Documentaries & Newsreels (88)
Communist Witch Hunt, HUAC, USA, 1940s Compilation
UN326 Eric Johnson, film czar, tells the House Un-American Activities Committee that reports of communist infiltration into Hollywood are unfounded. He states that U.S. films are "The No. 1 Hate" of the communists and adds that "Reds" boycott American motion pictures, 1947. UN330 Robert Montgomery, Adolph Menjou, and Producer Sam Wood, take the stand to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee that Hollywood is fighting to keep communism out of motion pictures, 1947. 1690 HUAC hearings, 1940-50s. 2321HD Hollywood Ten supporters come to Washington, DC, (Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall lead the troop). Gary Cooper testifying before HUAC. 160092 Robert Taylor testifying before HUAC. Hollywood Ten, 1940s. 0591 HUAC, Ronald Reagan, 1940s. RR#559D Protests by the Student Committee for Civil Liberties and Communist Party members against HUAC hearings in San Francisco, 1960.
The Hindenburg, 1930s
The two Hindenburg-class airships were hydrogen-filled, passenger-carrying rigid airships built in Germany in the 1930s and named in honor of Paul von Hindenburg. The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. There were 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.
Life at the Turn-of-the-Century, USA, 1900s
Charlie, the 10-year-old "littlest expert", shows some newsreel shots of the horse-and-buggy days and comments on the customs, habits, life and times. And then concludes it is better for him to be a boy in modern times as he wouldn't have been able to collect bubble-gum cards in those days.
American Presidents, USA 1890s - 1940s
Charlie, the 10-year-old "littlest expert", shows some newsreel footage of his favorite American presidents - Franklin Roosevelt, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover.
