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World Motor Sports car show at Madison Square Garden in New York City; also a modern futuristic kitchen

"Things to come" opens with scenes from the World Motor Sports car show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. Foreign imported and domestic American cars, including many concept cars and futuristic space age cars, are being displayed at the 1950s automobile show. Young women get into cars to get a closer look at the new automobiles. Next scene shows a housewife in a modern, futuristic kitchen with many gadgets. A push button kitchen with an automatic refrigerator and cabinet is seen. The woman homemaker presses a button to raise the counter top height in the kitchen of the future. Woman wearing apron consults a revolving picture board of menus and recipes above the stove. Woman puts toast in hidden toaster recessed in stove top. She waves her hand and a cabinet lowers down containing dishes. A cook presses a button and a rotisserie oven raises up, and its door opens to reveal meat roasting inside.

Date: 1954, January 25
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037715
Parachutists jump from a U.S. Curtis Condor aircraft over Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York.

A photographer uses a camera and records as he jumps from a U.S. Curtis Condor aircraft over Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York. Men with parachute packs lined up in front of a Curtis Condor. The photographer checks his camera before boarding the aircraft. Men board the aircraft. Parachutists jump from the Curtis Condor in flight and descend.

Date: 1930, May 21
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075536
Scenes of the 1924 Democratic National Convention held in Madison Square Garden, New York City

1924 Democratic National Convention, at Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, 1924. The alphabetical process of nominating candidates begins with Alabama and Forney is seen Johnston, putting Senator Oscar Underwood's name into consideration. View of men at the podium. Bernard Baruch, a supporter of William McAdoo, is seen standing in background. View of the crowded Madison Square Garden, filled with delegates. Some carry a banner reading: "Wilson 1916 for McAdoo 1924." The various State delegations are identified by signs with their State names on them. Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Hawaii (U.S. territory) are seen. As the camera pans the gathering, many more State signs are seen. Outside , in Madison Square Park, a loudspeaker is set up on a truck and a crowd is gathered to listen to events. Back inside Franklin D. Roosevelt, Al Smith's campaign manager, is seen giving a speech nominating Smith for President. Supporters hold up Posters displaying Smith's picture. Closeups of some of the banners. Ticker tape being thrown to celebrate the end of the convention, which ended on July 9th after the 103rd vote finally carried for compromise candidate, John W. Davis of West Virginia. Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska was selected as the vice-presidential nominee.

Date: 1924
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061270
Post World War I political issues in the U.S.A. including Red Scare, anarchists, labor strife, and KKK

A huge crowd on streets of New York City cheering and celebrating victory over Germany in World War I after signing of the Armistice. A cemetery of U.S. soldiers died in World War I. Cross burning and views of hooded Klan members at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) ceremony, with several uniformed U.S. Army soldiers in foreground, dimly lit (possibly at Stone Mountain Georgia but location not confirmed). Palmer Raid victims: Suspected leftists, left wing, and anarchists seen being led away in a group by police after their homes were raided and searched without search warrants, and some were deported, under program led by U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, during 1919 and 1920. (Second group shown is likely in Paterson, New Jersey; note sign for J.T. Doremus Hardware on building in background.) Palmer Raid arrestees seen behind barbed wire fences where they were held without charges for three months and denied legal representation. Some arrestees being escorted by U.S. soldiers in uniform. Vigilante businessmen and town leaders enforcing 12 hour work days at Steel factories in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Gary Indiana. Vigilantes (deputized and armed by local authorities seen with rifles and shotguns marching down streets enforcing business demands and countering steel workers on strike. They approach a striking worker on the road side and seize a stick he is holding. Together with police they begin to beat back the protesting crowd of men. Someone fires a gun in the crowd and shooting starts. An injured or dead steel worker on the ground is lifted up by a man and carried away.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036808
People gather to watch a boxing bout held at Madison Square Garden in New York City

A boxing bout held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. People seated around the ring. Greek boxer Jim Londos and Italian boxer Garibaldi in the ring. People watch the bout. Londos wins.

Date: 1930, November 20
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077340
Communist parade in streets of New York City and gathered at Madison Square Garden.

Crowd outside Madison Square Garden in New York City. Police on horseback controlling crowd of 50,000 Communist Party rally goers protesting unemployment during the Great Depression. Earl Browder on speakers platform. View of large crowd marching ahead and policemen trying to break demonstrations. One sign in crowd shows caricature of Hitler (in early days of World War 2).

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038985