Traffic in Brooklyn, New York City. View from Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, looking at the Verrazzano Bridge over The Narrows, the strait joining Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay. Vehicles moving on the Parkway and on the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge. Slow pan across the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge from the Brooklyn side to the Staten Island side.
Traffic on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, near the exit to the Verrazzano Bridge across the Narrows in New York Bay. View of the bridge, extending over the highway. A work barge is tied up at one of the bridge piers. Pan across the bridge to Fort Wadsworth on the Staten Island side. A ship proceeds under the bridge towards New York harbor. Two trucks are seen crossing the upper deck towards Brooklyn. No vehicles are seen on the lower deck which is not yet open to traffic.
A large crowd gathered at the railroad train station and spilling onto the tracks, watches as a steam locomotive, pulls President Woodrow Wilson's special Pullman rail car (the "Superb") into Princeton, New Jersey. He is arriving on September 28, 1916, to vote in the Democratic Primary elections, during his 1916 presidential reelection campaign. Closeup of the President stepping from his train car and being escorted by National Guard soldiers and local officials. Next, he is seen walking along a sidewalk, accompanied by New Jersey Governor, James Fairman Fielder. After voting in the primary election (unseen) the President is seen standing with his wife, Edith Galt Wilson, and the Governor, on an outdoor platform, wrapped in patriotic bunting. President Wilson appears to hold some speaking notes. Closeup of people gathered below the platform, including a Boy Scout, and members of the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs. The President steps down from the platform and is given a spade that he uses to plant some trees along the Lincoln Highway. Mrs. Wilson watches along with others in the background.
Documentary about geography and buildings of New York. The Central Park in the center of New York. A pond at Central Park with number of boats in it. Famous buildings of New York around the Central Park can also be seen at a distance. Man and woman looking at the pond watch boats and bridge on the pond. The Obelisk in Central Park gifted by Khedive of Egypt. People sitting on a stone below it. The tall tower of Obelisk.
The 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division, New York / New Jersey National Guard arrive at a Fort Dix, N.J. for training. Guardsmen and new recruits coming out of train at railroad station. They march towards the camp. They are seen erecting tents and setting up a complete camp on the field. Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum, First Army commander, in glasses, wearing campaign hat, and Major General Clifford R. Powell, 44th Division commander, wearing garrison cap, pose in front of the Fort Dix Officers Club. Soldiers taking their belongings to the tents. KPs and mess attendant peel potatoes for a meal. One soldier sets up as a barber and shaves others. After camp is set up, some soldiers are seen resting on cots inside their tents. (World War II period).
Wreckage and debris on Munda Point airfield, New Georgia Island, after its capture by U.S. forces during World War 2. Dead Japanese soldiers. Destroyed aircraft on island as result of U.S. bombing. Reconstruction workers clear and enlarge runway and operations tower as Americans improve and expand the airbase for their own operations. U.S. flag raised on pole. Seen are the first aircraft to land at Munda Point (on August 14, 1943). The first is a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40 with letter K and white stripe on fuselage and a white tail. It is followed by a J2F Duck carrying U.S.Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy to set up his new headquarters at Munda Point.
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