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Howard Hughes flies from Burbank to New York in Lockheed Super Electra.

A Lockheed Super Electra plane pushed out of a hangar in Burbank, California. Howard Hughes boards the aircraft and engine starts. Aircraft taxis along and takes off. Plane lands at an airfield in New York as a large crowd gathers to welcome him. Crowds cheer. Hughes in an interview expresses the desire to bring aviators from all over the globe together in New York.

Date: 1938, July 6
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049678
Berlin Olympic participants including Jesse Owens honored at a ceremony in New York City, United States.

Women members of the 1936 American Olympic Team receive special medals created by the City of New York, to honor each member of the team. Other American athletes are also called, in groups, according to events in which they participated. Jesse Owens comes to the podium.and is praised by New York Mayor Laguardia. Jesse Owens then speaks at the microsphone, and presents a medal to Bill Robinson, the "Mayor" of Harlem. The ceremony continues as other athletes receive their medals. Mayor Fiorello Laguardia and former World Champion Heavyweight Boxer, Jack Dempsey, are present on the stage through the proceedings.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049739
Ships are launched from a ship building yard on the eve of Maritime Day in New York, United States.

View of a large ship building yard in New York, USA during World War 2. Engineers and workers at work. Cranes handle large ship parts. Workers weld ship parts. Large cranes in operations. America celebrates Maritime Day with mass decoration of merchant seamen. New York's Mayor La Guardia awards medal to victims of German submarine raids. U.S. Navy sailors aboard a ship wave and cheer. Sign on the bow of the Victory Ship has a giant "V" symbol and reads 'Ships for victory'. The American flag on the bow. Several large Victory ships are launched from the shipyard, including the SS Irving S. Olds. Ships get underway in the harbor.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050137
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) dedicates Post Office in Hyde Park, New York

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen platform beside the new stone Post Office in Hyde Park, New York. He speaks to a crowd gathered for the dedication of the Post Office. Brief view from across the avenue, then back to the crowd at the dedication site. The President speaking to the crowd. He then takes a trowel and ceremoniously applies mortar to the top of a cornerstone. Closeup of the corner stone shows names of current officials and the architect, including: Franklin D.Roosevelt, President of United States of America; James A. Farley, Postmaster General; John M. Carmody,Federal Works Administrator; W. Englebert Reynolds, Commissioner of Public Buildings; Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect; and Neal A. Melick, Supervising Engineer. The year 1940 is also engraved.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050190
Caskets carrying victims of Hindenburg disaster being loaded aboard a German ship Hamburg for shipment to Germany in New York.

Dead bodies of victims of Hindenburg disaster in New York, United States. People lined up on the pier to attend the funeral ceremonies of victims who lost their lives in the explosion of German airship Hindenburg in New York, United States. Nazi flags fly at half mast after the Hindenburg disaster. A Nazi General salutes as caskets wrapped in Nazi flags lined up on the pier. United States military officers at the ceremony. A casket wrapped in Nazi flag being hoisted aboard the German ship Hamburg for shipment to Germany.

Date: 1937, May 12
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051407
West Point cadet seniors operate U.S. PB-2As in flight over New York City.

West Point cadet seniors at an air base in New York. They march behind parked U.S. Army Air Corps Consolidated PB-2A planes. A building in the background. One of the cadets leaves the group and starts to climb into a PB-2A. Four PB-2As in flight low over the ground just after take off. Several U.S. Army Air Corps Martin B-10 bombers planes parked in the foreground. B-10s in flight over New York City. An aerial view of the city.

Date: 1936
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051512