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New Orleans, Louisiana and floods in the USA

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220658 02:00:00 - 02:05:27 1900s SIL B/W

New Orleans, early 1900s.
Harbour and docks scenes - steam ships - Cansfjord unloading at dock
02:02:02 housing and shops; street scenes
02:02:30 pleasure gardens - boating lake and swans.
02:03:20 Strange game played with sticks by boys in park - sort of hockey. Good street scenes

poor area - children playing in yard - trams. Busy shopping area - well dressed pedestrians.

220409 04:23:41 - 04:27:07 1930s Sd b/w

Huey Long
Short cuts New Orleans - buildings, statues, cannons. Carnival float. River, Levees. Southern mansion - trees with spanish moss. Group of four young black boys playing craps on pavement. Aerial views old city and new. Road.
04:25:55 Sections of MOT cut programme. Does not exist at NARA

221030 03:11:50 - 03:13:12 1934 Sd B/W

Long longs to Clean up New Orleans
Mayor Walmsley sitting on mudguard of car. Huey Long walks out of building and makes animated statement re not allowing crime in New Orleans to go on under licence from city hall.
03:12:39 Mayor Walmsley makes statement re how New Orleans is a clean decent place to live.

221005 21:18:06 - 21:28:55 1936 - 1937 Sd B/W

Flood Weather [Part 3]
Ohio River flood of 1937: Weather vanes - animated weather maps.
21:19:45 River in full flood - water rushing past bridges. Newspaper headline Ô80,000 Desert Homes As Midwest Streams Rage to Higher LevelsÕ. AVs flooded area in the Ohio River Valley. Flooded town streets. People being rescued by boat from flooded homes. West Virginia - US route 40 flooded, man in row boat. Portsmouth, Ohio - flooded tree-lined avenue w/ rowboat.
21:20:52 Cincinnati flooded areas, submerged buildings. Headlines. Manufacturing plant on fire.
21:21:23 Louisville, Kentucky flooded. Rescue boats evacuating residents. River towns flooded. Farm animals in floods suffering from starvation. Dog perched in snow on top of submerged car. Cat stranded in upper window just above water level. AVs floods.
21:22:55 Blasting of fuse plug on the Missouri side of river - diverting river over lowlands into Mississippi. Men raising levees - labourers with sandbags. VS damage caused to property [estiimated at $half a billion]. Refugees - rescues. Weather vanes - weather bureau gauges - newspapers - radio mast. Casualties of flood. Lower reaches of river where flood damage was minimal.
21:25:30 Above New Orleans new floodway bypassing river. River in full flood.
21:26:28 Man looking at book from Library of Congress which records flood which occurred below Memphis in 1543. Flooded areas.
21:28:03 River steamboat; river at sunset.
Weather Forecasting.
[NB Poor quality - very scratched.]

LN 505-114 22:00:14 - 22:05:26 1950? SD B/W

[Warner Pathe News Magazine Of The Screen] title missing
Bowl Games, The
22:00:26 Orange Bowl Night parade in Miami w/ elaborate floats. U. of Miami vs Clemson Half time show w/ eleaborate displays. Good broken field running & passing. Final score: Clemson 15, U of Miami 14
22:02:54 Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX Tennessee vs Texas Touchdown passes. Tennessee 20, Texas 14
22:04:07 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans Oklahoma vs Kentucky Good passing. Kentucky 13, Oklahoma 7.

Louisiana

220409 04:12:50 - 04:23:39 1930s Sd b/w

Huey Long
Optical effect which shows three Huey Longs making animated speech / gesticulating / waving arms. Normal shots Huey long making animated speech.
04:13:28 Oscar Kelly Adams swearing in as Governor of the state of Louisiana.
04:14:30 First lady governor of Louisiana - makes short speech and poses
04:14:53 Huey Long in various situations - making speech at University - with wife at evening reception - both speak.
04:15:25 Short shot Adams
04:15:36 Long putting on graduation robes
04:15:58 Long leading march
04:16:08 Col Robert Ewing, publisher, presents Long with first edition of newspaper.
04:16:16 man standing in front of placard Ò Gov. LongÕs Plans - 1932 Louisiana will lead the World in good roadsÓ
04:16:24 Long making speech (mos). Bridge. Cars over bridge to Slidell
04:16:58 French ? Naval ship - Huey Long with Col. Seymour Weiss and A. Danziger greeted by Commander .
Group standing for national anthem. Sailors fire gun salute.
04:17:59 Long addressing outdoor meeting. Long stops on road to New Orleans to talk to foreman of road builders. Long standing with family ? and others
04:18:59 Exterior Long house / mansion. Long making animated speech. - various cuts some out of synch. Talks re redistribution of wealth
Louisiana

220870 03:12:34 - 03:13:39 1935 Sd B/W

Huey Long Stands on His Record
Long to camera makes animated speech re successes - adult education, new roads, new prisons. Warns corporate businesses.

Louisiana

220409 03:00:05 - 03:08:00 1938 Sd b/w

Your Job Insurance
Exterior Capitol with flag flying. Interior congress in session. President Roosevelt (FDR) seated surrounded by men and women as he signs. Map of USA with moving pix superimposed. Members of Social Security Board.
03:01:29 Louisiana - Baton Rouge, pan down building. Governor Richard W. Lesh ? with State Labour Commissioner in office. 03:01:58 Dock scenes - industry - offices. Wages office, men clocking off. ÒSteveÓ who has just lost his job - he goes to Department of Labor State employment office. Steve with woman clerk,
Steve interviewed by male clerk re benefit payments for unemployment. On screen display of jobs which do not cover / insure against unemployment. Steve leaves office. Dates on calender falling March 1938. Steve reports back to unemployment office after a week. Pages of calendar falling. Steve reports again to unemployment office. Steve opening his mail box and getting unemployment cheque. Steve and wife in grocery store. Steve and family at home, gets letter telling him employment office have found him a job. Map of US superimposed with workers. Declaration of Independence.

Mississippi River

220408 02:05:55 - 02:09:13 1927 Si b/w Th e Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Secretary Hoover and Sec. of War Davis at Vicksburg on tour of flooded areas. With them are Jasper Feiser acting Chairman of Red Cross and others. Group standing on porch of house. LS Sea-plane takes off from river. POV from steamship travelling towards Baton Rouge - Sec. Davis on deck looking at disaster. Group on deck - tracking shot during journey from Vicksburg to Natchez past submerged houses.
02:06:15 Official party at Camp Natchez. People displaced by flood - children outside tents with members of official party. Old black woman smoking pipe meets officials
02:06:45 Mass of tents at Baton Rouge. Registering names of refugees. Medical aid - mass vaccination.
02:07:18 Camp kitchen - white families eating in large tent. Black families eating in open air. Children in queue for baby bottles / milk. Lovely shots kids. Washing clothes in tubs. Major Schneider inspecting tents of the homeless (out of rack) Mississippi River Vicksburg

220625 02:29:42 - 02:36:?? 1927 Sd b/w

The Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Raging water with farm buildings behind seen from levee near break. Soldier patrolling. POV past submerged houses, barns & trees. people marooned on levees with animals & goods. People in RR car and on barges to stay above water. OUtboard boat pushing barge with horses. Hoover & Red Cross. Blacks moving cars of army cots & loading trains with crates. Baton Rouge levee reinforced with sandbags et. Moving cattle down street & barging off. Army moving boat into water for rescue work & loaded with people and others following. Mules off barges. People moving out by boat. Paddle wheel boat pushing barge; amphibious plane over. Man rows to woman on roof. Coast Guard boat & rescued people. POV from boat on Mississippi. US Coastguguard boat with rescued people. CU mother and daughter. Paddle Boat load of rescued cattle. Paddle steamship USS Inspector on river between Vicksburg and Baton Rouge. Boats searching for marooned victims - past submerged houses.

South; Northwest; MS, Mississippi - River

220625 02:35:15 - 02:44:44 1937 Sd b/w

Uncle Sam ... The Greatest Builder
About the mighty dams of the Government Works Program during Depression years. VS dam construction, coal on conveyor belt, Grand Coulee on Columbia River; steam shovels and other earth moving machines in operation. WPA. 1933 in Montana at headwaters of Missouri, Ft. Peck dam being built. Tunneling type machine; man welding; Colorado River Gorge and Boulder Dam. Electric transmission lines out of Boulder. irrigation lines. VS Boulder Dam. Giant truck being nauled up by ropes. Locks on the Mississippi River. Horses plowing. Steamboat on Mississippi. Pilot at helm. VS steamships on river. Slow pan of steamboat name, Mark Twain and paddlewheel.
02:42:25 - Bonneville Dam project. VS construction in California's Sierra Nevadas.

South; Northwest; MS, Mississippi - River

LN 505-105 03:12:37 - 03:22:25 1937 SD B/W The River [Reel 1 of 3]
[Main title missing.] R1 traces growth of Mississippi River from sources to Gulf of Mexico - construction of levees, cotton picking, river shipping, and lumbering activities.
Pictorial of clouds boiling; still around mountain peaks; CU water running over rocks & flowing streams to rivers; POV on water.
03:15:09 Silhouette mules, horses & farmers building dikes. CU plowing.
03:16:30 Black workers picking Cotton. Riverboat & black smoke. Loading sacks; bell ringing; CU paddlewheel. Blacks rolling bales onto the Tennessee Belle. Three racing riverboats / paddlesteamers.
03:18:17 Newspaper article re General Lee's capitulation, 1865. Flames. Ruined & decrepit Southern mansions. Soil erosion. Blacks w/ belongings on wagon & walking. Clouds. Tilt up forest. CU axe into tree. Falling trees. Logs down flumes into river. Pile of logs beside log pond. Dynamiting stacks of logs into river for drive. CUs log into saw blade.
Mississippi River

LN 505-105 03:22:25 - 03:32:24 1937 SD B/W

The River [Reel 2 of 3]
R2 consists mostly of Mississippi River during 1937 flood. Unloading ships, coal, steel mill with steam/smoke. Slag into cars Dumping ladles w/ sparks. Cotton bales unloaded on conveyors from barges by Blacks. Cotton mill. Large freighter. Growing river ports w/ factories and docks.
03:24:57 Clouds, hilltops. Burned tree stumps on foggy hillside. Icicles & water drops. Water on mud. Erosion. Rain. Running water. Flooding streams & rivers. Clouds, lightening, high water markers. Rescue boats - sirens. Levee patrols - sandbags on dikes. Flooded farms & victims. Tent cities. CU of kids & mother w/ baby. Dog on roof. POV from boat among buildings. Aerials of flooded city.

LN 505-105 03:32:25 - 03:42:55 1937 SD B/W

The River [Reel 3 of 3]
Cleaning up debris after flood - scenes of destruction - cars upside down. Soil Erosion - over-cultivation. Shacks. Deserted farms. White workers gleaning sparse cotton. Kid & toy of tin can. Poverty - woman cooking fat meat w/ four kids in cabin. Kids eating w/ hands & wiping plate clean. Beds crowded into shack. Clouds above river.
03:37:00 Diagram of Mississippi River showing damage caused by logging & farming.
03:38:45 Building dam, pouring concrete, explosion, jack hammer. Feet & people walking. CCC planting trees & filling gullies. Cattle graze. Tennessee Valley with new farming village - VO re government initiatives. Homesteaders building houses. Farming. Hydro-electric dam - electrical power lines.
Tennessee Valley

220459 05:23:32 - 05:33:45 1939 Si b/w

Various old Southern Mansions
Sign'Welcome to Natchez'.
Huge timber yard. Timber plant with smoking chimneys. River. Tops shot town centre, streets, traffic. Armstrong tire & rubber company, trucks in front. Exterior official building with pillars.
well preserved old mansion, debutante in ball gown or bride with family. Various large Old South plantation mansions, two women on porch served by black servant. Black gardeners. Construction site on derelict mansion, building brick wall. New house built next to dilapidated mansion, detail of old worn out plantation mansion. Old style hotel. Pillars overgrown with weeds. Part of wall from destroyed house.
Inside hall luxurious mansion, Black female servant carries silver tray, serves coffee to white women in living room by fireplace. Portrait of woman ancestor

Mississippi

220863 07:36:15 - 07:55:29 1942 Si Col

Mississippi River
The stern wheel steamers W.L. Quinlan and Mark Twain sail on the Mississippi River stopping at remote landings to pick up passengers and cargo and pushing or towing loaded rafts - coal transported. Includes close-ups of the pilot houses and paddle wheels of the vessels. Scenic shots river and countryside. ships bell and hooters - smoke from stacks

Mississippi River

Floods

220435 00:37:36 - 00:38:25 1916 ? Si b/w

Floods
Aerial views flooded areas - river and city with airfield ? AVs city.
Natural Disasters. 1910s.

221092 16:53:12 - 16:54:11 1932 SIL B/W

Convicts Rushed To Aid Flood-Stricken River Communities
Prisoners in striped uniforms digging flood defences & carrying sandbags across swollen river. All convicts appear to be Black. Farm buildings & houses surrounded by water, some partly submerged - man in rowing boat.
Natural Disasters - Flooding. 1930s.

220893 12:11:48 - 12:16:03 1940s SD B/W

Today and Tomorrow - Harnessing American Rivers
Tennessse Valley Authority - TVA
Flowing rivers and floods aftermath. Congress. Architect's office. Building dam - construction - drilling - Animated map shows reservoirs. Various dams incl. Norris Dam, Tennessee (first dam built by TVA). Releasing waters. Interior dam. Grand Coulee Dam (Columbia River). Fields. Water out of dam. Electric towers.
Washington
Tennessee

221107 16:35:39 - 16:37:06 1963 SD B/W

20,000 Flee: Floods And Winds Devastate 4 States
Aerial swollen river & collapsed bridge in one of four affected Southern states - sign Cumberland River - downed US Army helicopter - sign for Harlan & Pineville. People w/ salvaged possessions outside homes after flood water receded. High water marks on church door & diner window. People remove trolleys full of tinned food from damaged supermarket - looting ?
Natural Disasters. Flooding.

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LN 505-034 05:45:14 - 05:54:59 1947 SD B/W

Life In Old Louisiana [Main title missing]
ERPI Classroom Films
POV from river boat. Two costumed men & family talking in French & English. Houses raised above ground shown. Cotton picking by black slaves.
05:46:2? River bank from river; views of plantation from land. Workers cutting sugar cane with negro workers. Other views of mansions.
05:47:1? Shore and shots of steam boat on river. New Orleans and French Quarter with servants scrubbing flagstones on patio, make fire in fireplace and cooking. White family comes home.
05:48:22 Family kneeling in prayer. Then sitting in courtyard and speaking Creole with servants serving.
05:49:00 Woman practicing harp in large ornate room. Two young children with governess learning English. Read about all men created equal.
05:50:0? Men dueling with sabres in CU.
05:50:45 Slave market, men onto auction block. White men in top hats bidding.
05:51:3? Cemetary and wreath laying on above-ground tomb.
05:52:00 Formal dinner with black servant serving. 'You Creoles live the good life...' Statement about all nationalities sharing freedom.
05:53:0? Maid makes up bed and dresses young white woman. boyfriend arrives and chaperone and servant lead them along the street.
05:54:1? View of farming, riverboat scenes intercut to people in drawing room talking. Other riverboat shots w/ good shot of wake from riverboat.

LN 505-061 09:41:04 - 09:50:36 1951 SD B/W

French Influence In North America
Coronet Instructional Films [main title missing]
Typical small town US main street - Coca Cola sign visible - awning w/'Suburban Restaurant - Home Cooking' - teenager Jack & younger sister Louise into restaurant. INT Louise looks at menu & points out words that don't seem American - 'menu' - 'fillet' -'casserole' etc. Title: '1534' - map showing explorer Jacques Cartier's route from France to gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada & first settlements of Quebec & Montreal. Statue of Champlain & early wooden settlement showing French architecture. French missionary outside chapel shakes hands w/ man dressed as stereotypical Native American Indian. Church built in Quebec in 1688 - one of oldest streets in New World - more French architecture - horse & carriage. Quebec street scenes - women talking on street - French shop signs.
09:44:26 Cut to examples of French influence in typical American town - store signs 'Chalmette Drug Store' - ÔLecorgne HardwareÕ. Statue of Jesuit priest Father Marquette & fur trader Louis ? - map showing their route from Quebec to Mississippi Valley on mission to convert Indians - recreation of the two explorers canoing down river. Examples of chapel, trading post & fort built by French explorers as they travelled through valley. Vincennes, Indiana - French style cathedral. Map of US showing French influence in city names like Montpelier, Detroit, Baton Rouge etc.
09:46:21 Louise out of restaurant w/ brother - wearing beret - walk past sedan car. Traffic past. Buy newspaper from sidewalk vendor - point to French words 'Premier' & 'Bayou' on front page - shot of typical Louisiana bayou.
09:47:17 Statue of explorer Robert de la Salle. Map of US showing region la Salle named Louisiana after French king. CU street sign 'New Orleans City Limit'. EXT Parish Court house. Cathedral in old section of New Orleans. French Quarter - Chartres Street - French-style carriages on street - balconies. French plantation house outside city. Jack & Louise walk down suburban street as VO points out French influence in US architecture - French provincial style, chateau - INT furniture in French style, French print on wall & French literature. VO summarises areas in which French influences visible. High angle shot of small town main street w/ traffic.

LN 505-118 05:33:31 - 05:49:18 1959 c SD COL

Inland Waterways In The Development Of American Transportation
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Aerial views river, coastline. Old-fashioned steam locomotive past. Industrial scenes. Factories on riverbank. VO re fall & rise of US waterways. Freight barges. Pan across river to dam / bridge. Allegheny Mountains - VO re Westward expansion in 19th Century - barge loaded w/ goods. Niagara Falls. Man dressed as George Washington - quote re waterways. Erie Canal - canal boat drawn by mule - Albany-Buffalo - water level raised in lock & barge continues.
05:38:08 Map of US showing canal construction. Vars paddle steamboats on river. Locomotive steam whistle - early trains along railroad - VO re decline of inland waterways by 1850.
05:40:02 Industrial scenes - steel mills - ore barge along river - coal barge towed - oil tanker barge - chemical barge - grain into covered barge - top shot goods loaded into barge.
05:42:10 Map of North America showing inland waterways & links w/ rivers & sea. Cars & steel transported down Ohio River en route to Texas - towboat pushing barge - INT cab - past Cincinatti - new industrial development on riverside - barge through lock - new barge full of tractors added at Louisville. Night scenes barge using arc lights & radar. Fog.
05:46:20 Barge passes through Baton Rouge & New Orleans, Louisiana - dock scenes. Map showing point where barge leaves Mississippi River & enters Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Aerial views GIW - passes Galveston & arrives at Brownsville, Texas where freight unloaded.
05:48:12 New cars loaded onto four-deck self-propelled barge - Tennessee River - bridge raised - vars barge & aerial shots.

LN 505-026 07:01:11 - 07:10:23 1948 SD COL

Arteries Of Life
New York Zoological Society / Dist. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Part Three of The Living Earth series. Animated diagram showing chain of life - raw materials, energy, plants, top soil, organization, water, forests. Ocean - air currents - mountain range - dramatic cloud formations & rain shower. Dry area inland - stream running from mountain & through forest. Forest floor absorbing water like sponge - experiment w/ one square foot of turf, absorbs 2 gallons. Snow melting slowly on wooded area of hillside - area where trees burned shows almost no snow; CUs rainwater running off sparse land; vegetation protecting soil. Studio cross-section model of soil w/ water pouring - one side 'Forest Absorbs', the other 'Bare Surface Sheds Rain' - moisture on protected side filters to water table & spreads by capillary action. Farmland in shadow of mountain - alfalfa crop harvested - churning mountain river - moose wandering in grassland.
07:06:00 Beaver on dam - important resource but most killed off. Man-made dam & huge reservoir. Green irrigated land downstream next to desert - not enough water. Melted snow into springs & brooks - into rivers. Stream through mountains of Continental divide - splits off in different directions - irrigating fruit trees in California & lands of Mississippi Valley, south into Rio Grande.
07:08:25 Fertile San Louis Valley - irrigation canals & ditches through fields. Map of US showing 'arteries of life' carrying water through states. Fertile farmland - Dust Bowl - polluted river - tree felled - marshes drained - soil tilled - combine harvester.

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