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Venezuelan baseball pitcher Alex Carrasquel plays in New York, 1939

This Spanish language newsreel clip highlights Alex Carrasquel -- the first baseball player from Venezuela to play in the U.S. major leagues. He played in New York on July 4, 1939, the day before Venezuela's Independence Day. Title cards read: "Especially for Venezuela. The great pitcher Alejandro Carrasquel plays in New York on the eve of the Venezuelan patriotic day." Shot of Simon Bolivar statue in New York's Central Park with 'Simon Bolivar El Libertador' written under it. Huge crowd at Yankee Stadium in New York to watch July 4 doubleheader between New York Yankees and Carrasquel's team, the Washington Senators. (NOTE: This crowd was mainly there to see the Yankees honor Lou Gehrig, their Hall of Fame first baseman, who had just been diagnosed with ALS.) Carrasquel (#14) pitches to Yankees in second game, gives up run-scoring triple, tags out another runner trying to reach first base. Carrasquel speaks to crowd through microphones in ceremony at home plate. Shot of Venezuelan flag on pole outside a building (Venezuelan embassy?). Men and women gathered at a cafeteria. Sign in large white letters reads 'Venezuela.'

Date: 1939, July 4
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675064538
The U.S. Navy's small helicopter named "Rotocycle" takes off at Long Island in New York.

A man sits in the U.S. Navy's small helicopter named "Rotocycle" at Long Island in New York. Helicopter takes off. Helicopter flies.

Date: 1956, March 5
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035512
Manufacture of aircraft gun turret blisters in Teckna Plastic Co Long Island New York during World War II.

Interior of Teckna Plastic Company in Bayside , Long Island, New York during World War 2. War production workers polishing plexiglass or plastic aircraft gun turret blisters. Woman war worker measuring openings in blisters.

Date: 1945, July 13
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035749
Pendulum cutter and products at Teckna Plastic Company Long Island New York.

View of woman worker operating pendulum cutter at Teckna Plastic Company in Bayside Long Island New York during World War 2. A display of plastic products being manufactured such as camera cases, clothing hangers, clocks, picture frames, flowers, shoe racks.

Date: 1945, July 21
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035750
Modernistic Steel Plant at Long Island New York.

Modernized factories at Long Island New York. Train passing in rail yard. Cranes unloading goods from stationery ship. Molten steel poured in the vat.1945.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035751
The first U.S. hydrofoil boat is sailed down to Oyster Bay Shipyard, Long Island, New York.

The first hydrofoil boat in Long Island, New York. The hydrofoil boat aboard a truck on the highway. Cars pass by. A workman on the land route raises a power line using a pole to permit the passage the truck. Other workman cuts branches of a tree. The boat arrives at Oyster Bay Shipyard.

Date: 1961, August 7
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055889