Victory Bond drive parade in United States April-May 1919. Large crowd gathered on a street in a city as Military band plays and marches in the streets. A building in the background with a banner that reads "Buy a victory bond" and underneath it ,"volunteer." Military equipment of World War I, including Holt tractor pulling large artillery piece, is seen in the parade, as large numbers of spectators watch.
From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.
New York Harbor in New York, United States. Film starts showing two women on the deck of a ship using binoculars to view the traffic of ships and tugboats working in New York harbor. A variety of commercial vessels, mostly freighters are seen. One ocean liner, the General W.C. Gorgas is seen, with no visible passengers. (USS General W. C. Gorgas (ID-1365) was a a German ship seized by the US Shipping Board in World War I and used as a Navy troop ship. We see her as she departs New York on 25 April 1919 to embark Army troops and load cargo at Bordeaux, France.) Other scenes of interest include one closeup of a tugboat emitting a plume of black smoke.
View of the funeral procession of President Theodore Roosevelt, following his death two days earlier on January 6, 1919. Point of view shot from moving car in procession looking backward toward other cars in the procession. Funeral procession and crowd gathered outside Christ Church Episcopal Parish (61 E Main St, Oyster Bay, NY 11771, United States) in Oyster Bay New York. The Reverend Doctor George E. Talmage seen briefly at door beside hearse automobile, and then President Roosevelt's casket draped with an American flag is seen being placed in the hearse. A uniformed Boy Scout stands by in the foreground. William H Taft, Charles E Hughes, and General Leonard Wood walk in the funeral procession exiting the church. President Roosevelt is buried in Oyster Bay, New York.
JCS Strike Command Exercise Bold Shot at Eglin Air Base in Florida, United States. United States Air Force Convair C-131 aircraft, equipped with belly radome, takes off from the runway during the exercise.
Bold Shot exercise at Elgin Air Base in Florida, United States. United States Air Force F-105B aircraft comes in for landing and makes go-around, flying low over the runway. It comes back around and lands deploying a drogue parachute . Plane taxis past a building and wooded area. Parachute detaches from the tail and drops on the ground. Plane turns and taxis on parallel taxiway..
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