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Title cards for 1952 GOP convention stories
Title: 'Republican Convention Showdown!' superimposed over silhouette of an elephant, the symbol of the Republican Party [shaky video] / VS title card: 'Republican Convention Showdown' / title card: 'It's Ike!' / Note: exact day not known
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Four-rotored helicopter attempts flight in 1920s
Four-rotored helicopter rises slowly and shakily from ground as rotors whirl; dust kicks up from the wind generated / rear shot the helicopter gets off the ground but sets back down as it moves away / helicopter hovers just above ground...
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Autogiros - airplanes fitted with helicopter rotor blades
Small airplane with propeller and helicopter rotor blade flies over city skyline and swoops over field / VS autogiro flies around and over field / autogiro lands vertically / VS it flies around and over field / autogiro makes landing and...
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United Nations committee in Jerusalem
Members of United Nations Special Committee on Palestine walking through Jerusalem / WS Wailing Wall/ committee members at wall / committee enter building / WS committee members leaving building / Jerusalem street scenes / UNSCOP...
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Robert Bulkley wants to repeal Prohibition
Title card: "Senator Bulkley Stirs Voters - Democratic candidate for re-election from Ohio talks to Cleveland throng" / Senator Robert J. Bulkley campaigns standing among group of men and women / Bulkley gets applause for promise to...
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Canon Chase calls for repeal of Prohibition
Title card: "New Dry Party? Canon Chase, noted reformer, wants organized to fight repeal" / Canon William Sheafe Chase speaks (no audio) / Note: exact day not known
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Canadian PM Bennett honors Lord Baldwin at Imperial Conference
Title card: "British Hail Trade Pact! - Prime Minister Bennett of Canada sums up work of Imperial Conference at Ottawa" / Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett speaking ,standing at table, raised throne behind him, can see others at...
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USS Constitution in Boston Harbor
MLS partial side view of USS Constitution in Boston Harbor / CU looking down at cannons protruding from side of ship / Note: exact day not known
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Alfred Distelhurst close-up
MCU Alfred E. Distelhurst, father of kidnap victim Dorothy Ann Distelhurst, age 5 / Note: exact month/day not known
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Babe Ruth becomes a member of the "Saints and Sinners Club" at New York's Gotham Hotel
MCU Babe Ruth in a crown, wig and robe being inducted into Circus Saints and Sinners Club of America at New York's Gotham Hotel / Tony Sarg, president of Saints and Sinners, puts beard on Ruth / laughter / batter cage with bird fitted...
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World War II British propaganda film
World War II / "Behind the Guns," propaganda film / military ships at sea firing guns / plane in flight / tanks and in the field / explosions around tanks / CU tanks / armed British soldiers in the field walking through explosions /...
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World War II: action in the Pacific
[Video unstable at times] World War II / Pacific theater / military ships and aircraft carriers at sea / military planes in flight / American insignia on plane taking off from aircraft carrier / ships firing / anti-aircraft guns firing /...
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Dr. Earl Danford Bond, Director of Mental Hygiene of Pennsylvania Hospital, wins award for public service
Title card: "Director of Mental Hygiene of Pennsylvania Hospital expresses his appreciation of honor" / psychiatrist Dr. Earl Danford Bond holding small chest talking to camera after being awarded the Philadelphia Award (established by...
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"Electric Tongue" device derives sound from the acids in fruit and other items
Title card: "Electric Tongue Tastes Fruit by Measuring Acid - New scientific marvel, demonstrated by President O. H. Caldwell of NY Electrical Society, records acids in sound" / VS O. H. Caldwell, president, New York Electrical Society,...
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Former President Coolidge attends induction ceremony at Amherst College
Title card: "Lord of Amherst! Coolidge, in cap and gown, sees Dr. King inducted as President" / former President Calvin Coolidge walks, in top hat, in procession of cap-and-gowned men at Amherst College / CU Stanley King, new college...
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Map of US regions with known gold deposits
VS map of the Western US, with indicators marking areas of known gold deposits / Note: exact day not known
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Reenactment of the exploration of the American West
Title card: "Pikes Peak or Bust!" / Native Americans in full regalia with bald eagle feathered headdresses followed by a wagon ('Quill Club') with four riders / Men in American Revolution uniforms with tricorn hats; one peers through a...
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Track and field intercollegiate championships at Franklin Field in Philadelphia
Title card: "West Rules Track!" / A crowd of thousands in white summer attire / Scenes of start of 110-meter high hurdles race won by Phil Good / Pole vaulters Keith Brown and Frank Pierce / A crowd in the grandstands (dark winter...
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Confederate Army veterans parade in Tennessee during annual reunion
Title card: "Confederate Veterans hold 44th reunion" / Cavalry with white horses and the parade behind passing numerous shops; a group of people on a stage / A long line of supply wagons pulled by horses / An equestrian statue of Robert...
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During Great Depression, businessman Samuel Insull on trial in Chicago for defrauding investors
Title card: "Insull's defense!" / Samuel Insull walking along amid small crowd of men / Insull talking to reporters and being photographed by photographers / Insull getting into taxicab / cab pulls away / Insull sitting inside beside his...
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers address at Gettysburg, PA
Title card; "Roosevelt's Gettysburg Address!" / Pres. Franklin Roosevelt standing at podium at Gettysburg National Cemetery / crowd gathered to hear speech / three shots of US military airplanes flying overhead / Roosevelt speaking /...
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Singer Louene Ambrosius posing for sculptor Henrietta Kaye, who is making clay caricature of her
Louene Ambrosius posing for sculptor Henrietta Kaye / close shot of Ambrosius posing / Kaye working on caricature / close shot of caricature of Greta Garbo made by Kaye / close shot of caricature of Katharine Hepburn made by Kaye / close...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt dedicates George Rogers Clark monument
Pan of a vast crowd in Harrodsburg, KY / SOT Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, "We, pioneers of 1934, are come together today to honor the pioneers of a century and a half ago...mere survival calls for a new pioneering on our part..will give to...
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Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Warm Springs buildings
Title card: "Roosevelt Hails Model Warm Springs" / US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives driving car at Warm Springs / Roosevelt speaking from car, man standing by car and man in wheelchair, microphones on tripods, people in bg /...