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British Aviators M Rossi and Paul Codos complete their non-stop flight from Europe to America at Floyd Bennett Field, New York.

British Aviators complete the flight between Europe and America at Floyd Bennett Field,New York. Plane lands at airport and a group of guards escort the flyers. British Aviators Lt. Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos surrounded by excited crowd and media persons. The aviators completed their record flight in their Joseph Le Brix monoplane.

Date: 1934, May 28
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030591
Orson Welles speaks at a press conference following his "War of the World's" broadcast that created mass hysteria.

After a radio play in New York terrifies the nation. Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller 'The War of the Worlds' as staged by Orson Welles, a young actor-manager. Orson Welles speaks at a press conference about the event. Media persons take notes during the press conference.

Date: 1938, October 31
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070522
Mechanical pea harvesting, aerial spraying, freezing and dehydrating of the vegetables at a cannery in the U.S.

New methods of farming in the United States. Mechanical pea harvesters used at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey. A fleet of crop dusting biplane airplanes on the ground. An airplane taxis on the farm. Aerial spraying of insecticides by the airplanes. A cannery. The cannery in operation: Men and women workers prepare to can the food. A worker at a machine in the cannery. Vegetables are dehydrated and frozen.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070532
Three Russian aviators, who spanned the North Pole in a flight from Moscow to the US, receive official welcome in New York.

Soviet Fliers are greeted in New York. Men pose for a camera with three Russian aviators who spanned the North Pole in a flight from Moscow to the U.S. The three aviators. They receive official reception at the City Hall by New York Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. A large crowd at the City Hall to welcome the three aviators.

Date: 1937, June 30
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070575
Assorted jungle animals are touched by people as "floating zoo" arrives in New York harbor

Assorted jungle animals arrive in New York on floating zoo. A man feeds a giraffe. A zebra, a leopard, deer and a lynx are patted by people aboard a ship. (Woman seen is possibly Ruth Harkness).

Date: 1937, June 30
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070576
German Battleship Ostfriesland is sunk by U.S. Army Air Corps bombers during test

A medium bomb (probably dropped by a U.S. Navy aircraft) is seen hitting the German Battleship Ostfriesland on July 20, 1921 in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States. A formation of U.S. Navy Curtiss F5L flying boats is seen in the air. The following day, July 21, 1921, 2000 lb. bomb is seen exploding near the Ostfriesland. The bomb is dropped by an airplane from an Air Corps unit commanded by Army Brigadier General Billy Mitchell (neither seen). Several other 2000 lb. bombs explode on and near the Ostfriesland, causing it to roll over and sink.

Date: 1921, July 21
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070747