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American Harry Richman and Dick Merrill take off in a monoplane for a fight to London from Floyd Bennett Field in New York.

American Musical Comedy Star Harry Richman and aviation pioneer Henry Tyndall Dick Merrill (Chief Pilot of Eastern Airlines) on a projected two day round trip fight to London from Floyd Bennett Field in New York. The pair prepare for a flight to dine in London and return to New York for Breakfast. Their Vultee V1-A aircraft [NC16099] being parked outside hangar at Floyd Bennett Field. People gather around the aircraft. Eastern Airlines President, Captain Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker (U.S.World War One, Ace of Aces) shakes hands and gives best wishes to Richman and Merrill for the flight. The two men get into the monoplane named 'Lady Peace.' The aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway.

Date: 1936, September 2
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064527
Striking elevator operators and people including college girls protest, and the police control them in New York City.

A labor dispute in New York City. Striking elevator operators cheer their leaders. A leader addresses striking building service employees. Protesters including college girls from Hunter College who come out of a building holding banners. A child enters a tiny elevator (designed for groceries and small goods) and is hoisted up to his apartment manually by an operator. The boy's mother greets him there beside the kitchen icebox and helps him to exit the mini elevator. The mother kisses the child. A man treats the foot of another striking protestor after he developed blisters on the picket line. A man with a shotgun at a building acts as a strike breaker. Demonstrators are taken by police from a building. Police cars on a street. The demonstrators are taken away into the police cars. Some of the demonstrators hold signs like "Dillinger Gone...Bellinger going going (gone)". (The sign is comparing Frederic Coudert Bellinger, a building resident who was organizing tenants against the striking workers, to the infamous bank robber John Dillinger.) Bellinger had also shown up in tin hat and with a shotgun, and another protestor sign said, "Office of Tin Hat Bellinger". Another sign variant was, "Bellinger goes up and down, Picket goes round and round."

Date: 1936, March 9
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067250
Get together of members of the Class of Forty at New York University and sophomores in New York City.

University students get together in New York City, United States. Members of the Class of Forty at New York University during a get together with the sophomores. The two teams battle it out in friendly fights. Other students cheer them. Students duck others in fountain water.

Date: 1936, October 21
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072525
Women dancers of the Ziegfeld Follies Chorus line rehearse for musical production

Chorus girl dancers rehearsing a routine for Ziegfield Follies musical production, on stage in a theater. They are dressed in casual working attire and run through their routine several times, as two women watch from the theater wing.

Date: 1936, December
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074452
Women dancers, of the Ziegfeld Follies Chorus line, put on costumes for dress rehearsal, in dressing room of theater.

Women dancers, of the Ziegfield Follies Chorus line, put on costumes for a dress rehearsal, in the Chorus dressing room of a theater. Group of chorus girls enter the change room. One dancer dons stockings. Other dancers are putting on costumes. The dancers being assisted by other women as they get ready.

Date: 1936, December
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074453
Women dancers, of the Ziegfeld Follies chorus line, rehearse a dance routine for a musical stage production

Chorus girl dancers, of the Ziegfield Follies chorus line, rehearsing a routine on the stage of a theater. The routine includes a number of coordinated high kicks and some intricate coordinated hand movements. View from stage level and then from high above the stage. The dancers are dressed informally in workout clothing.

Date: 1936, December
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074454