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Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion streamlined automobile on a test ride on the streets of New York City

Inventor Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion streamlined automobile in a test ride on the streets of New York City. The automobile is a three wheeled motor car. The car's license plate reads: 'SL 187.' It's maneuverability is demonstrated by parking at a curbside, and by. making a 360-degree turn, spinning closely and smoothly around a New York City policeman standing in the center of an intersection.

Date: 1934, February 12
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041264
Performance of Verdi's Aida in New York City's Metropolitan Opera house. Audience wearing formal attire.

Scenes from Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" on stage at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York City. View of faces of some of the audience members, dressed in formal black tie attire, as they watch the performance underway.

Date: 1934, December 22
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041679
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera, backstage and in his offices.

Views of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Backstage during a performance. In his office, with large blackboard behind him. Flipping through book and photographs.

Date: 1934, December 22
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041680
Performance of Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on stage under the direction of Ettore Panizza.

Conductor Ettore Panizza begins music of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, to accompany production of Verdi's Aida. View of formally dressed patrons seated in box seats. View of stage and set with a principal singer. Patrons entering box seat area. Woman closes door with label reading: "Giulio Gatti-Casazza", the name of the Metropolitan Opera's general manager.

Date: 1934, December 22
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041681
Views of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and wealthy, beautifully dressed patrons attending performance.

Taxicabs coming and going in front of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Night-time with marquee illuminated. Doormen open the doors of the cars arriving. Patrons, in formal attire, men in top hats and ladies in long gowns and furs, step from cars and enter the building. Interior views of the staircases and halls of the Opera House. Waist-down views of patrons walking, showing the beautiful gowns and other clothing of the patrons. People climb the stairs. Audience seated in the boxes and loges. Curtains on the stage. The performance of Verdi's Aida begins with two singers on stage.

Date: 1934, December 22
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041682
Lawrence Tibbett of the Metropolitan Opera, removing his makeup in his dressing room, following performance of Verdi's Aida

Lawrence Tibbett, New York Metropolitan Opera baritone seated in front of a mirror in his dressing room. Several articles lie in front of him. He uses cream or lotion in his hand to remove stage makeup from his face following a performance of Aida by Verdi. Mr. Tibbett wears a dressing robe and a wrist watch.

Date: 1934, December 22
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041683