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Chesapeake Bay 1939 stock footage and images

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New York City harbor views in upper New York Bay; Manhattan skyscrapers; New York City Police boat activities.

Views of various boats and ship at New York harbor in Upper New York Bay. Good views of New York skyline and skyscraper buildings near the harbor, as seen from a New York City Police boat. Police officers on the police boat. The boat docks and name on back of boat reads, "Police New York City Lieutenant Ronaghan". A small row boat is then put into the water from the larger police boat, and two men board the small boat and row it towards shore. A gathering of onlookers at the docks as the rowboat comes in. Police officers hoist what appears to be a covered stretcher in the air (possible victim?) and load it into a waiting police van or paddy wagon on the dock.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939, October
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032801
12th Coast Artillery Mine Planter Battery members demonstrate mine planting techniques

A training film about marine mine planting, created before World War 2. Group of mine planting vessels consisting of a planter (The "General J.M. Schofield"), a DB (Distribution Box) boat and three motor boats, are seen underway in Delaware Bay. Members of 12th Coast Artillery Mine Planter Battery, on the planter vessel, attach cable to a loading wire and then connect the cable to the bale of the number 10 mine with a galvanized wire. Mine and anchor lowered over the edge of the planter. Mooring rope attaches the mine with the anchor. End of the cable attached to the DB boat. Men look over the edge of the planter as the mine is lowered into the water. Cable loosened over the stern of the planter. An animation shows the correct way of releasing of coil from a figure of eight.

Location: Delaware Bay United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049267
Bombs dropped on German Battleship Ostfriesland cause it to roll over and sink

Group of men standing across the street from the U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC. Two hold newspapers reporting about General Billy Mitchell and airpower controversy. View from an airborne bomber,as four bombs fall and explode in the water at the port side of the German battleship Ostfriesland, causing it to roll over and sink..

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1921, July 21
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033221
International Exposition in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Close-up view of American flag waving and fluttering in breeze on windy day. A ferry underway. Point of view from moving ferry boat as it approaches main Ferry Terminal in San Francisco, California. People travel by ferry to reach the Federal Theatre in Treasure Island for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Passengers talk and laugh on the ferry. Many views of men, women and children of all ages in typical 1930s clothing fashions. A boy wearing a capshields his eyes from the sun and looks up at seagull birds as they fly in the sky. Panoramic views of San Francisco city skyline and buildings in the City. Hills in the background in some views. People disembark from the ferry.

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041894
Eva Braun home movie of visit to glacier during cruise of Norway

Eva Braun home movie. Several cruise ship passengers stand by small boat pulled up on shore in Norway. Cruise ship anchored in bay. Passengers walk across rocky ground to view glacier. A man and women seen deep down close to glacier. A woman balances on icy rock close to glacier face. Glacier melting. Drops of water seen. Several mountain climbers seen as tiny figures on glacier near crevasse.

Location: Norway
Date: 1939, July
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048019
Harbor in Tokyo and Mount Fuji in Yokohama, Japan.

Scenes in two major Japanese attractions near Tokyo- Yokohama port and Mt. Fuji. Animated map depicting Tokyo and Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. View of the Yokohama seaport (Yamashitacho, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0023, Japan). Freight is unloaded from cargo ships. A ship sails on Tokyo Bay. Animated map shows Yokohama and Mount Fuji, located in Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. View of Mt. Fuji with its famous snow cap. A steam train passes over Mt. Fuji. A man rows a small boat on one of the lakes near Mt. Fuji.

Location: Japan
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675024935
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