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Musicians at Metropolitan Opera House. Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, Ettore Panizza, and Giulio Gatti Casazza

Musicians, with their musical instruments, file into the orchestra pit of Metropolitan Opera, in New York City. Opera star, Giovanni Martinelli, wearing a dressing gown, sings and laughs, as he prepars to makeup and dress for his performance, in role of Radames, in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Aida. Opera star, Lawrence Tibbett, looks in a mirror, as he prepares to apply makeup for his role as, Amonasro, in the opera. Make-up articles lay in front of him. Giovanni Martinelli, applying his makeup. Conductor, Ettore Panizza directs the orchestra, in his debut with the Metropolitan Opera . Footlights and curtain on a stage of the Metropolitan. Giulio Gatti Casazza, manager of Metropolitan Opera, comes through stage door.

Date: 1934, December 22
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041885
Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren release birds from cages, promoting debut of Hitchcock film

Film maker Alfred Hitchcock's movie 'The Birds' is released at RKO Palace theater at 1564 Broadway in New York City at Times Square. Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren stand in front of cages. A crowd gathered to watch them. Several cameramen take photographs. Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren release pigeons from cages. The birds in flight near other buildings and signs in Times Sqaure. Advertising boards are seen around Broadway. Views of the theater marquee advertising "The Birds" and views of several advertising posters for the movie "The Birds". A sign with Hitchcock's face and words, "And remember, the next scream you hear may be your own."

Date: 1963, March 28
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041948
Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren release pigeons, promoting Hitchcock's Hollywood film "The Birds".

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren stand in front of cages adjacent to the RKO Palace Theater on Broadway in New York City. In a promotional stunt for the movie "The Birds", they release pigeons from cages. The birds in flight. Advertising boards around Broadway are seen in the streets. Alfred Hitchcock's movie 'The birds' is released, debuting at the RKO Palace theater. Advertising picture and posters of the movie. Pigeons in cages.

Date: 1963, March 28
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041949
Republcan Thomas E. Dewey and incumbent Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, compete in 1944 U.S. Presidential election during World War II

The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in 1944, during World War 2. Newspaper boy hawks newspaper extra edition, with headline referring to "Nip and Tuck" race. View of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, at twilight, as lights begin to turn on. Wooden barricades seen set up in front of some establishments to protect against damage from large crowds anticipated as election returns come in. Moving illuminated marquee sign on the Times building reads: "Nearly 45 per cent of Bronx and Manhattan voters said to have cast ballots." Two men look up at the sign. Officials open a voting machine and begin to report information. At another location officials remove paper ballots from their precinct box. A radio announcer reviewing results and reporting them over the air. A woman is seen entering voter returns in chalk, on a national tote board. Citizens gathered to watch results. American soldier listening to results over a radio, in Italy and France. Newscasters reporting on radio as the returns come in. Many people listen to radios. An American family of man, woman, boy and girl children seated in their living room listening to vintage console radio reporting voting returns. A fire is burning in the living room fireplace beside the console radio. Another, different scene is shown with a family gathered around a radio listening to election reports. A framed photograph of a U.S. Army soldier is atop the console radio. Scene is shown of crowds surging in Times Square as returns displayed on Times Building marquee indicate likely victory for FDR (Franklin Roosevelt). Crowd in Times Square including many American military service members in uniform.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072900
Red Sox Billy Rohr falls short of no-hitter in baseball game against Yankees

Red Sox rookie pitcher Billy Rohr falls just short of baseball immortality, throwing a one-hitter against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on April 14, 1967. Clip shows Rohr on pitching mound as scoreboard (in background) shows the Red Sox' 3-0 lead and zero Yankee hits. Yankee catcher Elston Howard hits a single to right to ruin the no-hitter. Rohr gets the final out and is congratulated by teammates as the crowd claps and cheers. Rohar stands on steps of dugout, smiling, chewing gum, lets out a sigh.

Date: 1967, April 14
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073299
People seen demonstrating in the United States as Red China is denied admission to the UN General Assembly.

United Nations General Assembly bars the People's Republic of China, aka 'Red China' from the UN during a General Assembly meeting in the New York. A taxi passes in front of UN headquarters. Demonstrators, mostly Americans of Chinese descent march in protest on the street. They hold signs in Chinese and English. Phrases seen on signs include, 'Don't let Chinese Reds shoot their way into the UN,' 'Chinese Reds must be punished by UN,' and 'Down with Red China.' Officials entering the UN building. Interior of the UN General Assembly. Duchess of Kent Katharine, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge present among the dignitaries.

Date: 1954, September 23
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076501