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SPEECH: Actor / Comedian Hal Sparks shares his personal philosophy on cannabis prohibition at the BuddhaFest Pre-Event Press Conference on Prop 19 at Hollywood CA. (Footage by WireImage Video/GettyImages)
SPEECH: Actor / Comedian Hal Sparks shares his personal philosophy on cannabis prohibition at the BuddhaFest Pre-Event Press Conference on Prop 19 at Hollywood CA. (Footage by WireImage Video/GettyImages)
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Men break bottles of liquor with hammers during Prohibition.
Men break bottles of liquor with hammers during Prohibition.
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Sen. Royal S. Copeland (D-NY)
Title card: "Dr. Royal S. Copeland US Senator and former health commissioner of New York disagrees - Washington DC" / Copeland, seated indoors, speaking from paper in hand refuting claims about alcohol consumption / CU Copeland / Note:...
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Dr. E. H. Cherrington of the Anti-Saloon League displays statistics on the dangers of alcohol consumption
Title card: "Where they print the driest story ever told, the league's publishing house" / Dr. E. H. Cherrington of the Anti-Saloon League stands behind microphone and tears away several large sheets of paper on an easel, each showing...
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Repeal of Prohibition fails in the US House of Representatives
Title card: "Congress in Action! Here is dramatic scene when repeal revolution was broken" / VS the House of Representatives chamber with hundreds of men / VS the Speaker of the House greets another; and the session is gaveled, the men...
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Senate candidate Bennett Champ Clark supports Democratic platform
Title card: "Colonel Clark Asks You to Support Him - St. James - Democratic candidate for US Senate campaigns for election" / CU SOT Bennett Champ Clark speaking, saying the burden of taxation has become intolerable and Democratic Party...
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Bennett Champ Clark campaigns for senator
Title card: "Col. Clark Stirs Voters - Democratic candidate for U S Senator from Missouri speaks at St. James" / SOT Bennett Champ Clark speaks to group of voters / Clark wants to abolish Farm Board / after speech people promise to "vote...
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Prohibition enforcer A. V. Dalrymple
Title card: "New Chief in charge of dry forces! Meet Major A. V. Dalrymple, federal prohibition administrator" / Dalrymple speaks from an office (no audio) / Note: exact month/day not known
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Distillery expands and creates jobs after Prohibition repeal
Title card: "Repeal Booms Business" / various shots distilling plant / various shots men working at building construction site / bricklayers at work / construction workers on site, building structure erected / men and women going to work...
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Beer consumption near end of Prohibition
Quick shot of a very crowded bar / Close-up of a singing man / Note: exact day not known
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Lewis Yancey pilots autogiro to Havana
Title card: "Pathe News Flies With Yancey on First Autogiro Hop Over Sea"; fade to title card: "Editor's Note - These exclusive pictures were taken on the historic Miami-Havana flight made by Captain Yancey and were filmed from the...
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Democrats Tydings, Ritchie meet before 1932 Democratic National Convention
Title card: "Ritchie discuses wet plank with Senator Tydings - Governor talks things over with man who will nominate him at Chicago" / Gov. Albert C. Ritchie (D-MD) and Sen. Millard Tydings (D-MD) chat in a garden (no audio), seated on...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt gives Democratic position on Prohibition in NJ campaign speech
Title shot: "ROOSEVELT OR HOOVER? Democratic nominee clears up party stand on Prohibition at rally in Sea Girt, NJ" / MS Democratic presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt stands behind podium on platform, facing camera; SOT Roosevelt...
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The elite celebrate the end of Prohibition at the Park Lane Hotel in New York City
Heavy traffic at the corner of E 48 Street and Park Avenue, with American flags and the "Park Lane Hotel" on an awning; a closer view of the corner's street signs / A room with palms and flowers with many people, most standing at the bar...
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US police stop motorist near the US-Mexican border, looking for contraband liquor
Title card: "Border War - The Mexican front - Calexico" / (probably staged) two cars on dirt road moving toward camera; one with police blocks other; they get out / they get driver out and pull out gas can from rumble seat, one pours...
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Henry Horner and William Dieterich on possibility of winning 1932 election
Title card: "Judge Horner and Dieterich Sure of Victory - Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator discuss campaign in Chicago as election approaches" / Illinois judge Henry Horner sits and speaks with state legislator William...
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Senator Robert Bulkley campaigns for re-election
Title card: "Bulkley Asks to Serve You Again as Senator - Democratic nominee in Cleveland talk requests your support at polls" / SOTs Senator Robert J. Bulkley (D-OH) talks re-election, Democratic ticket, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and...
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Rep. Britten drinks beer during Prohibition
Title card: "Britten Predicts Beer for Holidays - Representative from Illinois sure brew will be back by January 1st" / Rep. Frederick Albert Britten (R-IL) cheerfully speaks as he stands next to a barrel with a beer stein on top; he...
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As Prohibition ends, beer in barrels being loaded onto wagons at brewery in Newark, NJ; beer served at Brooklyn bar
Title card: "Beer here so near beer plants get hopped up!" / at Kreuger's Brewery in Newark, man is sitting in horse-drawn wagon loaded with beer barrels at loading dock as workers roll barrels along dock / two workers loading barrels...
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Young girl christens world's largest, fastest locomotive in Dallas
[Shaky footage] Title card: "Dallas, Texas - Christen world's largest, fastest, most powerful locomotive! Miss Harriet Earl, age five, launches 360,000 pound monster on its swift career" / Harriet, standing on front of locomotive, throws...
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Prohibition reform leader Pauline Sabin predicts victory on upcoming vote
Title card: "WETS PREDICT VICTORY IN TUESDAY VOTE - Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, leader of fight for Prohibition reform, is confident" / dissolve to Title card: "Editor's Note: New York State votes on Tuesday, May 23, to select delegates for...
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Pussyfoot Johnson speaks about his fight to preserve Prohibition
CU Prohibition advocate William "Pussyfoot" Johnson / CU SOT Johnson telling about getting ribs broken in far Northwest and saying he made 200 speeches but people hell bent on booze; when they get sense of a woodpecker he'll go back /...
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B/W 1933 high angle male bartender pouring drinks for group sitting at table / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 high angle male bartender pouring drinks for group sitting at table / end of Prohibition
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B/W 1933 dolly shot away from men pouring beer into mugs from barrel + toasting / repeal of Prohibition
B/W 1933 dolly shot away from men pouring beer into mugs from barrel + toasting / repeal of Prohibition