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Dr. Eduard Benes shows interest in the Halls of Learning, University of Chicago.

Dr. Eduard Benes, former head of the Czechoslovakian government talks with others and enters hall at University of Chicago. A man helps with information. They see stones on display of different ages. Proceeding in the gallery and see portrait of Egyptian sculpture. Dr. Benes smiles during talk.

Date: 1939, February
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034114
1800 patients saved from fire at St. Michael the Archangel in Quebec city, Quebec.

St. Michael the Archangel, largest mental institution in North America is blown by fire. Firemen trying to stop the fire. Fire blows whole building. Snow covers the shattered asylum.

Date: 1939, February
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034115
President Franklin D Roosevelt on radio to inaugurate the Tampa De Soto Exposition in Key West , Florida.

Motorcade of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at Tampa De Soto Exposition in Key West, Florida. Secret service men walk behind President's car and a man opens a door for President Roosevelt. Navy officials gathered on docks of harbor. President Roosevelt speaks into microphones at the event, commenting on United States values and positions and saying: "We seek no territorial expansion. We are not covetous of our neighbor's goods. We shall cooperate in every proposal honestly put forward to limit armaments. We abhor the appeal to physical force, except to repulse aggression. He continues, "...the institutions of democracy, government with the consent of the governed, must and shall be maintained." A small Navy boat tender with the President and Navy personnel on board. (Event was several months before invasion of European countries by Germany in World War 2.)

Date: 1939, February
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034116
Boxers Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard celebrate twentieth anniversary of their historic heavyweight title battle in Miami, Florida

Referee checking gloves of Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard at Miami Beach, Florida. The boxers begin a comical, slow motion fight; a friendly celebration match recalling their bout 20 years earlier. They start dancing while holding each other. They hug each other and laugh.

Date: 1939, February
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034117
Stagehand wins cup in McLennon Memorial handicap in Hialeah and War Admiral in Fort Pierce race.

Scenes of spectators in Miami, Florida. Aerial view of the crowd. Jockeys come with their horses. The race starts and spectators cheer. Stagehand scores the cup in McLennon Memorial Handicap at Hialeah Park racetrack (2200 E 4th Avenue Hialeah, Florida) in Miami, Florida. War Admiral wins the Fort Pierce race.

Date: 1939, February
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034118
American and European teams compete in a Roller Skating Catch in Paris, France.

American and European teams compete in a Roller Skating Catch in Paris, France. Women roller skate on the track in Paris, France. Two of them slip while others watch. Some other skaters also slip and fall. People help them.

Date: 1939
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034119