Immigrants on board a ship arriving in New York Harbor, circa 1905, see New York City buildings across the water. A couple walking along the avenue in New York City. The man buys a newspaper from a newsboy or newsie (newspaper boy). A trolley car passes in the center of the avenue. A sign on the trolley reads: "Broadway." Several automobiles drive along a street, each close behind the other. One is decorated with American flags. A school building at side of the street displays numerous American flags. Pedestrians walking along 5th Avenue in New York City. Some men are wearing top hats, and others bowlers. Women are wearing bonnets. Several high society gentlemen in formal attire seat seated at a banquet table. They smoke cigars and have after-dinner drinks. Flowers adorn the table and the men wear boutonnieres. They all sport mustaches and wear some sort of garlands of greens (or paper) on their heads. The scene expands to reveal more aristocracy men at the table,similarly attired, including the garlands. Scene of wealth at turn of the century with couples dancing in an elegant ballroom. Change of scene shows waiters serving guests at an outdoor dining venue. Most of the men wear straw boaters (hats) and the women wear summer dresses and bonnets. A gentleman in a top hat with two women at a fashionable outdoor affair. The women wear large-brimmed hats. Ann Harrison Vanderbilt (Mrs. Willian K Vanderbilt) seated in a rolling straw chair, pushed from behind, chats with a gentleman in Florida. Lady in striped jacket and white skirt, with tennis racquet under her arm talks to chauffeur, standing next to a Locomobile limousine, parked at the curb. The Vanderbilt home, "the Biltmore," in Asheville, North Carolina, viewed from the back of the mansion.
Trucks and workers operate after midnight for availing next day facilities to people, in New York and other cities of the United States. Alarm rings in morning and a man starts with his daily activities. Workers maintain water supply at night. Electrician maintains power distribution lines during night. Orange juice for morning breakfast of people in New York loaded on trucks in Florida. Likewise eggs from a distant farm transported in truck. View of Armour's Star ham and bacon truck with "Armour" sign on front being loaded at plant. Coffee, sugar and many such things transported in trucks. Morning street view in New York City with tall buildings and light car traffic on road. Small town in America with shops on a Main Street and 1930s and 1940s cars parked on streets. Produce market in a town with woman discussing vegetables and fruits with grocer A farmer loads potatoes on a truck beside a farm field. Truck driving away from cattle stockyard with Beef cattle in truck. Sign on barn reads "Peterson Bros. Herefords of Quality." Meat hanging from hooks in butcher shop. General Electric home refrigerators being loaded onto a a truck for delivery. Traffic and pedestrians in front of the S. Karpen & Brothers furniture manufacturing company building in Queens at 37-18 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City, New York. "Karpen Furniture" signs seen on building. Dining Room table furniture being loaded onto a truck. A Hahn's Express delivery truck on a road. Boxes of consumer goods being loaded into trucks at a warehouse. Fresh cut timber logs loaded onto trucks for transport. "Prestridge and Seligman Timber Products" sign on truck doors. Line of timber trucks delivers logs at saw mill (possibly routing from logging at the Mescalero Reservation of the Sacramento Mountains to Southwest Lumber Company, or SWLCo, lumber mill, operating near Alamogordo) for processing into lumber products. Ford D-8 trucks move on the roads.
A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. Interior of a steel mill shows workers performing various duties around an open furnace. The exhaust section of a JB-2, flames erupting from the same. A JB-2 launching. It taxis in a wooded area. A large explosion. The exhaust section of V-2 during launching. Failed test as a V-2 rocket streaks down towards the earth after a launch and slams into a wooded area, with a huge explosion resulting. The first guided missile robot torpedo aircraft crashes at Arcadia, Florida. First successful launching of the U.S. aerial guided missile. Exhaust section of JB-2 starting operation attached to a wing of a B-17. The B-17 launching. JB-2 in flight. PQ-8 target aircraft dives towards the slope of a mountain and explodes. An atomic bomb explosion. Atomic cloud formation rises up in the air from the Trinity test, the first atomic explosion, in New Mexico.
The contribution of franchise system in the United States. Henry Landworth, a refugee who came to America owns four Holiday Inn hotels in Florida. He talks about his hard work and success. The chefs work in a kitchen. Henry looks at them. People dance in the disco.
An RV motor home tows a vehicle with bikes loaded onto it. Nettles Island, Florida. Children play on swings and play area, and enjoy horseback riding. Children on a water slide. Signs of campgrounds for motor homes and recreation vehicles. A woman sings and plays a guitar in a bus as it moves on a highway. The bus driver steering. A gasoline tanker truck and cars on a highway. RV camper arrives at Ryman Auditorium, at 116 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee, home of the Grand Ole Opry House. Woman exits the RV camper and walks into the building. A sign outside reads "WSM Grand Ole Opry." People lined up outside the building to get tickets or tour. An African American man walks by the people in line on the sidewalk.
Major "space race" and defense events of the year 1957. Laika, Soviet space dog prepared for the space flight. Laika takes off in Sputnik 2 in Soviet Union. An animation shows the spacecraft in outer space. In United States, Space Race efforts to launch a small "grapefruit" satellite on Vanguard TV-3 test rocket meet in failure as the rocket explodes at take off on December 6, 1957. View of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. President Dwight D Eisenhower arrives in Paris, France to talk about the development of missiles with other NATO leaders. The French Prime Minister Felix Gaillard with President Eisenhower. View of Atlas missile SM-65A Serial 12A launched successfully from Cape Canaveral pad LC-14 in Florida, United States, on December 17, 1957.
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