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Marilyn Rich performs stunt on rings attached to helicopter, to promote Clothes For Korea campaign

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.

Date: 1951, August 27
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071433
Forty one sets of triplets at the National Triplets Convention in Palisades Park, New Jersey.

The National Triplets Convention brings together forty one sets of triplets in Palisades Park, New Jersey. Triplets eat lollipops, seated on chairs and enjoy in children's train. Triplets ranging in age from one to seventeen. The triplets find plenty to eat and plenty of fun.

Date: 1951, May 17
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024729
Albert Einstein greets David Ben-Gurion and both men talk in Princeton, New Jersey.

Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion and physicist Albert Einstein meet in Princeton, New Jersey. David Ben-Gurion disembarks from a car as he arrives in Princeton. He is greeted by Albert Einstein. Exteriors of a house. David Ben-Gurion and Albert Einstein sit and talk.

Date: 1951, May 14
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068338
The U.S. Navy submarine, Redfin, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, in May, 1951, being converted into a radar picket boat.

View from above of the U.S. Navy Gato class submarine Redfin, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it is being converted to a radar picket boat. Workers stand above the hull, which has been cut in half. Next, the two halves of the hull are seen being moved apart to facilitate addition of a 34 foot extension in the hull between the control room and the forward batteries. View of derricks and cranes around the Redfin and of Workers standing atop the boat's hull. Camera pans to closeup of one half of the boat as it is being winched away from the other, along a steel rail. View from below the bow. View from floor showing the two halves of the hull separated. Workers sketch diagram in chalk on floor of drydock. Scaffolding shown in place around the opening between the hull halves. Worker cutting steel plate with acetylene torch. A steel plate affixed to the hull, showing the name, USS Redfin (SSR-272) and the schedule for the project. The only item completed is the start date of May 1st. Workers engaged in fabricating the new section of hull.

Date: 1951, May
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038016
Launching of the USS Iowa (BB-61) in New York, and of her sister ship, USS New Jersey (BB-62),in Philadelphia, during World War II..

Camera pans vertically from top to bottom over the bow of the USS Iowa (BB-61) as she is ready for launching at the Brooklyn Navy yard in New York City, on August 22, 1942. Sponsor of the ship, Ilo Browne Wallace, wife of Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Christens the Iowa by breaking a bottle of champagne over her bow, and the ship moves down the ways toward the East River. The Williamsburg Bridge is seen dimly in the background, as the Iowa plunges into the water. Camera focuses, next, on the USS New Jersey (BB-62) ready for launching at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on December 7, 1942. Men knock supports from below the New Jersey, in preparation for her launching. Next, she is seen moving down the ways. Closeups of some shipyard workers smiling as the New Jersey is launched. The New Jersey is seen well out into the Delaware River, with some smoke rising from one of her funnels. (World War 2, WWII, WW2)

Date: 1942, August 27
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051750
Vehicles driving from New York City to New Jersey through the Lincoln Tunnel

View of New York City apartment building. A man reads a book while sitting on apartment stairs. A bus driving on Port Authority Bus Terminal bridge. Sign with flashing arrow reads “Lincoln Bridge” A grocery store with sign reading, “Leon Feder Italian-Spanish-Greek-American Groceries”. Men working at a gas station with gas pump in foreground. A billboard for Alfred Felson for Service trucking behind sign pointing to Lincoln Tunnel with warning sign “Trucks keep right”. Cars and buses moving towards Lincoln Tunnel (Lincoln Tunnel, New York, NY 10018, United States). A police officer directs traffic. Buses lined up near Lincoln Tunnel in front of Hertz vehicle lease building with Empire State building in background. Vehicles enter the Lincoln Tunnel. Cars driving inside Lincoln Tunnel as seen from a vehicle. New York bus 66 driving through tunnel. Vehicles emerge from the Lincoln Tunnel, slowing down as they pass through toll gate. Approaching a toll gate as seen from a moving car while officer gives toll ticket. Distant view of New York City skyline from car driving in New Jersey. A Suburban Transit Corp Bus number 298 driving towards New Brunswick after emerging from Lincoln Tunnel. Vehicles passing through an overpass. Cars approaching the New Jersey Turnpike tollgate. Road signs read “You have left the Turnpike. New Jersey Maximum Speeds- 25 mph built-up areas, 50 mph open area” and “Slow down and live!”. Several scenes show various 1950s cars driving on highways and roads.

Date: 1960, June 1
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079725