Paper print. Turn of 20th century documentary motion picture. Tunnel workers in New York, United States. A cart filled with stones is hoisted and carried from the tunnel. Workers and engineers at the construction site of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel being built between New York and Long Island. Workers enter a lift and descend to the tunnel level. When lift comes up again, they remove a cart filled with material dug from tunnel. The dig workers realize they are being filmed and begin to act up for the camera. Lift comes up bringing night shift workers from tunnel, who leave the construction site. Day shift workers and a superintendent and a foreman arrive.
USAF Airmen host Moroccan boys in Morocco, Africa. Guard stops buses at the check post of the Nouasseur Air Force Base (AFB). Moroccan Boys disembark bus. They receive food and clothing by the United States Air Force (USAF) personnel. Boys watch little league baseball game. They get ready for swimming. Boys look at the parked USAF C-124C Globemaster II cargo aircraft and USAF F-104 Starfighter interceptor aircraft. They watch a demonstration by the USAF F-100 Super Sabre fighter aircraft.
Development of the railroad transportation in the United States. Animated map depicts the network of railroads in America. Freight trains parked on railroads at a yard. Buildings in the background. Many different Pennsylvania line locomotives pass by, merging into montage of the logos of various railroad companies including Missouri Pacific Lines, Canadian Pacific, Illinois Central and New York Central. Freight cars reach the Hump operation in railroad classification yard at Enola, Pennsylvania. Railroad cars undergo an inspection during their course. Railroad cars are are uncoupled and they move on tracks with gravity. Man operates at control tower. Tower operator works on the teletype list of number of railroad cars. Close up of track switching and track braking. View of refrigerator cars, flat cars, coal cars, steel cars, tanker, container and merchandised cars. A flat car with farm tractors on board.
Building of the railroads in the United States. Scenes from the Juniata Locomotive Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania, serving the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). Crane in factory moves a casting and places it in position. Driving wheels are balanced,checked and tested. Workers manufacture freight and passengers cars. Workers do welding work. They melt iron for casting. They prepare molds and undergo heating and cooling work. Grinders and automatic lathes at work. A worker operates automatic machinery which compresses molten metal for railroad parts, including a large compressor forming the driving rod for a locomotive. Finally the locomotive is painted. A completed T1 locomotive, designed by Raymond Loewy, is sent to the locomotive test plant where it undergoes a test run on the dyno. Experts watch movement of the train. Instruments record the vital data for the engineers.
Footage titled 'Bargain Day' depicts shoppers gathered on 14th Street in New York, United States on 20th April, 1905. A large crowd of shoppers gathered on sidewalk at 14th Street in front of the Rothschild Company 5 and 10 Cent Store. Streetcars, trams move on streets in front of the store. The shoppers stream steadily into the main entrance of the store.
Paper print. An early motion picture titled 'Sporting Blood' depicts a fight between a wealthy husband and wife because of a race horse in the United States. A man reads sports news from a newspaper. His wife comes and sits with him at a table. A maid serves them tea. A telegram boy comes and hands a telegram to the man. It contains a tip on a horse race. The man tells his wife he must leave on important business. His wife reads the telegraph. The maid opens a door. Wife's friend enters. The women arm themselves with kitchen implements and leave the house. Two men talk on a street. A man with his horse preparing for a harness racing event. Men purchase tickets and place bets at a harness racing bid counter with signs, "Wilson & Shepp." They watch horses and jockeys in a harness race. The man arrives home. The maid complains to the man about his wife. The man leaves his home and arrives at a court. He reports about his lost wife. The wife sits near a street fountain. Other women in long dresses and fancy hats (typical of wealthy of the gilded age) come and they talk to her. The husband asks a shopkeeper and other men about his lost wife. All the gamblers wives join together in protest. Their husbands follow them. The husband asks his wife to forgive him. He takes her to a stable and shows her the horse named Sweet Marie. Other husbands do likewise with their angry spouses. Lubin Manufacturing Co. logo seen at end.
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