View of the Crazy Horse Memorial, a colossal sculpture in situ, located in Thunderhead Mountain, in the Black HIlls of South Dakota, United States. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski with his five sons working on the project. He sculpts a model of Chief Crazy Horse known as the Crazy Horse Memorial and he describes the project, including how he declined offers of U.S. government funds for the project. The in-progress sculpted model is of the Oglala Lakota Indian Chief Crazy Horse riding on a horse. A studio down the hill. Korczak Ziolkowski and his sons drill with drilling machine on rock. Dynamite explosion on the rock face. Ziolkowski poses for a photograph in front of a model of the Crazy Horse Memorial with his family.
A hand reaching for a green, vintage 1970 corded Princess Telephone and dialing a number. View of the Wright brothers National Memorial in North Carolina. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright written on the building. The Wright Brother's museum. View of a Wright flyer aircraft flight from roughly 1908. More views from the museum: Sign board under pole reads 'End of 4th Flight, time Distance and pilot: Wilbur'.
Television program host, Lee Marvin talks about the Erie Canal in New York. View of the Erie Canal that connects Great lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Still images of the canal in its early days. Modern moving images of a steamer on the canal.
People waiting at a shipyard in New York. People holding placards, boards and banners welcome soldiers home coming. Soldiers of the 45th Thunderbird division return from Korea. Relatives and loved ones wait to greet them. Young soldiers kiss their wives on return. Family members hug the returned soldiers. Soldiers embrace their young children. A mother hugs her son on his return.
People gathered at the Lee theater in Fort Lee, New Jersey for a double anniversary celebration. The 50th year of New Jersey Borough and commemorating the country's first permanent motion picture studio. The Glenn Miller Story being shown at Lee theater. A banner put up for the event from May 23 to 29. Cameraman photographing turn of the century bathing models with a hand cranked camera. People watch the models. Mayor Louis F Botjer presents an anniversary plaque to a theater person. Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945 looks at the plaque. Cars on the road.
Sailors aboard the USS Leviathan (formerly the Vaterland) in New York harbor, during World War 1, when she was serving as a troop ship. They are seen practicing emergency drills, including lowering lifeboats over the side and actually rowing them away. They also launch rubber rafts over the rails. U.S. Army soldiers from a lower deck, then descend to the rafts, using the lines from above. They are seen steping into the water-filled rafts and from there, into the lifeboats. Closeup of one soldier swimming in full uniform, with aid of floatation gear. He also relaxes in the water, suspended entirely by his life vest. View from above of a lifeboat crewed by sailors and filled with soldiers in uniform. They row away, pulling a raft, from which they help a few more soldiers into the lifeboat. Sailors row the filled lifeboats away from the ship, each towing a raft behind them. (WWI. WW1)
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