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USAAC 8th Pursuit Group P-40 aircraft parked at Mitchel Field and engaged in gunnery practice
Parked P-40 aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group, seen from a vehicle driving along the flight line at Mitchel Field, Garden City, Long Island, New York. They are parked along the sides of hangars. Complete change of scene shows waterfront with P-40s diving in flights of 3 aircraft, each, and firing at target in the water. Next, they are seen flying overhead in a loose formation of 18 aircraft. Another shot of bullets striking water during gunnery practice. Brief glimpse of the 18 aircraft formation (World War II period).
Racer planes of U.S. Army Air Corps run speed tests in Manhasset Bay at Port Washington.
Pursuit Airplanes of United States Army Air Corps. A tiny racer plane for a speed test at Port Washington, Long Island, New York. The pilot of the racer plane, Alford J. Williams. The plane in water with pontoons attached to a sailing craft in Manhasset Bay. The plane taxis on water and takes off. Aerial scenes of the flight.
Colonel Lindbergh officially completes three month tour in his airplane 'Spirit of Saint Louis', at Mitchel Field, New York.
Officials and crowd assembled at Long Island's Mitchel Field to welcome Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Colonel Lindbergh's airplane 'Spirit of St Louis' pushed by men at airfield. Charles Lindbergh poses with an officer. Cameramen take pictures while Colonel Lindbergh gets into car.
German Army officers visit the Monastery of Saint Panteleimon in Athos, Greece, during World War II.
Film opens with glimpse from a boat approaching Mount Athos, Greece, during World War 2. The Monastery of Saint Panteleimon ( known as the Russian Monastery) in Athos seen from the boat, with a German soldier wearing pith helmet in the foreground. Some buildings in the craggy slopes of the mountain. The Monastery complex seen in successively closer views from the boat approaching the shore. A closeup of the Monastery from nearby on the island. Camera pans part of the structure. Next, an Archbishop and other clergy are seen conducting some German army officers and members of their party on a tour of the Monastery. Closeup of the Archbishop and other clergy. Closeup of a German officer with a Clergy member. Closeup of another clergy member. A German officer descends stairs accompanied by six or more Clergy. The German visitors are escorted in a courtyard shaded by palm trees. The senior German Army officer points and asks questions of the Archbishop, who is seated on the edge of a line of roof tiles. What appears to be a fountain (without water) in a courtyard. Camera pans upward showing the main Monastery building. Scene shifts to sailing vessel tied up at the shore. Next, the German visitors are seen waving from a boat to The Archbishop and members of clergy standing on the shore as their boat pulls away from Mount Athos.
Ordinary life in a Bronx, New York City, neighborhood in the 1960s
Film opens showing a commercial DC-9 in flight, overhead, approaching for landing at LaGuardia Airport, with landing gear and flaps extended. Scene shifts to hazy view of buildings silhouetted against lighter sky. View of rooftops with a boy walking across one. Buildings with pigeons on the roof. A woman dries clothes on a roof. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Cars parked on the street below. Pigeons flying. Youths playing basketball. 1:08 to end footage taken from atop 700 East 156th Street. 1:08 follows a train northwest along the Westchester Avenue line. 1:18, a view East of the newly elevated Bruckner Expwy and Whitestone and Throggs Neck bridges in distance. 1:21,a view to the Northwest, 3203-3211 Park Avenue is the curved building in the foreground, George Washington Bridge seen in the distance. 1:25, view west down 156th Street. 1:29 Train runs along Westchester Avenue to 156 and Tinton. 1:34 panning from south to west, Consolidated Edixon plant in Port Morris can be seen in distance. Rikers Island can also be seen in the East River. ( Note: A very large number of the buildings shown burned down in the next 10-20 years.)
Still photos show America from 1876 through the turn of the century, focusing on immigrants, westward expansion, hard labor, and pioneer spirit.
Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.
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