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Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940

From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028517
People demand resignation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in England.

Demand for resignation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in England. Placards and pamphlets on a table. Placards read 'Chamberlain must go', 'Dissolve Parliament, Let the people decide' and 'No surrender to Hitler or Mussolini'. Men take posters and pamphlets. A woman stands near the table. Graffiti on walls in England. A man writes 'Chamberlain must go'. A policeman on the street. A man pastes stickers on street. The stickers read 'Let the people decide'.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053914
Accomplishments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and later challenges of the Civil Rights movement in America

Turn of the Century immigrants to the United States pose aboard ship. Some wear fez hats. View of clothing industry workers at sewing machines. Picture of Sidney Hillman and his wife, circa 1910. Older garment worker cutting cloth. Clothing workers punching a time clock. Men operating sewing machines. A cutter marking cloth from a pattern. A man sewing button holes on clothing. Old pictures of earlier garment workers. More modern view of unionized clothing workers at sewing machines. A cutter using a machine to cut multiple layers of fabric. Supervisors discussing a sample of sewn product. numerous views of men and women sewing garments. Flashback to earlier times of workers marching to demand a union contract. Union member distributing literature at a factory gate. Small group of union picketers on sidewalk. Union leader speaking to group of women workers in Southern town. Union organizer with bloodied head, smoking cigarette. Striking Workers (mostly women) standing in group outside employment office of Tuf-Nut Garment Manufacturing Company in Little Rock,Arkansas. The striking women being arrested by policemen. Change of scene to closeup of Alabama State policeman smoking cigar. Civil rights marchers during demonstration in Birmingham Alabama on May 7, 1963 during the "Birmingham Campaign" or "Birmingham Movement". Fire fighters in fire engine pumper truck stops near police on street in town and sets up fire hoses to spray high powered water directly at African American civil rights marchers. Civil Rights marchers soaked by high powered water hoses. One protestor or demonstrator tries to run away from the fire hose and is grabbed by two white police men. A protestor takes cover behind a telephone poll as a firehose is directed toward him. A black man converses with two women on a snowy street. Civil Rights marchers of the African American Southern Christian Leadership Conference carrying signs during a demonstration. People fill the area around the reflecting pool by the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. A man and his daughter share time together on a snowy day. Children sledding in the snow. People ice skating on lake in Central Park, New York City. Closing views of early immigrants to the U.S.A.

Date: 1964
Duration: 8 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036817
Hermann Goering, Chief of the German Air Force, gives a speech in tribute to the Luftwaffe (Air force)

Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Hermann Goering, extols the capabilities and contributions of the Luftwaffe to German conquests, mentioning Poland, and France. As he speaks, a German Henschel Hs 126 observation plane is shown, followed by shots of a Messerschmitt Me-109 and formations of them flying amongst clouds, A German antiaircraft emplacement on a parapet high above a river. A lone German sentry patroling a beach and a flight of Me-109s flying low over his head. View from nose of a German bomber flying low over water. German Dornier Do-17 bombers penetrating a coastline. Pilots and gunner in bombers. Formation of Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. Animation shows England from perspective of a dive bomber heading toward the ground. Sequence finishes with explosion. Throughout the last half of the clip, a male chorus is heard singing the Luftwaffe's unofficial anthem, "Bomben auf Engelland," (Bombs on England) by Norbert Schultze (Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze).

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675037624
British fighter aircraft in flight during tests in Henley, England.

British fighter aircraft being tested in Henley, England. British fighter plane takes off from a field. Aircraft in flight. Plane flies above fleecy clouds.

Date: 1939, August 23
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042794
The wedding of Anne Wigram, daughter of Clive Wigram (1st Baron Wigram), at Windsor castle in Windsor, England.

The wedding of Hon. Anne Wigram, daughter of Clive Wigram (1st Baron Wigram) to Mr. John Lesley Harvey at Windsor castle in Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, England. Motorcars driven towards castle in heavy snowstorm. View of Windsor castle covered with snow. People, holding umbrellas, go towards the castle to attend the wedding. A Scottish piper leads the way. View of the wedding table with service set up. View of the wedding presents for Ms. Wigram inside Windsor Castle, including a diamond and sapphire brooch from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. A brooch from Queen Mary of Teck, mother of King George VI. Guests wait for a glimpse of the bride. Anne Wigram with her husband, John Lesley Harvey. The bride smiles.

Date: 1939, January 30
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024546