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German dirigible Graf Zeppelin escorted by planes and greeted by people during its flight over New York City, United States.

German dirigible Graf Zeppelin during its flight over New York, United States. Graf Zeppelin written on the nose seen during its flight. The cabin windows. Low winged single engine airplanes escort the dirigible. It sails over the Statue of Liberty. Crowd on streets and house tops wave greetings to the dirigible sailing overhead. Graf Zeppelin sails over New York buildings and the Manhattan bridge,

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036608
Scenes of nightlife in New York City during the "Roaring 20's."

Scenes of New York City night clubs, during the "Roaring 20's," beginning with the relatively sedate Versailles Club, on 50th Street, where Rudy Vallee and his musical group play for patrons dancing. Rudy Vallee is seen playing the saxophone. He was so popular, the club was renamed 'Villa Vallee'. Wealthy businessmen gathered at the night club. The views then shift rapidly, in a montage of scenes showing party goers, flappers, and increasingly wilder antics in night club and speakeasy locations throughout New York City. Champagne bottle being opened. (This was illegal. National prohibition was still in force.) A singer performs. A man smoking a cigar. An artist plays his trumpet. A band of musicians perform. A couple waves their hands at the performance. A girl artist performs a dance. A scantily clad girl comes from behind stage curtains and performs in a burlesque show. Girls perform dance in a follies type act and balloons thrown up in the air. Fast montage of wild partying and raucous behavior with streamers and balloons flying.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065253
Vessels City Of New York and Eleanor Bolling underway at sea during Richard Byrd's Antarctic Expedition.

Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic Expedition. Two cameramen (Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker) accompany Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and his team on the expedition. USS Leviathan escorts sailing vessel 'City Of New York' from the New York harbor. Smoke rises up from the smokestack. U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn and his team gather around a table aboard the vessel. A dog barks aboard the ship. High waves rise at the sea. The supply ship 'Eleanor Bolling' underway at sea. A dog sleeps aboard the ship. Iceberg and ice pack in the ocean. Ice barrier 'Ross Barrier'. Men aboard the vessel observe the ice barrier through binoculars. A control meter. The ship being anchored. The men and dogs walk on the ice.

Date: 1928
Duration: 7 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054608
Keystone K-78 "Patrician" airplane carries 24 passengers in New York.

"Patrician" passenger airplane carries 24 passengers in New York. The all metal Keystone K-78 monoplane parked at Mitchel field. Men gather near the airplane. It flies in the sky. Aerial views of the aircraft in flight. Fascinating aerial views of New York City skyscrapers from relatively low aerial height, including the Woolworth Building and a clock tower building, as seen through the windows of the Keystone aircraft.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027451
Parade in honor of aviator Charles Lindbergh along Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., and in New York City

Aviator Charles Lindbergh being acclaimed in Washington D.C., United States upon his return to the United States, following his historic solo transatlantic aircraft flight from New York to Paris. Charles Lindbergh disembarks from the U.S. Navy Cruiser, USS Memphis (CL-13). Avenue, Washington D.C. Lindbergh and his mother, in an open car, with military escort. Their car is surrounded by newsmen and photographers, and guarded by several U.S. Army soldiers. View of Pennsylvania Avenue looking towards the Capitol. A military color guard marches across the avenue. Spectators line the sidewalks. The Lindbergh car moves along Pennsylvania Avenue. Sign on building reads: "Colonial Ice Cream." Mounted cavalry follow the car. View from above of a huge crowd in an open area. Scenes from Lindbergh's arrival in New York City, on June 13, 1927. He rides in an open car, from the Battery, in downtown, Manhattan, escorted by mounted policemen. People rush all around his car and ticker tape and confetti fill the air in a ticker tape parade.

Date: 1928
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074470
First practical attempts to use rockets for propulsion.

The German Ente (duck), world’s first rocket-powered airplane. Designed by Alexander Lippisch as a sailplane, it was purchased by Fritz von Opel who equipped it with rockets. It is seen with Opel painted on its fuselage, in its first rocket-powered flight on June 11, 1928 (flown by Fritz Stamer). In a slate, Adolf Hitler is quoted to the effect that : One cannot achieve what one cannot first imagine. A slate refers to the inadquate resources and consequent difficulties of early experimenters. Men help Prince Michalikais, with his "invention", in New York, where he attempts to propel himself with rockets while on ice skates. He wears a board on his back equipped with rockets. On first attempt, the rockets burn without propelling him and associates throw snow on his back to extinguish any fire. On next attempt, rockets fire but he loses his balance and falls.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024370