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Bartenders serve a bar full of patrons who are celebrating the end of prohibition.
Bartenders serve a bar full of patrons who are celebrating the end of prohibition.
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Prohibition agents smash up barrels of beer in raid on Chicago brewery owned by gangster Al Capone
Title card: "Mash note: US confiscates big 'Capone Brewery' - Government agents turned raided $75,000 plant into foaming torrent as they destroy barrels of beer in Chicago" / four shots of Prohibition agents smashing barrels with...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1932 Republican National Convention delegates argue over Prohibition repeal
Title card: "Scenes at the renomination of Herbert Hoover - here is historic picture of Republican Convention during Wet-Dry fight which preceded naming of President / A packed convention hall with several placards, "We Want Repeal" /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Prohibition Era, people in US answering question by Pathe News reporter as to whether or not they want beer legalized
Title card: "Do you want beer?" / title card: "Editor's note: Where are the drys? Pathe News in this poll has found only one person against beer, In our effort to present both sides of the question, we invited the drys to write us, so we...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Wagner wants reelection; Smith wants Democratic legislature
Title card: "Senator Wagner Asks Your Vote for Re-Election" / Sen. Robert F. Wagner speaking behind desk / CU Wagner saying his main focus is unemployment and end to Prohibition / title card: "Al Smith gives Wagner his enthusiastic...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Swap meet in Nyack, NY
Title card: "'Swap' market! Barter takes place of money in exchange at Nyack, NY" / VS a crush of people at a table of 'merchandise' and two men with large beer steins / A person with an active duck holds it over the table / SOT two...
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Senators pro- and anti-Prohibition
Title card: "States Must Now Decide Wet or Dry" / CU Senator John Blaine (R-WI) speaking / Title clip: "Senator Sheppard dry spokesman" / CU Senator Morris Sheppard (D-TX) speaking / Note: exact day not known
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Men break bottles of liquor with hammers during Prohibition.
Men break bottles of liquor with hammers during Prohibition.
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Sen. Royal S. Copeland (D-NY)
Title card: "Dr. Royal S. Copeland US Senator and former health commissioner of New York disagrees - Washington DC" / Copeland, seated indoors, speaking from paper in hand refuting claims about alcohol consumption / CU Copeland / Note:...
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Dr. E. H. Cherrington of the Anti-Saloon League displays statistics on the dangers of alcohol consumption
Title card: "Where they print the driest story ever told, the league's publishing house" / Dr. E. H. Cherrington of the Anti-Saloon League stands behind microphone and tears away several large sheets of paper on an easel, each showing...
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Repeal of Prohibition fails in the US House of Representatives
Title card: "Congress in Action! Here is dramatic scene when repeal revolution was broken" / VS the House of Representatives chamber with hundreds of men / VS the Speaker of the House greets another; and the session is gaveled, the men...
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Senate candidate Bennett Champ Clark supports Democratic platform
Title card: "Colonel Clark Asks You to Support Him - St. James - Democratic candidate for US Senate campaigns for election" / CU SOT Bennett Champ Clark speaking, saying the burden of taxation has become intolerable and Democratic Party...
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Bennett Champ Clark campaigns for senator
Title card: "Col. Clark Stirs Voters - Democratic candidate for U S Senator from Missouri speaks at St. James" / SOT Bennett Champ Clark speaks to group of voters / Clark wants to abolish Farm Board / after speech people promise to "vote...
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Prohibition enforcer A. V. Dalrymple
Title card: "New Chief in charge of dry forces! Meet Major A. V. Dalrymple, federal prohibition administrator" / Dalrymple speaks from an office (no audio) / Note: exact month/day not known
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Distillery expands and creates jobs after Prohibition repeal
Title card: "Repeal Booms Business" / various shots distilling plant / various shots men working at building construction site / bricklayers at work / construction workers on site, building structure erected / men and women going to work...
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Beer consumption near end of Prohibition
Quick shot of a very crowded bar / Close-up of a singing man / Note: exact day not known
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Lewis Yancey pilots autogiro to Havana
Title card: "Pathe News Flies With Yancey on First Autogiro Hop Over Sea"; fade to title card: "Editor's Note - These exclusive pictures were taken on the historic Miami-Havana flight made by Captain Yancey and were filmed from the...
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Democrats Tydings, Ritchie meet before 1932 Democratic National Convention
Title card: "Ritchie discuses wet plank with Senator Tydings - Governor talks things over with man who will nominate him at Chicago" / Gov. Albert C. Ritchie (D-MD) and Sen. Millard Tydings (D-MD) chat in a garden (no audio), seated on...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
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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The elite celebrate the end of Prohibition at the Park Lane Hotel in New York City
Heavy traffic at the corner of E 48 Street and Park Avenue, with American flags and the "Park Lane Hotel" on an awning; a closer view of the corner's street signs / A room with palms and flowers with many people, most standing at the bar...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US police stop motorist near the US-Mexican border, looking for contraband liquor
Title card: "Border War - The Mexican front - Calexico" / (probably staged) two cars on dirt road moving toward camera; one with police blocks other; they get out / they get driver out and pull out gas can from rumble seat, one pours...
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Henry Horner and William Dieterich on possibility of winning 1932 election
Title card: "Judge Horner and Dieterich Sure of Victory - Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator discuss campaign in Chicago as election approaches" / Illinois judge Henry Horner sits and speaks with state legislator William...
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Senator Robert Bulkley campaigns for re-election
Title card: "Bulkley Asks to Serve You Again as Senator - Democratic nominee in Cleveland talk requests your support at polls" / SOTs Senator Robert J. Bulkley (D-OH) talks re-election, Democratic ticket, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and...
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Rep. Britten drinks beer during Prohibition
Title card: "Britten Predicts Beer for Holidays - Representative from Illinois sure brew will be back by January 1st" / Rep. Frederick Albert Britten (R-IL) cheerfully speaks as he stands next to a barrel with a beer stein on top; he...