Early Edison film entitled "A Street Arab": A boy performs acrobatics on a street in New York City. The boy turns headsprings backward and forward. He walks the crab, does cartwheels and other feats including acrobatic head spins (precursor to modern breakdancing dance moves).
A train ride from Brooklyn to New York via the Brooklyn Bridge. View of the train ride as seen from the moving railroad train. The train crosses the Brooklyn Bridge.
United States Navy cruiser USS Olympia (C-6) leads a naval parade celebrating the arrival of Commodore George Dewey in New York Harbor after the Spanish-American War. The Olympia steams up the Hudson River with Commodore Dewey on board. Other ships follow the Olympia. A small boat sailing in front of the Olympia.
Commodore George Dewey leads a land parade on “Dewey Day” after his arrival in the United States following the Spanish-American War. Army cavalry, one of the soldiers holding the United States flag, in the parade along Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. Men in uniform follow the cavalry. U.S. cavalry soldiers with sabers follow the uniformed men.
View of community in South Bronx in New York City. The film gives details like the population size and the number of unemployed males. A plane in view. Aerial views of South Bronx New York show children playing on roofs of buildings. Aerial view of woman collecting clothes from clothes line on roof. Aerial view of pigeon coops and pigeons on roof. Boy flying kite from roof. Girl balancing on roof while boy hammers wood on roof. Aerial view of elevated train. Boys play basketball. POV sequence shows views of South Bronx and New York from a moving elevated train moving along Westchester Avenue near E. !56th Street, first through front of train and then through side. Short sequences cut in show boy swinging baseball bat, man smoking, youth choking another from behind.
New United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 aircraft being placed on flight line at Curtiss Aircraft company facility in Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo Municipal Airport) during World War II. A new P-40 aircraft being rolled out of the Curtiss hangar. Employees push several new P-40s. The aircraft are seen parked on the ramp.
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