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Celebrations and oath taking ceremonies surrounding the 100th birthday of the Statue of Liberty in the United States.

100th Birthday celebration of the Statue of Liberty in the United States. Fireworks around the newly renovated and re-lit Statue of Liberty in New York harbor on July 4, 1986. French President François Mitterrand approaches a podium and says "Happy Birthday United States and Happy Birthday Miss Liberty." U.S. President Ronald Reagan with First Lady Nancy Reagan smile and clap. President Reagan delivers a speech. Chief Justice Warren Burger leads an oath taking ceremony for new U.S. citizens on Ellis Island. Citizens nationwide at different locations take part in the ceremonies and say the Pledge of Allegiance together, including in San Francisco, Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Orange Bowl in Miami and Washington DC. View of tall sailing ships and other boats in New York Harbor. Celebration and fireworks near and around the Statue of Liberty.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1986, July 4
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044850
Devastated buildings after earthquake in Helena, Montana and New York City feels mild earthquake tremors on Manhattan Island.

Earthquake in the city of Helena, Montana. Devastated buildings after earthquake. Roof and walls collapsing during the 1935 Helena Earthquake. Damaged buildings falling to the ground. Citizens view demolished buildings. People take injured person on bed. A damaged children’s orphanage in Helena, Montana. Snow falling outside orphanage. Change to aerial view of New York City on Manhattan Island which also felt minor earthquake tremor activity. View of a crack in a building caused by tremor. From UN newsreel 25-year retrospective, dated October 27, 1960.

Location: Helena Montana USA
Date: 1935, October 31
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055187
Immigrants aboard ferry docks at Ellis Island.

Double deck ferry boat with sign painted on front reading,"Myers Excursion." Long bumpers extend from top deck to waterline all around the boat. "Wm Myers" painted on side of first deck. Newly arriving immigrants to America aboard ferry docks at Ellis Island. Gangboard placed for passengers. Immigrant families debark from the ferry.

Location: Ellis Island New York USA
Date: 1903, July 24
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039827
Foreign children as they listen and recite after the teacher in a Kindergarten Class at Immigration Building in New York.

Kindergarten at Ellis Island in New York, United States, part of the Baggage and Dormitory building. Small class of foreign immigrant children reciting in English. American flag in the background. Children as they listen and recite after the teacher.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1941, January
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074116
Immigration officers face problems in communicating with immigrants who speak different languages at Ellis Island circa 1910.

European immigration to America from late 19th Century to early 20th Century. Film begins showing closeup photographs of European immigrants at Ellis Island circa 1910. The segment involves difficulties dealing with various immigrants' languages. A man, who worked at Ellis Island early in the 20th century, recounts confusion about a Bulgarian interpreter's of an immigrant's answers to questions. Next, in 1975, an immigrant who went through Ellis Island in 1910, tells interviewer that in addition to normal questions, he was also asked if he was an anarchist. Closeups of Ellis Island Immigrant inspection officers. The former Ellis Island worker who spoke earlier about language confusion, is seen describing the way foreign Surnames were often misspelled and anglicized by recording officers. More closeup photographs of seemingly happy immigrants that ostensibly had been admitted to America. Views from and of an early type steam locomotive belching dense black smoke as it traverses open prairie land in America.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039774
Coast Guard Stations on coasts of New Jersey, Long Island, Eastern shore of Maryland, and coasts of Virginia and North Carolina

Opening scene is an animated map showing Coast Guard Stations on Long Island, New York and on New Jersey coasts. Aerial view of Coast Guard Station Number 75. Narrator says manual life boats are launched into the surf from this Station. Camera pans closeup over the station, showing its buildings. Aerial view of inlet on South shore of Long Island from which powered life boats can launch into calm waters. Aerial view of the Fire Island (Long Island) Coast Guard Station with launching runway for power boats. Ground level closeup of the Fire Island Station. A power lifeboat being launched down its runway. Water level view of the power lifeboat speeding along the inlet towards the open sea. View from a height of the path the power lifeboat will follow to the sea. Change of scene shows map of life guard stations along Eastern shore of Maryland, the coast of Virginia and area around the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, with focus on cities of Norfolk and Newport News. It also extends South to outer islands of North Carolina. Battered hulk of a ship in surf in this area.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049570
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