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U.S. Navy troop transport operations in New York and New Jersey in World War I

The SS Leviathan, the largest ocean liner afloat, (former German ocean liner Vaterland, seized and renamed by the U.S. Government in 1917, as America entered World War 1). Tug boats assist the three-stacker Leviathan as she enters New York harbor. Tug boats working with another troop ship (two-stacker) in the harbor. Ferry boat in background. A sleek troop transport ship with two slanted stacks and rakish lines, accentuated by camouflage, in a New Jersey harbor.Two Navy troop ships underway with an airplane flying overhead. A column of U.S. Navy troop transport ships underway in the Atlantic ocean. A barrage balloon is seen overhead.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068751
Fictional reenactment of ordinary life and travel in the 19th century, before the age of the automobile.

A film titled 'The American Road' depicts travel in the 19th century, before the advent of the automobile. A house in New York. A man and a woman on a horse drawn cart. A doctor arrives by horse and buggy to attend a sick person and speaks to a woman, at the door.. The doctor gets on his horse carriage. A man rides a horse drawn cart. They pass a church. A railway station. The man and the woman in the cart arrive at the station. A man at the station. The man and the woman get off from the cart. The man at station talks to the man who was on the cart. The man waits for the train. A railway track.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068815
Film depicting transportation at turn of the 20th century in the United States

Actors portray 19th century folks riding bicycles, on an outing in the country. Woman on bicycle, country road, with men as well. As the road narrows, one of the cyclists falls. The party decide to turn back to the better road again. Scene shifts to Detroit, Michigan, where actor portrays Henry Ford working on his Quadricycle. He is depicted working on it at night in his home workshop. One night he pushes it out for a trial run, and drives it successfully on the neighborhood streets. A couple in an early American automobile being pulled along a dirt road by a horse. Two men driving an early car that stops unexpectedly. They open the hood to look for the problem.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068817
Midtown Manhattan street scenes in New York City, circa 1910. Demonstration of the 1903 Ford Model A car

New York City scenes, circa 1910. The new Pennsylvania Railroad Station, or Penn Station, on 7th Avenue, Manhattan, designed by McKim, Mead, and White. Pedestrians strolling on the sidewalks of 5th Avenue past stores and shops, as cars drive along with horse-drawn wagons, in the street. A man and woman conversing on a sidewalk are sprayed by water from a horse-drawn street cleaning truck. A 1903 Model A Ford automobile is demonstrated by actors dressed in fashions of the period. It drives to the door of a high society mansion, where a wealthy man and woman wait to see it. Its features are demonstrated, including a rear door and a side cranking feature, to protect one from being accidentally run over after starting. A 1903 Model A Ford drives past a farmer in his yard, while he grooms his horse.

Date: 1910
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068819
The 1955 Chrysler Falcon is unveiled at an exhibition in New York.

The 1955 Chrysler Falcon, designed by Virgil Exner with bodywork by Ghia, is unveiled at an auto exhibition in New York. View of the exposed exhaust system attached to the car. A woman at the steering wheel operates the controls of the car. A man drives a 1955 Chrysler Falcon. The man operates the buttons in the car.

Date: 1955, September 5
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068826
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York.

Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068847