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WPA improved facilities at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York during the Great Depression. An Eastern Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane with painted words on side "The Great Silver Fleet" taxis on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport field by Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York City. Narrator describes WPA improvements to the airport. Plane parks atop a novel turntable and then is rotated to desired position. Rear hatch opens and crew member steps out. Trap door on ground near plane opens revealing a stairwell downward which debarking passengers then use to walk toward the main terminal. View of skyport landing and takeoff area on the East River and a pontoon-equipped small aircraft coming in for landing at one of these two skyports providing air taxi service from Manhattan Island. Narrator indicates that one skyport is located at 31st Street and another at Wall Street.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062812
Former U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover presents the award of the 'Boy of the Year' to John Drupa in New York.

John Drupa receives the award of the 'Boy of the Year' in New York. Former U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover presents the award to John Drupa of Binghamton, New York. John Drupa receives this award for services to home, school and community.

Date: 1959, April 6
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071752
Buses get anti-pollution mufflers to check their performance during a 6 month experiment in New York.

Anti-pollution mufflers in New York. View of a bus. A banner on the front of the bus reads "For Cleaner Air, We Are Testing A New Anti-pollution Muffler on This Bus'. People gather around the anti-pollution muffler. The muffler reduces diesel exhaust fumes and odors. The bus is driven away.

Date: 1967, April 11
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071756
Post-World War II views of submarine pens in France. Views of New York City and harbor

Retrospective view inside a former German submarine pen in France, as narrator mentions its former use in World War 2. View from outside the structure. An American Airlines Douglas DC-4 passenger plane flying over Manhattan Island, New York City, with Empire State Building visible among other skyscrapers below. Aerial view of New York harbor, with ocean-going ships docked at terminals below. Traffic moving in the harbor, including barges, tugboats, and ships, displaying various national flags.

Date: 1950
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072001
Rural houses and farmlands seen from a highway in upstate New York

Cars driving at a rural highway in New York. Highway, roadside farmlands, telephone poles, and houses as seen from a moving car. Camera zooms closer to view rural houses and front yards. Haystacks in a farm. Hills and trees in rural upstate New York.

Date: 1938, October
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080326
Thousands of orphans enjoy a day at Luna Park in Coney Island, New York

Luna Park in Coney Island, New York, opens to 5200 orphans from New York City. Children, many wearing white, walk in large groups on the park grounds. A vendor hands out ice cream cones at a counter. Children eat ice cream and other food. A large crowd sits in the stands of an arena, watching children on the dirt below attempt to ride a mule. One boy is knocked over by the animal, but another succeeds and climbs its back to ride. Boys and girls climb over a short fence. Scene changes to view from moving coaster known as the "Shoot the Chutes" as it speeds down an incline and splashes into water. Shots from and of a moving coaster as it goes up and down multiple hills. Older boys sit at the front. Man performing a human cannonball act climbs into the barrel of a large cannon, and a young boy licks an ice cream cone. Smoke puffs from the barrel of the cannon as the man is propelled from the cannon. He soars through the air, arms outstretched before tucking forward and landing on a taut net.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080930