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Firemen drive fire engines, spray water and climb ladders during an annual meet in Long Beach, New York.

Firemen in an annual meet in Long Beach, New York. Firemen lay out hoses quickly from speeding fire engines. Firemen spray water from hoses. Firemen climb ladders deployed quickly to reach a test platform.

Location: Long Beach New York USA
Date: 1930, June 14
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046585
Jones Beach on Long Island, New York, and its Coast Guard Station

Aerial view of Jones Beach on Long Island, New York, and its modern access highway. Spectators with in high stadium seating on both sides of a Jones Beach swimming pool to watch swimmers race. Closeup of the swimmers in their respective lanes competing. Closeup of one swimmer. View of crowd in the stands. Change of scene shows a woman from the back, poised, and then executing a swan dive from a high platform. The beach and seashore are in the background. Scene shifts to below the platform as a man dives from it into the water. The Jones Beach water tower is seen in the background. A sailing regatta is seen. a triple funnel steam ship underway in waters off Jones Beach. A sign identifies the United States Coast Guard Jones Beach Station. Views of that station build of brick and stone consistent with Jones Beach architecture. Closeup of the station. A lifeboat being taken from the boathouse be a tractor that takes it down to the beach for launching. Responding to call from a further point on the beach, a lifeboat and 6 crew members are transported by a small pickup truck that carries the crew in its open cargo space and trailers the boat. View of them driving along the highway. Next, they drive onto the beach near the water's edge.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049572
3000 orphans from Brooklyn enjoy on the beach in Long Beach, New York.

Orphans enjoy a day out on a beach in Long Beach, New York. School buses with 3000 Brooklyn orphans aboard head for the beach in Long Beach, New York. Children enjoy surf bathing on the beach. Children play with sand. They eat ice cream and burgers.

Location: Long Beach New York USA
Date: 1938, August 10
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049445
Film describing social character of United States in decade leading up to World War II

Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053398
Sailors are released on point system, workers leave war plants and line up for new jobs in Long Beach, New York.

U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.

Location: Long Beach New York USA
Date: 1945, August 23
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072162
Diversity of different people in New York City in the late 1930's. Chinese, Jewish, and African American areas of New York City.

Ethnically diverse people along streets in New York City. People of Chinese origin in Chinatown. Scene changes to a Jewish area with signs on market shops in Hebrew. A board at a shop reads "Strictly Kosher A Goldberg & Son Poultry Market". A view of busy shops and push cart vendors on Orchard Street near Delancey Street on the lower east side of Manhattan. Store fronts visible include Cohens Opticians at 117 Orchard Street. Two men in hats talk together. One of the men has a long beard. Scene changes to Harlem with an elevated view of sidewalk as pedestrians walk by and children play, fencing with toy wooden swords. African American men talk in a Harlem neighborhood of New York City (likely Harlem). African American children play games and skip rope. A boy writes with a chalk on a sidewalk.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035674
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