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Israel's First Birthday Anniversary is celebrated in New York City, USA.

Thousands of New Yorkers gather at the City Hall and celebrate Israel's First Birth Anniversary marking one year since the formation of the state of Isael. An old Israeli dignitary stands on a platform. Men hold the American and Israeli flags in their hands.

Date: 1949, May 5
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050157
President Franklin Roosevelt's motorcade in Buffalo, New York, during 1940 Presidential Campaign

During the 1940 Presidential election campaign, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rides the streets of Buffalo, New York, in his limousine, a 1939 Lincoln V12 model 1708, special parade car, built for the President's use. Escorted by several motorcycle policemen, and followed by a car of Secret Service agents, it stops in front of the City Hall, at 65 Niagara Square, where a large welcoming crowd is gathered. The McKinley Monument is seen behind them in the square. Police and uniformed guards control the flag-waving crowd. The President, bundled against the wind in a cloak, makes some remarks recorded on a microphone of radio station WBNY. Several enthusiastic women supporters wave American flags at the front of the crowd. The next scenes show the Presidential limousine and escorts traveling along streets of the commercial district of Buffalo. Spectators line the sidewalks and cheer the President. A final sequence is taken from a car moving in the motorcade. It shows members of the Presidents party, and a police official waving spectators away from the motorcade.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050187
1940 U.S. National election results being displayed on Times building to crowd in Times Square, New York City.

Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, watch Presidential election returns being displayed in moving lights on the Times Building. Search lights illuminate segments of the crowd. Report on the Times bulding reads: "Wilkie reached toward 100,000 votes in Penna tonight." Crowds waving arms and hats enthusiastically. Moving lights on Times building spell out: "Returns from Congressional elections indicate Democrats are battling strongly." (World War II period).

Date: 1940, November 5
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050196
American President Franklin Roosevelt speaks on war-profit at an assembly meeting in Chautauqua, New York

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses large crowd gathered at a conference hall in Chautaqua, New York. He cautions against getting involved in foreign war. In his speech the President states "And so we offer to every nation in the world, the handclasp of the good neighbor." He suggests that the desire for war profits might promote war. He speaks of several problems persisting in the society including production monopoly, unemployment and profiteering. More buildings and factories should be constructed. America requires support of all peace loving citizens. America has chosen 'peace' against 'profit'. War could be averted by proper measures. America has all the necessary strength to defend herself and her neighborhood. America believes in democracy, freedom and peace'. Conference hall roars with sound of applause.

Date: 1936, August 14
Duration: 7 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050234
U Thant is re-appointed as the Secretary General of the United Nations at the General Assembly Hall in New York, USA

View of the General Assembly Hall in New York, USA. U Thant from Burma is unanimously re-appointed as the Secretary General of the United Nations. Assembly members give a standing ovation.

Date: 1966, December
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050306
Sights of Christmas Season in Manhattan, New York City and in Germany

(Note: silent until TC: 2:06) Scenes of bright lights and decorations in Manhattan, New York City, during the Christmas season in 1966. Closeup of lights on the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. Lights and decorations on a fountain and building fronts. Christmas decorations in department store and shop windows. Elaborate toys and decorations including a carousel with decorative white horses carrying wrapped gift packages. Artificial animals, including an elephant that moves its trunk. Dancing stringed puppets in an Alpine setting. Miniature choir boys perched in front of organ pipes. An American boys' choir singing "Silent Night" inside a church. Panning closeups of the boys singing with open hymn books. At TC: 2:06, sound track starts being heard, as a pageant is being shown, possibly in Germany, with a choir of German boys and girls singing "Silent Night" in German. While they sing in the background, a group of children step from a building, carrying torches. They proceed down a snow covered hill. Children stand in snow by a bonfire and look at a fir tree covered in snow. Children carrying candles wave at an elderly woman looking out from a window. Pan to closeup of Virgin Mary and child decorating a Christmas tree.

Date: 1966, December
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050312