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25 Years Ago

25 Years Ago
Clip: 498883_1_1
Year Shot: 1935 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1669
Original Film: 033-023
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:44:38 - 00:46:52

Image quality varies through clip. 25 Years Ago Dust storms. Automobiles drive in what looks like foggy weather, headlights on. Parched (sandy) land. Sun in sky. Various dusty settings, including urban areas. Dust Bowl. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs document while other men look on. FDR shakes hands with (Filipino?) man (VO says this relates to new constitution for the Philippines). Four people leave airplane, the two women wearing fur coats. Barbara Hutton (?) poses and smiles. Woman aviator (aviatrix), Laura Ingalls, climbs into cockpit and puts on helmet. Small plane takes off. Bathing beauties parade (women back then actually had tummies under their swimsuits!). Women model hairstyles that feature lots of artificial, styled small curls (narrator comments that these hairdos are "fortunately, tres obsolete").