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Engineer tests wind-driven propeller-powered boat on lake Erie in 1935.

Opening scene shows a man holding fast to the mast of a boat that contains a huge rotating two-bladed propeller instead of a sail. The propeller-rotor is geared to a drive shaft (unseen) turning the boat's underwater propeller (screw). Several men are in the boat as one sets the controls. Next, two men are seen in the boat as it speeds over the water with the big rotor turning rapidly.

Date: 1935
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055179
President Roosevelt speaks during the dedication of Techwood Homes, at Georgia Tech, in 1935

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of Techwood Homes (Techwood was a slum clearance project to build twenty-three brick and concrete buildings to house 604 families and 308 Georgia Tech students. It also included forty-two concrete buildings with 677 apartments at Atlanta University) at Georgia Tech University. The President is seen delivering his dedication speech, entitled, “The Meaning of Progress," at Grant Field on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia, before an audience of 50,000 people. He remembers the day, eleven years ago, in 1924, when he first came to Warm Springs, Georgia. He speaks about those days of so-called prosperity in America, when speculators profited and there was a "fool’s paradise” before "the crash", and the citizens were left "holding the bag." He reflects on the disaster and gloom from 1929 to March 3,1933, and reminds the audience of his administration’s subsequent actions to re-open closed banks and establish insurance for bank depositors. He speaks of the efforts of Government to find gainful employment for people out of work.

Date: 1935, November 29
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049336
In an Armistice Day speech in 1935, President Roosevelt reflects upon World War I and the perils still threatening world peace

President Roosevelt delivers a speech reflecting the failure of World War 1 to be the "war to end war." He addresses a crowd at the Arlington National Cemetery Amphitheater in Arlington, Virginia, gathered for Armistice Day, commemorating the 1918 armistice ending World War I. Roosevelt reflects upon the role of United States in the world (as seeds of World War 2 are being sown). He upholds the ideals of peace and importance of being a good neighbor. He declares that the aim must be to avoid war and to remove the causes of war.

Date: 1935, November 11
Duration: 4 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049416
1960s sex education film counsels women on avoiding unwanted pregnancy; shows couples in healthy relationships post marriage

Sex education film in the 1960s. Animated cartoon shows attraction and interaction between a man and a woman that leads to love, marriage and birth of child. A couple arrives at King's Motel in their car. View of lit neon motel sign. Narrator warns about hazards of sex before marriage. Another couple is shown does window shopping outside a toy shop. The couple with their newly born baby at a maternity ward. In a different scene a single woman leaves the ward carrying her infant in arms. Narrator discusses pregnancy without marriage and the sorrow it can bring. Narrator advocates abstinence from sexual intercourse in order to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

Date: 1964
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029102
Children of fishermen swing and play aboard boats in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Fishermen's children in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ship decorated with flag strings and bearing name "Caroline & Mary"; and another ship named "Edith and Lilian". A new father approaches glass viewing window of maternity ward in hospital. A doctor or nurse holds a new born infant in the maternity ward with several infant cribs in the room. The man smiles. A fisherman smiles. Pairs of boy and girl children swing on a tandem swing of a swingset. Two boys playing baseball. One boy swings the bat and then runs. Boys play aboard a ship. Sign on a boat gives its name as "Mololo" and another behind it is named "Mary and Julia." A boy stands on the edge of a rocky shore at the ocean, looking out at the ocean and waves. A fisherman smokes a pipe. Various fishermen of the community are shown. One man is shown standing in front of Gloucester City Hall. View of the wife of a fishing captain.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071062
"Colored Only" taxi parked in front of Martin Luther King's elementary school in the segregated Jim Crow era of Atlanta, GA.

Exterior view of the David T. Howard School in Old Fourth Ward (present address 551 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.) This is the elementary school Martin Luther King Jr attended. Men enter school building. Sign on "Colored Only" taxi parked outside reads “Colored Only Atlanta Car for Hire Ass’n Inc. Member”. A Black woman walks down a stone stairway at a Fourth Ward apartment building formerly at the corner of Hilliard St and Irwin St NE in Atlanta. Closeup of community water pump. Foundations for Interstate 85 overpass under construction in background. This is during the segregated Jim Crow era in the south.

Date: 1960, May 24
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079734