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People ride the Water chute on Coney Island, New York

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.

Date: 1896, June
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071511
U.S. Army B-6A bomberst fly in formation over Long Island and Hudson River in New York

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..

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073090
George Edward Pendray launches The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fueled rocket from Staten Island in New York, United States.

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. )

Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077065
Early filmmaking in Thomas Alva Edison’s Black Maria studio; Edison showing lightbulbs

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.

Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080183
Hogan, Snead and other players in the Goodall Round-Robin Tournament at the Fresh Meadows Club in Flushing, New York.

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.

Date: 1940, May 20
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046719
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