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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
The American Ocean Liner SS Leviathan departs New York Harbor. Fireboats, dirigibles and airplanes salute the ship

A man stands on a wharf in New York City. Crowd gathers to bid farewell to the passengers on the ocean liner SS Leviathan, of the United States Lines, as she departs from New York. People on board the ship wave. The ship departs amidst salutes from fireboats spraying water, Dirigibles, and airplanes, including one spraying streams of water.

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041686
Gertrude Stein, American writer, speaks and reads from her libretto for Opera

Writer Gertrude Stein speaks briefly and then reads part of libretto from her opera "From Four Saints in Three Acts" the famous lines "Pigeons on the grass, alas,...." (Sound is poor)

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041692
Scenes in North Carolina town. Dogs, Old frame house, Farmer's Bank,Banker, African American men

A dog with a collar lies on the ground. It gets up. A dog lies on sand. He sits up. A very old unpainted wood frame house, sagging in the middle, and having two outside chimneys and roughly patched roof. Exterior view of Farmer's Bank. A man inside the bank pulls down a "closed" sign at the door and comes out and locks the door. Three African American men pass on the sidewalk. Road sign shows U.S. Highway 158.

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041856