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Good Year blimp drops a package by rope to employee in the top of the Empire State Building, for delivery to Governor Al Smith.

The Empire State Building in New York. View of the Empire State Building dominating the Manhattan skyline. Good Year blimp with lettering "Columbia" on it approaches and passes directly over the Empire State Building. Trailing from it is a long rope with a bundle tied on the end. The bundle swings into the side of the Empire State Building near its top. An employee grabs the bundle. Huge crowd gathered at the base of the Empire State Building. Next scene shows a Good Year employee (Good Year lettering on his shirt) delivering the bundle of what appears to be newspapers to New York State Governor Al Smith in the crowd on the street outside the Empire State Building. A very special delivery.

Date: 1931, October 1
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023607
From timber topping to riding down a flume in Oregon, United States.

Timber topping and riding down a flume in Oregon. Timber toppers prune the trees. Woodsman gets timber up and come down from top of timber. A man rides on long flume. He rides down at end of flume line. Woodsman brings out big timber.

Date: 1951, May 17
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024730
Mountain Chief narrates a buffalo story in sign language

Major General Hugh L Scott thanks all the Native American Indian chiefs present at Indian tribal council. Major General Scott announces in sign language of Sagas in sign. Mountain Chief of Piegan tribe, aged and blind, tells a buffalo story of long ago. Mountain Chief uses sign language to narrate his saga.

Date: 1930, September 4
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025310
A truck in the 1919 U.S. Army coast-to-coast motor convoy breaks through a wooden bridge in Wyoming

A truck in the U.S. Army 1919 motor convoy, across America, is seen with its right rear wheel broken through the road bed of a wooden bridge across a dry creek, in Whyoming. The truck was heavily laden, carrying a Holt tractor in its bed. Soldiers stand about as an operator backs the tractor out of the truck. They then examine the situation. Closeup of the truck wheel broken through wooden floor boards of the bridge. They hook the rear of the truck to the Holt tractor and pull it out of the hole in the bridge. Next, the convoy is seen stopped at the bridge and for a long way in the distance, as soldiers lay coiled planking (sort of pre-fabricated corduroy road) at the dry creek to facilitate passage by trucks around the wooden bridge. A truck begins to drive up the embankment on the planking, with difficulty, as soldiers help push it. Scene shifts to two trucks slowly climbing a narrow dirt road.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025554
Artisans risk their lives installing giant clock on the City Hall building in Camden, New Jersey.

Five women holding the minute hand of the huge clock standing in a queue. Two of the artisans seen carrying the minute hand of the clock. The minute hand is cast in a solid bar of aluminum, weighing 87 pounds, and is 120 inches long. Artisans seen installing the minute hand on the clock face at the top of the 22-story city hall. Camden City Hall with a new clock. Powerful lights behind the dial would make the numerals visible at three miles. A person setting the timings of the clock at 3:14 which further shows time till 3:45.

Date: 1930, December 8
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026882
Jim Londos beats Everett Marshall to retain the NWA World Heavyweight title.

Christos Theofilou better known as Jim Londos or The Golden Greek wrestles Everett Marshall at the Madison Square Garden. Various wrestling moves are performed by both wrestlers. Referee pins Marshall and Londos retains NWA World Heavyweight Title after a nerve-wracking hour long challenge.19 November 1934.

Date: 1934, November 19
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028718