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Bronx New York City USA 1961 stock footage and images

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People going to Church and to a watch a neighborhood baseball game in South Bronx in New York City.

View out front of moving subway train as it passes by in South Bronx in New York City. Families, many of hispanic, Latin American, Puerto Rican descent, in crowded streets. Families go to Church. A man washing a car. People sing and play tambourines and enjoy themselves. Children enjoy playing in water that is spraying from fountains. View of Bethany Christian Mission church with wooden cross hanging out front. View of Iglesia Pentecostal Estrella de Oriente. A man playing a guitar. Crowds gathered to watch a baseball game at St Mary's Park. Many people speaking in Spanish. An airplane passes low over the streets. Family sits on balcony and fire escape of an apartment building. A young man flies a small kite from the roof of the building. Chalk writing on street reads, Puerto Rico. Clouds gather in the sky and clothes on clothes line move with wind.

Date: 1965
Duration: 7 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040524
Frank Sinatra performs for WAVES at the Walton High School Auditorium in Bronx, New York City.

(With audio). American singer and Hollywood actor Frank Sinatra performs during a filming at the Walton High School Auditorium in the Bronx, New York City. Sinatra talks to the audience. He sings 'The Song is You'. Women's Reserve members (WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) seated in the hall. A conductor conducts the Station Military and Dance Band. Sailors play various instruments like the double bass, trumpets, and clarinets. Women military WAVES members applaud after the performance. He acknowledges the applause.

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031234
Point of view scenes of dense urban housing in the Bronx of New York City, as seen from a moving train.

View of housing in the Bronx from a train. View through the train of a 2 or 5 train window heading northeast along Westchester Avenue. The Prospect Ave station is passed. A man in the train. Buildings in the area. A family seated on the fire escape of a building. A little girl on a balcony. Cars and trucks on the street. People in the window of a room. Men playing baseball in the street.

Date: 1965
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020820
A film depicting life in the South Bronx, New York City in the mid 1960s.

'Uptown': a film made by the Lincoln Hospital Mental Health Services, Yeshiva University. The film depicts life in the South Bronx. African American men on the street. A man looks out from a window. Families on the fire escapes of densely packed urban buildings and tenements. Graffiti on the road. Buildings seen and a boy flies a kite from a roof. Dark clouds in the sky. A woman climbs up the stairs in a building. A couple in the street. Cars pass by. Clothes lines. Strong winds and thunder as the storm approaches.

Date: 1965
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020827
Documentary film of South Bronx, New York City, in 1960s

Film opens with view of Movie marquee showing film:"Echenme al vampiro * Evangelina Elizondo* en Rapto al Sol." Latin American music is heard in background. Various business signs are seen, for Gilroy & McLoughlin Bar & Grill,cabaret; Hair straightened; Various other shop windows showing womens clothing; Bric- a -brac including large photo of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline; Religious items; Restaurant serving "CuchiFritos, y, Pasteles;"clothing on sale; Musicians and entertainers advertised; and numerous other similar storefront views. Views of busy sidewalk merchants selling variety of goods. What appears to be a section of the Cross Bronx Expressway, under construction above the street, in the background. Grocer operating outdoor fruit and vegetable outlet on the sidewalk. Many customers gathered around him. Pedestrians on crowded sidewalk. A little girl dressed in white (perhaps for a first communion). A man dispensing shaved ice or "sno-cone" drinks from a sidewalk cart. Furniture for sale displayed on sidewalk in front of a store. A man and woman looking it over. A couple with a small baby. Scene shifts fo a quiet street and sidewalk where a couple walks and a boy rides a bicycle. The street and sidewalk look wet. View of roof tops and back yards with clothes on lines to dry. Camera pans over roof tops. More clothes lines and families seen seated on fire escapes. A boy picking up items near a large heap of trash in a vacant lot. Children playing various games on an empty street. Two old women walking slowly on the walkway. Women with small children conversing on a building stoop. Young men gathering together and "rough housing." They are copied by small boys who fight with one another. Young man and woman with a baby stroll on the sidewalk.

Date: 1965
Duration: 5 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040521
Ground Infantry quiz question in World War 2 on boxers (Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey), tanks, and rockets.

Boxers Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy compete in a boxing match on June 20, 1940 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York City. Louis knocks out Godoy in 8th round. Ground Infantry (GI) quiz ask a question about boxers and the answer is Coast Guard Commander Jack Dempsey. Views of Jack Dempsey while in the Coast Guard, demonstrating physical prowess. Multiple scenes from boxing match of Jack Dempsey versus Luis Ángel Firpo on September 14, 1923, at the Polo Grounds in New York City. Multiple knock-downs of the boxers are shown, including one where Firpo knocks Dempsey completely out of the ring. GI quiz question on tanks. Picture of Sherman tanks knocking down trees. Picture of Leonardo Da Vinci. View of the Mona Lisa painting. Animations of various concept designs credited to Da Vinci including tanks, aircraft, parachutes, and submarines. GI quiz question on rockets. View of battery of rockets being fired from ground positions in World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. Army aircraft firing rockets at target. View of German V-1 flying bomb (early cruise missile) in flight toward a target. Animation showing future use of a rocket launched across the globe and reaching New York City (with artist's view of Statue of Liberty in foreground) as narrator says, "Scientists are convinced that the next war, if there is one, will be fought with giant remote-controlled atomic rocket bombs, capable of traveling thousands of miles in a few minutes, to completely destroy any target, anywhere, anytime."

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025695