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Oil products are used as a fuel for transporting goods and for cooking food in the United States.

Oil and petroleum products being used for different purposes in the United States. Low flying aerial view of skyscrapers in New York City. The Statue of Liberty. Aerial view of skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, New York City, including the Woolworth Building and the New York Municipal Building. A part of a wing of an aircraft seen in the aerial shots. Various uses of petroleum for transportation: A black locomotive train which uses petroleum as fuel is seen approaching camera at high speed, pulling train cars. A natural gas storage tank. Steam comes out of a kettle atop a vintage 1920's stove and oven, depicting use of natural gas as a fuel in homes.

Date: 1923
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050543
Holland type submarine of the Plunger class being tested by civilian technicians of Electric Boat Company.

Holland type submarine of the Plunger class tied up at the Electric Boat Company at New Suffolk, Long Island , New York circa 1902. Civilian technicians standing on deck of the boat.. They load a torpedo aboard, using a block and tackle.. It goes down into the hull of the submarine. The Holland type submarine running at periscope, fires the torpedo. The torpedo runs just below the surface, leaving a visible wake. The submarine rises and runs along a conning tower depth. It dives again and rises again.

Date: 1904
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027950
Immigrants from Europe, arriving from 1880 to 1914, participate in the working life of America.

Two new immigrant man are seen on bunks in a tenement in New York City, where the narrator says nine out of ten immigrants arrived in the period from 1880 to 1914. Two women pose, sitting beside a sleeping child in a tenement. An immigrant speaks about the hardship of arriving in a strange land where he did not speak the language and felt "lost." He says he gradually overcame that by going to night school to learn a little English and to read and write. He says he made a nice living as a peddler, and expressed appreciation for the opportunities America gave to immigrants. In the next scene, children enjoy rides on a traveling merry-go-round visiting their neighborhood. The operator runs it manually, by turning a wheel. View of children riding and others watching on the street. Streams of pedestrians crossing a bridge across a busy city street. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons and electrified street cars moving on the street in the commercial center of a city. Workers heading home after their shift in a factory. View of workers producing products in a factory. A line of women punching a time clock at their place of work. Women working in a clothing factory. Men standing atop a shipment of steel rails for the building of a railroad. Views of rails being moved into position for a new segment of the railroad. Glimpse of a steam shovel scooping a bucket full of raw material. Black smoke rising from funnel on a steam locomotive, and also from nearby steam shovel. Iron workers on a the wide open upper floors of the 60-story skyscraper Woolworth Building under construction in Lower Manhattan, New York City, in 1911. Pilings being put in place for a new building. Riveters guiding a section of steel column into place for a new building . Views inside a heavy manufacturing plant of the W. E. & M. company in New York City. Their products appear to be large dynamos and motors. View of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New York harbor, with its arm appearing to hold up a full moon.

Date: 1911
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039776
Holland type submarine of the Plunger class undergoing trials at Electric Boat Company

Holland type submarine of the Plunger class undergoing trials at the Electric Boat Company, New Suffolk, Long Island, New York. Submarine running along at periscope depth. Periscope of the submarine. Several times the boat disappears below surface and rises again (porpoising). It makes way on the surface. Civilian testing crewmen in business attire climb out of conning tower and walk on the deck. They start back down into the conning tower. Men on the deck as the submarine runs along the surface. Submarine tied up at the pier, men walking around on deck and using a plank to walk to the pier..

Date: 1904
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027951
Italian influence on American music. Villa Pauline, Riverdale, home of Arturo Toscanini. Gian Carlo Menotti. U.S. Senator Pastore

Examples of notable Italian-Americans. Several cars on Parkway, in Riverdale, New York. A signboard directs 'Downtown, Riverdale Avenue Northbound and Yonkers Ferry.' Views of Villa Pauline, home of the late famed Italian-American conductor, Arturo Toscanini. Another noted Italian musician,carrying on the Italian-American traditions, is Gian Carlo Menotti, who is seen looking over programs of musical events in which he has been involved. Views of the United Nations Building in New York City. The Flags of different nations on flagpoles. Cars parked on sides of road. Leonardo Vitetti, Italian Representative to the UN, talking to U.S. Senator John O. Pastore, of Rhode Island.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675041851
Final flight of the airship Hindenburg, then it bursts into flames when landing

The German rigid airship Hindenburg on its final flight. Views of the airship flying over Manhattan Island, New York City. Swastika symbol visible on the airship's tail section. The airship descending for landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Views of the passengers in the windows waving to the onlookers on the ground. Explosion and massive fire and smoke consumes the airship. It crashes to the ground in flames and collapses. Rescuers in the foreground run toward the burning wreckage.

Date: 1937, May 6
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049953