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During prohibition a liquor producing site (moonshine still) is raided and demolished in a forest by Federal Agents

Federal and local agents, together with laborers raiding a moonshine still site in a forest during Prohibition in the United States. Tall shack explodes, blown up by agents. Smoke arises from the raided site. The shack collapses at the site. Officials in uniform with others gather near the place to check the fallen house. Laborers with sledge hammers demolish a liquor distillation still. Liquor barrels are emptied onto ground by enforcement authorities.

Date: 1931, January
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023947
Views of Martin Luther King Jr. and Kenneth Clarke on the position of African Americans in the US; Civil Rights protest scenes

James Baldwin speaks in United States. Scenes of strife and struggle during civil rights movement. Policemen beat a African American man. Doctor Kenneth Clark, Professor of Psychology at the City College of New York; Director of Fallen Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Research Director, North Pride Center for Interpretation, sits in a chair during an interview. He speaks on the position of African Americans and America's Promise. Other scenes: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a small gathering of African Americans. They are standing at the scene of a bombed out or destroyed church. He speaks about what happened there alluding that they know the truth of the racist hate crime. He speaks about remaining strong in striving for freedom for African American citizens. People around him sing and clap. Martin Luther King Jr. looks into a bible. Ebenezer Baptist Church and its interiors are seen, where Martin Luther King Jr. preaches. Exterior view of a Woolworths store where African Americans in protest sit at a segregated lunch counter at Woolworth store and wait to be served, in a non-violent demonstration. People pass through doors. Men moving on a road are stopped by a policeman. He stands with other policemen. The civil rights demonstrators stop and pray together. They are then directed to a waiting police paddy wagon van for arrest. Policeman hits a African American man. African Americans are put in police paddy wagons. Policemen detain African American demonstrators during a march and use dogs in rounding up demonstrators. Fire truck arrives during a protest and firemen spray fire hoses at African American demonstrators on May 7, 1963 in Birmingham Alabama during the Birmingham Campaign or movement. High powered fire hoses spraying water at demonstrators. Police chasing and detaining demonstrators in a crowd during a black civil rights demonstration. Martin Luther King Jr. leaving a courthouse, his wife by his side. He walks down the steps where a reporter asks him, "Dr. King how long do you expect to stay in jail". King replies "I'm under orders to keep walking."

Date: 1963
Duration: 10 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024048
Places, paintings, and documents related to the American revolution 1776

Liberty Hall in Philadelphia. The cracked Liberty Bell. Reenactment of First Continental Congress and signing of Declaration of Independence. Paintings of George Washington crossing the Delaware River; and with his officers; and at prayer; Photos of Colonial cannons. Paintings of George Washington, on horseback.reviewing his troops; and on front porch of Mount Vernon. Copy of the Constitution of the United States.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024128
Former President Harry S Truman plays piano and James Petrillo, President of American Federation of Musicians, plays trumpet

Musician members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, at their annual convention, in 1954, applaud former President Harry S Truman as he stands with Union President, James Petrillo on stage. The play a short duet, Truman on piano, and Petrillo on the trumpet. They play a part of "Hail Hail the Gang's all here," to the delight of the audience.

Date: 1954, June 15
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024237
Various works carried out in factories and smoke released from vent pipes of factories in Pennsylvania.

A factory site in United States. A crane lifts material and drops it in a railroad car. Pennsylvania Railroad car. A specialized vehicle moves up a slope. Workers load heavy motors on to a truck using a chain block and tackle device. Factory yard. automobiles parked. A worker moves a hand cart. A truck follows. Workers load paper packages on a cart and one moves the loaded cart away. Cylinders of pressurized gas stand by the loading dock. Smoke arises from stacks and vent pipes of various factories.

Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024277
USIA film describing the ways it conducts its world-wide operations

Segment of U.S. Information Agency film describing its world-wide operations. Map shows 217 overseas posts in 17 countries, of the USIA (also known abroad, as the U.S. Information Service). Animated map zooms in on one post, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aerial view of Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooking the harbor and city. Street scene in Rio. USIA Public Affairs Officer, William A. Wieland, is seen walking along a sidewalk in the city. Next he is seen in the office of Ambassador James S. Kemper, briefing him about USIA activities. View of the Brazilian Foreign Office building. Mr. Wieland meets with the Chief of the Cultural Division there. Book stacks in the USIA Thomas Jefferson Library in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wieland conferring with a librarian. He is also seen at the USIA broadcast facility in the U.S. Embassy. Film shifts to street scene in Cebu, the Philippines. A building displaying American and Philippine flags, is labeled: " United States Information Service." Inside, and American and a Filipino worker give bundles of literature to local workers for distribution. One, a bus driver, carries his bundle onto his open-sided bus, displaying the name, "Cebu, Autobus." He waves as he drives away. The USIA Public Affairs Officer is seen visiting the Mayor of Cebu City, Vincente S. del Rosario; giving a news release to the editor of a newspaper; broadcasting on local radio;and socializing with local editors. USIA drive a mobile movie van into a remote village where many children are playing. They set up a screen and projector. Almost everyone in town attends the showing. Scene shifts to USIA headquarters building at 1778 Pennsylvanis Avenue,in Washington, DC. Director Theodore Streibert holds a staff meeting. View of President Eisenhower addressing U.S. public media leaders about confronting the Soviet Union with truthful information about the U.S. and the West, on April 16, 1953,in Washington, DC. A USIA technician transmitting text of the speech to its public affairs officers around the world. Views of newspapers carrying the story in Paraquay, Ireland,Algeria, and Burma. The President's speech was printed in a pamphlet entitled "The Peace We Seek," ahd sent abroad where it was translated into Arabic,Japanese, Persian, and 20 other languages. Four million copies were distributed. Posters about the speech were also distributed.

Date: 1954
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024522