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Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, San Francisco.

Aerial view of Treasure Island depicting Tower of the Sun as the centerpiece during Golden Gate International Exposition in Treasure Island, San Farancisco, California. Governor of the State Culbert Olson opens gate for waiting people. People come inside through gate, wave hats in air, and walking. Swings, small train, fountains at fair. Woman taking photo, women bite ice-cream, scene of a building at Island.

Date: 1939, February 18
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034109
Immense rush of pedestrians and vehicles causes traffic jams on roads of New York City, in the United States.

Immense rush of pedestrians, cars and vehicles causes traffic congestions and jams on roads of Manhattan, New York City. Groups of men talk to each other in groups on the sidewalks. Two young women in dresses walk by as group of men look on and admire them. Man in suit drops newspaper in trash can; next man walking behind him takes the newspaper back out and walks on. Rush of 1930's cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles on city streets. A man attempts to cross the street on foot but cannot find a break in the traffic. A man escorts a young child across busy street. Two women run across street toward a Chop Suey restaurant. Pedestrians pause in middle of road and prepare to finish crossing busy street. All vehicles stopped in a traffic jam on city streets. Close view of a taxi cab meter continuing to run during traffic jam. Another taxi meter view (made by Pittsburgh taximeter company). Impatient man in a taxi stands up and looks through open sun roof at jam of cars. Fare continues to escalate in taxi cab. Man exits cab in middle of jammed street and pays driver. Huge masses of pedestrians moving on sidelwalks and crossing streets, and exiting tall office skyscraper buildings. A giant crowd of men in hats beneath an elevated subway track and heading toward subway entrance. Police officer directs traffic on streets. Automated signal light with moving sign arms is seen. Various police officers directing cars and pedestrians. Many street sign messages shown close up. Man smokes cigar as traffic passes by. Another smokes a cigarette. Mass of traffic and pedestrians.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036993
International Exposition in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Close-up view of American flag waving and fluttering in breeze on windy day. A ferry underway. Point of view from moving ferry boat as it approaches main Ferry Terminal in San Francisco, California. People travel by ferry to reach the Federal Theatre in Treasure Island for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Passengers talk and laugh on the ferry. Many views of men, women and children of all ages in typical 1930s clothing fashions. A boy wearing a capshields his eyes from the sun and looks up at seagull birds as they fly in the sky. Panoramic views of San Francisco city skyline and buildings in the City. Hills in the background in some views. People disembark from the ferry.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041894
Farmers discuss problems of the land including soil erosion and poverty in United States during Great Depression.

Opening view is in Pennsylvania: Farm houses, smoke from a chimney. Fences around barns. A farmer with his wife and child walks in a field. Haystacks in the field. The family moves towards the houses. Barren trees around the houses. Damaged and abandoned stone houses. Men and women farmers with children standing and seated on benches together outside a meeting area. Farmers discuss the problems of the eroded land during a meeting. Eroded fields due to loss of soil in Dust Bowl. Farmers walk through the eroded fields. Sun rays through the clouds. Tennessee: Dry land and dry rivers. Rain washes away the soil. Hills bare of trees and grass. Devastated salt like patches of soil with deep fissures and evidence of massive erosion.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021568
Native American Indian ruins, Oak Creek Canyon, Petrified Forests, and natural rock features and canyons in Arizona

Monuments ruins of native American Indian civilizations in Arizona, United States. People sit at the side of a waterway near a ruin. They view the ruined monuments. Canyons, ridges, rock formations and water streams in Oak Creek Canyon. A 1930s car on a road in Oak Creek Canyon. Tourists look at the ruins prehistoric trees turned to stone in the Petrified Forest National Park. Close-up views of trees in the petrified forest, and of various cross-sections cut and polished. Elevated view of colorful ridges in the Painted Desert on the Little Colorado River. View of Sunset Crater and dried rock of old lava flows from the volcano. Scenes of the Grand Canyon and a man and woman looking out over the Grand Canyon. Montage of scenes of farmers, American Indians, prospectors, and miners in Arizona. Mining operations and smoke rises from the chimney of a smelting factory. Saguaro cactus plants with the setting sun behind at dusk.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027900
Pine trees are cut, transported and dried for lumbering in Idaho, Unites States.

Lumbering in Idaho in the Northwestern United States. A forest covered mountain. Animation of a map depicts national forest area. Men cut pine trees. Logs are carried in trucks. White Pine logs are made wet for lumbering. Wooden boards are sorted. A man piles them for drying.

Date: 1942
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057904