1928 Democratic National Convention in Texas. Governor Alfred E. Smith tips his hat. Al Smith persuading Franklin to run for Governor of New York. Street scene in Albany, New York with Capitol in background. Newly elected Governor Franklin Roosevelt at his desk in office in Albany. Newly elected Governor Franklin Roosevelt, seated next to Mrs. Edith (Atschul) Lehman,as they converse, at the inaugural ball. Roosevelt's son-in-law, Curtis Dall; his daughter, Mrs. Curtis Bean Dall (Eleanor Anna E. Roosevelt) ; his wife, Eleanor; his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt; and Herbert H. Lehman, are standing behind them. Governor Roosevelt, riding in an open car with his mother, at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, New York. Governor Roosevelt lunching in an open pavilion at the Fair.
American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York after completing his solo flight around the world in a just under 8 days. People gather in a large number to welcome him. They gather around his aircraft. Scene shifts to streets of New York City where Wiley Post is honored with a ticker tape parade for his Around The World achievement. The aviator seated aboard a jeep passing by. People celebrate and greet him. He is bestowed with the Medal of Valor by New York City Mayor John P. O'Brien. Next segment shows plane of American aviator Roscoe Turner landing, after his record-setting flight from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours and 5 minutes flying his Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft. This won him the 1933 Bendix Trophy. Close view of Roscoe Turner smiling from the cockpit of his aircraft. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt campaigns in New York City during 1940 presidential election. A large crowd gathered to greet him in Newark, New Jersey. He arrives in the Presidential motorcade. Views of the motorcade driving past the crowd, as seen from a moving vehicle. Roosevelt seated in car beside New York Governor Herbert Lehman, and New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Roosevelt addresses the people as the Presidential election campaign enters its final phase. Policemen control the large crowd. People seated to hear his speech. He addresses the gathering. The President officiates at the ground breaking for the $57,000,000 Brooklyn-Battery tunnel to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn.
American acrobat Marilyn Rich performs stunts while hanging from a helicopter to promote the ‘Clothes For Korea’ campaign during the Korean War. Marilyn Rich hands bundle of donated clothes to helicopter pilot. The Hess’s Department Store-sponsored helicopter takes off from Palisades Park, New Jersey, with Marilyn Rich riding under the helicopter, holding onto rings attached to ropes beneath it. The helicopter in flight over the New York skyline. Another helicopter equipped with pontoon flies nearby. The female stunt artist shows stunts on the rings, passing by various New York City skyscrapers of the New York City skyline. The helicopter and Marilyn Rich passes near the Statue of Liberty.
A man with a briefcase gets off a airplane and sets his brief case down. A plastic sheet production factory and rolls of colored plastic being created with the aid of a "Atom Ray" thickness gauge used in manufacturing. An oil drilling site. Drilling core samples of rock are extracted from the bottom of the hole. They are collected and sent to laboratory in a van. The core samples are irradiated in a particle accelerator or atom smasher and the response of different elements in the samples is observed, providing information about their composition. Activity is recorded on paper and a needle moves over a graph during particle acceleration. Engineer shows an experimental well logging device that contains a radiation source for use deep in the hole to determine nature of the strata without having to remove a core. Geologists examine a graph. Engineers subject oil samples to bombardment by neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Test apparatus is lowered down in a water pool. It is anchored to a movable rack and water is filled in the pool. The test apparatus is moved into position beside the atomic reactor uranium core. The core goes critical and irradiates the test sample with neutrons. Control equipment is switched on. Red sign illuminates with message "Reactor on." The core glows. An engineer looks to observe the test apparatus. Another engineer operates control equipment in front of a General Electric Reactor Control panel. Summary of role of radioactivity in ordinary life, in medicine, food production, manufacturing, transportation, and the home. Exterior of a a nuclear reactor is shown beside power transmission equipment. A man in a hospital room receiving treatment from cobalt machine radiotherapy or radiation therapy. (External beam radiotherapy, or EBRT machine, also called a teletherapy machine). Several cows on a farm walking beside grain silos with a farm house nearby. A man applying stain or varnish to wood with a brush. A rack of automobile whitewall tires in a warehouse. A woman or housewife in a 1950s kitchen pouring coffee for a another woman. A van passes by a suburban house on a street in a 1950s American town and a mail man or post man delivers to the house. Scenes of a main street or downtown area busy with pedestrian and street traffic in White Plains, New York. Light post on pedestal in front of a municipal building with People's National Bank and Trust Company Building in background, at 31 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, New York. Elevated, wide view of city of White Plains, New York. AT&T Telecommunications Tower and Switching Center (then in the Bell Telephone system network), at 400 Hamilton Avenue, seen rising above all other buildings.
U.S. Navy ship USS Texas sailing the Hudson River, passing by Riverside Park- the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States. The background shows the white dome of the General Grant National Memorial or Grant’s Tomb (W 122nd St &, Riverside Dr, New York, 10027) on the hill crest.
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