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Involvement of the Tennessee Valley Authority during the Great Depression in the United States.

Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.

Date: 1933
Duration: 6 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044177
Harry S Truman assumes office of President of the United States following death of Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War 2

Harry S Truman appointed President of the United States. The U.S. Capitol building in view. Trees in the foreground. President talks on the phone. Harry Truman attends the 1944 Democratic convention with his daughter, Margaret Truman. People gather holding boards and placards of Truman in hand. A board reads: 'Truman for Vice President'. Franklin Roosevelt seated in a car during his fourth inauguration parade, on January 20, 1945, with motorcade proceeding on Constitution Avenue in Washington DC, and then driving up to the White House. Past events show President Franklin Roosevelt talking to Vice president Truman. Flag at half staff on the U.S. Capitol following death of President Roosevelt. Truman addressing a joint session of the Congress. General Marshall, Admiral King, Secretary of War Stimson all arriving at the White House to meet with President Truman. Also seen are James Byrnes and Truman receiving Lord Halifax, Anthony Eden, Secretary of State Stettinius in the White House. Truman speaks to joint session of congress on April 16, 1945 and expresses desire to continue the efforts and direction set by Franklin Roosevelt, saying, "With great humility I call upon all Americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideals which have been so eloquently proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt...." He also states, "So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that America will continue to fight for Freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been, and it remains, unconditional surrender. We will face the problems of peace with the same courage that we have faced and mastered the problems of war. In the memory of those who have made the supreme sacrifice; in the memory of our fallen president, we shall not fail."

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046119
General Lucius Clay talks about the Berlin Blockade in United States.

General Lucius Clay, Military Governor of United States Zone of Germany, arrives in United States. General Clay salutes as he gets off a plane. He talks about the Berlin Blockade. He reveals about the strong position of American troops. He states that sufficient supplies are being carried to the people during the blockade via Berlin Airlift.

Date: 1950
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049651
Promotion to buy U.S. Saving Bonds in the United States to contribute towards the development of the country.

A public service announcement (PSA) depicts industrial development in the United States and urges the purchase of savings bonds to preserve American heritage and way of life. Water flows through the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia river between Oregon and Washington for hydroelectric production of electricity. A power house for power transmission. Views of transmission towers and electricity is supplied to houses and industries. A glass tumbler factory. Robot machines using electricity in operation to make drinking glasses. A line of finished articles and items being made in factories using new materials like plastics. A man mixes a color in an industrial mixer. A scene with lightning flashing. A worker moves a large breaker handle in a power transmission facility. Neon lights of Times Square, New York City, at night, with many lit sign boards using electricity. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol on a clear day. View of traffic and pedestrians in front of New York Public Library. View of exterior of Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City. A boy with a dog on a long driveway in front of a nice house. Farmers harvesting crops, a mechanic operating a large wrench, a professor in front of a chalk board in a class room, overhead view of a surgical operation underway by doctors, a business man at work in an office typing a paper. Hands of a banker spinning large wheel to open a bank vault. Scenes of busy traffic on streets of New York City. View of Empire State building skyscraper panning from ground to top of building. Welders working at a job site. Women shoppers or office workers in 1940s fashions walking on sidewalks of a city with a double decker bus in background. View of streets of a small town. A line of people to buy U.S. Saving Bonds. View of United States Savings bonds of various denominations being placed on a table. Overhead view of women office workers filing items in a business office. View of a skyscraper in New York City. Wide view of Manhattan New York City skyline from water. A view of Mount Rushmore. Two women serve food and drink to young children seated in chairs. View of Bill of Rights document. Statue of Abraham Lincoln inside Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. View of a U.S. flag being raised on a flag pole and fluttering in breeze.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050575
Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts talks about Richard Nixon in United States.

Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew election campaign TV advertisement for the 1968 Presidential campaign in the United States. Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts talks to a man about Richard Nixon. They sit in an office. Brooke indicates that he favors Richard Nixon for the Presidential election. Edward Brooke states that Richard Nixon will restore law and order in United States coupled with justice and he will create jobs for the unemployed citizens.

Date: 1968
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053761
Federal Bureau of Investigation officers discuss German and Japanese agents and their activities in the United States.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) John Edgar Hoover talks about enemy agents and spies in the U.S. at the time of World War II. Two officers sit in an office. German and Japanese suspects in the United States. A German agent on a street. A Japanese spy takes photographs from a bridge. Purported Nazi German agents arriving as tourists in the United States. German and Japanese diplomats greeting one another and exchanging a Nazi salute. The conference room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Officers discuss the activities of Nazi German secret agents and Imperial Japanese agents operating in South America. Nazi signs on an animated map show the advance of German agents in areas such as Patagonia. Narrator states that Nazi German and Imperial Japanese agents setup radio listening posts in multiple locations in South America to track and report on U.S. shipping in the world's oceans. Animated map shows settlements northward migration through Brazil of "more than 300,000 Japanese colonists". Animation shows expansion of German airline services through South America from Argentina to Colombia.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054486