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Navigation in crescent city of New Orleans, United States.

Geographical map depicts location of New Orleans between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. Elevated or low aerial view of some buildings in City of New Orleans. View of Levees that protect the city. Trains are ferried across rivers. View of paddle wheel steamships moving and anchored at port. A paddle wheel steamship named "Uncle Oliver" underway in the Mississippi River. Railroad train locomotive riding on a ferry boat en route and arriving at another port. A train locomotive and its attached trains drive off the ferry.

Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022219
Ship enters the inner harbor canal in New Orleans, United States.

Geographical map depicts the inner Harbor ship canal which lengthens the water front of New Orleans. Draw bridge operates. Ship enters the inner harbor canal.

Date: 1929
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022220
Parade procession during the Mardi Gras carnival in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

A parade procession of floats during the annual Mardi Gras carnival in New Orleans, United States. Slate says, "Romance, work and play combine to make the charm of New Orleans." Views from high in a building in the French Quarter of New Orleans filled with a crowd cheering as Mardi Gras floats pass in the street. Various buildings of New Orleans seen in that view. Krewe participants in elaborate costumes throw trinkets to spectators. Some spectators catch Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. Closer view from within crowd as floats pass, including revelers on horseback, and a double headed dragon float.

Date: 1929
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022222
Philip Hauser briefs George Stone on U.S. census from 1820 to 1931 in USA; also some Wall Street depression scenes

George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census around 1960. A slide of U.S. map appears on the screen. 1820 and population figures are marked on part of the map inhabited at that time. The reasons for the increase in the population are discussed by George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser. In the next slide census figures of 1830 appears. Concern for the handicapped lead to including of deaf, dumb and blind category in this census is shown. Dr Philip Hauser shows cartoons appearing in newspapers of that time to George Stone. In the next slide, census figures of 1850 and 7 classes of occupation of people are seen. A percentage representation of various occupations in the population is given in the next slide. The stress on accuracy of 1850 census is seen in the next slide. A comparison of number of occupations of males and females from 1840 to 1870 is shown in the next slide. Census of 1930 is mentioned in the next slide. 1931 is shown as a Special Unemployment Census. Newspaper headlines about stock market crash is seen. Around clip timecode 8:13 are images of Wall Street New York Stock Exchange floor near time of stock market crash. Wall Street region in New York City filled with people and views of lines or queues for homeless, unemployed, or food during the Great Depression.

Date: 1929
Duration: 9 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023756
History of the circus in North America, and scenes of early circus circa 1920s and early 1930s arriving and performing in a town

History of the circus in North America. Scenes of drawings, sketches, still photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding the circus. Cites George Washington donating a horse to the circus. Discussion of18th Century English circus organizer, John Bill Ricketts, and a newspaper clipping promoting his circus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sketch of his circus hall in Philadelphia. Scenes and information about P.T. Barnum and the famous elephant Jumbo, and singer Jenny Lind, known as "the Swedish Nightingale." Drawing of men with rings standing on stools. Drawing of a cab in front of a building. Promotional sign for the Central Park Menagerie and International Circus Company. Vintage footage with scenes of a Ringling Brother Barnum and Bailey circus train arriving in a city circa late 1920s, pulled by a steam locomotive. Circus performers. Crowds of circus goers milling near a Side Shows entrance sign. A clown inflating the clothes of another clown to a giant size. Chimpanzee rides an elephant and a donkey stands near its foal. Lions, hippos, giraffes, dogs in the circus. Large crowd present during the circus viewing elephant, horse and lion show of the circus. Scenes of the circus parade processing around the big top tent. A tamer handling a female lion (tamer appears to be Clyde Beatty). A male lion walking on high wire parallel tightrope.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675023773
Malcolm Pope's rocket boat, "Dixie Torpedo", suffers loss of control from uneven rocket propulsion.

American rocket boat tests. Malcolm Pope fits a rocket booster into an assembly on the back of his boat. . The boat moves under a bridge and Pope ignites the rockets, which accelerate the boat unevenly, so he loses control and the boat moves in a circle. Pope and his boat emerge from cloud of smoke unhurt. 'Dixie Torpedo' written on the boat.

Date: 1929
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024372