The prettiest legs contest in Palisade Park, New Jersey (Cliffside Park-Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S). A girl shows off her legs with her upper body behind a cardboard with a cartoon on it. Contestants cover their faces with sacks and walk down a ramp. Contestants are wearing swimsuits. Boys look on from behind a fence. Audiences clap. A girl shows her legs as they protrude from a cut out. A man tears apart the cut out and girl steps in front of the cut out. The winner of the competition is shown smiling.
1936 Miss America beauty pageant at the Steel Pier (1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contestants at Miss America pageant walk down a ramp. 1936 Miss America winner Rose Coyle from Philadelphia being crowned. Rose Coyle poses after winning the pageant.
United States Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger makes the longest jump during Project Excelsior in New Mexico. Colonel Kittinger puts on a suit for the jump and enters a balloon gondola. Men help him. The balloon rises from New Mexico. An automatic camera in the gondola records the whole event. The colonel jumps out of the gondola and descends towards the land. People watch the colonel descending. He is helped out of the suit as he lands.
From the film "The City" , idea credited to Pare Lorentz, with music by Aaron Copland. About the need and importance of town planning. Opening slate "Year by year our cities grow more complex and less fit for living. The age of rebuilding is here. We must remould our old cities and build new communities better suited to our needs." A lake in a country side in New England region of the United States. A sign reads 'Sias Farm 1791'. A waterfall. Boys skinny dipping. A boy riding on an open horse-drawn wagon or cart beside a barrel loaded with apples. A sign reads 'Shirley village'. Houses in the village. Horse drawn carts and wagons. Men unload a horse cart. A hand-cranked machine being operated by two men, molding a piece of metal to a round shape to bind a barrel.
Crash of Hindenburg Zeppelin (airship) at Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst in New Jersey. Hindenburg coming in for landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Hindenburg bursts into flames and crashes. Remains of worlds largest airship. Firefighters battle the flames. Smoke cloud rises due to crash. Ruins of Hindenburg after flames have been extinguished. Wreckage of engines of the large Zeppelin.
Beauty contest for the title of 'Miss America -1964' at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Participants of beauty contest pose and walk on ramp. Audience watches the beauty contest. A woman watches through binoculars. First runner up of beauty contest, Miss Columbia Roseanne Tueller. Miss Arkansas, Donna Axum receives title of 'Miss America -1964'. She is being crowned. Photographers take photos. Donna Axum smiles and waves.
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