Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Ald. Edwin Thompson, talks with New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker while walking out of the New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) during the Lord Mayor’s visit to improve trade relations between Britain and the United States. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, the British commercial delegation, Mayor Walker, and other officials pose together for a group photograph outside the New York City Hall.
A wild sow with her piglets graze in the Doberitzer Heide forest to the west of Berlin, Germany. Close view of wild piglets in forest. A wild boar spooks the wild sow and piglets. Wild sow nurses piglets in forest.
Primitive lifestyle of a man from Fort Myers, Florida. Man, wearing only a loincloth, spears fish and crabs from river. Man returns to his makeshift wooden hut. Man makes a fire using a bow drill and adds a bundle of dry leaves and branches. Man eats only with his bare hands.
30, 000 Romans attend the initiation of Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), the Italian Fascist youth organization, members during the 2684th anniversary of the Founding of Rome at the Circus Maximus. Benito Mussolini is accompanied by a mustached aide, likely Constanzo Ciano. Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) youth members receive medals and double-cheek kiss from Italian Fascist officials on stage. Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) youth march with Fascist officials in Circus Maximus. Benito Mussolini gives a “Roman salute” to marching youth. A jovial chat between Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascist officials.
View of the Cave of Winds at base of Niagara Falls. Workmen build Cave of Winds wooden bridges while they endure rapids and dangerous water at the base of the Niagara Falls. Workman saws wood while covered with heavy mist at the base of Niagara Falls. Workman crawls carefully on wooden bridge to cross rapids. Heavy mist covers view of workmen in wooden bridges at Cave of Winds. Torrential rapids fall and mist covers the Cave of Winds and Niagara Falls.
The Nord Pacific No 3566 locomotive as rebuilt by André Xavier Chapelon departs from a railroad train station in Paris along the Poiters-Angouleme route. Train's engineer, wearing goggles, looks through window as he operates train. View of exhaust as steam whistle is operated. Point of View shot toward back of train as it is underway. POV inside train, towards front of moving train as seen by train engineer. Speedometer indicates that train is running at 125 km/h, a bit higher than the French government speed limit of 75 mph (120 km/hr). Train passes by. Locomotive exhaust and whistle. This locomotive featured Chapelon's first major invention, the Kylchap exhaust, which was created with Finnish engineer Kyösti Kylälä, and produced less back pressure than previous designs. This modified prototype Pacific #3566 was originally 2000 indicated horsepower (IHP) but improved to a 3000 IHP with both fuel and water consumption reduced by 25% as a result of the rebuild process. Footage is from 1931, but first tests of this locomotive took place in November 1929.
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