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.
Cars and horse carts move past the Iran Central Bank building, now the Treasury of National Jewels Museum (Tehran Province, Tehran, Javadiyeh, 213 Avenue Central Bank of Ferdowsi, Iran.) Cars drive past the modernist Bank Melli Iran building on Ferdowsi Avenue, Tehran. Tehran Toopkhaneh / Sepah Square (Imam Khomeini Sq.) with view of Reza Shah Pahlavi statue.
Activities of a team setting up oil drilling efforts in Iran, under the direction of George B. Reynolds, working for a British syndicate led by William Know D'Arcy. A native man leads a large herd of camels loaded with material. Ancient Persian buildings and monuments in ruined states. Sculptures and portraits of kings, horses, and half flying horse half man figures on building walls.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Prime Minister Hussein Ala at Sa’adabad Palace (Tehran Province, Tehran, District 1, Taheri St, RC8F+FJ7, Iran), in northern Tehran, Iran. Large garden by Palace and Alborz mountains in background. The Shah of Iran seats himself in a chair, at a desk. The Prime Minister sits and converses with him. Shah of Iran reads several official documents and annotates one. A paper on the desk is labeled: "US News Report."
Russian troops leave Iran and street riots in Iran. Russian troops leave Iran in 1945 after the end of World War II. People walk carrying bouquets. A Russian officer gets into a jeep. People of Iran look at the departure of the Russian troops from the balcony of their buildings. People stand on both sides of a road. Russian Army vehicles move past. Last part of clip is unrelated, and shows scenes of street riots in Iran in 1950. Police or military guards ride horses during the riots to push back the crowd of Iranian civilian protestors.
Iraqi military vehicles with soldiers moving into Iran during the Iraqi invasion of Iran (Iran-Iraq War). Iraqi soldiers raise rifles while on board a truck pulling artillery. Iraqi infantry pose with BMP-1 tracked carriers in Iran. Chinese-made Type 59 tanks of the Iraqi Army in Iran. A mural portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iraqi soldiers walk past other murals of Ayatollah Khomeini near a house, one covered with an "X" Iraqi soldiers apply a poster of Saddam Hussein on a tank before posing and smiling for the camera.