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Views of night life in the South Bronx, New York City

Film starts with sounds of Latin American music. Musician's hand on stringed instrument. Numerous Neon lights on night entertainment places. News paper boys on sidewalk playfully shoving one another. Legs of walking persons Silhouetted against night lights. Women and children window shopping at night. Vendor dispensing soda drinks from his sidewalk fountain. Camera pans from above along a street of night spots. Entertainers in costumes performing on sidewalk Interior of a theater where Latin vaudeville is performed. Closeup of children as they watch the performance. Performers taking bows as audience applauds. Men playing dominos.Little girl looks at window display of children's clothes.Glimpses of Musicians and entertainers performing. More views of shop windows. An illuminated cross atop a church roof. A police or emergency siren heard faintly in background. An elevated railroad train passes noisily overhead.

Location: South Bronx New York City USA
Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040523
Ordinary life in a Bronx, New York City, neighborhood in the 1960s

Film opens showing a commercial DC-9 in flight, overhead, approaching for landing at LaGuardia Airport, with landing gear and flaps extended. Scene shifts to hazy view of buildings silhouetted against lighter sky. View of rooftops with a boy walking across one. Buildings with pigeons on the roof. A woman dries clothes on a roof. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Cars parked on the street below. Pigeons flying. Youths playing basketball. 1:08 to end footage taken from atop 700 East 156th Street. 1:08 follows a train northwest along the Westchester Avenue line. 1:18, a view East of the newly elevated Bruckner Expwy and Whitestone and Throggs Neck bridges in distance. 1:21,a view to the Northwest, 3203-3211 Park Avenue is the curved building in the foreground, George Washington Bridge seen in the distance. 1:25, view west down 156th Street. 1:29 Train runs along Westchester Avenue to 156 and Tinton. 1:34 panning from south to west, Consolidated Edixon plant in Port Morris can be seen in distance. Rikers Island can also be seen in the East River. ( Note: A very large number of the buildings shown burned down in the next 10-20 years.)

Location: Bronx New York City USA
Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020819
Residents, places, and activities in a section of the South Bronx, New York City

Opening scene shows marquee of Art Theater, at 1077 Southern Boulevard, where Spanish language films are showing. Glimpse of sign in beauty parlor window reading: "Hair straightened" (in English and Spanish). Sign for "Gilroy & McLoughlin" Bar& Grill, Cabaret. A musical record shop. Womens gowns, including a bridal gown, in a shop window. Photo portrait of President John Kennedy and wife, Jackie, in a shop window. Paper posters in window, referring to religious Mystical Crown, and showing illustration of Christ wearing crown of thorns. A shop called "CuchiFritos y Pasteles." Picture of saxaphonist, Don Santia, in a club window. Women's clothing hanging outside a shop, with sale prices boldly displayed on the items. Pictures advertising entertainers, including two women and a male guitar player. Items in a toy store window that also shows a religious picture. Items in a hat shop window, including a straw hat labeled "Puerto Rico." Flashing neon sign in window reading:"Casa Legre."Shop full of religious wares. The "Progresso Barber Shop."A drug store advertising Louis Levine, Doctor of Pharmacy. Two boys walking past a shop displaying sunglasses, spinners on sticks and other gadgets. People gathered at a very busy produce market. A man weighing bananas. A woman paying for her purchase. Two men very busy tending customers. Man loading bananas into a paper sack. A little girl dressed all in white with a veil and carrying a flower follows her mother past the market. ('Possibly going for her first Communion.) Woman examining melons. A man dispensing soft drink sodas, and snow cones or shaved ice drinks from a stand on the sidewalk. A couple looking at used furniture. A mother placing a diaper over her husbands shoulder so he can burp their baby. A lone boy on bicycle passing a couple walking along the sidewalk.

Location: Bronx New York City USA
Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020822
Crowd celebrating the New Year, 1937, Times Square, New York City. People seen at brief intervals as light sweeps across crowd

The lights of Times Square as seen in the first few minutes of 1937. Neon signs advertise places and products, such as "Coca Cola" and "Planters Peanuts." A klieg light sweeps across the crowd, sporadically illuminating the revelers.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937, January 1
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045119
Tammany Hall, Union Square and nearby buildings of New York

Views of buildings of New York and Union Square. People on the roads and in the park as well. The Tammany Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) of New York City is shown. The hall holds a banner supporting the Democrat nominee for the Mayor of New York Royal S. Copeland. The banner also shows names of the democrat candidates for other posts. 1937.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035828
Baseball star Roger Maris ties Babe Ruth's 60 home runs record, in New York City

Large crowd at the Yankee Stadium I (1 E 161 St, The Bronx, NY 10451, United States) in New York City. Roger Maris of New York Yankees and a catcher behind him at the plate, with 59 home runs and needing one more to tie the record. Jack Fisher of Baltimore Orioles is the pitcher who gets ready to pitch. Maris hits another home run and ties mark set by Babe Ruth. Spectators clap. Maris running the bases. Maris in dressing room meets Babe Ruth's wife Claire as guest and they pose for a photo. She shakes hands with him. Maris kisses her on the cheek.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1961, September 26
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034205
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