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Flight achievements of 1933 - Wiley Post completing solo journey around the world and Roscoe Turner speed record coast-to-coast

American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York after completing his solo flight around the world in a just under 8 days. People gather in a large number to welcome him. They gather around his aircraft. Scene shifts to streets of New York City where Wiley Post is honored with a ticker tape parade for his Around The World achievement. The aviator seated aboard a jeep passing by. People celebrate and greet him. He is bestowed with the Medal of Valor by New York City Mayor John P. O'Brien. Next segment shows plane of American aviator Roscoe Turner landing, after his record-setting flight from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours and 5 minutes flying his Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft. This won him the 1933 Bendix Trophy. Close view of Roscoe Turner smiling from the cockpit of his aircraft. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1933, July 22
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077066
President Truman in New York City for Navy Day and the Christening of the USS Franklin D Roosevelt in 1945

New York City motorcycle policemen gathered on a city street in readiness to escort Harry S. Truman upon his first official visit to the city as President. He is seen riding in an open car, accompanied by Secret Service agents and several U.S. Naval officers. New Yorkers line the sidewalks to catch a glimpse of the President. Workers, of the 32nd Street Western Cafeteria, line the sidewalk in front of their restaurant in the Chelsea neighborhood. The Presidential motorcade crossing the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn, and then turning into the gate of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sailors lining the Navy Yard roadway presenting arms. Military personnel, yard workers and others fill the Navy yard. The President's flag hoisted on the USS Franklin D Roosevelt. Hundreds of Navy officers and sailors all in white hats, salute in unison. All sit to listen to President Truman's remarks. Scene shifts back to the streets of Manhattan, as policemen control spectators lining the sidewalks. Brief view from a car moving along the path of the motorcade.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1945, October 27
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075943
People gather to watch the Golden Jubilee Motor Boat Show in New York.

The Golden Jubilee Motorboat Show is held in Kingsbridge Armory (Kingsbridge Armory W Kingsbridge Rd, Bronx, NY 10468, USA) in the Bronx, New York. New boats of all sizes and types are on display. Women posing on a motorboat. A vintage mahogany motorboat “Lillian Russell” (built in 1905) is on display. Steam engine of the “Lillian Russell”. A woman dressed in Edwardian style dress cranks a manual engine of a 1908 motorboat. Woman pushes the button of an electric motorboat. A model in swimsuit sits behind the driver’s seat of a modern motorboat. People gather to view motorboats.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1954, January 18
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076334
Two men drink, talk about Russia and read a newspaper in New York.

News headlines in New York. Two men drink and talk at a bar about Russia and read a newspaper. The newspaper insert in one of the man's hand reads "European Peace Bid Rejected by Soviet". Views of man talking and drinking.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1948, November
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044606
Professor Pierre Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter with a standard uranium source in Columbia University, New York.

Professor Pierre Joliot tests uranium disintegration in Columbia University, New York. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter and notes down the readings. He controls the voltage. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter with a standard uranium source as placed on GM tube and take it off. A voltage control equipment is shown.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1946, July
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044640
Dr. Leo Szilard and Dr. George Pegram appear in moving picture at Physics Laboratory in Columbia University

At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1946, July
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044641
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