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New catapult for aircraft carriers demonstrated in England.
A British catapult systems for aircraft carriers is introduced. Demonstrations include launch of a dead weight, a pilotless plane and then piloted jets from the deck of an aircraft carrier during various stages of tests in England. The pilotless plane has no wing tips to ensure it will not fly far after launch, and crashes into the sea after launch.
News reel entitled "Korea, Paratroops Active on Battle Front."
U.S. paratroopers active on a battle front in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Army paratroopers are seen lined up as they board a U.S.Air Force C-124 Cargo aircraft on an airfield. A C-119 airplane is parked in the background. Closer view of the C-124 with its large clam shell doors open. The troopers board on ramps lowered from the aircraft. Closeup of one trooper climbing a ladder to an aircraft. C-119 aircraft taking off and then in formation. View of pilot in cockpit of a C-119 in flight. Paratroopers jumping from C-46 aircraft. Their chutes deploying. Closeup of paratroopers exiting rear door of C-46 and delaying their chute openings. View from inside a C-46 as troopers jump and their chutes open when well clear of the aircraft. View from below of troopers dropping from C-46s with chutes deployed. More view from inside aircraft as troopers jump. A formation of C-119 (Flying Boxcars) dropping heavy equipment on skids with parachutes attached. View from ground of sky filled with parachutes. Closer views of some troopers as they approach the ground and land. Troops standing by as their equipment is dropped to them by parachutes. Equipment drops reaching the ground. Troops moving out from the landing area.
Ordinary life in a Bronx, New York City, neighborhood in the 1960s
Film opens showing a commercial DC-9 in flight, overhead, approaching for landing at LaGuardia Airport, with landing gear and flaps extended. Scene shifts to hazy view of buildings silhouetted against lighter sky. View of rooftops with a boy walking across one. Buildings with pigeons on the roof. A woman dries clothes on a roof. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Cars parked on the street below. Pigeons flying. Youths playing basketball. 1:08 to end footage taken from atop 700 East 156th Street. 1:08 follows a train northwest along the Westchester Avenue line. 1:18, a view East of the newly elevated Bruckner Expwy and Whitestone and Throggs Neck bridges in distance. 1:21,a view to the Northwest, 3203-3211 Park Avenue is the curved building in the foreground, George Washington Bridge seen in the distance. 1:25, view west down 156th Street. 1:29 Train runs along Westchester Avenue to 156 and Tinton. 1:34 panning from south to west, Consolidated Edixon plant in Port Morris can be seen in distance. Rikers Island can also be seen in the East River. ( Note: A very large number of the buildings shown burned down in the next 10-20 years.)
Point of view scenes of dense urban housing in the Bronx of New York City, as seen from a moving train.
View of housing in the Bronx from a train. View through the train of a 2 or 5 train window heading northeast along Westchester Avenue. The Prospect Ave station is passed. A man in the train. Buildings in the area. A family seated on the fire escape of a building. A little girl on a balcony. Cars and trucks on the street. People in the window of a room. Men playing baseball in the street.
Residents, places, and activities in a section of the South Bronx, New York City
Opening scene shows marquee of Art Theater, at 1077 Southern Boulevard, where Spanish language films are showing. Glimpse of sign in beauty parlor window reading: "Hair straightened" (in English and Spanish). Sign for "Gilroy & McLoughlin" Bar& Grill, Cabaret. A musical record shop. Womens gowns, including a bridal gown, in a shop window. Photo portrait of President John Kennedy and wife, Jackie, in a shop window. Paper posters in window, referring to religious Mystical Crown, and showing illustration of Christ wearing crown of thorns. A shop called "CuchiFritos y Pasteles." Picture of saxaphonist, Don Santia, in a club window. Women's clothing hanging outside a shop, with sale prices boldly displayed on the items. Pictures advertising entertainers, including two women and a male guitar player. Items in a toy store window that also shows a religious picture. Items in a hat shop window, including a straw hat labeled "Puerto Rico." Flashing neon sign in window reading:"Casa Legre."Shop full of religious wares. The "Progresso Barber Shop."A drug store advertising Louis Levine, Doctor of Pharmacy. Two boys walking past a shop displaying sunglasses, spinners on sticks and other gadgets. People gathered at a very busy produce market. A man weighing bananas. A woman paying for her purchase. Two men very busy tending customers. Man loading bananas into a paper sack. A little girl dressed all in white with a veil and carrying a flower follows her mother past the market. ('Possibly going for her first Communion.) Woman examining melons. A man dispensing soft drink sodas, and snow cones or shaved ice drinks from a stand on the sidewalk. A couple looking at used furniture. A mother placing a diaper over her husbands shoulder so he can burp their baby. A lone boy on bicycle passing a couple walking along the sidewalk.
A film depicting life in the South Bronx, New York City in the mid 1960s.
'Uptown': a film made by the Lincoln Hospital Mental Health Services, Yeshiva University. The film depicts life in the South Bronx. African American men on the street. A man looks out from a window. Families on the fire escapes of densely packed urban buildings and tenements. Graffiti on the road. Buildings seen and a boy flies a kite from a roof. Dark clouds in the sky. A woman climbs up the stairs in a building. A couple in the street. Cars pass by. Clothes lines. Strong winds and thunder as the storm approaches.
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