Clip opens with Gilded Age scenes near the turn of the century in the United States, circa late 1890s. Busy sidewalk scene in a city with men and women in suits, dresses, and hats of the era walking and in conversation. Wealthy people moving about. Group of women ascends steps toward a building. Reunion game of baseball between old men formerly from the Orange 'Y' team and the 'Bears' in Newark, New Jersey. Elderly players pose for a photograph in front of a team banner that says 1885. Elderly baseball players play on a field as fans young and old in the stands watch the game. Young spectators cheer a play by the senior citizen players. A player hits a grounder and another player comes in from 3rd base toward what looks to be a slide at home plate, but he ends up sitting down on the plate.
1940 Gridiron Football "Sugar Bowl" college football game at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. Players of Texas A&M Aggies and Tulane Green Wave play the match. Crowd of spectators in stands watch the game and cheer. Players on the field and several plays shown. Fans gather on the field and shake the goal post, beginning to tear it down.
Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg, in flight, preparing to land at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey. Passengers looking out from ship's Cabin. View of control gondola, under LZ 129. Passengers are helped to disembark. Bow of airship is secured to mooring mast. Ground crewmen surround the control gondola under the Hindenburg, in efforts to control movement during landing, as other ground crews grasp lines fastened to the airship. Stern views of Hindenburg, as ground crew maneuvers her on the ground.
Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg approaches in the far background. Hindenburg makes landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Hindenburg stabilized by the ground crewmen holding lines fastened to the airship. Cable attached to nose of the airship is wound onto mooring tower. Men on tower secure Hindenburg's cable to mooring tower.
A freighter in foreground,and a troop transport ship, docked at a U.S.Army Transport Service Terminal during World War 1. (A large oceanliner seen berthed on opposite side of the terminal.) U.S. Army troops jam the lower decks of the troop ship as she prepares to get underway to France. Three twenty-man life rafts hang on the side of the troop ship and an American flag flies at her stern. Scene shifts to American Expeditionary Forces boarding a very large Navy transport ship at Hoboken, New Jersey. Some troops with all their gear, climb a steep gangway to an upper deck, while others, below, walk a level gangway to a lower deck.
Manufacture of M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles (BAR) at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven Connecticut during World War 1. A worker assembles rifles on a bench. Another worker checks their operation by placing them into a mechanical holder and firing them. View of a black circular target showing grouping of hits during firing. View of the factory floor with movable racks containing rifles. Workers move the racks.
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