Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 12]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 12]

1940

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/100153

Part 1 shows horse racing in Chicago's Arlington Park and the Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. Part 2, the Norwegian freighter Lista burns in N.Y. Harbor. Part 3, President Roosevelt visits the Portsmouth (N.H.) and Boston Navy Yards, and the Watertown (Massachusetts) Arsenal. Shows the presidential yacht Potomac and the frigate Old Ironsides. Personages: John Roosevelt and Sec. of Navy Knox. Part 4, Col. Theodore Roosevelt watches National Guard troop maneuvers in N.Y. Part 5, an official discusses the registrations of aliens in the U.S. Shows the fingerprinting of aliens and a class for registrars. Part 6, a relief train brings in food and carries out refugees during a flood near Crowley, La. Part 7, the Duke of Windsor visits Bermuda enroute to Nassau.

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