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Coney Island New York USA 1939 stock footage and images

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Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940

From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028517
A bathing beauty contest held at Steeplechase Amusement Park in Coney Island in New York

A bathing beauty contest held at Steeplechase Amusement Park (1739 Riegelmann Boardwalk, Brooklyn, NY 11224, United States) in Coney Island in New York. Contestants dressed in swimsuits walk near the swimming pool for the contest. The trophies seen at a table. The contestants in the swimming pool. Levenoria Sabalis, the winner of the contest with trophy.

Location: Coney Island New York USA
Date: 1933, August 9
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041259
A beauty contest for grandmothers in Coney Island, New York.

Elderly women participate in a beauty contest for grandmothers at Steeplechase Park (1739 Riegelmann Boardwalk, Brooklyn, NY 11224, United States) in Coney Island, New York. Old women in black Maillot-style swimsuits parade by the pool side. A midget clown interrupts the swimsuit portion of the pageant by dancing with a grandmother contestant. Mrs. Matilda Gebhard presented the winner's trophy. Mrs. Gebhard smiles as she holds her trophy and other grandmothers cheer for her.

Location: Coney Island New York USA
Date: 1938, July 13
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049428
People ride the Water chute on Coney Island, New York

People riding on the famous water chute ride at Paul Boyton's Water World,Bergen Beach, Coney Island, New York. Flags fly over the structure. Large vehicles carry passengers up to to the launching point, where they board small boats and ride down on a flume of water. Photographed by Edison Company photographers using a portable camera.

Location: Coney Island New York USA
Date: 1896, June
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071511
Buildings, traffic, automobiles and pedestrians on a wide street in Coney Island, New York.

Traffic in Coney Island, New York. Views of a wide street showing large buildings, traffic, automobiles and pedestrians. Lamp posts along the street. People walking down a store-lined and concession-lined street. Brief view of the Whip and the Top boardwalk amusement park rides operating and spinning.

Location: Coney Island New York USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071845
Rotating "Top" ride with cars moving along outside its track and people enjoying the ride in Coney Island, New York.

Entertainment in Coney Island, New York. Amusment park ride "The Top" is seen in operation: A large round tilting and revolving structure with cars moving along its outside track. Wide and close-up views of the ride. An elephant moving in the foreground. People enter the cars. The ride in operation.

Location: Coney Island New York USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071846
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