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Kindergarten students learn how to cooperate in a Manhattan, New York city school

Kindergarten children, in a Manhattan New York City school, mix learning and play. Two boys pretend to drive cars. Other children do creative things with outsize blocks. One girl builds a tall building of blocks and a boy knocks it over. The girl is sad. Some girls play with dolls. A boy uses a hammer on something being held by the teacher. Two boys fight over a toy car. The teacher distracts them with a task related to milk time. Several children are seen seated at a table where milk is distributed. The two boys (who fought over the car) come downstairs and get bottles of milk for their class. They carry them back upstairs and set them out for their classmates. Some children lick cream from the bottle caps, when they open their milk bottles. All the children drink their milk through straws. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067141
Junior High School students in various activities at school in Manhattan, New York City.

View of the Joan of Arc Junior High School building at 154 W 93rd Street, on the upper West side of Manhattan, New York City. children are seen entering the building. A larger, more modern school is also shown. Camera, in upper floor classroom window, pans from playground below to interior of the classroom. Students sit at a long table where ledger books are being handed out for students to work with. Scene shifts to school library, where students are studying. A boy day dreams about his future occupation. He imagines being a cowboy; or a speedboat driver; or launching into the air in his speedboat, which transforms into an airplane, in which he does a loop. The boy is seen with his parents at a conference with the school principal. He is seen at the blackboard in a math class, and later in a classroom full of students all opening personal copies of a newspaper. He uses a saw in a woodworking class, and works at a lathe, in a machine shop. He meets with a teacher who discusses his progress.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067142
Striking elevator operators and people including college girls protest, and the police control them in New York City.

A labor dispute in New York City. Striking elevator operators cheer their leaders. A leader addresses striking building service employees. Protesters including college girls from Hunter College who come out of a building holding banners. A child enters a tiny elevator (designed for groceries and small goods) and is hoisted up to his apartment manually by an operator. The boy's mother greets him there beside the kitchen icebox and helps him to exit the mini elevator. The mother kisses the child. A man treats the foot of another striking protestor after he developed blisters on the picket line. A man with a shotgun at a building acts as a strike breaker. Demonstrators are taken by police from a building. Police cars on a street. The demonstrators are taken away into the police cars. Some of the demonstrators hold signs like "Dillinger Gone...Bellinger going going (gone)". (The sign is comparing Frederic Coudert Bellinger, a building resident who was organizing tenants against the striking workers, to the infamous bank robber John Dillinger.) Bellinger had also shown up in tin hat and with a shotgun, and another protestor sign said, "Office of Tin Hat Bellinger". Another sign variant was, "Bellinger goes up and down, Picket goes round and round."

Date: 1936, March 9
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067250
Boxers fight during the Golden Gloves 175 lb boxing competition in New York City.

A Golden Gloves 175 lb boxing competition in New York City. Two boxers fight in a match. Spectators watch. Two black boxers fight during the boxing match. The referee hugs one of the boxers.

Date: 1955, January 20
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067833
Curtiss Hawk piloted by Henry Lloyd Child makes vertical dive during that test flight and lands in Buffalo, New York

Test pilot Henry Lloyd Child makes a test flight record on Curtiss Hawk in Buffalo, New York. Propellers of the aircraft rotate as the engine starts. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft makes vertical dive during that test flight. The aircraft lands and taxis. Pilot Henry Lloyd Child disembarks from aircraft. An airman points to the peak on the recording instrument that shows record speed of 575 miles per hour.

Date: 1939, January 30
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068181
Traffic and neon signs at Times Square in New York City, United States. (Monochrome and color)

Clip opens with black and white scenes but then transitions to color scenes. Times Square neon signs and theaters in New York City. Theaters include the Waldorf Theater and Roxy Theater at 50th street and Sixth Avenue, the Astor Theater at 1537 Broadway, and the Paramount Theater at 43rd street and Broadway. Neon signs seen include 'Ripley Believe it or Not!' , 'Coca-Cola The Pause That Refreshes' , 'Chevrolet' , 'Old Overholt Straight Rye Whiskey' , 'Wilson That's All' , 'Sunkist Lemonade' , 'Bromo Seltzer' , 'Hygrade Frankfurters' , 'Wrigley's Spearmint' , 'Old Gold Cigarettes' , and 'Florsheim Shoes.' At the Astor Theater, the movie 'Goodbye Mr. Chips' starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson is advertised on the marquee, and the scrolling marquee is advertising the Wizard of Oz. At the Paramount Theater, the movie, 'Our Leading Citizen' starring Bob Burns is playing.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068263