Television program host, Lee Marvin talks about the Erie Canal in New York. View of the Erie Canal that connects Great lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Still images of the canal in its early days. Modern moving images of a steamer on the canal.
View of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Tourists view the mountain from a steam engine train. Worker stands on railway track. Another man in uniform talks over phone.
Scenes of conflict between City College Students in New York. Second Year students trying to break up the Annual Snake Dance. Students with torn clothes in the aftermath.
(Sound present only at end of clip beginning around 3:10 mark). Scenes of Ward Line ship, the SS Morro Castle engulfed in fire during its return to New York from Havana, Cuba. Coast guard boats, fishing smacks, big liners stand by to rescue travelers. Local citizens and police assembled on the coastline to retrieve the dead and nurse the wounded. Scenes of grief stricken and shocked survivors including men, women, and children. Some scenes from rescue ships which included the SS Andrea F. Luckenbach, the SS Monarch of Bermuda, and the SS City of Savannah. Three survivors recount their stories (sound is present at this point in the clip, starting around 3:10 mark).
People assembled at temple in New York for celebration of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year. Prayers are offered. Rabbi blows a Shofar.
Figure skating in Coney Island, New York. Trudy Bronson and Paul Carriere performs while adapting various dance movement to skating. 1931.
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