Scenes in Lyndhurst, New Jersey after explosion in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Kingsland (in Meadowlands of New Jersey) during World War 1. The company built shells for shipment to Russia in World War I. Over 500,000 shells were destroyed in the blast and fire, bombarding the surrounding areas in Kingsland - Lyndhurst. Black smoke rising in the distance, at night, seen from the coast. Close views of industrial buildings and homes on fire. Night views of homes and buildings engulfed in flames. People walk through smoking wreckage afterwards and pick through debris. Devastation covers area flattened by explosion and fire. Twisted railroad tracks covered by debris. A pile of munitions shells in a heap in the burned out shell of a building. View of the D.L.&W (Delaware, Lackawanna & Western) Railroad Shops building at Kingsland (now Lyndhurst), with DL&W train car 605 parked in front. Railroad Shops building is pitted with holes and broken glass from 3-inch shell bombardment. Two men inspect a damaged railroad car with broken glass and a 3-inch shell embedded in the side of the car. A heavily damaged residential house with holes and blown-out windows, and a shell embedded in the front door. Citizens pick through wreckage in front of a building where only cement pilings remain. Scene shifts to Perth Amboy area, October 1918. View of displaced families made homeless by the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant explosion (Morgan Depot Explosion; largest munitions factory in the world). Refugees sit in a town square. Men, women, and children among the refugees. An Army soldier and Navy sailor seen near refugees as they eat and drink. View of Smith Street in Perth Amboy with shops damaged by the blast. Under Martial Law, U.S. Army troops patrol with rifles to prevent looting. Pedestrians and a streetcar pass. Sign along sidewalk for entrance to Michaels & Co. at 178 Smith Street. (Suspected cause of incidents: Gillespie - worker error; Kingsland - sabotage as in the 1916 Black Tom explosion.)
The campaign of the Fusion party for the election of Mayor of the New York City at the Manhattan Opera Center, New York City. The candidate of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia starts his address to the assembly. He puts his agenda forward. He lays stress on good government and efficient employees. 1934.
General Motor's Motorama at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria, New York. Cutaway models of Allison aircraft turbojet engine and truck diesel engine displayed during the Motorama at Hotel Waldorf Astoria (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA). A woman works on controls which operate a cutaway model of a conventional transmission (Torqmatic Transmission) while and a man handles controls to operate model of a fluid transmission. An interactive “Engineered Carburetors” display is also seen.
A film titled 'Louis And Farr Hold Postmortem On The Big Fight'. Joe Louis with a bruise under the eye talks about his win in the boxing match against Tommy Farr in Newark, New Jersey. Tommy Farr gives a loser's version of the encounter in Long Branch in New Jersey.
A sign reads 'The St. Lawrence Power Project'. Dignitaries and cameramen seen. A 30 ton dynamite blast sends water from Saint Lawrence River into the bed of world's largest man made lake. The blast opens a new link in North of Massena in New York to establish a hydroelectric station.
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh with his wife Anne Lindbergh prepare to fly to China and Japan. Both sit in the plane. A map shows the route from New York to Tokyo over uncharted route to Tokyo. The plane takes off from New York.
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