Symbolic montage of scenes showing unrestrained materialism, wealth, and spending in the U.S. during the "Roaring 20's," before the 1929 Crash of the New York Stock Market. Rolls Royce cars move on the streets in New York City. Ford cars on the road. A chauffeured Rolls Royce limousine on the road and being parked. Symbols of money: currency notes and jewelery. Currency notes and coins stacked up. Views of Cash Registers from National Cash Register displaying dollars and cents. Coins being dropped into a National Cash Register machine.
Telephone poles and lines scattered across a country side in United States. The New York-Chicago telephone cable is joined at a celebration. Employees work at the long distance headquarters in New York.
New York State Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) swims with family and friends in swimming pool, installed in an old greenhouse in the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany, New York (138 Eagle St, Albany, NY 12202, United States). Franklin Roosevelt laughs and passes a ball while swimming. View of New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan, New York City (60 Centre Street New York, NY, United States). With his entourage, Franklin D. Roosevelt climbs the stair to enter the New York State Supreme Court Building. Flamboyant New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker enters the New York State Supreme Court Building, to answer allegations of corruption before the investigative Seabury Commission of Judge Samuel Seabury. Courtroom full of people watching the investigation into corruption within the administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker.
Documentary titled 'Woven into the life of America', on manufacture of various types of garments by the Burlington Mills in North Carolina, United States. View of the Statue of Liberty and of New York City Manhattan Island skyline from the New York Harbor. A boat underway at harbor. Aerial view of tall buildings and skyscrapers of New York City. Streets of busy New York City, with pedestrians in 1950s fashions walking on sidewalks of New York City, and some shopping. Trendy clothes are displayed in a shop's window. A model wearing a night gown. A bride being dressed. A receptionist at the reception counter of the Burlington Mills. Employees at work on loom machines.
A film about means of transportation from ancient times to the modern in the United States. An electric railroad train moves along a heavily electrified track in Long Island, New York. The train pulls up at a station. Passengers gathered at the station.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh welcomed in New York after his Trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh flies to the bay. Numerous ships and boats approach the harbor. Lindbergh's plane in flight. Flags on the boats and steamers. Large crowds aboard each vessel. A blimp in flight. A float plane on the water. A steamer full of people.
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