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The testimony of Walt Disney Studios owner Walt Elias Disney before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Owner of Walt Disney Studios Walt Elias Disney at hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in the United States. Walt Disney Studios owner Walt Elias Disney answers upon being questioned about having any conversations with organizer Herbert Sorrell relating to communism and states that Mr. Sorrell mentioned about the funding of 1937 strikes against major studios. Walt Disney gives his personal opinion about infiltration of labor unions by Communists, and about the Communist Party, and says he does not believe it is a political party. He also expresses his views about the bills pending before the committee to outlaw Communist Party and further states that American labor unions should be kept clean and should not be affected by communism.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074167
Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (PIRA) employees review prison plans.

Prison planning at a Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (PIRA) office. PIRA officers inspect blueprints and sketches for prisons in the United States. A man views the “Sketch for a prison for the state of West Virginia” and its model sketches. Two PIRA employees view plans together. Employee wearing glasses smokes a cigar while conferring with colleague over blueprints. Man reviews a plan for a prison and answers the telephone. A female employee receive instructions, hands out a blueprint to her supervisor. Two female employees discuss blueprints together. View of a diagram chart “Vermont Turn-over in the Prison Population 1935”. View of a graph chart “District of Columbia Growth of Prison Population 1920-1937 Daily Average for Years Ending June 30th”.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078709
General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.

General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.

Date: 1943
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036559
Mayor of New York Fiorello LaGuardia during his address from the City Hall of New York.

Mayor of New York City Fiorello LaGuardia addressing a massive crowd in front of the New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States). The crowd is of the electrical and mill workers of New York City who are on a strike in favor of their demands. The mayor speaks out his message for the crowd. 1937.

Date: 1937
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035819
Tammany Hall, Union Square and nearby buildings of New York

Views of buildings of New York and Union Square. People on the roads and in the park as well. The Tammany Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) of New York City is shown. The hall holds a banner supporting the Democrat nominee for the Mayor of New York Royal S. Copeland. The banner also shows names of the democrat candidates for other posts. 1937.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035828
View of the entrance of 'Society of Tammany of Columbian Order' or the Tammany Hall.

View of the entrance to the 'Society of Tammany of Columbian Order' or generally called the Tammany Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) in New York City. Taxi cabs are seen in the busy street ahead of the hall. On the sidewall of the hall a poster supports Royal S. Copeland, the Democratic party nominee for election as Mayor of New York. 1937.

Date: 1937
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035830