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Inauguration of new research laboratories for conducting studies on cardiac diseases at the Will Rogers Hospital in New York.

Expansion of the Will Rogers Hospital at Saranac Lake, New York. Exterior of the Will Rogers Hospital. The board of directors gather for an annual meeting. The board of directors led by Chairman Richard Francis Walsh climb down the stairs and inspect new research facilities under patient rehabilitation program. The new research laboratories for conducting studies on all cardiac diseases . Mrs. R J Donnell unveils and inaugurates the new research laboratories named in honor of her husband Robert O'Donnell,a movie pioneer. The board of directors stand near by.

Date: 1962, July 5
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055864
Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940

From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028517
New York Yankees play baseball against New York Giants in 1936 World Series; also Grover Whalen showing 1939 Worlds Fair plans.

Crowd cheers and waves during New York Yankees and New York Giants game in the 1936 World Series at Polo Grounds IV in Manhattan, New york. Yankee manager, Joe McCarthy and Giants manager, Bill Terry on the field and they shake hands. Governor of New York State Herbert H. Lehman throws out first pitch, with Mayor La Guardia beside him. Babe Ruth, guest of honor, watches the match. Crowd cheer as the game proceeds. In next segment: Grover Whalen, President of New York World's Fair Corporation points out highlights of 1939 New York World's Fair on a preliminary model with the help of a stick, for visiting dignitaries. Footage from a September 1961 newsreel hightlighting stories from 25 years earlier.

Date: 1936, October
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034206
Venezuelan baseball pitcher Alex Carrasquel plays in New York, 1939

This Spanish language newsreel clip highlights Alex Carrasquel -- the first baseball player from Venezuela to play in the U.S. major leagues. He played in New York on July 4, 1939, the day before Venezuela's Independence Day. Title cards read: "Especially for Venezuela. The great pitcher Alejandro Carrasquel plays in New York on the eve of the Venezuelan patriotic day." Shot of Simon Bolivar statue in New York's Central Park with 'Simon Bolivar El Libertador' written under it. Huge crowd at Yankee Stadium in New York to watch July 4 doubleheader between New York Yankees and Carrasquel's team, the Washington Senators. (NOTE: This crowd was mainly there to see the Yankees honor Lou Gehrig, their Hall of Fame first baseman, who had just been diagnosed with ALS.) Carrasquel (#14) pitches to Yankees in second game, gives up run-scoring triple, tags out another runner trying to reach first base. Carrasquel speaks to crowd through microphones in ceremony at home plate. Shot of Venezuelan flag on pole outside a building (Venezuelan embassy?). Men and women gathered at a cafeteria. Sign in large white letters reads 'Venezuela.'

Date: 1939, July 4
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675064538
Teams compete at a bob sled competition and the one from Keeney Valley wins in Lake Placid, New York.

A bob sled competition in Lake Placid, New York. Four men bob sled teams get off to a speedy start during the competition. Teams move down snow covered slopes at a great speed. The teams move along sharp turns. The team from Keeney Valley after winning the race.

Date: 1939, January 23
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059012
Bobsleds get down the tricky Mount Van Hoevenberg during Olympic trials in Lake Placid, New York.

United States Bobsleds team being picked up at Olympic trials in Lake Placid, New York. Team seated in bobsleds. They get down the tricky Mount Van Hoevenberg. Man takes pictures. Spectators seated in the stands. A man congratulate the winners after the race. People stand around the team.

Date: 1939, February 15
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033934