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A barrel jumping contest in New York.

A barrel jumping contest in New York. Skaters on ice skates attempt to hurdle fourteen barrels. Fourteen barrels placed on the snow. The contestants begin the competition and attempt the jumps. Some contestants land on the last barrel and some midway. Contestants hurt their neck, head and back. Spectators watch the contest. A dog among the audience. Referees monitor the jumps. Photographers click pictures. A contestant successfully humps all barrels. The winner Brownie is awarded the trophy.

Date: 1953, January 12
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020712
Dignitaries aboard ships arrive at the New York harbor.

Dignitaries arrive at the New York harbor. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer aboard the Superliner ship SS United States. Closeup of Chancellor Adenauer as he waves. He and his daughter talk to the press aboard the ship, as they arrive for a two week visit in the United States. Photographers take pictures and record the event. Next scene is a wide view of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth. British producer and director Sir Michael Balcon and his wife Lady Balcon aboard the Queen Elizabeth. The Duke of Windsor returns from the funeral of his mother, British monarch Queen Mary. The Duke talks to the press. People aboard the ship.

Date: 1953, April 6
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020731
Local people in their neighborhood, a section of the South Bronx, New York City

Views of a South Bronx neighborhood. From a high vantage point, camera pans across rooftops of apartment houses in section of the South Bronx, New York City. Voices of local residents (unseen) are heard in conversations. Camera zooms in on Wash hung to dry on lines stretched across alleyway between backs of buildings. It focuses on members of a family staying cool by sitting outside on the fire escape of their building. A shirtless boy is looking about in a vacant lot. Another boy splashes water flowing near the curb in the street. Scene of activity on Oak Terrace, elderly Jewish women walk to Temple on Beekman Ave. Children seated in their window. Groups of children playing self-organized games in the street. Women and children on an apartment stoop. Two young women walking together. Boys climbing on their fire escape. Girls playing "potsie" (variant of hopscotch) in the street. Children with noses pressed against their apartment window screen. A girl riding her bicycle. School-aged children talking. Two old ladies walking slowly along the sidewalk. A boy giving a smaller one a "piggy back" ride. Women and their children on steps of their building. Young men "hanging out" on the sidewalk. They gather around with others to watch two boys wrestling in the street. Boys jumping on old furniture placed at the curb. A man, a woman, and a teenage girl, walking. The man holds a small boy in his arms. The teenager takes the boy and she and the man hold his hands as he walks between them. View from car driving slowly uphill on Eagle Avenue heading towards 149th Street. Cars parked on the left side include one that has been completely stripped of its wheels and tires. Further along, two men look under the open hood of a 1960 Plymouth Fury automobile, parked at the curb. Other cars seen parked and pedestrians walking on sidewalks. View from car approaching business district, where steel grates protect some closed establishments. A man getting a shoeshine on the sidewalk. Two well-dressed little girls walking. Pedestrians walking past a line of shops. Partial writing "...Jtch unknown Sinners" is scrawled on building, underneath a sign in Spanish advertising Ballantine beer.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020823
Life in a section of the South Bronx, New York City

A Wednesday afternoon in the South Bronx, New York City. Camera pans down front of an apartment building on Crimmins Avenue, in the South Bronx, where people are sitting on the apartment house steps, watching men playing stick ball in the street. A 1954 Oldsmobile car turns into the street, keeping to the left to avoid interfering with the ball game. Closeups of players. One tries to take the stick of another. Players watch as a ball, hit high on a building, bounces its way down. A left-handed batter gets set, with a cigarette in his mouth. View down the Avenue. Two men walk along an apartment building roof. A dog walks past a pile of trash. Men seated alone, one backwards on a chair; another on a fire escape; one on a park bench; one in a doorway; and another on a box in front of a store. Two small boys sitting with their shoeshine boxes. Boys playing with a frisbee and two playing catch with a baseball on East 139th Street between Cypress and St. Ann's Avenues. Youth wearing sleeveless sweatshirt painted with picture of a skull and words:"Cara Gons," on it. Police officer in a patrol car parked at a curb. Another patrol car (at 2:48) driving west along 149th street at Bergen Avenue. A young man wearing a sweatshirt with "Latin Crowns" written on it, goes down some steps and through doorway into a building. Another "Latin Crowns" is worn by a youth doing pullups on bottom of fire escape, outside. A boy swings on the same bar. Several youths start to tussle and an older one steps in to break it up.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020824
A doctor administers Anesthesia to a patient at the Lennox Hill Hospital in New York.

Administration of Anesthesia at the Lennox Hill Hospital in New York. Sign on the door reads 'Anesthesia'. Doctor prepares the syringe for anesthesia. Doctor fills the syringe. He holds the rubber inhaler over the patient's mouth. Equipment near the patient. Doctor and nurse administer the anesthesia. They take off the strap, put the oxygen mask on the patient, and adjust equipment. The patient loses consciousness gradually.

Date: 1948, June
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020833
Mr. Magazzu honored by Mr. Harry Brandt and Miss Phyliss Brooks for bond drive in New York (WW2)

Mr Magazzu an exhibitor honored for bond drive in New York. Harry Brandt, Chairman of 6th War Loan Drive for the Motion Picture Industry congratulates Mr Magazzu , an exhibitor for his activities in the drive during World War II. A sign reads 'War Bond'. Phyliss Brooks puts medal. The medal reads 'War Activities Committee Motion Picture Industry'. Mr Magazzu shakes hand with Harry Brandt.

Date: 1944, November 16
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021125