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Airship in flight over New York City and New York harbor.

Views from U.S. Navy C-class airship in flight over Manhattan Island, New York City. View from rear section of the open gondola of two crewmen in front section of the gondola. Views of the cables suspending it from the gas bag. View of the Airship's 125 hp French Hispano-Suiza engine. Many ships in New York harbor, many with three masts and one with four. The area is very smoky from chimneys of buildings heating during winter.Aerial view of New York buildings. Brief glimpse of a sister C-class airship. Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges over the East River. Steamship piers along Hudson River. Ferryboat. F.W. Woolworth building.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1918, December
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052578
Coast Guard Stations on coasts of New Jersey, Long Island, Eastern shore of Maryland, and coasts of Virginia and North Carolina

Opening scene is an animated map showing Coast Guard Stations on Long Island, New York and on New Jersey coasts. Aerial view of Coast Guard Station Number 75. Narrator says manual life boats are launched into the surf from this Station. Camera pans closeup over the station, showing its buildings. Aerial view of inlet on South shore of Long Island from which powered life boats can launch into calm waters. Aerial view of the Fire Island (Long Island) Coast Guard Station with launching runway for power boats. Ground level closeup of the Fire Island Station. A power lifeboat being launched down its runway. Water level view of the power lifeboat speeding along the inlet towards the open sea. View from a height of the path the power lifeboat will follow to the sea. Change of scene shows map of life guard stations along Eastern shore of Maryland, the coast of Virginia and area around the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, with focus on cities of Norfolk and Newport News. It also extends South to outer islands of North Carolina. Battered hulk of a ship in surf in this area.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049570
During Prohibition: A battle between the U.S. Coast Guard and liquor smugglers on boats off Long Island, New York.

Two boats move in water. A U.S. Coast Guard vessel approaches a liquor smuggler's boat (during Prohibition). Sound of guns firing. U.S. Coast Guard pursuing the bootleggers running liquor. Both the boats move fast in water.

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1933, December 4
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023920
American men and women do sand-planing along the Atlantic coast in Southampton, Long Island, New York

American men and women do sand-planing along the Atlantic coast in Southampton. Sand-planing is a combination of winter sledding and summer aqua-planing, with a mid sized board, reinforced with aluminum, dragged behind a jeep at 30 miles per hour. Ropes are tied to an Aluminum board at one end, and to a jeep at the other end. Jeep pulls the aluminum board on which a person stands and sand-planes. The boards in some views enter the shallows of the surf (early skim boarding or skimboard concept).

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1951, July 2
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025746
Major General Hardigg's speech on fat and oil recycling efforts; view of Halloran Army Hospital kitchen, Staten Island, New York

United States Army Major General Hardigg speaks about the need for saving waste fats and oils for recycling and reuse in the war effort during World War 2. Kitchen of Halloran Army Hospital is shown with Chefs preparing chicken and other foods, and saving fats. Homemakers and housewives shown straining fats through strainers to reserve and save fats. A housewife speaks to another woman. A girl presents a can of reserved fats to a store clerk who weighs it and gives the girl back a ration receipt.

Location: Staten Island New York USA
Date: 1945, April 30
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032525
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York.

Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068847
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