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A look at the family lives of POTUS candidates Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alf Landon
Title card: "At home with the candidates" superimposed over circles with candidates faces / VS an elegant car leaves the Roosevelt home 'Springwood' / VS the house / Pres. Franklin Roosevelt reads and then looks at the camera / Eleanor...
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Parade and Pres. Franklin Roosevelt address to boys at the First National Conference of School National Safety Patrols, 1936
Title card: "News Flashes!" / VS 16 state school patrols march in parade in DC past government bldgs / young boy of the Jacksonville Florida patrol salutes / VS marchers / MS President Franklin D Roosevelt standing at podium on balcony...
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Russian dictator Joseph Stalin reviews Russian military on May Day in Red Square
Title "Russia's Military Power" superimposed over soldiers marching in formation; VO music throughout / high overhead shot of soldiers marching in formation / QS Joseph Stalin with officials and officers on the tribune of Lenin's...
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Prohibition repealed in US
[GHOC Episode A-03] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Prohibition Repealed" / beauty shot US Capitol / US Pres. Franklin Roosevelt signs proclamation ending Prohibition on 12/5/1933 // Roosevelt's signature...
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Parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC at Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's second inauguration, 1937
High overhead shot of parade / closer shot of military band marching down street / Pres. Franklin Roosevelt in reviewing stand with other officials watching parade / military band marching past reviewing stand / Roosevelt and officials...
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1937 auto workers strike in Flint, MI, with shots of strikers in plant and opinions on both sides
Title: "The Right to Work" over strikers outside General Motors factory / EXT GM factory roof / VS assembly line work / VS car shells and seats / United Auto Workers Pres. Homer Martin (in eyeglasses), Federal Conciliator James Dewey...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt flays critics on US democracy in his speech during his visit to Roanoke Island, NC
Title card: "President Flays Critics" superimposed over Franklin D. Roosevelt / LS President Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing a light summer suit, at speaker's stand on erected outdoor platform at an event commemorating the anniversary of...
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Alarm clocks are given away to purchasers of $50 War Bonds at Roth Bros. Jewelry store in New York City
Title card: "War Time Alarm Clocks Given Away with $50 Bonds" / 500 alarm clocks are being given away to purchasers of $50 War Bonds. Treasury Department clerks help handle the heavy traffic / High shot long line of people standing in...
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Rudy York hits a home run in the first game of the 1946 World Series
[Sportfolio episode 221] [Shaky footage at first] Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / title card: "place commercial here" / packed stands at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis / low angle CU baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler smiles as...
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Emil Zatopek wins 10,000 meter race at the 1948 Summer Olympics
[Sportfolio episode 140] Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / title card: "place commercial here" / attendees walk across an outdoor plaza at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London; Olympic flag and flags of other nations stand on poles /...
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Chicago Cubs win Game Six of 1945 World Series against Detroit Tigers at Wrigley Field in Chicago
[Sportfolio episode 154] Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / title card: "place commercial here" / Detroit Tigers player Hank Greenberg hits home run / Greenberg rounding bases / Chicago Cubs player Stan Hack hits single, Cubs pinch...
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During Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt urges people to respond to Unemployment Census
Title card: "Census! Roosevelt urges jobless to sign" / close shot of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt getting ready to speak / SOT Roosevelt sitting at desk speaking to camera, urging unemployed and partly employed to answer questions on census...
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1951 Sugar Bowl features the Oklahoma Sooners vs. the Kentucky Wildcats
Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / card: "place commercial here" / college football / University of Oklahoma Sooners vs University of Kentucky Wildcats in the Sugar Bowl / several touchdowns / Sportfolio end sequence
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Carl Hubbell strikes out Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx and Lou Gehrig in the 1934 All-Star Game in New York City
Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / card: "Place commercial here" / High angle men huddled at home plate, stands in bkgd / High angle, deep shot hawkers walk amongst seated spectators / CU two baseball players shake hands / VS # 3...
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In Chinese films, Communists interrogate US Airman Floyd O'Neal about germ warfare
Title card: "The Big Lie Exposed!" / Title card: "These films, shown to the United Nations by U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., unmask Communist torture techniques." / Title card: "Red propaganda movies show American airmen who have...
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US election night 1952: Dwight Eisenhower in the lead
Times Square, at night, electronic billboard declares Eisenhower leading / CU man with cigar shaking head / New York Times building lights read "Eisenhower" / people throwing confetti in air / Dwight Eisenhower takes the stage / overhead...
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Christmas scenes in Finland, 1951, featuring Christmas tree, pipe organ, candles and Bible
MS statue, half in shadow and half in dim light, of woman with baby and another child on her lap / Low angle candelabras on altar with Bible and lace cloth with crosses and communion goblets / Pan down organ pipes to man playing organ /...
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Korean War: mountains
Korean War / shaky video of mountain with smoke from artillery fire / Note: exact day not known
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Atlantic City police get caps with radios that broadcast instructions from headquarters, 1954
Title: "Atlantic City, N.J. Police Get Orders Via Cap Radio" superimposed over policeman walking wearing transmitter / CU police cap with arced transmitter wire / (reenactment scene) VS two police officers running down city street, guns...
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West Berlin children's choir arrives in New York
Title superimposed on children deplaning: "Happy Wanderers ... Famous children's choir here from Germany" / The children of the Obernkirchen Children's Choir all wave from the boarding stairs and tarmac; young girls in matching outfits...
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Local officials dedicate new YMCA physical facility building in Middletown, NY
Title: "Middletown, N.Y. - Dedicate YMCA Physical Facility Building" superimposed over Middletown dignitaries posing on steps of new YMCA building / WS Middletown / CU sign "You'll like Middletown - The City of Good Neighbors 5200...
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Storms plague United Kingdom in November of 1954
Title: "Gales Sweep Britain" superimposed over wave crashing on shore / waves crashing against wall and utility pole / Aerials South Goodwin lightship turned on side in rough ocean / CU survivor of Goodwin lightship Ronald Murton talking...
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Canadian Minister of Trade Howe cuts ribbon at ceremony to open Canso Causeway linking mainland with Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia
Title: "Road through the Sea - Nova Scotia Opens Causeway to Cape Breton" superimposed over causeway / VS causeway / PAN new causeway / CU map of Canada showing Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland / CU map, pointer comes in to...
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Summer clothes and hats, 1953
Title card: "Outdoors in Style - Fashion Chases the Sun!" / upper half door opens to six women in hats / photographer and children on bicycles watch as three women model hats, bathing suits and summer clothes / CU petticoat /...