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President Harry Truman wins re-election after defeating Governor Thomas Dewey in United States.

U.S. President Harry Truman wins reelection. People lined up outside a polling place to cast their votes. Aerial view of the buildings and the area. Governor Thomas Dewey votes on November 2, 1948. President Truman votes and places his ballot in the ballots box. Truman wins and the Democratic party wins the majorities in both the House and the Senate. Other views of people voting, including hopeful politicians. A sign outside one polling place reads: 'The Library of South Salem'

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948, November 3
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051637
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
1940 launching of USS Hornet (CV-8); accomplishments of USS Hornet, famous for the 1942 Doolittle Raid during World War II.

A film titled 'The Life and Death of The USS Hornet' dedicated to the workers of America's shipyards and war plants during World War II. The Capitol building in Washington DC. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gathered at press conference to announce the bombing of Tokyo Japan by Doolittle Raid forces in April 1942. Reporters run out to phones and typewriters. A man at NBC microphone in 1943. The headlines of newspapers read 'Japs Murder Doolittle's Fliers'. American people in groups and families listen to radio broadcasts, gathered at work and in living rooms around radios to hear the radio news. They buy newspapers at newsstands. Headline of newspaper reads "Carrier Hornet was Shangri-La". Workers at shipyard, factories, machine shops. Men and women war workers of varying ages and races, including white, Japanese-American, and African-American seen welding, machining, and working to buld the ship and its parts. Scenes from the launching of USS Hornet CV-8 in December 14, 1940, with sponsor Annie Reid Knox at the launching.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074562
Excited spectators at baseball game between Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals, 1942

Clip begins Pete Reiser of the Dodgers and Murry Dickson of the Cardinals shaking hands and talking before baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn New York. Shot of Dodgers standing atop dugout step. Brief shot of Dodgers manager Leo Durocher. Majority of clip focuses on fans in the stands. Spectators in early 1940s-style clothing, both men and women, are seen in varying moods as the game progresses. Many close up views of fans and spectators, sometimes cheering, sometimes angry and booing, other times expectant and tense. Many men wearing suits, ties and hats, and smoking big cigars; female fans wearing dresses. (Note: the large crowd and downbeat mood of the spectators suggests this game could be from either September 11 or 12, 1942, both games which the Dodgers lost to the Cardinals at Ebetts Field as the teams battled for first place in the National League.) (World War II period).

Location: Brooklyn New York City USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035770
Harry Matthews defeats Baby Dutch Culbertson in a boxing bout in Portland, Oregon.

An electronic scoreboard is used for the first time during a boxing match in Portland, Oregon. A boxing bout between Harry Matthews and Baby Dutch Culbertson. Spectators in the stands to watch the match. A referee and both the boxers in the ring. During the bout the referee and the judges dial their decisions on separate control buttons. An electronic scoreboard keeps fans informed of bout progress, round by round. At the end of the first round the scoreboard shows that both the players are even. Matthews wins in the end. An electronic scoreboard is used for the first time during a boxing match in Portland, Oregon. A boxing bout between Harry Matthews and Baby Dutch Culbertson. Spectators in the stands to watch the match. A referee and both the boxers in the ring. During the bout the referee and the judges dial their decisions on separate control buttons. An electronic scoreboard keeps fans informed of bout progress, round by round. At the end of the first round the scoreboard shows that both the players are even. Matthews wins in the end.

Location: Portland Oregon USA
Date: 1951, July 23
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050616
President Eisenhower delivers a speech during his election campaign in Portland, Oregon.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Portland, Oregon during an election campaign. Civilians seated in chairs in an auditorium during a public meeting. A woman holds a sign 'Oregon likes Ike'. People clap as President Eisenhower delivers a speech. Cameramen record the event.

Location: Portland Oregon USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050727
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