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Tuskegee Alabama USA 1949 stock footage and images

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U.S. Major General William O. Butler gives address on third anniversary of Tuskegee Army Airfield, during World War II.

Final segment of "Army Air Forces special film project 151" known as "Wings for This Man". Third anniversary of United States Army Tuskegee Army Air Field being celebrated in August, 1944 during World War 2. Tuskegee Airmen U.S. African American cadets march. Commanding General U.S. Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command addresses the cadet soldiers, families and spectators assembled. Cadets march at the ceremony. P-40 airplanes seen parked at the airfield. Several P-40s taxiing. (note: narrated by Ronald Reagan)

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074304
Activities of Thomas Monroe Campbell, the first federal extension agent commissioned at Tuskegee Institute

Representative from United States Department of Agriculture meet Thomas Monroe Campbell, a Tuskegee Agricultural graduate working in a field. They talk. A Supervisor and the States Extension Director discuss appointment of Thomas Campbell as an Extension Agent. Next scenes show Mr. Campbell in his role as an extension agent, using skills learned from the Tuskegee Institute to instruct rural African American farmers to inoculate hogs against cholera. He also demonstrates pruning of trees. Farmers in a corn field use hoe.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023992
Various activities of a African American "movable school" in Alabama, United States.

Representative of United States Department of Agriculture and Extension Service of the State Agricultural College address the pupils of the Movable School (an agriculture education extension program of the Tuskegee Institute). Women play volleyball. Women participate in watermelon eating competition. In a competition laces of shoes of two men are tied and then they run. Competitors display their tied laces. The winners pose and smile. Men participate in a watermelon eating competition while their hands are behind their backs. A Ford truck called the "Knapp Agricultural Truck" used by the extension agents moves on a dirt road. Four people arrive in front of Collins' house (a farmer) in a car. Collins and his wife followed by other two persons holding a gramophone, comes out of the car. Collin and his family listen to music on gramophone in the front yard of the house. Top down view of gramophone phonograph record player as it plays a spinning phonograph record disc.

Date: 1921
Duration: 4 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023996
African American population and lifestyle in towns and rural areas of Alabama after World War 2, in the United States

African American man and an old woman ride on a horse-drawn cart in the United States. African American people on streets of a town, likely in Alabama (sign for Interstate 241, primarily an Alabama roadway). Advertisements on walls including one for Eight O'Clock coffee. African American men and women talking together on sidewalks and shopping in stores. White and African American citizens of town walking on town sidewalks. Many of the men wearing suits, and some others overalls for farming. Men and women talking in front of the Tryme Cafe where a sign board advertises Bar B Q, Fish, or Ham for 10 cents, Coneys, Hamburger, or Cheese for 5 cents. An African American woman walks by carrying a basket on her head. Scene shifts to a high ridge overlooking poor, rundown tenement area of town. Simple wooden shacks amidst dirt roads. African American children wearing overalls sit together on the front porch of a wooden clapboard house or cabin.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035587
High profile celebrity weddings in 1949 including that of Prince Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth.

High profile celebrity weddings in 1949. People gather to witness the wedding of Prince Aly Khan with Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth on May 27, 1949. Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan is the Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly. Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan marries in Château de l'Horizon (55 Av. Edith Joseph, 06220 Vallauris, France), near Cannes, France. United States Vice President Alben W. Barkley marries Jane Rucker Hadley at St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri on November 18, 1949. Wedding cake at the wedding of Vice President Barkley. The newlywed couple is shown smiling.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051643
Destruction occurs from various natural and man made disasters in year 1949.

People suffer due to various disasters in the year 1949. Destruction in Ecuador due to the 1949 Ambato earthquake. A house falling apart during an earthquake. Rubble of houses, buildings, and churches in the Tungurahua Province. People clear the rubble and take out the dead bodies. Damage caused to livestock due to blizzard in the western plains of the United States. Dead cattle lie in the snow. A calf staggers in heavy snow. Airplanes drop fodder down to cattle for food. People gather at airplane crash site for Eastern Airlines flight 537 on November 1, 1949, after the passenger airplane, bound for a landing at Washington National Airport, had a mid-air collision with a military Lockheed P-38, and crashed beside the west bank of the Potomac River. Crash site of the Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 (N88727) at Alexandria, Virginia. People moving dead bodies of passengers on stretchers. The steamer SS Noronic destroyed due to fire in Toronto harbor. View of the wrecked, smoking passenger ship. Dead bodies of the passengers being moved. People cry and mourn.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051642