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B/W 1933 tilt down pallet of crates being lowered on rope from large ship / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 tilt down pallet of crates being lowered on rope from large ship / end of Prohibition
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B/W 1933 hands of man pouring from bottle labeled 'Vat 69' into glass / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 hands of man pouring from bottle labeled 'Vat 69' into glass / end of Prohibition
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B/W 1933 woman sitting between woman + man drinking from glass / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 woman sitting between woman + man drinking from glass / end of Prohibition
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B/W 1933 close up men's hands paying for bottles of liquor + putting them in paper bags
B/W 1933 close up men's hands paying for bottles of liquor + putting them in paper bags
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B/W 1933 close up man in formalwear shaking drink in cocktail shaker / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 close up man in formalwear shaking drink in cocktail shaker / end of Prohibition
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B/W 1933 close up drunk woman with large earrings laughing / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 close up drunk woman with large earrings laughing / end of Prohibition
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B/W 1933 man in formalwear pouring drinks for people sitting at table / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 man in formalwear pouring drinks for people sitting at table / end of Prohibition
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B/W 1933 smiling men sitting on truck slowly driving past camera / end of Prohibition
B/W 1933 smiling men sitting on truck slowly driving past camera / end of Prohibition
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People line the street waiting for their first drink after prohibition ends
Aerial view of excited people waiting for bars to open after Prohibition is repealed / interior shot of men and woman laughing and cheering as alcohol is poured out of a keg / one man drinks as other man jokingly places a beer mug on his...
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Celebrating the Repeal of 18th Amendment and Prohibition
Hundreds of workers walking into factory / aerial view of a city at night / people dancing in nightclub / group of men and women raising glasses at night club table / costumed dancers on stage.
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Alcohol manufacturing resumes after 18th Amendment repeal
Worker inside a barrel factory shaping outside of a wooden keg / wooden barrels rolling down an assembly line / workers allow barrels to roll into the streets / truck carrying barrels of alcohol / government agents taking axe to whiskey...
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Prohibition workers destroy illegal alcohol still in the woods
Alcohol distillery in forest explodes blowing smoke and spilling debris into the surrounding forest / smoke clears and men both uniformed and plain clothed walk into the bomb site / men climb through the debris searching through the...
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US Senators David Walsh and Robert Bulkley in Washington, DC, receive petition signed by people opposed to Prohibition
Title card: "Senators get petition signed by 5,000,000 opposed to dry law - Walsh of Massachusetts and Bulkley of Ohio receive plea on prohibition from Miss McAninch of Modification League" / Miss Leonora McAninch of the Congressional...
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US Customs agents seize bags of liquor from Raritan Sun tanker docked in New York City
MS Raritan Sun tanker at dock / closer shot of Raritan Sun stern / man standing in hold pulling out sacks of liquor and tossing them onto pallet / two men next to stacks of burlap bags with words printed on bags "Whiteleys Lords Quarts",...
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Acting US Secretary of State William Phillips proclaims the repeal of the 18th amendment
Acting Secretary of State William Phillips writes on paper at desk / CU proclamation reading "In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington...
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"Diogenes" bus begins cynical journey to find just one alcoholic saved by Prohibition
Title card: "ANTI-DRY BUS BEGINS US TOUR TO FIND MAN SAVED BY PROHIBITION - George E. Dickie makes dedication speech and Miss Phyllis Thompson christens car" / MS George E. Dickie, Phyllis Thompson, and others stand in front of...
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1932 launch and christening of SS Santa Paula in New Jersey
Title card: "Shipping Circles Hail New Liner as Mark of Progress - Mrs. Edward T. Ford names $5,000,000 Santa Paula of Grace Line of Kearny, NJ" / LS workers use logs to pound at underpinnings under hull / men pounding / men pounding at...
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Pilot Erroll Boyd and Australian oarsman Bob Pearce honored in Ontario, Canada
Title card: "Canada Is Proud Of These Men! - Captain Errol [sic] Boyd who expects to make a solo flight around the world" / CU Canadian pilot Erroll Boyd talks / Intertitle: "Bob Pearce, world's champion sculler, who receives a shell...
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British schooner "Henry L. Marshall" seized off New Jersey for rum- running by US Coast Guard
MS British schooner "Henry L. Marshall" at sea / MS tighter shot of same as it passes camera, sailors visible / MS damaged footage of five sailors on board, facing camera / Note: exact day not known; film has nitrate deterioration
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Baby parade in Asbury Park, NJ, 1932
Title card: "Babies Better than Ever in Asbury Parade - National pageant draws record group of little candidates for Grand Prize" / high angle LS down street lined with spectators as babies on floats approach camera / baby on float with...
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Rep. Frederick Britten predicts legal beer for Chicago by early 1933
Title card: "BRITTEN SEES 5-CENT BEER! Congressman from Illinois predicts legal sale of brew early next year" / MCU Rep Frederick Britten (R-IL), addresses camera / Note: exact day not known
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Dr. E. H. Cherrington of the Anti-Saloon League
Title card: "Rum war rages as a decade of Prohibition ends" / title card: "Dr. E. H. Cherrington Chief propaganda agent of the Anti-Saloon League as eleventh year starts says - Westerville, Ohio" / Cherrington speaking behind microphone...
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US Coast Guard patrols look for rum runners during Prohibition
Title card: "Meanwhile - War! The dry Navy made up of 500 ships of Coast Guard patrols the sea seeking and shooting rum runners" / docked ships and boats, building in bg / ships / Coast Guard ships with crews aboard, smoke plume /...
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Distilleries manufacture whiskey for medicinal use in KY during Prohibition
Title card: "In Old Kentucky - Under government license distilleries manufacture whiskey for medicine - Louisville" / man maybe testing alcohol content in container as he speaks / CU machine filling bottles / woman pounds corks on...