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Wrecked ships, cars and a train after the Great New England hurricane of 1938
Damage due to the September 21, 1938 New England Hurricane (also called the Long Island Express Hurricane) in the United States. Buildings along streets in New York City in driving rain and winds. Cars moving on a street. Rain falling in the city and deep water ponding in roads. Rubble in the area. A large tree that crushed a car. Wrecked ships and boats along a coastal port. Men look at the boats, many of which are partially sunken or aground. Aerial view of wrecked cars and other vehicles. Destroyed bridges. Wind wrecked homes on coast. A wrecked train on a railroad line, derailed off the tracks.
Huge crowds gathered at Times Square, New York for 1938 New Year celebrations.
Record celebrations for New Year despite weather in New York. Huge crowds gathered at Times Square for New Year celebrations. Buses and cars on the street.
Views of life in Harlem, New York City, circa 1938.
A film about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York City. Scenes of Harlem, New York City, at dusk and nighttime during the Great Depression. Elevated train carrying passengers uptown to Harlem. Commuters coming out of subway station. Kids gathered on the sidewalk. Actor, Ossie Davis, early in his career, is seen at a lunch counter talking to another man. Couples in an upscale restaurant. Exteriors of various ball rooms. African American people dance, including Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and other dancers performing at the Savoy Ballroom. Couples talk. African American high-society debutantes and young couples in formal dress dance to ballroom music. Several girls tap dancing at Smalls Cabaret as jazz musicians play instruments including saxophone and drums. A man enters an apartment building at night. Aerial view of Harlem at night. (Harlem Renaissance period.)
35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight. Advances in travel due to rail and airplane. Howard Hughes' round the world flight.
Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.
Views of various aircraft in flight and Jacqueline Cochran wins the Bendix Trophy race at Bennett Field, New York City.
A large number of automobiles parked in a field, crowd looking up at the sky during an airshow. Douglas Corrigan (famous for his wrong way flight from New York to Dublin, Ireland), standing with several girls in bath suits. A Piper J-3 Cub fitted with pontoons lands on a grassy field. Seversky EP-1 (civilian version of the military P-35 aircraft), with Jacqueline Cochran at the controls, taxis after winning the Bendix Trophy Race in 1938. Mr. Vincent Bendix congratulates Miss Cochran after winning the race. Several P-35s in different flight formations. Paratroopers jump from a ford tri-motor aircraft, views of paratroopers descending. Views of four aircrafts with smoke trailing, taking off and doing acrobatic stunts including inside and outside loops. Jacqueline Cochran at the controls of a Seversky EP-1 landing at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, completing a Trans-continental flight, after winning the Bendix Trophy race.
Boxing bout at Madison Square Garden during Golden Gloves tournament
Boxing match held at Madison Square Garden during March 1938 Golden Gloves tournament. Boxers fight in ring. Huge crowd cheers. Boxers from Philadelphia shine in the tournament, including Bill Speary.