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U.S. Army bomb test sinks USS New Jersey off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, USA

Demonstration of the American Air Force against naval vessels of battleship class operate from temporary bases. American airmen prepare 1100 pound bombs. Men assemble tail section of a missile. Airmen check two 1100 pound bombs attached beneath an unidentified plane. Airmen attach a 2000 pound bomb to underside of an aircraft. General Mitchell and an airman crouched beneath the plane look at the 2000 pound bomb. Navy cutter type vessel, the San Mihiel, anchored in sea. Observers on the San Mihiel include General Pershing, Davis, Admiral Shoemaker Assistant Secretary of War and General Patrick Chief of Air Service. Four of them stand on the deck of the cutter vessel. Battleship USS New Jersey anchored. Bombs strike near ship. Bomber flying 175 miles from Langley Field score five direct hits with six 100 pound bombs from an altitude of 11,000 feet. Views of bomb strike on USS New Jersey. A smoke curtain is dropped by a bomber from an altitude of 1000 feet. An aircraft in flight in line with the New Jersey lays a smoke screen across the water. Smoke curtain obscures sight of the battleship. Bomb strikes near and upon the battleship USS Virginia. Direct hits scored by 1100 pound bombs on the deck of USS Virginia.

Location: North Carolina United States USA
Date: 1923, September 1
Duration: 7 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049992
Europeans go through immigration processing at Ellis Island in the early 1900s

Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039771
Launching of the USS Iowa (BB-61) in New York, and of her sister ship, USS New Jersey (BB-62),in Philadelphia, during World War II..

Camera pans vertically from top to bottom over the bow of the USS Iowa (BB-61) as she is ready for launching at the Brooklyn Navy yard in New York City, on August 22, 1942. Sponsor of the ship, Ilo Browne Wallace, wife of Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Christens the Iowa by breaking a bottle of champagne over her bow, and the ship moves down the ways toward the East River. The Williamsburg Bridge is seen dimly in the background, as the Iowa plunges into the water. Camera focuses, next, on the USS New Jersey (BB-62) ready for launching at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on December 7, 1942. Men knock supports from below the New Jersey, in preparation for her launching. Next, she is seen moving down the ways. Closeups of some shipyard workers smiling as the New Jersey is launched. The New Jersey is seen well out into the Delaware River, with some smoke rising from one of her funnels. (World War 2, WWII, WW2)

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1942, August 27
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051750
Advances in early 1900's transportation and workers' living conditions in New York City, United States

'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031458
Vehicles driving from New York City to New Jersey through the Lincoln Tunnel

View of New York City apartment building. A man reads a book while sitting on apartment stairs. A bus driving on Port Authority Bus Terminal bridge. Sign with flashing arrow reads “Lincoln Bridge” A grocery store with sign reading, “Leon Feder Italian-Spanish-Greek-American Groceries”. Men working at a gas station with gas pump in foreground. A billboard for Alfred Felson for Service trucking behind sign pointing to Lincoln Tunnel with warning sign “Trucks keep right”. Cars and buses moving towards Lincoln Tunnel (Lincoln Tunnel, New York, NY 10018, United States). A police officer directs traffic. Buses lined up near Lincoln Tunnel in front of Hertz vehicle lease building with Empire State building in background. Vehicles enter the Lincoln Tunnel. Cars driving inside Lincoln Tunnel as seen from a vehicle. New York bus 66 driving through tunnel. Vehicles emerge from the Lincoln Tunnel, slowing down as they pass through toll gate. Approaching a toll gate as seen from a moving car while officer gives toll ticket. Distant view of New York City skyline from car driving in New Jersey. A Suburban Transit Corp Bus number 298 driving towards New Brunswick after emerging from Lincoln Tunnel. Vehicles passing through an overpass. Cars approaching the New Jersey Turnpike tollgate. Road signs read “You have left the Turnpike. New Jersey Maximum Speeds- 25 mph built-up areas, 50 mph open area” and “Slow down and live!”. Several scenes show various 1950s cars driving on highways and roads.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1960, June 1
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079725
Early 1900s car traffic on streets of New York City; car usage in America versus rest of world

Demand of Automobile in the United States. Shows a photograph (ca. 1900) of a policeman ordering a horseless carriage off New York City streets. Picture of men on horseless carriage and on bicycles. Views of traffic of 1910's and 1920's cars and other vehicles on busy, traffic filled streets of New York City, as a police officer directs traffic between the lanes of automobiles. Figure shows that out of 26 million of automobiles, 77% is in the U.S. and 23% in rest of the world.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071726
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