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Nashua wins the race at the Wood Memorial in Jamaica, New York.

Horse race at Wood Memorial in Jamaica, New York. People at Wood Memorial to watch the race. Jockeys on horse back. The race begins. Competition between Nashua and Summer Tan. Spectators in the stands cheer and watch the race. Nashua wins the race.

Date: 1955, April 25
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033819
Police smash their way through a Newspaper guild picket line at Jamaica in New York

Police smash their way through picket line of Newspaper guild workers on strike at Jamaica in New York. A wounded man with bandages on his head. The protesting labor workers carry banners in their hands. Women strikers come back protected by football helmets and baseball catcher's masks.

Date: 1937, April 26
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041425
The 1955 Chrysler Falcon is unveiled at an exhibition in New York.

The 1955 Chrysler Falcon, designed by Virgil Exner with bodywork by Ghia, is unveiled at an auto exhibition in New York. View of the exposed exhaust system attached to the car. A woman at the steering wheel operates the controls of the car. A man drives a 1955 Chrysler Falcon. The man operates the buttons in the car.

Date: 1955, September 5
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068826
Atoms for Peace. UN approves formation of IAEA. Nuclear scientists gather in Geneva Switzerland

UN General Assembly seen meeting in 1954 as it approves an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge II, and French ambassador, Henri Hoppenot, speaking. Finn Moe, of Norway, speaking. View of the city of Kjeller, Norway. Flags of Norway and the Netherlands at joint atomic laboratory. Scientists with various pieces of scientific equipment inside the facility. Indian ambassador, Krishna Menon, speaking at the United Nations. Atomic laboratory and a Government Teachers' Training College, in India. Indian scientists in a laboratory. Indian lecturer speaks to students. Brazil's Professor Ernesto Leme speaks at the UN. The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The University of Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Center for Physical Research. Clock tower of Brazil Central Station in Rio. Sutan Sjahrir,of Indonesia at the United Nations. An animated map shows nations interested in atomic energy. The UN Headquarters building on the East River in New York. A person looking through a microscope. Foreign scientists attending indoctrination courses at the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. Diplomats sign agreement between the U.S. and Philippines on July 27, 1955, for the Philippines to lease uranium for a research nuclear reactor, and to receive technical assistance. Views of Geneva Switzerland in August 1955, including street views with pedestrians, and tram or streetcar on city streets. Exterior of Palace of Nations, then interior view with atomic science conference in progress. Indian nuclear physicist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, presiding over conference of scientists and university representatives from 73 nations, including, inter alia, John Cockcroft, of Great Britain; Otto Hahn, of Germany; Willard Libby, of the U.S.A.; Vladimir Vexler of the Soviet Union; and Niels Bohr of Denmark. Views of exhibit hall at the conference, and displayed models of nuclear reactors, uranium ore refining exhibits, and accelerators. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower views swimming pool reactor, while visiting the exhibit hall. Site work and construction underway in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland for a research laboratory for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Sitework seen for a facility of Euratom in Europe (European Atomic Energy Community). View of early sitework in Manila for an Asian nuclear center in the Philippines under the Colombo plan, for training personnel in nuclear science and technology.

Date: 1957
Duration: 7 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035402
Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes defeating Candy Spots and other horses in New York.

The 1963 Belmont Stakes Derby in the New York Aqueduct Racetrack (110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 1142) of Queens, New York. Crowd watches. Horses including Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza, Willie Shoemaker, Bonjour, and Candy Spots run in the Kentucky Derby. Audience cheers them. Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes and 100,000$ price money. Candy Spots comes second.

Date: 1963, June 10
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026470
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
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