50th Anniversary of cinema, in 1944, recalls historic footage and movies from the early 1900s. Thomas Edison with Henry Ford together using a motion picture movie camera to create a movie. Mrs Edison displays Kinetoscope. Close-up view of Kinetoscope machine operating. View of vintage film images of lower Broadway in New York City in 1896 with busy traffic on streets of pedestrians, horses, and horse-drawn streetcar. Next scene shows Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" (1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) in parade in New York City on return from Cuba after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Next is seen the inauguration parade for President Theodore Roosevelt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1905. Next series of scenes shows American women in the early 20th century. Women workers punching time clock at an industrial factory in the 1910s or 1920s. Women in dresses emerging from a building perhaps after a work shift circa early 1900s. An early beauty pageant circa 1910 with participants in swim suits. Famous star actress and singer Lillian Russell in a movie scene. Film actor William S Hart appearing in an early movie. Two well dressed women sitting in an early automobile as a man starts it up and drives away. Busy scenes of car and pedestrian traffic, and horse-drawn streetcars on Market street in San Francisco, California circa 1910. Silent movie stars Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew together in a movie scene. Famous movie star actress Pearl White in a daring stunt scene, and Ruth Roland performing a stunt leaping from a moving railroad train onto a rope ladder suspended from an airplane, and then riding on a railroad car careening out of control down a mountain side in an early Hollywood movie.
Glimpses of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's life. President Roosevelt sits in a lawn chair. Back of President Roosevelt's head as he stands speaking out a window or porch area. Roosevelt with Boy Scouts (holding a drum that says, in part "St. Patricks Church"), likely at a World War I liberty loan or Red Cross drive. Roosevelt speaking from a stage area. President Roosevelt seated at a table, smiling, with flowers on the table in front of him. Roosevelt standing in a slow moving car during a parade with people waving many American flags, in front of the Old Post Office Building in Washington DC. Roosevelt seated in a car. Roosevelt on wooden stage with American flag and bunting addresses crowd at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas on September 22, 1912. President Roosevelt on grand stand watching a parade of new soldier inductees, not yet in uniform, as they march in a parade on 5th Avenue, New York City during World War 1. Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt and Captain in U.S. Army in World War I, poses in his cavalry uniform.
British military engineers (they appear to be Australian and or New Zealand, ANZAC, troops) constructing a railroad line in Palestine during World War I. Some drive spikes to secure the new rails, as others position them with long steel poles. Teams of local laborers carry materials forward from the track-laying supply train that moves forward as track is installed. Another scene shows a holt tractor pulling British artillery and men across the sand. Final scene is of British troops bivouacked in a grove of palm trees. The Suez Canal is visible in far background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Operations of the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) Company. Aerial view of New York City's Manhattan Island, below. Camera focuses on Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) seen from above, and then at street level. Travelers purchasing tickets for combined transcontinental rail and air travel at a window in the station. Families seeing travelers off at one of the railroad gates. Temporary sign at gate reads "The Airway Limited, second section." View of passengers on rear car of train as it pulls out. The car displays Pennsylvania Railroad logo sign reading "The Airway Limited, Pennsylvania Railroad." Views of Pennsylvania RR passenger train and closeup of locomotive wheels in motion. Animated relief map shows train proceeding from New York, past Columbus, Ohio, to Port Columbus station in Ohio. Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. billboard sign at the station shows picture of passengers connecting between a train and an airplane. Billboard reads: "Port Columbus, Eastern Transfer Point, Air-rail Service, Coast-to-Coast." Passengers leaving the train and entering the station waiting rooms. Their baggage being weighed (Narrator says 30 pounds is the allowance.) View from terminal roof, of a Ford 5-AT-B, trimotor passenger airplane ready to accept passengers for the next phase of their travel. A logo on fuselage has "TAT" with small ribbon through it reading, "Transcontinental Air Transport." View of passengers seated inside the aircraft. The plane taxis and takes off from the Port Columbus airport. Ground is snow-covered, but the runway is plowed. Closeup aerial view of the airplane flying over the city of Columbus, Ohio. Distant view of it flying close to the LeVeque Tower skyscraper (a 47-story Art Deco-style building at 50 West Broad Street). Aerial view of the airplane passing the train, continuing westward, from Port Columbus. Views inside passenger cabin of the plane. Animated map show plane heading to Indianapolis. Officer hands out TAT illustrated map and points out features to passengers. Closeup of map. Aerial view of the airplane on final approach to land at Indianapolis airport. Clerk at airport typing arrival message on teletype, and company executives reading it at their headquarters. Animated map show plane moving to St. Louis, Missouri. View from air of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Passengers in cabin. aerial view of the plane on final approach, over snow, to St. Louis. The aircraft taxiing on ramp and parking at terminal building, where passengers enter, under cover of awning-covered walk. Closeup of the aircraft engines. Inserted view of TAT engine overhaul facility, with Charles Lindbergh, the airline's technical adviser, and TAT officials inspecting the operation.
Industry and production activities of Japanese people working in Japan. Smoke rise from chimneys at industrial factory area. Factory workers go towards plant. Woman works at a machine in cotton plant. Man paints on dish. Woman feeds flax into machine. Men cut down trees in forest. Wood logs are rolled to water. Machine chops wood to pulp. Filled vats ready for paper processing. Hot melted metal at steel plant. Worker takes out hot metal rod. Workers in a car factory. Workers assemble parts of truck at automotive factory. Ready vehicles come out of factory in line. Train pulls into elevated subway station. People get off train. An electric train arrives. Persons of management and labor representatives sit and discuss for common good. Workers at shipyard. Ready and decorated ship launched in sea. People wave. Ship heading for New York harbor. New York skyline in the background.
The Woodrow Wilson Monument (New Town, 110 00 Prague 1, Czechia) in New Town, Prague, Czechoslovakia before World War II. President Woodrow Wilson's statue in a park. Written on a wall nearby: 'The World must be made safe for Democracy'. People pass through the park.
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