United States. African Americans assemble on the street. Houses along the sides of the street. African Americans hold guns in hands. Elsie Stoneman abducted by the African Americans. The Whites discuss with their families inside their homes. Children inside their houses scared. A woman on a bed. Man looks outside the window. The members of Ku Klux Klan or KKK on horses arrive at the place wearing white uniforms. They hold flags in hands. The African Americans fire guns on them.

Date: 1916
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028231
Dramatization: Ku Klux Klan members along with rescued Whites ride horses on street as they disarm African Americans in Piedmont.

Excerpt from end of the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A Pro-Southern dramatization on the effect of the civil war in Piedmont, United States. Members of Ku Klux Klan or KKK gather. They rescue the Whites. The African Americans put their arms in front of them. Members of Ku Klux Klan along with the rescued Whites on horses move on the street. The Whites girls on horses. Klan members supervise the proceedings at the election and prevent the African Americans from voting. A double honeymoon at the sea edge with characters Phil Stoneman and Margaret Cameron together, and Ben Cameron and Elsie Stoneman together.

Date: 1916
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028234
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