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Washington DC suburbs USA 1964 stock footage and images

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Rapid development of science and technology in United States. Recreation in America. Poverty and problems in America

Montage of Americana spanning parts of the 1950s and 1960s. Science and technology in the United States. Scientists work in laboratories and conduct various experiments. Scientists look into microscopes and treat patients with scientific medical equipment. People relax at a beach and amusement park. People watch a baseball game. Spectators from behind the fences watch bucking horses in a rodeo. Playing golf. Ten pin bowling. Motorboats race in water. Water skiing. View at a football game, horse race, basketball game, and Joe Louis boxing. Ice skating with sails. Swimming pool and high dive. 1940s fashion scenes: Juke box; Pegged pants; bobby sox;saddle shoes and dancing to an orchestra. People Square dancing, fishing, throwing horse shoes, playing shuffle board and lunching in backyard. Americans enjoying parks with lakes, swimmers, boaters and lots of park benches, where they sit and relax. Contrasting scenes of poverty in America: poor tenement and slum housing; bread line food relief for the poor; criminals being apprehended by police in paddy wagons; African American and some white American people demonstrate by the reflecting pool near Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC, during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Demonstrators holding signs protesting racism, low wages, and poor housing; and advocating civil rights. Travel by Americans: People boarding an Air France airplane, airport scenes and people boarding a Pan Am (Pan American) passenger jet airplane. Ground level shot between art deco sleek passenger railroad trains in motion. People unload luggage from parked passenger bus. Aerial views of American highways with traffic and lots of mostly 1950s era cars and trucks. View of RV trailer park or camping area. Scene from moving car of undeveloped land and then of city at night with many neon signs for hotels, motels, food, and businesses. Vintage American suburban or small town scenes of families in front of houses, tending their neighborhood yards,cutting their lawns, and raking leaves on yards of homes.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052583
American suburban homes, contrasted with poor conditions of slum area near the Gulf coast of Mississippi

Clip opens with ground level views of a suburban American neighborhood with homes along neighborhood streets. That scene is then contrasted with poor conditions of slum area near Gulf Port, Mississippi. A car being parked in front of a house. An African American child sits near water collected outside a slum. A man standing near dilapidated homes and shacks. A child plays with a puppy. Three children walking. Some children stands outside slum. Drainage water in front of a slum. A poorly formed hut. Poor conditions of slum area near the Gulf coast of Mississippi. Aerial view of suburban houses under the Forest heights pilot project that provides 200 low income families with government sponsored public houses. Final scene is aerial view of a suburb area in the United States showing many new suburban homes that have been built.

Date: 1966
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057572
Camera Shop and Japanese cameras in Washington. Pictures of Washington landmarks.

A Japanese man walks into a camera shop alongside Tall Fashions clothes shop. Stacks of photography films and cameras are on display for sale. Cameras and Nikkor Camera lenses made by Japanese company Nikon are on display for sale. A Nikon S2 flash BC-5 for sale. American man buys a camera from proprietor. American man takes pictures of the Japanese Pagoda sculpture (ca. 1600) beside the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.; the Washington monument; The Lincoln Memorial; Capitol building and The White House.1964-65. Man takes pictures with his Nikon camera.

Date: 1964
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025207
President Johnson arrives for a baseball match between the Washington Senators and the Los Angeles Angels in Washington.

The 1964 season-opening baseball game at Griffith Stadium in Washington DC. Spectators and fans in the stadium. The seal of the President of the United States. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives to throw out the first pitch at the opening game of the season. Photographers take photos. President Johnson gives his autograph on a ball for a player. The players of the Washington Senators and the Los Angeles Angels play the baseball game. The President watches the game, as the Los Angeles Angels win 4 to 0.

Date: 1964, April 13
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071765
American economy strengthens after the Great Depression; also growth and prosperity and civil rights reform in 1950s and 1960s.

Chronicles recovery in America after the Great Depression in the United States, from roughly 1933-1967, but with emphasis on the earlier years of that period. Pre-war work programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) help with employment. Farmers work in their fields with tractors. Officials in an office discuss and prepare graphs. Workers drill and work at a construction site. The 1933 Homeowners Loan Corporation sparks new home building. View of new homes being built and new suburban neighborhoods. Brief scene of bombing at Pearl Harbor. American warships launching from shipyards during World War II. Women war production workers work in factories in the United States. Post-war Marshall Plan aid being sent to European countries. Crates of supplies marked for European countries. Industrial output booming again, and scenes of industrial factories and plants with smoke pouring from chimneys and pollution from stacks. Large pool typists room filled with female typists and clerical workers busy at work in government agency. Close up views of hands of women operating typewriters. Reforms for housing projects, African American Civil Rights and measures taken to stabilize unemployment, with scenes of successive Presidents signing reform bills, including Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. A ship departs from a harbor with goods. A convoy of vehicles on a road. Various Federal buildings in Washington DC. The White House building. An aerial view of an American town and of a factory with pollution smoke emitting from stacks. Letters being delivered to elderly women. People enter a medical clinic and wait in the clinic waiting room. Racially integrated classroom of older high school students or university students, with white and African American students, and both young men and women. A young white woman worker and a young African American working in a machine shop or possibly an academic shop class. A white and a African American man share a sandwich and views of white and black people together in integrated classrooms and factories as segregation begins to wane. Elementary school children in a classroom drawing pictures.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044178
A city police chief consults with leaders during a dramatized community meeting.

Dramatization. Community leaders meet with a police chief. A police chief asks for advice regarding new Cuban immigrants not approaching police with problems. A Jewish rabbi raises his teacup to answer after glancing at the concentration camp serial number tattoo on his wrist. As a Holocaust survivor, he suggests, are there “any Spanish-speaking policemen in your precinct?”. Police chief answers the rabbi and takes notes. Policeman hugs his son before leaving for work. Wife and two children say goodbye to him as he gets into his car in a suburban neighborhood. Policeman greets his neighbor mowing the lawn next door. Policeman enters his car to drive away. Metropolitan police walking in front of precinct building on L Street NW Washington D.C. near the intersection of L and Pennsylvania. Several police on mopeds drive out of precinct parking lot. Newspaper shows local news such as “Youth receives Medal for saving Policeman’s life”. Close up of police belt with walkie talkie and wooden baton. Metropolitan police officers getting into police car and driving away. Dramatized newspaper headline reporting saving of policeman's life by African American youth.

Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078776