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1937 8mm Newsreel "New Parade of the Year"; Includes an Additional Newsreel

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Channel: David Hancock · 2013 · News & Politics

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This video presents 8mm video clips of a 1937 newsreel. There's no sound, but here are the "Section Title", the event's date if known, and the (time mark in the video where this segment starts) [and a link with additional information]:
"Europe's Powder Keg! Endless Spanish Rebellion" (00:32) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War,_1937]
"Worst London Cloudburst in 27 Years" (1:58)
"In the U.S. -- Storms and Floods Render Thousands Homeless", January and February 1937 on the Ohio River, (2:42) [http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=flood_37]
"George VI Reviews Grand Fleet", after 11 December 1936, (3:53) [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-naval-review-aka-his-majesty-reviews-his-fle]
"Texas Horror! 450 Perish when Mysterious Explosion Demolishes School at New London", 18 March 1937, (4:52) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion]
"U.S. Labor Strikes", 30 December 1936 to 11 January 1937, (5:50) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Sit-Down_Strike]
"Rockerfeller, Oil Pioneer and Philanthropist Passes at Ninety-seven", 23 May 1937, (6:34), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller]
"Amelia Earhart Lost!", 2 Jul 1937, (7:03) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_earhart]
"London to New York in 24 Hours, Giant Clipper [derigible] ships are trail blazers in New and Old World service" (7:57)
"Soviet Flyers Win New Air Laurels", 20 June 1937, (8:59) [http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7208]
"[Hugo] Black to U.S. [Supreme] Court! Roosevelt appoints self-confessed ex-Klansman to Bench from which there is no appeal", 18 August 1937, (10:29) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black]
"17 Million Dollar Bridge Opens", 12 November 1936, (10:58) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge]
"Mussolini Visits Hitler in Germany", September 1937, (11:33) [http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/italy_and_germany_1936_to_1940.htm]
"Japan Invades China! [Nanjing Massacre]", August 1937, (12:30) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre]
"In the Hands of these Five Men [Hideki Tojo, Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt] Rests the Destiny of the World" (14:34)

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