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Boxer Luis Angel Firpo returns to US for bout with Harry Wills
Fast title card: 'Hoboken, N.J. - South American champion heavyweight comes to U.S. - Luis Angel Firpo, defeated by Dempsey last year, will seek laurels in bout with Harry Wills' / VS Firpo poses on ship's stairs with close-up
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National Guard finds NC flooded road impassable
Flood waters stopped National Guard trucks in their tracks and forced them to turn around on North Carolina's route 41 heading south toward Wilmington near Trenton.
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National Guard finds NC flooded road impassable
Flood waters stopped National Guard trucks in their tracks and forced them to turn around on North Carolina's route 41 heading south toward Wilmington near Trenton.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Winning breeds at 1932 dog show in New Jersey
Title card: "Record Array of Champions Benched at NJ Dog Show - Morris and Essex Kennel Club at Madison draws prize entries of outstanding breeds" / at outdoor dog show, judges check out wire-haired terriers surrounded by spectators;...
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Midnight baseball in Jersey City, NJ, 1930
Midnight baseball game between Newark Bears and Jersey City Skeeters / large spotlights / smoke / Title in clips: "Batter up!" / game plays / WS fans in stands / ball pitched / batter hits and runs / game continues / Note: exact day not...
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US Navy airship "Akron" tests trapeze device for catching planes in test over Lakehurst, NJ
Shot from just below USS Akron / shot from below "Akron" as it takes off / officer inside control cabin of "Akron" / shot of "Akron" flying past launch tower / shot from below of "Akron" in flight / overhead shot of two airplanes taking...
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Big parade celebration for battle anniversary in New Jersey, 1932
Title card: "Elizabeth Celebrates Historic Fight in Bicentennial Parade - Mayor John Kenah and Colonel Dudley review marchers on 152nd anniversary of the Battle of Elizabethtown" / band and soldiers marching down broad street, crowds...
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Police Chief Gebhardt talks with boy whose father was killed after killing his mother
Title card: "Boy, 9, Orphaned By Double Shooting Describes Tragedy - Youngster whose father was killed by police after slaying mother at Vineland, N.J. tells story to Acting Chief Gebhardt" / MCU Vineland, NJ Acting Police Chief J. H....
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt gives Democratic position on Prohibition in NJ campaign speech
Title shot: "ROOSEVELT OR HOOVER? Democratic nominee clears up party stand on Prohibition at rally in Sea Girt, NJ" / MS Democratic presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt stands behind podium on platform, facing camera; SOT Roosevelt...
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Camden, NJ, Mayor Roy Stewart encourages people to shop
Title card: "Secure Future! Mayor Roy Stewart of Camden makes appeal for 'Buy Now' Campaign" / CU Stewart speaking on "Buy Now" campaign helping the economy / Stewart is encouraging people to shop before prices rise / Note: exact day not...
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Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs tie college football game in Princeton, New Jersey on November 12, 1932
Title card: "Princeton and Yale in Classic Tie! - Stirring battle with Bulldogs ends Tiger season at Princeton, N.J." / Elevation shot Princeton kicks off to Yale / VS action shots of game, including pass, tackles, fumbles, touchdown,...
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A hobo cat in Hoboken rail yard
Title card: "Hobo cat! Betty, a Hobo-ken matron, home with little ones after riding rods" / A uniformed worker at an open train door with a cat and her kittens / VS the mother cat and two kittens; one kitten mews / The cat carries one...
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As Prohibition ends, beer in barrels being loaded onto wagons at brewery in Newark, NJ; beer served at Brooklyn bar
Title card: "Beer here so near beer plants get hopped up!" / at Kreuger's Brewery in Newark, man is sitting in horse-drawn wagon loaded with beer barrels at loading dock as workers roll barrels along dock / two workers loading barrels...
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Couple wed during Walkathon as stunt
Title card: "Camden Pair Wed in Walkathon - Bride and groom, dressed in Colonial costume, step out for ceremony" / bride and groom Jean Andrews and Nick Winrick stand with attendants, all wearing Colonial costumes with white wigs, for...
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Bert Lahr clowns around in the ring with boxer Tony Canzoneri
MS Boxer Tony Canzoneri shadow boxes in ring set up on grass as audience watches from seats in background / MS comedian Bert Lahr enters ring and talks to Canzoneri as a trainer would / MCU Lahr and Canzoneri / CU Lahr / MS Canzoneri...
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Couple weds in walkathon as a stunt
Bride and groom Jean Andrews and Nick Winrick stand with attendants, all wearing Colonial costumes with white wigs, for ceremony conducted by Theodore Darnell / MS bride & groom embrace and kiss / audience / clownish man in tuxedo &...
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Airship USS Macon, crew and Commander Dressel; Admiral King speaks
Title card: "Macon Sails Sky on First Navy Flight" / airship crew standing at attention beneath USS Macon inside hangar, people gathered in fg including photographer behind camera / MS Commander Dressel reading aloud from paper in hands...
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Bruno Hauptmann on trial in the Lindbergh baby case
Title card: "Jersey speeds Hauptmann murder trial" / Hunterdon County Courthouse with people outside (sign over door: 'Hunterdon Court House A D 1828') / Interior of the courtroom; the jury box, and the witness chair / Prosecutor Anthony...
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Cape May, NJ baby parade
A woman pushes a baby in an antique baby buggy, "Miss 1884" / A little girl swings on a float as a man pushes her / A girl in a skirt on her float / The parade on a broad street with lots of space between the floats; two boys and a dog,...
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Various parties enter courtroom during Bruno Hauptmann's trial for capital murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
Title card: "Guilty or Not Guilty?" / high-angle shot of spectators in the Hunterdon County Courthouse inside courtroom / high-angle shot attorneys confer / side shot man writes on document on table / court reporters transcribing / CU...
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The prototype Burnelli UB-14 crashes during test flight in New Jersey
Title card: "Plane Crash!" / The UB-14 parked on the tarmac with the innovative sloping fuselage; a close look a the two engines and propellers / The airplane takes off with a flyover and it drops low, a wing touches the ground, and it...
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Jubilee for Monsignor Eugene Carroll at Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken, NJ in 1935
Title card: "50 Years a Priest!" / VS Jubilee mass procession with the Knights of Columbus with US flag and clergymen outside Our Lady of Grace Church / VS Monsignor Eugene Carroll walks by fence and enters church / MS Our Lady of Grace...
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Bruno Hauptmann denied clemency
Headlines about Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann's clemency denied / exteriors New Jersey State House / New Jersey State Attorney General David Wilentz and 2 other men entering State House / press conference with Hauptmann...
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US aviator Dick Merrill lands in New York after round trip flight to England
Title "Aviation conquers Atlantic" superimposed over close shot of spinning propeller / plane taxiing after landing at Floyd Bennett Field small crowd waiting on tarmac / two shots of Merrill on left and co-pilot Jack Lambie standing on...