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Landmarks and construction in growing Tucson Arizona; scenes from parades and rodeos in Arizona.

Scenes of the town Tucson in Arizona, United States. Old houses and buildings in the town. Late 1930s cars driving on a road in Tucson and parked outside a building. The Mission San Xavier de Bac is shown. The Pima County Courthouse with old cars parked in front. Views of campus buildings at the University of Arizona. Students on the campus of the university. Construction workers building new brick buildings in Tucson. This is constrasted with view of a Mexican worker mixing clay and straw to make Adobe bricks. The man presses the mixture into forms to make large bricks or blocks. Mexican American children sit by the side and watch him work. 1930s era cars drive on the streets of Douglas Arizona. Mexican mariachi street musicians wearing sombreros play guitars and sing. A city parade (possibly in Phoenix) heads down a street with a marching band and men on horses. Women and children watch the parade. A rodeo event in Phoenix is shown with men on bucking broncos and bucking horses.

Location: Tucson Arizona USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027895
Steel fabrication plant for construction and assembling of giant steel pipes, during Hoover Dam construction in the U.S.

Construction of Hoover Dam in the United States, concluding in 1935. A sign reads 'the Babcock'. Giant steel pipes. Steel plates hoisted by a crane. Steel pipes are assembled in the steel fabrication plant erected on the dam site. Men working on constructing and assembling pipes. Train passes through a 30-foot diameter section. Trailers carry giant steel pipes. The pipes transferred via cable ways. Trailers carry giant steel pipes inside diversion tunnel. Steel pipes are joined at location with cables. Construction equipment work on construction site. Railroad tracks seen. A tram car carrying construction material, passes through the tunnel. Last concrete poured on May 28, 1935 and construction of the Hoover Dam completed two years ahead of schedule. View of completed Hoover dam in mid to late 1930's with 1930s automobiles passing by and parked on top of the dam. From a 1962 production about the dam.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071604
The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in World War II

On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072899
Robert H. Goddard tests rockets in Roswell, New Mexico

American scientist Robert H. Goddard tests a rocket in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1930s. Title card “United States Marine Corps”. Program host, Dennis James, introduces. Early rocket launchpad built in 1927 by American scientist Robert H. Goddard. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants unload a rocket at their test site located in Roswell, New Mexico. Robert H. Goddard demonstrates an early gyroscope used for automatic stabilization. Assistants securing the rocket into the launchpad. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants watch the rocket from the observation shed during ignition. Distant view of rocket as it shoots straight up to 7500 feet in the 1930s. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants examine rocket and parachute after landing.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078919
Male chorines in dress rehearsal of 1930 college show.

Men wear chorine dresses. Male chorines come from both sides on stage. Male chorines dance on stage. Men come and join them. Male chorines and men dance in pairs.

Location: Princeton New Jersey USA
Date: 1930, December 11
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052009
The ubiquitous American automobile on the streets and roads of the United States in 1930

A Ford Model A Tudor car circa 1928-1929 drives along a country road, past a mail box and turns, driving past a fenced farm. Cluster of farm buildings in background. Next, the car drives up to a farm building and the driver (a farmer) gets out carrying a bundle, that he takes into the house. A roadster convertible car, with its rumble seat removed and a large trunk installed in its place, stops in front of a house. A boy and a girl, on bicycles, ride past on the sidewalk, accompanied by a large black dog.The driver, a vacuum cleaner salesman, removes a demonstration vacuum from the car trunk and goes to the front door, where he shows the vacuum to a lady who answers the door. Change of scene to a 1929 Ford Town Sedan car arriving at the picnic area of a park. A little white dog jumps out as the door is opened, followed by a man and woman carrying things for a picnic. The woman, with others, prepares the picnic table, while a man tends a fireplace in the background. Young folks sit on rocks by a stream in the park. Scene shifts to a roadside sign reading,"Hunter's Old Spring Tourist Camp, Rooms-Cabins, Shower baths, Heated, Drive in, All Modern." View of the cabins in a grove of trees that have their trunks white-washed from the ground level to about 8 feet. Next, two women and two children leave a house and get into a Buick phaeton automobile, and drive away. Weekend sightseers in automobiles, fill the road leading to some attraction.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036976
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