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Howard Hughes fights back in Senate hearing
MCU defense contractor Howard Hughes sits at table before the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, a/k/a the "Truman Committee"; Hughes is visibly irritated by his rough treatment by Sen. Homer Ferguson...
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Columbia professor proposes technocracy to remedy effects of the Great Depression
Title card: "WHAT IS TECHNOCRACY?" / dissolve to title card: "Editor's note: One of its advocates, Professor Rautenstrauch of Columbia University, briefly outlines its major purpose. Next week, we will give some interesting details...
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Different early Bibles on display in Library of Congress in Washington, DC, along with part of Dead Sea Scrolls
Close shot of pages of open Complutensian Polyglot Bible / closer shot of pages of same Bible / close shot of card below open Bible saying "The Septuagint Version" and explaining what that is / close shot of pages of open King James...
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Scenes of Hitler's rise to power and Germany's preparation for war
VS workers inside metal foundry / MS profile shot of German Dictator Adolf Hitler giving Nazi salute at April 20, 1938 military parade honoring his 49th birthday / VS artillery cannons pulled by military trucks roll past crowds in stands...
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Whiskey in Mexico during Prohibition
Title card: "Ages whiskey in sun! Kentucky distiller, moved to Mexico, gives firewater new treatment" / An enclosure of hundreds of whisky barrels in the sun with men taking inventory of the drums / VS Two men pushing barrels on parallel...
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Cleanup after earthquake in Java
VS native people clean debris from the shattered homes; twisted metal beams; people in conical hats going to work at the debris field / Two helmeted men with long 'skirts' with children clustered around them / Note: exact year not known
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Utilities magnate Samuel Insull in Greece to avoid extradition to US on antitrust and fraud charges
Title card: "Elusive Insull! - Exclusive pictures show utilities magnate now fugitive in Greece" / American utilities magnate Samuel Insull (hat) walks down stone steps of Athens, Greece building with another man towards waiting car / MS...
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101-year-old Lucida Hills speaks
Title card: "101-Year-Old Woman Speaks on Today's Problems - Mrs. Lucinda M. Hills, of Saugus, Mass., takes active interest in election, prohibition and styles" / MS Lucinda M Hills, elderly woman, being interviewed / CU Mrs. Hills /...
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Coal miners in Fayette County, PA
A group of coal miners with helmets pose for photo, then carry their lunch pails and enter the elevator to the mine / Note: exact day not known
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Chuquicamata, Chile, Copper Mine train and mine activity
LS train on tracks at Chuquicamata, Chile copper mine / VS train on tracks at mine on curve transporting rock / VS CU train transporting rock / MS train with rocks / Low Angle shot sign "Camino Particular a Chile Exploration Co....
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Newsreel narrator Harry von Zell
The making of a newsreel / projection room control desk / man's reflection in window / people watching fire video / CU narrator Harry von Zell at microphone / von Zell narrates fire video for audience / projection booth control desk /...
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Newsreel Theatre in New York City
Darkness / interior of movie theater / movie screen / programming information / man on screen with film camera / Newsreel Theatre / news from all media outlets / newsreel title "America Condemns Nazi Terrorism Roosevelt Protests; Envoy...
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Mechanical elephant and cow
Title card: "Weirdest Mastodon Comes to Life! Elephant that lived 1,000,000 years ago created by Messmore and Damon" / mechanical elephant roars / CU wiggling trunk tip / CU elephant skin and eye / CU elephant lungs expanding and...
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Roosevelts leave for church; Sen. Thomas Walsh's coffin carried
Title card: "Roosevelt's First Days in Office" / Franklin Roosevelt's family in Sunday finery in front of White House: James Roosevelt, his wife Mary, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Roosevelt, Anna...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt delivers statement
MS President Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing pince nez, sits behind desk and addresses camera (no audio); documentation indicates that the topic is war debts / MCU Roosevelt / Note: exact day not known; documentation incomplete
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African-Americans boxing in Miami
Several pairs of black men boxing in the ring with a rambunctious audience watching; two of the boxers fighting around an inert man; one boxer hits the other and knocks him out / Note: exact month/day not known
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Annual figure skating show by the Toronto Skating Club 1933
Title card: "Toronto Skating Club Stages Dazzling Fete - Annual Ice Carnival features spectacular trip to foreign lands" / high shot: couples in various costumes skate dance around ice rink / they dance in lines / Title card: "On Deck" /...
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Bridge project helps veterans' unemployment problem
Title card: "Bridge Project Gives Work to Ohio Veterans - Greyton Mastick Road span helps to solve unemployment problem" / WS bridge being built across Rocky River Valley, an Ohio National Guard plane flies across / MS men operate steam...
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Peary Monument being constructed at Cape York, Greenland, by members of Arctic explorer Robert Bartlett's expedition and Eskimos
Two shots of men riding dogsleds pulled by dogs a cross snowy landscape / close shot of dogs pulling sled / two men carrying metal tub filled with water on wooden boards and pouring water into wood barrel / two shots of men making...
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Plan to fight Great Depression by paying workers scrip is tested in Hawarden, IA
Title card: "Whips Depression! Novel plan provides work and makes money for Hawarden, Ia." / dollar scrip being printed as inventor of plan Charles Zylstra looks on / close shot of scrip / Zylstra sitting at desk looking over scrip /...
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Dedication of the Kill Devil Hills Monument for the Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hills, NC
US Secretary of War Patrick Hurley shakes hands with Orville Wright in front of microphone / Wide shot Kill Devil Hills Monument (later renamed Wright Brothers National Memorial) with people standing at base / aviator Ruth Nichols...
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Gas fires burn in Texas, 1932
Title card: "Gas Well Burns - Flaming gas erupts like volcano near Corpus Christi, Tex." / fire covering ground at night / flames and smoke rising from ground, can see oil bubbling up / various shots pan flames and smoke rising from...
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People and a couple of celebrities with their pets at New York City pet show in 1932
Title card: "Movie Queens Share Limelight with Little Pets - Hollywood stars and proud owners pose with entries at New York show" / Pan pet owners with various pets at table, man with ocelot, man with bear, woman with bird and dog, woman...
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Researchers use rats in lab for radiation dust inhalation pharmacology experiment at UCLA's Atomic Energy Project
Two men in lab, one man puts caged rat into large disc shaped piece of equipment / other man wearing respirator shakes flask contents onto paper and into another apparatus / overhead shot: window on disc apparatus, man puts caged rat...