From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.
Various activities of tourists during winter vacations in Florida. The famous Breakers Hotel (1 S County Rd, Palm Beach, FL 33480, United States) in Palm Beach, Florida. Views of hotel building with trees and garden in the foreground. Cars parked on roadside in front of the building. Car being driven towards the building. Statue in front of the building. Exteriors of the building.
Girls enjoy at Miami Beach in Florida. People at the beach in costumes. Girls play with a ball on the beach. The girls seated on warm sand as they make garlands of seashells. A girl wears a garland made up of seashells. A girl puts a garland in the neck of another girl. The girls wearing garlands made up of seashells pose. A girl does her make up. The girls in costumes take sun bath.
Various winter vacation activities of tourists at West Palm Beach Florida, United States. Leaves of palm trees wave in the wind. Tourists move on the beach and others relax. People sit under sun umbrellas in a restaurant. People relax on the beach. Woman walks on seashore. People relax and sun loungers in the background. A man in bathing robe smokes a cigar. Woman wipes her face as she looks in a mirror and others relax. She stands and walks away.
Various activities of tourists during winter vacations at West Palm Beach railroad station Florida, United States. Train pulls out of the station with a band playing on rear platform and people waving good bye. Another train is stationed near by. Board on a train reads 'Florida Special'. Train pulls into the station. People move on the platform. People seated in a restaurant. Women seated as they pour in mugs.
A demonstration about clearing obstacles at a beach in Florida, United States. A sign on a paper reads 'Project 226 Hagensen pack demolition charges MK 20 )'. A soldier with a 22 pound pack of Hagensen demolition explosives in an ammunition bag on his back. The soldier holds a chord. Soldiers attach the explosives to a Japanese type obstacles at a beach. A soldier detonates the explosives. An explosion occurs and billows of smoke rise up. The area is cleared after the explosion on the beach. A man puts a seal on a paper that reads ' 100 % completed '. (World War II period).
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