Scenes of fire fighters battling fire at the Lee Brothers warehouse at 2296 Eighth Avenue at 123rd Street in New York City. The warehouse blazes. Firemen spray water from hoses at the blaze. Two men talk to each other at the site. View of damaged fire fighting equipment, cars, and debris. (FDNY Firemen Elbert Hardman and Nelson Tuite, both of Engine 36 were operating the deckpipe on the 1929 Seagrave hose wagon of Engine 36, when an explosion blew out the top corner of the building front wall. Both fire fighters were killed and the hose wagon was destroyed.) The firemen evacuate casualties and transfer them into ambulance. Thick ice covers the building from freezing temperatures, after the blaze was extinguished. (World War II period).
Announcement of support from leaders of finance stops wild trading and market panic at Wall Street in New York City after 13 million shares change hands in one day on the stock market. A large crowd seen gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), around time of Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Empire State Building under construction in New York. Animation shows the evolution of skyscrapers in New York. Buildings in hierarchical order. Arrow shows its name and dates of completion. World 1890, Park Row 1900, Singer 1905, Metropolitan life 1910, Woolworth 1915, Chrysler 1929 and Empire State 1931. View of Empire State Building still under construction in 1931, rising above other nearby buildings. The top of the building is not yet complete.
Brief view of Mussolini in Italy wearing a top hat. Clip proceeds on theme of lifestyle of people in United States in the 1920s, also referred to as the "Roaring 20s". Pedestrians and various people on busy streets of New York City as cars and truck move past them. A woman gets her make up done in a makeup studio. A woman in flapper fashions smokes a cigarette. View of a line of women's legs all wearing silk stockings and shorter skirts than in prior times. Women in swimming suits at a beauty pageant. Federal agents smash liquor bottles and break up wooden barrels draining liquor to enforce prohibition. Gangsters killed in an encounter in the street. Gangsters, possibly mafia, being arrested and led away by police at gun point. Men and women perform Charleston dance. A bartender is seen mixing a drink. Men and women enjoy ballroom dancing at a night club. Closeup of a street sign for Wall Street. Brief view of crowds outside New York Stock Exchange building around time of stock market crash of 1929.
A visit of the Ohio Society to New York City. An Ohio farmer's wife milks a cow in a small median strip park, between busy street traffic lanes, amid the city of New York. Two man stand beside the cow. Tall New York City buildings and skyscrapers in the background. Farmer walking with the cow. in the small green area with traffic on either side.
Symbolic montage of scenes showing unrestrained materialism, wealth, and spending in the U.S. during the "Roaring 20's," before the 1929 Crash of the New York Stock Market. Rolls Royce cars move on the streets in New York City. Ford cars on the road. A chauffeured Rolls Royce limousine on the road and being parked. Symbols of money: currency notes and jewelery. Currency notes and coins stacked up. Views of Cash Registers from National Cash Register displaying dollars and cents. Coins being dropped into a National Cash Register machine.
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