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Scenes from the Ford Company pavilion in the the 1939 New York World's Fair

Visitors gather at the Ford Motor Company exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair. They gather in front of an exhibit contrasting hand manufacture with modern machines used in production and assembly lines. Visitors entering the Ford theater at the Fair. They watch a live stage production entitled: "A Thousand Times Neigh,"starring the American Ballet Caravan and "Dobbin," the dancing horse. View of the stage show in progress. A woman fashionably dressed crosses the stage and is next seen posing beside a stylish prototype Ford automobile. Views of a Ford motion picture entitled: "Symphony in F," that animates elements of auto production in an entertaining way. Visitors climbing stairs from the Industrial Hall, to the Garden Court. Ford cars are seen driving along overhead roadways. The visitors line up to ride those cars in an exhibit called "The Road of Tomorrow." Several people getting into a car at the exhibit. Cars driving around and through the building. In one scene, the symbols of the Fair, the "Trylon and Perisphere" are seen in the background. View of the Landscape Garden Court, where visitors walk among trees and fountains. "The New World Ensemble," conducted by Ferde Grofe, plays music in a small semi-outdoor enclave.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051608
People listening to music played by the New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe at 1939 World's Fair.

The New York world's fair of 1939 to 1940. Views in garden court. The New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe plays in an amphitheater. Amusement section with dancers and ice-skaters. People ski jump and parachute jump. People walk and being pushed in chair cars. The souvenir stand. People eat food. Views of fair at night. Lighting and fireworks at night.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051609
People gather at the rail road station to greet the French actress Danielle Darrieux in New York, United States..

French actress Danielle Darrieux arrives in New York city. People gather at the rail road station to greet her. The actress gets off the train holding a bouquet in her hand. She stands with a man at the station and poses. She arrives in America to to begin her contract in motion pictures with the New Universal.

Date: 1937, October 4
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051610
The Columbia Lions defeat Williams in a football match held in New York, United States.

Football match being played between Columbia Lions and Williams in New York. Large crowd gathers in a stadium to watch the match. Match in progress. Columbia Lions defeat the Williams 40-6.

Date: 1937, October 4
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051616
Meeting of the UN Assembly to discuss the explosion of atom bomb by the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union explodes an atomic bomb. Newspaper headlines about the explosion. A meeting of the United Nations assembly is held to discuss the issue. They discuss world peace. UN Assembly President Carlos Romulo addresses delegates about world peace. The explosion of the atomic bomb in view. Formation of mushroom cloud due to the explosion.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051644
Aviation in U.S. after World War I. Inauguration of air mail. Barnstorming and wing walking

World War One - war is over, Armistice signed. Crowd celebrates and waves flags in New York celebrating end of World War 1. America cuts down its Air services to much extent. American troops march on streets. American airman is decorated by the French. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker,in uniform, in front of line of airplanes, and later in civilian clothes, after leaving military service. Former World War I flyer,and Army Captain Fiorella LaGuardia, parading with American Legion, in streets of New York. Scenes of U.S. Air Mail service inauguration attended by President and Mrs. Wilson, shows U.S. Air Mail wagon and President Wilson holding first air mail letter. Men load mail sacks onto aircraft. Pilot talks to President Wilson. Pilot boards the plane and takes off. .View from an airplane, of a forest fire as airplanes were employed by the Forest Service to watch for fires. Two JN-1 "Jenny" airplanes flown by "barnstormers" after World War I. "Wing walkers" switch from one airplane to the other during flight, to entertain spectators. A Curtis Pusher airplane in flight. Crowds looking up at barnstormers performing with JN-1 airplanes. Wing walker leaves one airplane and grabs hold of another as it passes. One wing walker wears shirt identifying him as one of the so-called "Thirteen Black Cats." Man performs daredevil feats on the wings of the airplane and stands on top of fuselage as the aircraft lands. Many passengers board a large airplane for introductory rides. Interior of airplane shows a lavatory. This is a large twin engine biplane with double main gear wheels and double tail resembling a Caprioni or Handley page design. A man waves his straw hat as the aircraft takes off.

Date: 1920
Duration: 4 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051728