Streets of New York city around the turn of the 20th century, showing horse-drawn vehicles and people, in Gilded Age dress of the times, some appearing wealthy, going about their daily affairs.Transportation is primarily dependent upon the horse. A man and woman on the street pull a fire alarm and scene shifts to a firehouse with firemen responding to alarm, sliding down a pole and hitching up their horses and engines. The Horse-drawn fire engines rush down the street as spectators watch from the sidewalks. City street with merchants selling wares outside, in front of their establishments. Boys,wearing knickers (knickerbocker trowsers) playing stickball in the street. Horses pulling wagons underneath the elevated railroad train tracks, where a steam locomotive is pulling a passenger train. People gathering in front of a baseball park advertising a game between New York and Chicago. Scenes of amusements and amusement carnival rides at Coney Island. Women gather to climb aboard an open train to an amusement. Views of the "Shoot-the-Chute" concession at Luna Park, with patrons riding down the chute in boats. Women patronizing a concession that offers camel rides. The beach at Coney Island, crowded with bathers, on its sands. City dwellers cooling off in water from a fire hydrant on the city street in front of their houses.
People riding on the famous water chute ride at Paul Boyton's Water World,Bergen Beach, Coney Island, New York. Flags fly over the structure. Large vehicles carry passengers up to to the launching point, where they board small boats and ride down on a flume of water. Photographed by Edison Company photographers using a portable camera.
Formation of B-6A bombers flying over Southern Long Island, New York, above Jones Beach and South shore residential estates. They head northward where Long Island Sound and the North Shore of Long Island can be seen. In one aircraft, a West Point cadet is seen , sitting next to the pilot, in open cockpit of bomber, looking at map. The formation proceeds towards the Hudson River and over a dam, reservoir, and water aeration plant providing water to New York City..
The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )
A wall clock hanging on top of a window. Camera shows American inventor Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory. Glass laboratory bottles and tubes on display. Footage circa 1920 of Thomas Alva Edison showing early lightbulbs to colleagues. A carbon filament light bulb lights up. Camera moves closer to show the glowing carbon filament inside the lamp. Early filmmaking in the United States. A man cranks a Kinetograph, the first movie camera invented by Edison. A belly dancer performs in one of Edison’s early films. A film rolling. A boxing match filmed by Thomas Edison. A cameraman records the boxing match inside Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Exteriors of the Black Maria studio showing the turntable and wheels underneath. 19th century women wearing summer dresses strolling in film captured by Edison. Cameramen sent by Edison films people on the beach and in amusement park rides. Edison having lunch with other inventors Henry Ford Sr., Harvey Firestone Sr., and Alexander Graham Bell. View of Edison’s study. A light bulb is turned off.
Ben Hogan wins the Goodall Palm Beach Round-Robin Tournament at the Fresh Meadows Club in Flushing, New York. Players make the strokes. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead stroke the ball during the match. An audience watches the game. Ben Hogan gets the championship trophy. He poses.
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