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Panama-Pacific International Exposition: Opening day celebrations / crowds at the entrances / pan of Exposition proper / parades on Market Street and Van Ness Avenue / Tower of Jewels / Fountain of Energy / other buildings / day for night shots / submarines / Fun Zone at night / nighttime illumination of buildings showing use of fog machines and special lights / Uncle Sam's submarines. No audio. (13 minutes)
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The Great Depression of the 1930s created unprecedented levels of unemployment in the United States. At its worst, one quarter of the population was unemployed and income levels had dropped by 50 percent. The New Deal, a brainchild of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, attempted to address the problems with federal relief programs. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created new jobs for working class and professional workers alike. Manual workers...
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Emphasizes the need for a better understanding of the laws governing the infant's mental and physical growth, so that a happier social order can be developed. Similarities, differences, and characteristic ways in which infants react to standardized test situations are shown, as are their everyday life and social reactions to the family group. Discusses the education and mental hygiene of infants and the obligation of science, home, and society to...
11) Sports Clubs
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This video clip features a historical bicycle club and their old-time bikes (11/10/30, Decatur, Illinois) and synchronized swimming and diving (9/21/31 Coventry, England).
13) At High Altitude
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This video clip contains footage of a man in a bathtub suspended from a hot air balloon (8/31/31, Los Angeles), workers servicing a clock tower (11/14/21, San Francisco), and an unsuccessful parachute jump performed with a motorcycle (11/18/26, Los Angeles).
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Manufacturing of corrugated boxes. Hinde and Dauch Paper Company Corrugated Fibre Shipping Boxes and Packing Materials. Film on making cardboard boxes, ca. 1920s, with lots of looking at camera and interaction between workers and camera. Scenes of their Cleveland, Ohio factory, plus views of other companies using their boxes.
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Following World War I, economic uncertainty and widespread fluctuation in the value of world currencies led to a sustained worldwide economic downturn known as the Great Depression. In 1933, delegates from 66 countries gathered in England for the London Economic Conference in hopes of stabilizing the world economy. This conference ended with no clear resolution, and many nations continued to suffer from economic failures until the start of World War...