Damage caused due to hurricanes on the East Coast of the United States in 1936. The roads flooded with water. Damaged electric poles. Cameramen stand in a line taking pictures in the rain. A car stuck in water. Dramatic scene of a boy and a policeman riding their bicycles in very high water. wind damaged and flood damaged buildings and houses. Men walk near the rubble and look at a damaged house. In Texas, views of flooding from rivers. A damaged railway track. A wrecked car. Men at the railway station board a train. American industrialist and billionaire John D. Rockefeller makes his annual trip to the South. He gets out of a car and boards the train. At age 97, John Rockefeller is escorted by his personnel.
American dance known as The Twist has reached Europe. An older man and a woman doing twist dance and teaching it to younger people around them who watch them dancing and then try the twist. Three men doing the twist. Men and women dancing the twist to rock and roll music. The men and women doing the twist dance in pairs in dance clubs all over Europe. Vintage early 1960s fashions seen among the dancers. They enjoy the dance. A woman typist seen seated at her desk doing the twist in her rotating chair. A French postal mail delivery man delivers the mail while doing the twist. A policeman controls traffic on a busy street while doing the twist.
Opening scene shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt driving his personal Ford Phaeton hand-controlled car along a tree-lined drive at his family residence in Hyde Park, New York. Riding with him are his daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, and her children, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie"). Next, Roosevelt is seen in car, parked in a cornfield, near the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, while his grandchlldren, “Sistie” and “Buzzie” visit with farm hands who are clearing old plants from the field. Very good close-up of President Roosevelt sitting in the driver’s seat of his car. Scene changes to the lawn at "Springwood," the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, where President and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are sitting in wicker lawn chairs. She is knitting, and FDR is paying attention to the grandchildren, Anna and Curtis, who are riding horses, and granddaughter, Sara, on a pony. He talks with Sara. Close-up of Sara. Change of scene shows Republican Presidential Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas, and his family in their home. Voters are seen lined up along the sidewalk to cast their ballots in the election. View inside the polling place of voters entering and leaving individual voting booths. Another view shows voters in a long line snaking back and forth across a sidewalk. A Jewish Rabbi is seen registering and being directed to a voting booth at one polling place. On election night, President Roosevelt stands outside his Hyde Park home, assisted by his son Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., as he acknowledges his reelection victory. View of Times Square in New York City, crowded with people celebrating FDR’s reelection. President Roosevelt drives in an open on his return to Washington to resume his duties in the White House. He holds a large bouquet of flowers aloft and waves it to the crowds of spectators who fill the sidewalks. Later, he waves his hat. View of the Presidential motorcade lining Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Capitol in the background. The crowds spill partway into the streets, in places where police are not keeping cordoned off. A crowd of thousands of people packs the area immediately in front of the White House as President Roosevelt, assisted by his son, stands and waves from a portico. Clip is from a 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.
United States President John F. Kennedy's speech regarding racism and racial tensions in Alabama, delivered from Washington DC, the White House. United States President Kennedy seated at a desk and speaks over a microphone. The President speaks about racial discrimination against blacks in the United States. He talks about the University of Alabama not giving admission to two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born African Americans, due to segregation and discrimination practices. View of people crowded outside the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States). Men take pictures as officials escort entering students Vivian Malone and James Hood into Foster Auditorium of the university. The President says that the nation is founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. President Kennedy says that it is right for American consumers of any color to receive equal service in places of public accommodation, to register and to vote in a free election without interference or fear of reprisal. Additional views of Vivian Malone and James Hood walking with crowds and unaccompanied on the University of Alabama campus. A policeman rides a motorcycle on a road at the University. President Kennedy talks about respecting African American citizens and importance of civil rights and equality. The President says that no city or State or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore the rights of any of its citizens. The press record his speech and take pictures.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Aeronautics and Space report on tornadoes in the United States. Still images of various activities at NASA. A missile at a launch pad. Apollo crew in space suits. A NASA aircraft in flight. A rocket lifts off. NASA moonwalk by Neil Armstrong. Scene shifts to footage of actual tornadoes in the United States. View as the thin tube of a tornado reaches from cloud to ground. Cars parked in the foreground. The formation of tornado in the background. Damage of homes due to tornado. Men near a police van. Men enter a house in the aftermath of a tornado.
United States troops move through wreckage of the town of Gemunden, Germany near the end of World War II. U.S. M4 Sherman tanks and tank destroyers loaded with infantrymen of Seventh U.S. Army, XV Corps, 7th Infantry Division move through wreckage of the town. The troops riding on tanks. Damaged buildings in the background. U.S. insignia on the tanks. The tanks cross a bridge. U.S. trucks, DUKWs (amphibious vehicles), ambulances, Jeeps and M4 high speed tractors, tow guns and soldiers cross the bridge and through the narrow streets of the town. Military Policemen (MP) direct the military vehicle traffic. The vehicles move through narrow streets. Heavy bomb-damaged city visible in the background.
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