Opening scene shows deck of the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, as it is departing Jersey City, New Jersey, with Japanese Nationals and Issei (First generation Japanese) aboard, who are being repatriated from the United States to Japan, during World War 2. The Swedish First Mate is seen on deck speaking with two Red Cross women dressed in white. The Swedish flag is seen in the background. A very small Japanese boy squats on the deck and watches several Lehigh Valley Railroad barges passing nearby, including one containing a house. Glimpse of the Gripsholm's Captain and a sailor on deck. Japanese women walk about on the deck and join other passengers and some crew who are looking across the Hudson River at the Manhattan, New York City skyline.
View, from inside the mouth of a rough earthen tunnel, showing Actor Lee Marvin speaking about Clifford Milburn Holland, who was Chief Engineer on the project to build a tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New York and New Jersey. View inside construction work area. The project's chief designing engineer, Ole Singstad, explains the problem of ventilating the exhaust fumes from cars traversing the tunnel. Scenes of workers down in the tunnel during construction. Governors Arthur H. Moore, of New Jersey, and James Walker, of New York, shake hands at the boundary of their two states, inside the Holland Tunnel,under the Hudson River, during a project completion ceremony. Interestingly, they stand on each other's side of the boundary as they shake hands. Motorcycle policemen escort some of the first cars through the tunnel at its opening. View from rear of a car traversing the tunnel, of other cars following. Engineer Singstad speaking more about the tunnel ventilation.
Chicken thieves in New Jersey, USA. One Black man walks behind a hen house with a sack in his hands. Another man from the window drops a chicken into the sack. The two men look around as they steal, then one walks away with the sack containing stolen chickens. The other man jumps out of the window with a chicken in his hands. Two farmers chase the chicken thieves. One farmer carries a scythe and the other a gun, which he shoots. (Edison Studio, 1896)
Scene from fight between James J. Corbett, former champion of the world (AKA "Gentleman Jim" Corbett) and Peter Courtney, staged and recorded at the Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A..
Two men climb Colgate Clock dial in Jersey City, New Jersey to reset it back at the end of daylight savings time. A woman adjusts her watch while an overlay of clock hands is seen. A bum wakes up while sleeping on a bench. He adjusts his alarm clock. The homeless man goes back to sleeping on the park bench. A bag piper in Scottish outfit removes and alarm clock from his hat, adjusts it, and then returns it to his hat. Street sweepers with brooms and trash bins adjust their watches. A horse pulled wagon passes by behind sweepers. View of an old fashioned radio. View of Napoleon Lebrun & Sons Metropolitan Life Insurance clock tower at Madison Square garden in New York.
USS Akron (ZRS-4), Navy Zeppelin dirigible in the United States. Consolidated N2Y-1 training plane, equipped for trapeze hookup, fastens to the USS Akron. It disconnects and flies away. Three planes beneath the USS Akron airship. Another N2Y-1 attempts to hook up, misses and flies off. Belly of USS Akron. One N2Y-1 hooked on and others in background. N2Y-1 hooked on, releases and flies away.
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