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Title: 25 Years Ago Today (FDR; Morgenthau; Senate Committee; Highway Accidents; Ears; Glasses Wipers)

Reel Number: 221550-44

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1959,1934,1930s

Country: USA

Location: DC,New Jersey,Washington

TC Begins: 19:20:34

TC Ends: 19:23:07

Duration: 00:02:33

Title: 25 Years Ago Today (FDR; Morgenthau; Senate Committee; Highway Accidents; Ears; Glasses Wipers) 19:20:39 President Roosevelt giving State of Union speech (MOS) to 73rd Congress. Standing ovation. 19:21:03 Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. writing at desk, looks up smiles. 19:21:10 Lowering hoist alongside ship; stevedores hooking chains to crate. 19:21:18 Senate Committee w/ Edsel Ford CU w/ consul Ferdinand Pecora CU, leading to regulation of stock & security trading. Bank Hearings. 19:21:43 Sedan on highway entrance forces another car across center divide. Other sedans crash at intersection. Multiple accidents staged by State of New Jersey. 19:22:10 Car over cliff seen from below, bounces on way down & completely falls apart. 19:22:21 Men inspect & measure ears of model in Paris. Multiple models ears in CU. 19:22:41 man wearing goggle-like eye glasses w/ tiny fan mounted on bridge, Wind blown into fan cases operation of wipers on each glass lens. CU . man squirts water on to him. CU results. The End. 1934; Oddities; Highway Safety; Depression; Dollar Devaluation; Economics; 1930s;

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